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AZ Shooting Targets US Congresswoman, Kills 6

TUCSON 01/08/11 - A gunman nearly unloaded a semi-automatic handgun at a busy supermarket
during a public gathering for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, wounding the Congresswoman and killing
Arizona's chief federal judge and five others including a 9 year old girl. 18 people were wounded in
addition to Giffords. The attempted assassination left Americans questioning whether divisive politics
had pushed the suspect over the edge.

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New edition of 'Huckleberry Finn' to Lose the 'N' word
What is a word worth? According to Publishers Weekly, NewSouth Books‘ upcoming edition of Mark
Twain‘s seminal novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will remove all instances of the ―n‖ word—I‘ll
give you a hint, it‘s not nonesuch—present in the text and replace it with slave. The new book will
also remove usage of the word Injun. The effort is spearheaded by Twain expert Alan Gribben, who
says his PC-ified version is not an attempt to neuter the classic but rather to update it. ―Race matters
in these books,‖ Gribben told PW. ―It‘s a matter of how you express that in the 21st century.‖

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Full Deployment of the World's Eighth Largest Army Goes Unnoticed

In case you missed it in the news, the world's eighth largest army successfully deployed and
conducted widespread and sustained operations involving the live fire of ordnance against a native
population, in which they inflicted significant loss of life while incurring no casualties themselves. The
state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That's
great. There were over 600,000 hunters.

Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world –
more men under arms than Iran;
more than France and Germany combined – deployed to the woods of a single American state to help
keep the deer menace at bay.

But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week.
Michigan's 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West
Virginia, and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the
largest army in the world.

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Unrest in the Arabic Nations: What’s going on?

Cairo 01/28/11 - Violent protests have rocked Egypt this week, with demonstrators demanding the
ouster of the country's longtime autocratic president, Hosni Mubarak. Scores have been killed and
more than 1,000 injured from several days of anti-government protests.

The unrest in the Arab world's most populous country -- a longtime U.S. ally -- comes on the heels of
similar protests earlier this month in Tunisia, which forced that country's president to flee into exile.
Today marks a pivotal moment in the anti-Mubarak demonstrations, with the government shutting
down Internet access in the country and cracking down on social-media access among demonstrators
communicating with the outside world.

CAIRO 2/18/11— Millions took to the streets to celebrate a new Egypt on Friday, reminding military
rulers to keep their promise of a swift transition to democracy after protests swept away autocrat
Hosni Mubarak in just 18 days.

On an emotional day that was also a memorial to the 365 people who died in the uprising, many said
they would guard promises from the military of elections within six months.
MANAMA, Bahrain — Thousands of singing and dancing protesters streamed back into Manama's
central Pearl Square Saturday after Bahrain's leaders withdrew tanks and riot police following two
straight days of a bloody crackdown by security forces in the tiny monarchy.
The royal family, which was quick to use force earlier this week against demonstrators in the
landmark square that has been the heart of the anti-government demonstrations, appeared to back
away from further confrontation following international pressure from the West.

Seven people have died in Bahrain's unrest this week, including five on Thursday, and more than 200
have been wounded.

SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni riot police in the capital shot dead an anti-government protester and
injured five others on Saturday when they opened fire on thousands marching in the 10th day of
unrest rocking the country.

Protesters seeking to oust longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh began marching from the University
of Sanaa to the Ministry of Justice, chanting: "The people want the fall of the regime."

It was the 10th straight day of protests in Yemen inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, which
have killed seven people across the country. Demonstrators want the immediate ouster of Saleh, who
has ruled for 32 years.

TRIPOLI, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi's forces fired on mourners in the eastern city of Benghazi,
wiped out a protest encampment and clamped down on Internet service throughout Libya Saturday
as the regime tried to squelch calls for an end to the ruler's 42-year grip on power.

Libyan hospital official said security forces killed at least 15 mourners leaving funeral for protesters,
The Associated Press reported.

Libyan protesters were back on the street for the fifth straight day, but Gadhafi has taken a hard line
toward the dissent that has ripped through the Middle East and swept him up with it.

Snipers fired on thousands of people gathered in Benghazi, a focal point of the unrest, to mourn 35
protesters who were shot on Friday, a hospital official said.

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16 States Introduce Legislation to Drug Test Welfare and Unemployment Recipients

Kentucky State Rep. Lonnie Napier has introduced a bill that would enforce random drug testing for
all adult Kentuckians receiving welfare, food stamps or Medicaid and save money for the state.
Similar measures have been introduced this year in Missouri, Indiana, Idaho, New Mexico, Nebraska,
and Oregon. No state currently requires drug testing to receive public assistance, but at least 16
states have proposed legislation.

Michigan was the only state to implement a welfare drug-testing law, but the federal 6th Circuit Court
of Appeals found it violated the Fourth Amendment's provision barring unreasonable searches.

The cost for drug testing recipients is $40-$50 dollars, compared to the millions of dollars each state
may save.
Measures related to drug testing for various forms of public assistance also have been introduced
over the past few years in Texas, Rhode Island, Nebraska, Georgia, Kansas, West Virginia and
Arizona. A state lawmaker in Utah also introduced legislation but later gave up on a similar effort in
2010.

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Islamic Ireland
Excerpts from A Recent Irish Times Article, The Future Of Islamic Ireland Saturday, Published
February 12, 2011.

Ireland‘s Muslim population has grown tenfold in 20 years and is still expanding. But official Ireland is
failing to engage with the increasing number of ethnic and political groups ‗Down a road on an
industrial estate in Togher, a suburb two kilometres south of Cork city centre, stands a nondescript
former engineering premises whose future will mark a significant chapter in the story of Islam in
Ireland. Within a year the hulking concrete building will be transformed into a mosque complex
capable of accommodating 1,000 or so worshippers. Design plans show a crescent-topped glass
tower overlooking gleaming white arches and domes. The one-acre site will be the second-biggest
such complex in the country, after the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland (ICCI), in Clonskeagh in
Dublin, and the second purpose-built Sunni mosque outside the capital. It is yet another sign of the
deep roots Islam has laid in Ireland.

Ireland‘s Muslim population, when compared with other European countries‘, is relatively young, but
it is changing fast. Almost 10 times more Muslims live in Ireland today than lived here 20 years ago.
The 2006 census put the figure at just under 33,000, but most observers agree the true figure is well
in excess of 40,000. The number of Muslims has increased by almost 70 per cent between 2002 and
2006, making Islam one of the fastest-growing religions in the country.

Ireland‘s Muslim community is also becoming more diverse – so much so that it is truer to speak of a
constellation of communities. In the past Muslims from the Middle East and North Africa tended to
predominate. Most of this earlier generation came for educational or professional reasons and
decided to stay, often marrying Irish citizens. From the early 1990s, however, the population swelled
to include more Muslims from south and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the Balkans. Many
of the new arrivals were young economic migrants; others were asylum seekers. (Muslims from
Nigeria, Libya, Iraq, Somalia, Algeria and elsewhere have sought asylum in Ireland.) Irish converts
make up a small percentage, with some estimates putting the number in the hundreds. The vast
majority of Muslims in Ireland are Sunni, but there is also a substantial Shia population in Dublin.

The Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland‘s four-acre complex, which includes a school, was built in 1996
with funding from the al-Maktoum Foundation, headed by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum,
deputy ruler of Dubai and finance minister of the United Arab Emirates. The al-Maktoum family has
extensive business interests in Ireland through its involvement in the bloodstock industry. The centre
has about 20 members of staff, mostly of Arab origin, who are full-time employees of the al-Maktoum
Foundation. Its chief executive is the Iraqi-born Dr Nooh al-Kaddo, who moved from Britain to Dublin
in 1997 to run the complex.

Many Muslims in Ireland speak of the ICCI as the ―Ikhwani‖ mosque, an Arabic-language reference to
the Muslim Brotherhood, which, since foundation in Egypt, in 1928, has grown to become the world‘s
most influential transnational Islamist movement.
The Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland is ―part of a network of European organizations and groups
with close links to the Muslim Brotherhood and its various European branches – a connection that has
caused some controversy‖. He stresses, however, that these affiliations are ―very often loose and
informal‖ and include, apart from personal connections of staff at the centre, institutional ties with
the Brussels-based Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe, an umbrella organization of various
branches and affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Association of Ireland, which is based
at a mosque in Tallaght, also comes under the federation‘s umbrella. Senior figures at some other
mosques also have links with the Muslim Brotherhood, mostly dating back to political involvement in
their countries of origin. ―The Muslim Brotherhood influence constitutes one of the strongest
elements of Islam in Ireland,‖ says one well-placed source.

In a 2010 report the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that about 400 mosques across
Europe are said to be at least indirectly associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. It noted that
European organizations with roots in the brotherhood have begun working more closely with
governments in Europe, as has happened in Ireland. ―In part because of their professional staffs and
middle-class leadership, groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood are sometimes seen by government
officials and other influential members of society as being proxies for the Muslim community as a
whole,‖ the report said.

The opening of a Saudi embassy in Dublin in 2009 has added to the dynamics shaping the Muslim
experience in Ireland. Embassy officials told Muslims living here that they plan to open a school and a
mosque in Dublin. ―If that happens it would be a challenge to the status quo,‖ says Umar Qadri,
imam at the al-Mustafa Islamic Centre, in Blanchardstown. ―It would have a very big impact, as we
have seen in other countries.‖

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South Dakota Considers Requiring Gun Ownership

House Bill No. 1237, introduced by Republican State Rep. Hal Wick of Sioux Falls, asks that each
citizen residing in the state of South Dakota who has attained the age of twenty-one years shall
purchase or otherwise acquire a firearm suitable to their temperament, physical capacity, and
personal preference sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.

Two Private Prison Facilities to Remain Closed

Two Kern County community correctional facilities that were supposed to reopen this month and house
hundreds of low-level female inmates will remain closed.

The contract awarded last year to The GEO Group to operate the facilities was pulled because of the state's
budget woes, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Cassandra Hockenson
said Thursday. It costs about twice as much to keep an inmate in a smaller facility compared to a larger one,
she said.
"It just didn't pencil out and this administration, obviously very concerned about the budget and the cost of
reducing the budget deficit, had the programs scrapped," Hockenson said.

The McFarland Community Correctional Facility had been slated to reopen Feb. 14 and house 250 inmates.
The Mesa Verde Community Correctional Facility -- located in Bakersfield -- had been scheduled for a Feb. 7
reopening and was supposed to house 400 inmates.

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Prisoners take millions from the IRS in 2009

The IRS issued $39.1 million in undeserved federal tax refunds to jail and prison inmates, according to data.

Seemingly proving the adage that crime pays, even behind bars, prisoners in the three states received nearly
$19 million in IRS refunds during 2009 after filing false or fraudulent tax returns, according to an IRS report to
Congress that was included in a federal audit released in January.

The haul was part of $39.1 million in undeserved federal tax refunds the IRS issued to jail and prison inmates
nationwide for phantom jobs on phony returns, the data shows. That's nearly triple the $13.4 million annual in
tax refunds the IRS reported it issued to prison scammers just five years earlier.

The IRS said it could not immediately determine how much, if any, of the fraudulent refunds in 2009 has been
recovered, because the recapture process "can take several years."

The actual amount stolen by inmates could be even higher: The audit concluded the IRS doesn't always
conduct fraud screening on tax returns filed by prisoners.

~~~

Gov to Test Prison Cell Phone Jamming

The state of Maryland is conducting the first sanctioned test of jamming cell phone signals in and
near prisons. The test, to take place at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Md., is
meant to prove that cell phone jamming can be deployed in prisons and have no effect on the
surrounding communities. State governors and correction facility directors have asked the Federal
Communications Commission to change the current laws, which only permit other federal agencies to
jam cell phone signals. They want to halt illicit use of cell phones by inmates, who use them to
conduct criminal activity from inside their cells. If the test is successful, it will provide support for a
bill currently before congress seeking to change the laws.

~~~

Budget cuts could send young offenders to adult prisons

California Governor‘s bid to abolish the state youth prison system could save hundreds of millions of dollars
and quicken the pace of reform at county facilities. But the changes could remove important barriers that keep
some juvenile offenders out of adult prisons.

The Governor‘s plan to close the Division of Juvenile Justice was part of drastic budget cuts he presented
last week. If the budget is enacted, the division would stop accepting new wards and close by June 30,
2014, with any remaining offenders transferred to local jurisdictions. The state would save $250 million
once the plan is fully implemented, according to the governor‘s office.
The changes would do more than simply shift costs and responsibilities from Sacramento to the counties
for California‘s most dangerous and gang-entrenched youth. Fewer than 1,500 wards remain in decaying,
expensive youth correctional facilities that some refer to as ―gladiator schools.‖

Supporters of the measure say closing the state facilities will improve treatment for young offenders while
reducing costs.

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States Save Money With Lockdowns and Private Prisons

Washington State has found a way to save money on prisons -- restrict inmates to their cells one day a
month and pare back staff.

Desperate to respond to slumping revenue, many states are looking to squeeze savings out of
penitentiaries, with solutions ranging from lock-downs to turning inmates over to private companies.

The state prisons in Washington State will go on lock-down one day a month through June, confining
inmates to cells and adjacent living areas. That cuts the need for resources and lets wardens send some
staff home -- without pay.

Washington state prisons ran a trial of the lock-downs and furloughs in November and opted last month
for the program to go into effect the remainder of the fiscal year.

Savings from the furloughs at Washington state prisons may reach the estimated $1 million and will be
applied toward a targeted $48.4 million cut in corrections spending demanded by the Governor to help
balance the state's books.
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More Abuse Reported at Private Prison

"Gov. Neil Abercrombie has promised to bring back all Hawaii inmates serving prison sentences on
the mainland because of previous allegations of mistreatment by guards at Saguaro," according to
the Jan. 14 newspaper report.

Eighteen Hawaiian inmates sued CCA in December 2010, claiming that guards stripped, beat, kicked
and threatened to kill them, banged their heads on tables while they were handcuffed, and that "the
warden himself" threatened their families. Those inmates claim that CCA "deliberately destroyed and
failed to preserve evidence of their wrongdoing, including videotapes," and "deliberately falsified
reports."

Hawaii's governor also cited a December 2010 "riot" at another CCA prison in Arizona, Red Rock
Correctional Center, which holds about 50 Hawaiian prisoners. The Corrections Corporation of
America's Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Ariz. prison holds about 1,800 Hawaiians.
Healthcare Reform Law Requires New IRS Army

Excerpts from US News by Paul Bedard Posted: February 15, 2011

The Internal Revenue Service says it will need an additional 1,054 new auditors and staffers and new
facilities at a cost to taxpayers of more than $359 million in fiscal 2012 just to watch over the initial
implementation of President Obama's healthcare reforms. Among the new corps will be 81 workers
assigned to make sure tanning salons pay a new 10 percent excise tax. Their cost: $11.5 million.

In its request, the IRS explained that the tax changes associated with health reform are huge.
"Implementation of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 presents a major challenge to the IRS. ACA
represents the largest set of tax law changes in more than 20 years, with more than 40 provisions
that amend the tax laws."

The detailed IRS budget documents spell out exactly what most of the new workforce will be doing.
For example, some 81 will be tasked just to handle the tax reporting of 25,000 tanning salons. They
face a new 10 percent excise tax on indoor tanning services. Another 76 will be assigned to make
sure businesses engaged in making and imported drugs pay their new fee which is expected to
deliver $2.8 billion to the Treasury in 2012 and 2013. The new healthcare corps will also require new
facilities and computers.

~~~

Utah Lawmakers Propose M1911 as Official State Gun

I remember hearing that when the US Congress began its first day of the new session this year they
read the US Constitution to the entire congress. Over the next few days we heard about how
American and patriotic the reading was but also how they wasted time and over a million dollars just
to read the US Constitution.

Now we have the state of Utah proposing legislation to make an official state gun, the Browning
M1911. While the Browning M1911 is a fine handgun of American invention and ingenuity we cannot
be wasteful with any state's money.

Honoring Mr. Browning, a Utah native for his contributions and accomplishments to the state is one
thing but wasting any states money or legislative time proclaiming a state gun is wasteful. There are
too many other issues that need to be addressed.

~~~

U.S. State Department Starts Farsi Twitter Feed

Excerpts from CNN By the CNN Wire Staff February 14, 2011
The U.S. State Department launched a new Farsi-language Twitter feed Sunday in a bid to connect
with internet users in Iran.

"US State Dept recognizes historic role of social media among Iranians. We want to join in your
conversations," the department said in its first tweet.
The feed was launched just one day before opposition leaders and activists in Iran have called for a
protest in support of the Egyptian revolution, according to Saham News.

Following the resignation Friday of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the head of Iran's National
Security Council, among other Iranian authorities, lauded the leader's toppling, comparing "the
Egyptian Revolution with the victory of Iran's Islamic Revolution," according to Iran's state-run
media.

"Iran has shown that the activities it praised Egyptians for it sees as illegal, illegitimate for its own
people," the State Department said in its second tweet.

In its third tweet, the department called on Iran to allow people the same right to demonstrate as
Egyptians had in Cairo.

The Farsi-language feed had eight followers as of Sunday night. The State Department's Arabic-
language Twitter feed, launched last week, had more than 1,000 followers.

~~~

Florida businesses reeling at the prospect of having to hire U.S. citizens

Excerpts from TCPalm by Nadia Vanderhoof February 12, 2011

Two proposed Arizona-style immigration enforcement bills being considered by state legislators could
have devastating economic consequences for Florida's service-driven economy, according to experts
and businesses owners in the hospitality, construction and agricultural industries.

The controversial measures, introduced in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, allow law
enforcement agents to inquire about the legal status of people they stop and turn them over to
federal authorities if they are in the country illegally. Employers who hire undocumented workers also
would face stiff punishment and possible fines.

"It's bad ideology, bad for the economy and, I believe, bad policy for Florida," said Hank Fishkind,
principle of Fishkind & Associates Inc., an economic and financial consulting firm with offices in
Orlando, Naples and Port St. Lucie. "It will have an indirect effect of spoiling the state's reputation.
Do we really want that for Florida?"

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Black Panther Voter Intimidation Investigation

A interm report has been released in the investigation into allegations of double standards and racism
within the Civil Rights Division of the US Dept. of Justice. The Obama administration has tried to
perpetrate a cover up of what was undeniably a case of voter intimidation. In spite of videotaped
evidence of intimation by militant Black Panthers, Eric Holder refused to act in accordance with the
law and continued to promote a black-friendly agenda within the ranks of the DOJ.

Todd Gaziano, a political independent, provides an overview of the report:

After a year of DOJ's intransigence and baseless refusals to comply with our subpoenas, two
Department attorneys bravely defied orders to testify before the Commission: the former Civil Rights
Division Voting Section chief, Christopher Coates, and a lead trial attorney in the NBPP case, J.
Christian Adams. Their testimony and the sworn affidavits from former DOJ staff portray a pervasive
culture of hostility to race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws in the Civil Rights Division. The
detailed allegations include: a former section chief who doctored a memo to try to prevent a
meritorious case from being filed against black defendants, racially offensive statements by several
supervisors and staff, and repeated instances of harassment and intimidation directed against anyone
willing to work on lawsuits against minority defendants.

On the merits of the case:

Although hampered by the Department's refusal to allow the Commission to interview DOJ trial
attorneys or produce the exhibits, witness statements, and other evidence in the possession of DOJ,
the Commission held its first hearing on April 23, 2010 relating to the facts on Election Day 2008 in
Philadelphia and whether there was a sufficient basis to file the original charges. Three eye-
witnesses, including the prominent civil rights attorney Bartle Bull, provided powerful and convincing
testimony that the former defendants had engaged in intimidating conduct, and that voters had
turned away from the polling place rather than walk within a billyclub swing of the entrance.
Congressman Frank Wolf testified regarding his concerns about the case and his frustration with the
lack of DOJ cooperation.

On pages 11-16 Gaziano details DOJ's stonewalling efforts, including the assertion of bogus claims of
privilege. He does so, he explains,"(1) so that congressional or other investigators may consider its
implications going forward, and (2) to explain what conclusions the Commission began to draw from
the many months of stonewalling and frivolous claims of privilege. As severe winter storms in
Washington gave way to spring, the continued, frustrating correspondence with the Department
began to reinforce the conclusion that something much stronger than ordinary bureaucratic
resistance was at play."

Commissioner Gail Heriot, another independent appointee, echoes many of these same findings. She
also provides ample evidence of hostility to a case against an African-American defendant in the
Noxubee, Mississippi case. (pp.2-9).

As Gaziano and Heriot do, commissioner Peter Kirsanow (a Republican appointee) goes through the
evidence of malfeasance by an Obama political appointee, Julie Fernandes:

Mr. [Chris] Coates [who headed the NBPP trial team] came forward and testified to the same
statements having been made by Ms. Fernandes--statements made pursuant to a directive she
conveyed to members of the Voting Section that the race of violators and victims is an appropriate
consideration in the Division's enforcement decisions.

The uncontroverted testimony of Messrs. Coates and [former DOJ attorney J. Christian] Adams also
identify Ms. Fernandes as having explicitly told a brown-bag lunch gathering of the entire Voting
Section that the administration would not enforce the list maintenance provisions of Section 8 of the
National Voter Registration Act ("NVRA").

He also explains, "The Department declined to allow Ms. Fernandes to answer questions about these
allegations herself when it ultimately refused to honor the Commission's subpoena for her
appearance. For her part, when asked directly by reporters, Ms. Fernandes declined to comment."
‘More States Enter Debate on Sharia Law’
Excerpts From USA TODAY By Donna Leinwand, 12/9/2010
Muneer Awad's opponents label him "a foreigner" trying to change Oklahoma's laws. Awad, 27, a
recent University of Georgia law school graduate born in Michigan, says he's standing up for the U.S.
Constitution. "I'm trying to defend the First Amendment," says Awad, director of Oklahoma's chapter
of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

At issue is an amendment to Oklahoma's constitution passed overwhelmingly on Election Day that

bars judges from considering Islamic or international law in Oklahoma state courts.

Although Oklahoma's law is the first to come under court scrutiny, legislators in at least seven states,
including Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah, have proposed
similar laws, the National Conference of State Legislatures says. Tennessee and Louisiana have
enacted versions of the law banning use of foreign law under certain circumstances.

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House, is pushing for a federal law that "clearly and
unequivocally states that we're not going to tolerate any imported law."

Awad says the Oklahoma law would prohibit a judge from probating his will, written in compliance
with Islamic principles, or adjudicating other domestic matters such as divorces and custody disputes
involving Muslims.

Supporters of sharia bans, including Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, say
Islamic law is creeping into U.S. courts.

Earlier this year, for example, an appeals court in New Jersey overturned a state court judge's refusal
to issue a restraining order against a Muslim man who forced his wife to engage in sexual
intercourse. The judge found that the man did not intend to rape his wife because he believed his
religion permitted him to have sex with her whenever he desired.

The case "presents a conflict between the criminal law and religious precepts," the appeals court
wrote. "In resolving this conflict, the judge determined to accept (the husband) from the operation of
the State's statutes as the result of his religious beliefs. In doing so, the judge was mistaken."

Gaffney's think tank recently published a book that argues jihadists who want worldwide Islamic rule
try to establish sharia courts to weaken democracies. "I think you're seeing people coalesce around
legislation of the kind that was passed in Oklahoma," Gaffney says.
South Carolina legislators proposed a resolution in April that says state courts "shall not look to the
legal precepts of other nations or cultures. Specifically, the courts shall not consider Sharia Law" or
other international laws.

In Utah, Rep. Carl Wimmer, a Republican from Salt Lake County, withdrew his bill to ban foreign law
after he learned that it could harm banking and international businesses. "My bill was just too broad,"
he says.

Wimmer says he's concerned about "increasing amount of judges who continue to look to foreign law
and foreign courts to make their decisions."
~~~

Creeping Sharia Watch

Another Muslim organization in the

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.comPosted on February 4, 2011 by Creeping
U.S. actively promoting Islamic sharia law in the United States. This group doesn‘t hide it though.

Muslim Education Action Center.

Welcome to MEAC
We are a charitable organization dedicated to promoting a proper understanding of Islam. It is our
goal to ensure that every Muslim boy and girl grows up in a world safe from intolerance and fear.
Islam requires that every Muslim observe and live under Divine Law, yet many cultures are not
receptive to this life. Many Muslims are prohibited from governing themselves under the principles of
their own faith. We must combat intolerance to spread acceptance of Sharia across the world.

About Us
Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) is a waqf, the historical Islamic equivalent of an American
trust or endowment, serving Muslims in the United States and their institutions. MEAC facilitates the
realization of American Muslims‘ desire for a virtuous and happy life in a Shari‘ah-compliant way.

MEAC is a not-for-profit entity that qualifies as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c) (3) of
the Internal Revenue Code. MEAC began as a small local organization in 1986 in New Jersey
(MEACNJ). In 1988, the MEAC trust was established to support Islamic educational centers and
institutions across the country.
This web site is dedicated to Brother Mohammad Sharif Mahdavi, who passed away to the Hereafter
on Friday December 1, 2006. He had been a trustee of MEAC since March 1993.

What We Do
After recent dramatic expansions, MEAC has donated annually between 9 and 27 million in each of
the last five years. MEAC contributes to organizations that we believe advance tolerance and
understanding of Islam in the American community. We especially look for organizations that share
our philosophical approach to the spread of Islam and the establishment of Sharia worldwide (see
Philosophy). Our board meets formally once a year, but members do converse individually
throughout the year to consider new recipients.

The contact page ends on this note:

Please understand, the person you wish to reach may be overseas and may take time to respond.
Muslims from outside the U.S. are pushing sharia in the U.S.?
 ~~~

"Judge: Anti-Islam lawmaker can seek dismissal,"

Common sense has not yet broken through, but at least it has a chance.
Free Speech Death Watch Alert from Eurabia: "Judge: Anti-Islam lawmaker can seek dismissal," From the Associated
Press, February 17:

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- An Amsterdam court said Monday it will reconsider dismissing the hate speech
trial of one of the country's most popular leaders, an anti-immigrant politician who compared Islam to
fascism and called for a ban on the Quran.

Preliminary objections to Geert Wilders' trial were heard by an another panel of judges last year,
but that court stepped down when it became embroiled in allegations of potential bias against him.

The Wilders' defense team had a right to present its preliminary objections again, and if they are
granted "then the case is over and out," Judge Marcel van Oosten said.

Wilders, the powerful head of the Freedom Party, faces charges of "inciting discrimination" for his
remarks, which opponents say have led to more anti-Muslim discrimination. Wilders denies
wrongdoing, saying he has a right to freedom of speech and that many Dutch voters support him.

Even before the first panel of judges was dismissed, prosecutors had conceded they didn't think
their evidence was strong enough for a conviction.

But if the case is to be heard, then Wilders' defense lawyer Bram Moszkowicz said at a hearing last
week that he wants a complete retrial with new witnesses.

Moszkowicz's key preliminary arguments the first time around were that the case had been motivated
by Wilders' political enemies, and that most of his alleged anti-Muslim remarks are protected speech
because they were made as part of public political debate....

After booking big gains in national elections last year, his Freedom Party is propping up an all-
conservative minority Cabinet in exchange for a new round of restrictions on immigration and
measures such as a ban on Muslims wearing face-covering clothes in public.

~~~

Arabic Language Classes Being Taught at a Texas Elementary

The Mansfield school district in Texas has canceled some Arabic classes after 200 parents showed up
at a meeting on the new curriculum, with some angry that their children were going to be taught
about Islam.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the program, which is funded by a federal Foreign
Language Assistance Program grant and was to also cover Arabic culture, has been put on hold for
now.
The school district has put up an exasperated statement promising that "There are no 'mandatory
Arabic classes' as being falsely reported in the media." Some Arabic classes will be offered as
electives for now while the district gets more parent input.

January/February – Excerpts from SCOTUS Blog

In Ortiz v. Jordan, the Court decided that once a trial has already taken place, a party to a case
may not appeal a denial of summary judgment. ―Summary judgment‖ is a decision by a trial court to
decide a case before it goes to trial. For a trial court to grant summary judgment, it must be
convinced that there are no important factual or legal issues that might cause a reasonable jury to
decide the case differently. In other words, the case is a slam dunk. If the trial court denies
summary judgment, one of two things usually happens: 1) the parties settle; or 2) the case goes to
trial (which can also happen if the result of an appeal is to affirm the trial court‘s denial of summary
judgment). In this case, prison officials moved for summary judgment in a case brought by prisoner
Michelle Ortiz for violation of her civil rights due to a prison rape. When the trial court denied the
motion for summary judgment, the parties went to trial, and Ortiz won a large judgment. After the
jury verdict, the prison officials then appealed the denial of summary judgment. This, the Court
explained, is where the prison officials went wrong: they should have filed what is called an
―interlocutory appeal,‖ or an appeal before the final judgment in the case, when the motion for
summary judgment was denied. By waiting until the trial was over, they slept on their rights, or
waited too long.

Premo v. Moore 1-19-11 - When will the failings of counsel allow a defendant to successfully
challenge his plea bargain through habeas corpus proceedings? After last week‘s decision in Premo
v. Moore, the answer appears to be: quite rarely indeed. In an opinion by Justice Kennedy that was
joined by six of his colleagues, the Court placed a heavy emphasis on both the deference due to
decisions made in the course of negotiating a plea bargain and the difficulty faced by a reviewing
court when it is asked to exercise ―[h]indsight‖ and to make ―second guesses‖ in cases that produce
―no extended, formal record
and no actual history to show how the charges have played out at
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trial.‖ A habeas corpus petitioner seeking to nullify a plea bargain
must meet a ―most substantial burden‖; here, the Court concluded, respondent Randy Moore had not
done so.

Moore pled no contest to felony murder and received the minimum sentence for that offense. He
confessed to police and described the crime to two other people; Moore‘s lawyer did not attempt to
suppress the confession to police before Moore entered into the plea deal. The Ninth Circuit ruled
that the failure to suppress the confession constituted ineffective assistance of counsel, and that the
state court‘s ruling to the contrary had been an unreasonable application of clearly established law.

In reversing that decision, the Court quoted at length from Harrington v. Richter, (in which, on the
same day as its opinion in Moore, the Court rejected another ineffective assistance claim) to
emphasize that when a federal habeas corpus court reviews a state court‘s application of the
Supreme Court‘s effective assistance of counsel jurisprudence, that review must be doubly
deferential. First, Strickland v. Washington mandates a ―strong presumption‖ that representation
was within the ―wide range‖ of constitutionally acceptable performance. Strickland thereby
incorporates a great deal of deference to the decisions made by defense counsel, who may have
known things that do not appear in the record, or may not have known things that would only later
be revealed. Second, the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) only allows
federal habeas corpus courts to correct unreasonable applications of Strickland, not decisions that
were merely wrong. To succeed on habeas corpus, a petitioner must show that a state court was
unreasonable in its application of a deferential standard.

Pending

Sykes v. US - The federal Armed Career Criminal Act (―ACCA‖) significantly increases the minimum
and maximum sentences for any felon who illegally possesses a firearm if he has ―three previous
convictions by any court … for a violent felony or a serious drug offense, or both.‖ In Sykes v. United
States, the Justices will resolve a circuit split over whether intentionally fleeing from a law
enforcement officer in a car after being ordered to stop constitutes a ―violent felony‖ under ACCA.
During the Sykes oral argument, the Justices themselves split over exactly which words matter most
in resolving this question.

Because state offenses are so varied in their particulars, and because the ACCA sets forth a
complicated exposition of what can constitute a triggering ―violent felony,‖ many lower federal courts
have struggled to determine ACCA‘s applicability in a variety of settings. And, due in part to many
circuit splits over what sorts of offenses trigger ACCA‘s severe sentences, the Court has recently
taken up a large number of ACCA cases. In one recent ACCA case, Chambers v. United States
(2009), Justice Alito wrote separately to urge Congress to rewrite ACCA to ―rescue the federal courts
from the mire into which ACCA‘s draftsmanship‖ has pushed the jurisprudence.

In the Sykes oral argument, the parties and the Justices had to explore further ACCA‘s definition of
―violent felony‖ as an offense punishable by more than one year of imprisonment that is ―burglary,
arson, or extortion, involves the use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct that presents a
serious potential risk of physical injury to another.‖ When this provision was recently before the
Justice in Begay v. United States (2008), the Court added the interpretive gloss that the final clause
is to encompasses ―only similar crimes‖ to those enumerated, which ―all typically involve purposeful,
‗violent‘ and ‗aggressive‘ conduct.‖

Justice Scalia suggested he favored a narrow reading of ACCA; he pointedly asked Assistant to the
Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, who argued on behalf of the United States, just how it made sense to
describe fleeing from the police as a ―violent felony.‖ In response, Wall stressed the statutory phrase
―conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury‖; he argued that fleeing from police
in a vehicle typically generates much more risk of injury than arson or any of the other enumerated
crimes.

Oral argument hints that the (perhaps divided) Justices may ultimately be drawn to a narrow and
limited ruling in Sykes. A focused ruling would resolves this particular case and circuit split, but likely
would do very little to help lower courts navigate their way through an enduring ACCA jurisprudential
mire.
Title: Sheets v. Simpson
Docket: 10-458
Issue(s): (1) Whether a prison inmate is in "custody" for Miranda purposes if law enforcement
officers isolate and question him about criminal conduct occurring outside the prison but impose no
additional restraints or coercive pressures beyond those inherent in ordinary prison confinement; and
(2) whether a police officer violates clearly established Miranda law by advising a defendant who asks
him whether a polygraph examination will confirm the veracity of the defendant's statements that
defendant will not have any trouble if his statements are truthful, but that he should terminate the
examination and consult an attorney if he is lying.

Title: Lafler v. Cooper (Granted )

Docket: 10-209
Issue(s): Whether a state habeas petitioner is entitled to relief when his counsel deficiently advises
him to reject a favorable plea bargain but the defendant is later convicted and sentenced pursuant to
a fair trial.

A finger was found at the scene of a house fire in Brevard County, FL.

Police said they traced the fingertip back to 23-year-old man who said the owner of the Titusville
home paid him to start the fire.

Investigators said he slammed his finger in the door as he rushed to get out of the home on North
Dixie Avenue late Friday night.

It was that fingertip that helped detectives track the suspect to a nearby hospital.

"He did have an injury consistent with the piece of the finger that we found behind. He then allowed
us to look inside his residence and there was some evidence that we found there as well," said
Detective Jessica Edens with Titusville Police.

Police said the man confessed to setting the fire. He said his father-in-law paid him to do it, so that
he could collect the insurance money.

~~~

From Dead Serious News – http://www.deadseriousnews.com

The world's only dead serious news source

Determined to reduce the incidence of rape in their prisons, the Iowa Department of Corrections
have found an inexpensive solution. Standard bars of soap in the showers will be replaced with ‗soap
on a rope‘.

The Iowa Department of Corrections hired The Sodomy Prevention Group to consult on the matter.
The contract, funded with Federal stimulus money, cost the state $3.1 million. Through
viewing thousands of hours of security video footage, as well as inmate interviews, The Sodomy
Prevention Group determined that approximately 82% of prison rapes started with a dropped bar of
soap in the shower. Their findings concluded that soap on a rope would save the state $853,349
annually in inmate medical costs, mostly for hemorrhoid cream.

Critics have been quick to refute the idea, most of whom blame the preponderance of Greco-Roman
wrestling and gladiator movies available on the prison‘s internal television network. Cyrus MacDuff, a
government watchdog, claims that this programming costs the taxpayers of Iowa over $1.8 million
per year in royalty fees. ―By
cutting this programming, taxpayers would save money and stop the advance of the homosexual
agenda in Iowa,‖ claims MacDuff. Prison officials have been quick to refute his assertions, however.

Iowa Department of Corrections officials will be using prison labor to manufacture the soap on a
rope. About a quarter of inmates who currently make license plates will be moved over to soap
production. Iowans will need to wait a little longer for their license plates as a result.

~~~

Colorado Springs: A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and demanded all the cash
from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of scotch that
he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but he
refused and said "Because I don't believe you are over 21." The robber said he was, but the clerk still
refused to give it to him because he didn't believe him. At this point the robber took his driver‘s
license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over, and agreed that the man
was in fact over 21 and he put the scotch in the bag. The robber then ran from the store with his
loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got
off the license. They arrested the robber two hours later.

~~~

San Francisco: A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the branch and
wrote "this iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag." While standing in line, waiting to give his note
to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police
before he reached the teller window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to Wells
Fargo. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it
and, surmising from his spelling errors that he was not the brightest light in the harbor, told him that
she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and
that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America. Looking
somewhat defeated, the man
said "OK" and left. The Wells Fargo teller then called the police who arrested the man a few minutes
later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America.

~~~

A Charlotte, NC, man having purchased a case of very rare, very expensive cigars insured them
against fire among other things. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of cigars and
without having made even his first premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the
insurance company. In his claim, the man stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires." The
insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars
in the normal fashion. The man sued....and won. In delivering the ruling the judge agreeing that the
claim was frivolous, stated nevertheless that the man held a policy from the company in which it had
warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure against fire,
without defining what it considered to be "unacceptable fire," and was obligated to pay the claim.
Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process the insurance company accepted the ruling
and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in "the fires." After the man cashed the check,
however, the company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson. With his own insurance claim and
testimony from the previous case being used against him, the man was convicted of intentionally
burning his insured property and sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine.

Recient mugshot to laugh at

Biography of a Comic Strip

Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray
(1894–1968) and syndicated by Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name
from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its
debut on August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News. It ranked number one in
popularity in a Fortune poll in 1937.

After World War I, cartoonist Harold Gray joined the Chicago Tribune which, at that
time, was being reworked by owner Joseph Medill Patterson into an important national journal. As
part of his plan, Patterson wanted to publish comic strips that would lend themselves to nation-wide
syndication and to film and radio adaptations. Gray's strips were consistently rejected by Patterson,
but Little Orphan Annie was finally accepted and debuted in a test run on August 5, 1924 in the New
York Daily News, a Tribune owned tabloid. Reader response was positive, and Annie began appearing
as a Sunday strip in the Tribune on November 2 and as a daily strip on November 10. It was soon
offered for syndication and picked up by the Toronto Star and The Atlanta Constitution.

Gray reported in 1951 that Annie's origin lay in a chance meeting he had with a ragamuffin while
wandering the streets of Chicago looking for cartooning ideas. "I talked to this little kid and liked her
right away," Gray said, "She had common sense, knew how to take care of herself. She had to. Her
name was Annie. At the time some 40 strips were using boys as the main characters; only three were
using girls. I chose Annie for mine, and made her an orphan, so she'd have no family, no tangling
alliances, but freedom to go where she pleased."

In designing the strip, Gray was influenced by his Midwestern farm boyhood, Victorian poetry and
novels such as Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, Sidney Smith's wildly popular comic strip The
Gumps, and the histrionics of the silent films and melodramas of the period. Initially, there was no
continuity between the dailies and the Sunday strips, but by the early 1930s the two had become
one. The strip (whose title was borrowed from James Whitcomb Riley's 1885 poem "Little Orphant
Annie") was "conservative and topical", according to the editors of The Great Depression in America:
A Cultural Encyclopedia, and "represents the personal vision" of Gray and Riley's "homespun
philosophy of hard work, respect for elders, and a cheerful outlook on life". A Fortune popularity poll
in 1937 indicated Little Orphan Annie ranked number one and ahead of Popeye, Dick Tracy, Bringing
Up Father, The Gumps, Blondie, Moon Mullins, Joe Palooka, Li'l Abner and Tillie the Toiler.

Harold Gray's work is in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. The Gray
collection includes artwork, printed material, correspondence, manuscripts and photographs. Gray‘s
original pen and ink drawings for Little Orphan Annie daily strips date from 1924 to 1968.

Little Orphan Annie displays literary kinship with the picaresque novel in its seemingly endless string
of episodic and unrelated adventures in the life of a character who wanders vagabondlike through a
corrupt world. In Annie's first year, the picaresque pattern that will characterize her story is set, with
the major players – Annie, Sandy, and "Daddy" Warbucks – introduced within the strip's first several
weeks.

The story opens in a dreary, Dickensian orphanage where Annie is routinely abused by the cold,
sarcastic matron. One day, the wealthy but mean-spirited Mrs. Warbucks takes Annie into her home
"on trial". Her husband develops an instant paternal affection for Annie and instructs her to address
him as "Daddy". Unfortunately, his business takes him far from home for long periods of time and he
is unable to protect Annie from his spiteful, jealous wife who eventually returns Annie to the
orphanage.

Annie is an orphan of no definite age, perhaps between ten and twelve. Her distinguishing physical
characteristics are a mop of red, curly hair, a red dress and vacant circles for eyes. Her catch phrases
are "Gee whiskers" and "Leapin' lizards!" Annie attributes her lasting youthfulness to her Leap Day,
February 29, birthday, and so only ages one year in appearance for every four years that pass. Annie
is a plucky, generous, compassionate and optimistic youngster who can hold her own against bullies
and has a strong and intuitive sense of right and wrong.
In the late 1920s, the strip had taken on a more adult and adventurous feel with Annie encountering
killers, gangsters, spies, and saboteurs. It was about this time that Gray, whose politics seem to have
been either conservative or libertarian with a decided populist streak, introduced some of his more
controversial storylines. He would look into the darker aspects of human nature, such as greed and
treachery. The gap between rich and poor was an important theme.

The strip (and Gray, in interviews) glorified the American business ethic of an honest day's work for
an honest day's pay. His hatred of labor unions was dramatized in the 1935 story "Eonite". Other
targets were the New Deal, communism, and corrupt businessmen. Gray was especially critical of the
justice system, which he saw as not doing enough to deal with criminals. Thus, some of his storylines
featured people taking the law into their own hands.

Some writers and editors took issue with this strip's criticisms of FDR's New Deal and 1930s labor
unionism. The New Republic described Annie as "Hooverism in the Funnies", arguing that Gray's strip
was defending utility company bosses then being investigated by the government. The Herald
Dispatch of Huntington, West Virginia stopped running Little Orphan Annie, printing a front page
editorial rebuking Gray's politics. A subsequent New Republic editorial praised the paper's move, and
The Nation likewise voiced its support.

In the post-war years, Annie took on The Bomb, communism, teenage rebellion and a host of other
social and political concerns, often provoking the enmity of clergymen, union leaders and others. For
example, Gray believed children should be allowed to work. "A little work never hurt any kid," Gray
affirmed, "One of the reasons we have so much juvenile delinquency is that kids are forced by law to
loaf around on street corners and get into trouble." His belief brought upon him the wrath of the
labor movement, which staunchly supported the child labor laws.

A London newspaper columnist thought some of Gray's sequences a threat to world peace, but a
Detroit newspaper supported Gray on his 'shoot first, ask questions later' foreign policy. Gray was
criticized for the gruesome violence in the strips, particularly a sequence in which Annie and Sandy
were run over by a car. In 1956, a sequence about juvenile delinquency, drug addiction,
switchblades, prostitutes, crooked cops, and the ties between teens and adult gangsters unleashed a
firestorm of criticism from unions, the clergy and intellectuals with 30 newspapers cancelling the
strip. The syndicate ordered Gray to drop the sequence and develop another adventure.

Little Orphan Annie was adapted to a 15-minute radio show that debuted on WGN Chicago at 5:45
pm EST on April 6, 1931, and eventually aired from coast to coast on NBC's Blue Network. The show
was one of the first comic strips adapted to radio, attracted about 6 million fans, and left the air in
1942. In 1931 when the show debuted, radio had yet to establish coast to coast networks so two
separate casts performed—one in San Francisco starring Floy Margaret Hughes and the other in
Chicago starring Shirley Bell as Annie, Stanley Andrews as "Daddy", and Allan Baruck (later a young
Mel Tormé) as Joe Corntassel. Bobbe Dean briefly played the character in 1934–35 during a contract
dispute between the studio and Bell, and Janice Gilbert portrayed Annie from 1940 to 1942. Leonard
Salvo was the show's organist.

Annie has been staged internationally, and has been filmed several times, the best known being
perhaps the 1982 version directed by John Huston and starring Aileen Quinn as Annie, Albert Finney
as Warbucks, Ann Reinking as his secretary Grace Farrell, and Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan,
matron of the orphanage. The Broadway Annies were Andrea McArdle, Shelley Bruce, Sarah Jessica
Parker, Allison Smith and Alyson Kirk. Actresses who portrayed Miss Hannigan are Dorothy Loudon,
Alice Ghostley, Betty Hutton, Ruth Kobart, Marcia Lewis, June Havoc, Nell Carter and Sally Struthers.

In January 2011, Variety announced that Will Smith was planning to remake Annie with
his daughter Willow Smith in the title role.

Gray died in May 1968 of cancer, and the strip was continued under other cartoonists but
subscriptions fell off by the end of 1973. During this time Annie complaints were registered regarding
Annie's appearance, her liberal politics, and her lack of spunk. In April 1974, the decision was made
to reach back to 1936 and run Gray's classic strips. Subscriptions increased.

Following the success of the Broadway musical Annie, the strip was resurrected in 1979 as Annie,
written and drawn by Leonard Starr. Starr, the creator of Mary Perkins, On Stage, was the only one
besides Gray to achieve notable success with the strip. Annie gradually lost subscribers during the
2000s, and by 2010, it was running in fewer than 20 U.S. newspapers.

On May 13, 2010, Tribune Media Services announced that the strip's final installment would appear
on Sunday June 13, 2010. At the time of the cancellation announcement, it was running in fewer
than 20 newspapers; some of those papers, such as the New York Daily News, had carried the strip
for its entire life. The final cartoonist, Ted Slampyak, said, "It's kind of painful. It's almost like
mourning the loss of a friend."

Abraham Lincoln and Colonization

In December 1816, a group of distinguished Americans met in Washington, DC, to establish an

organization to promote the cause of black resettlement. The "American Colonization Society" soon
won backing from some of the young nation's most prominent citizens. Henry Clay, Francis Scott Key,
John Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Bushrod Washington, Charles
Carroll, Millard Fillmore, John Marshall, Roger B. Taney, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, Stephen A.
Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln were members. Clay presided at the group's first meeting.

Measures to resettle blacks in Africa were soon undertaken. Society member Charles Fenton Mercer
played an important role in getting Congress to pass the Anti-Slave Trading Act of March 1819, which
appropriated $100,000 to transport blacks to Africa. In enforcing the Act, Mercer suggested to
President James Monroe that if blacks were simply returned to the coast of Africa and released, they
would probably be re-enslaved, and possibly some returned to the United States. Accordingly, and in
cooperation with the Society, Monroe sent agents to acquire territory on Africa's West coast -- a step
that led to the founding of the country now known as Liberia. Its capital city was named Monrovia in
honor of the American President.

Since the 1840s Lincoln had been an advocate of the American Colonization Society program of
colonizing blacks in Liberia. In an October 16, 1854 at Peoria, Illinois Lincoln points out the immense
difficulties of such a task are the obstacles to finding an easy way to quickly end slavery.
Lincoln said ―My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia,—to their own
native land. But a moment‘s reflection would convince me that whatever of high hope (as I think
there is) there may be in this, in the long run, its sudden execution is impossible.‖

Lincoln mentioned colonization favorably in his first Emancipation Proclamation, and continued to
support efforts at colonization throughout his presidency.

The first such attempt was in September 1862, and consisted of an attempt to colonize the Chiriqui
region of Panama. Lincoln signed a contract with businessman Ambrose W. Thompson, the owner of
the land, and appointed Kansas Senator Samuel Pomeroy to administer the project, with plans to
send as many as 50,000 slaves. The plan was aborted before a single ship sailed though, due to a
host of reasons involving objections from neighboring Central American governments.

In 1862 Lincoln appointed the Rev. James Mitchell of Indiana to oversee colonization, and established
a Bureau of Emigration under his head at the Department of the Interior. In addition to Panama and
Haiti, Mitchell's office also oversaw attempts at colonization in British Honduras and elsewhere in the
Caribbean.

In early 1863, Lincoln signed a contract with Bernard Kock to establish a colony on the Ile a Vache
near Haiti. 500 freed slaves departed for the island from Fort Monroe, Virginia, though the project
proved to be a disaster. Poor planning, an outbreak of smallpox, and financial mismanagement by
Kock left the colonists under-supplied and starving, requiring the rescue of survivors by the United
States Navy after only a year.

The question of when Lincoln abandoned colonization, if ever, has aroused considerable debate
among historians, and continues unresolved to this day. The government funded no more colonies
after the rescue of the Ile a Vache survivors in early 1864, and Congress repealed most of the
colonization funding that July.

Whether Lincoln's opinion had changed is unknown, as he left no written statements on the subject
in the last two years of his presidency. A entry in the diary of presidential secretary John Hay dated
July 2, 1864 says that Lincoln had "sloughed off" colonization, though without much elaboration. In a
later report, General Benjamin F. Butler claimed that Lincoln approached him in 1865 a few days
before his assassination, to talk about reviving colonization in Panama.

A short time before his death on April 15, 1865, Lincoln met with General Benjamin F. Butler, who
reported that the President spoke to him of "exporting" the blacks.

"But what shall we do with the negroes after they are free?," Lincoln said. "I can hardly believe that
the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would
be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to
themselves." Along with a request to Butler to look into the question of how best to use "our very
large navy" to send "the blacks away," the President laid bare his fears for the future:

If these black soldiers of ours go back to the South, I am afraid that they will be but little better off
with their masters than they were before, and yet they will be free men. I fear a race war, and it will
be at least a guerilla war because we have taught these men how to fight ... There are plenty of men
in the North who will furnish the negroes with arms if there is any oppression of them by their late
masters.
Runic Alphabet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The runic alphabets are a set of related alphabets using letters known as runes to write various
Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialized purposes
thereafter. The Scandinavian variants are also known as futhark (or fuþark, derived from their first
six letters of the alphabet: F, U, Þ, A, R, and K); the Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc (due to sound
changes undergone in Old English by the same six letters). Runology is the study of the runic
alphabets, runic inscriptions, runestones, and their history. Runology forms a specialized branch of
Germanic linguistics.

The earliest runic inscriptions date from around AD 150. The characters were generally replaced by
the Latin alphabet as the cultures that had used runes underwent Christianization by around AD 700
in central Europe and by around AD 1100 in Northern Europe. However, the use of runes persisted
for specialized purposes in Northern Europe. Until the early 20th century runes were used in rural
Sweden for decoration purposes in Dalarna and on Runic calendars.

The three best-known runic alphabets are the Elder Futhark (around 150 to 800 AD), the Anglo-
Saxon Futhorc (400 to 1100 AD), and the Younger Futhark (800–1100). The Younger Futhark is
further divided into the long-branch runes (also called Danish, although they were also used in
Norway and Sweden), short-branch or Rök runes (also called Swedish-Norwegian, although they
were also used in Denmark), and the stavesyle or Hälsinge runes (staveless runes). The Younger
Futhark developed further into the Marcomannic runes, the Medieval 35 runes (1100 AD to 1500 AD),
and the Dalecarlian runes (around 1500 to 1800 AD).

The origins of the runic alphabet are uncertain. Many characters of the Elder Futhark bear a close
resemblance to characters from the Latin alphabet. Other candidates are the 5th to 1st century BC
Northern Italic alphabets: Lepontic, Rhaetic and Venetic, all of which are closely related to each other
and descend from the Old Italic alphabet.

The runes were in use among the Germanic peoples from the 1st or 2nd century AD. This period
corresponds to the late Common Germanic stage linguistically, with a continuum of dialects not yet
clearly separated into the three branches of later centuries; North Germanic, West Germanic, and
East Germanic.

No distinction is made in surviving runic inscriptions between long and short vowels, although such a
distinction was certainly present phonologically in the spoken languages of the time. Similarly, there
are no signs for labiovelars in the Elder Futhark (such signs were introduced in both the Anglo-Saxon
futhorc and the Gothic alphabet as variants of p; see peorð.)

The name runes contrasts with Latin or Greek letters. It is attested on a 6th century Alamannic
runestaff as runa, and possibly as runo on the 4th century Einang stone. The name is from a root
run- (Gothic runa), meaning "secret" or "whisper". The root run- can also be found in the Baltic
languages meaning "speech". In Lithuanian, runoti has two meanings: "to cut (with a knife)" or "to
speak".
Origins
Main article: Elder Futhark

The runes developed centuries after the Old Italic alphabets from which they are historically derived.
The debate on the development of the runic script concerns the question which of the Italic
alphabets should be taken as their point of origin, and which, if any, signs should be considered
original innovations added to the letters found in the Italic scripts. The historical context of the
script's origin is the cultural contact between Germanic people, who often served as mercenaries in
the Roman army, and the Italic peninsula during the Roman imperial period (1st c. BC to 5th c. AD).
The formation of the Elder Futhark was complete by the early 5th century, with the Kylver Stone
being the first evidence of the futhark ordering as well as of the p rune.

Specifically, the Raetic alphabet of Bolzano, is often advanced as a candidate for the origin of the
runes, with only five Elder Futhark runes (ᛖ e, ᛇ ï, ᛃ j, ᛜ ŋ, ᛈ p) having no counterpart in the
Bolzano alphabet (Mees 2000). Scandinavian scholars tend to favor derivation from the Latin
alphabet itself over Raetic candidates. A "North Etruscan" thesis is supported by the inscription on
the Negau helmet dating to the 2nd century BC This is in a northern Etruscan alphabet, but features
a Germanic name, Harigast.

The angular shapes of the runes are shared with most contemporary alphabets of the period used for
carving in wood or stone. A peculiarity of the runic alphabet is the absence of horizontal strokes,
although this characteristic is also shared by other alphabets, such as the early form of the Latin
alphabet used for the Duenos inscription, and it is not universal especially among early runic
inscriptions, which frequently have variant rune shapes including horizontal strokes.

The "West Germanic hypothesis" speculates on an introduction by West Germanic tribes. This
hypothesis is based on claiming that the earliest inscriptions of around 200 AD, found in bogs and
graves around Jutland (the Vimose inscriptions), exhibit word endings that, being interpreted by
Scandinavian scholars to be Proto-Norse, are considered unresolved and having been long the
subject of discussion. Inscriptions like wagnija, niþijo, and harija are supposed to incarnate tribe
names, tentatively proposed to be Vangiones, the Nidensis and the Harii, tribes located in the
Rhineland.[5] Since names ending in -io reflect Germanic morphology representing the Latin ending -
ius, and the suffix -inius was reflected by Germanic -inio-,[6] the question of the problematic ending -
ijo in masculine Proto-Norse would be resolved by assuming Roman (Rhineland) influences, while
"the awkward ending -a of laguþewa (cf. Syrett 1994:44f.) can be solved by accepting the fact that
the name may indeed be West Germanic;" however, it should be noted that in the early Runic period
differences between Germanic languages are generally assumed to be small. Another theory assumes
a Northwest Germanic unity preceding the emergence of Proto-Norse proper from roughly the 5th
century. An alternative suggestion explaining the impossibility to classify the earliest inscriptions as
either North or West Germanic is forwarded by È. A. Makaev, who assumes a "special runic koine",
an early "literary Germanic" employed by the entire Late Common Germanic linguistic community
after the separation of Gothic (2nd to 5th centuries), while the spoken dialects may already have
been more diverse.

Runic inscriptions from the 400 year period of c. 150 to 550 AD are referred to as "Period I"
inscriptions. These inscriptions are generally in Elder Futhark, but the set of letter shapes and
bindrunes employed is far from standardized. Notably the j, s and ŋ runes undergo considerable
modifications, while others, such as p and ï, remain unattested altogether prior the first full futhark
row on the Kylver Stone (c. 400 AD).

Theories of the existence of separate Gothic runes have been advanced, even identifying them as the
original alphabet from which the Futhark were derived, but these have little support in actual findings
(mainly the spearhead of Kovel, with its right-to-left inscription, its T-shaped tiwaz and its rectangular
dagaz). If there ever were genuinely Gothic runes, they were soon replaced by the Gothic alphabet.
The letters of the Gothic alphabet, however, as given by the Alcuin manuscript (9th century), are
obviously related to the names of the Futhark. The names are clearly Gothic, but it is impossible to
say whether they are as old as, or even older than, the letters themselves. A handful of Elder Futhark
inscriptions were found in Gothic territory, such as the 3rd to 5th century Ring of Pietroassa.

The earliest runic inscriptions found on artifacts give the name of either the craftsman or the
proprietor, or, sometimes, remain a linguistic mystery. Due to this, it is possible that the early runes
were not so much used as a simple writing system, but rather as magical signs to be used for
charms. Although some say the runes were used for divination, there is no direct evidence to suggest
they were ever used in this way. The name rune itself, taken to mean "secret, something hidden",
seems to indicate that knowledge of the runes was originally considered esoteric, or restricted to an
elite.

The lack of extensive knowledge on historical usage of the runes has not stopped modern authors
from extrapolating entire systems of divination from what few specifics exist, usually loosely based on
the runes' reconstructed names and additional outside influence.

A recent study of runic magic suggests that runes were used to create magical objects such as
amulets (MacLeod and Mees 2006), but not in a way that would indicate that runic writing was any
more inherently magical than were other writing systems such as Latin or Greek.

Medieval Use

Codex Runicus, a vellum manuscript from around 1300 AD containing one of the oldest and best
preserved texts of the Scanian Law, written entirely in runes.

As Proto-Germanic evolved into its later language groups, the words assigned to the runes and the
sounds represented by the runes themselves began to diverge somewhat, and each culture would
either create new runes, rename or rearrange its rune names slightly, or even stop using obsolete
runes completely, to accommodate these changes. Thus, the Anglo-Saxon futhorc has several runes
peculiar to itself to represent diphthongs unique to (or at least prevalent in) the Anglo-Saxon dialect.

Nevertheless, the fact that the Younger Futhark has 16 runes, while the Elder Futhark has 24, is not
fully explained by the some 600 years of sound changes that had occurred in the North Germanic
language group. The development here might seem rather astonishing, since the younger form of the
alphabet came to use fewer different rune signs at the same time as the development of the
language led to a greater number of different phonemes than had been present at the time of the
older futhark. For example, voiced and unvoiced consonants merged in script, and so did many
vowels, while the number of vowels in the spoken language increased. From about 1100, this
disadvantage was eliminated in the medieval runes, which again increased the number of different
signs to correspond with the number of phonemes in the language.
Some later runic finds are on monuments (runestones), which often contain solemn inscriptions
about people who died or performed great deeds. For a long time it was assumed that this kind of
grand inscription was the primary use of runes, and that their use was associated with a certain
societal class of rune carvers.

In the mid-1950s, however, about 600 inscriptions known as the Bryggen inscriptions were found in
Bergen. These inscriptions were made on wood and bone, often in the shape of sticks of various
sizes, and contained inscriptions of an everyday nature—ranging from name tags, prayers (often in
Latin), personal messages, business letters and expressions of affection to bawdy phrases of a
profane and sometimes even vulgar nature. Following this find, it is nowadays commonly assumed
that at least in late use, Runic was a widespread and common writing system.

In the later Middle Ages, runes were also used in the Clog almanacs (sometimes called Runic staff,
Prim or Scandinavian calendar) of Sweden and Estonia. The authenticity of some monuments bearing
Runic inscriptions found in Northern America is disputed, but most of them date from modern times.

The largest group of surviving Runic inscription are Viking Age Younger Futhark runestones, most
commonly found in Sweden. Another large group are medieval runes, most commonly found on small
objects, often wooden sticks. The largest concentration of runic inscriptions are the Bryggen
inscriptions found in Bergen, more than 650 in total. Elder Futhark inscriptions number around 350,
about 260 of which are from Scandinavia, of which about half are on bracteates. Anglo-Saxon futhorc
inscriptions number around 100 items.

Modern Use

Runic alphabets have seen numerous usages since the 18th century Viking revival, in Scandinavian
Romantic nationalism (Gothicismus) and Germanic occultism in the 19th century, and in the context
of the Fantasy genre and of Germanic Neopaganism in the 20th.

The pioneer of the Armanist branch of Ariosophy and one of the more important figures in
esotericism in Germany and Austria in the late 19th and early 20th century was the Austrian occultist,
mysticist and völkisch author Guido von List. In 1908, he published in Das Geheimnis der Runen
("The Secret of the Runes") a set of 18 so-called "Armanen runes", based on the Younger Futhark
and runes of List's own introduction, which were allegedly revealed to him in a state of temporary
blindness after a cataract operation on both eyes in 1902.

Another modern-day runic row is the Uthark, commonly known through the work of the Swedish
scholar and occultist Thomas Karlsson, founder of the Ordo Draconis et Atri Adamantis (or Dragon
Rouge), who refers to them as the "night side of the runes". This runic row and theory had however
been the subject of an earlier study by the Swedish philologist Sigurd Agrell.
Worms Related to Humans Reorganize Evolution Theory

Excerpt from Conservative Examiner Article by Paul Hamaker

Published February 10th 2011 http://conservativeexaminer.com

A new study published in Nature suggests that ―Genetic research proves worm has evolved to be less
sophisticated than its ancestor.‖

The study, led by Dr. Hervé Philippe of the University‘s Department of Biochemistry, compares the
―genomes of two kinds of marine worms with simple morphology – Xenoturbellida and Acoelomorpha
– with those of other animals‖ and finds that ―the worms had evolved from a more sophisticated
ancestor through major simplifications.‖

According to Philippe,"we did already know that most parasitic organisms had evolved to be less
sophisticated than their ancestors – they lost certain abilities that they no longer needed. The
independently living Xenoturbellida and Acoelomorpha do not fall in this category." He goes on to
state that the worms are ―closely related to the complex deuterostomes, which is a major lineage
containing sea urchins, humans and sharks.‖
The implications of this discovery are quite profound in that they suggest devolution – the movement
backward to a more primitive form - in this case, for reasons other than lack of need for specific
characteristics.

When one speaks of evolution, it evokes ideas of betterment – a movement forward to a more
efficient and elite species, often more complex. The study suggests just the opposite has occurred -
the worms underwent a physical simplification.

Could humans be moving in the same direction?

Interconnectedness, refinement of technology, as well as the establishment of special-focus groups
and institutions, manifests the inevitable interdependency of individuals and groups – no longer
capable of functioning separately and for themselves.
Society – not man – is seemingly the victor in this evolutionary scenario. While individual self-
sufficiency declines, it further suggests the devolution of modern man over his more self-reliant
ancestors.
Does this seal the fate of man for future generations? The result of that question is not written in
the history books as it hinges largely on the motivation of modern humankind to better itself through
accomplishment, education, independence, usage of moral and intellectual faculties, and above all –
reason.

Most Alive

I am sitting in this college English course, part of a prison college program, and yes, I did say prison.
The instructor wants us to write about an experience. What catches my attention is this: "Write about
when you felt most alive."

Most alive? As I try to define this, I hear the dialogue around me. The guys are thinking about wild,
crazy intensity. I have had some of those times. Heart-pounding, inebriated, drug-induced, euphoric,
chaotic intensity. Yet today, as I sit here, I can only come to one conclusion: I was never truly alive
then. Though I thought I was.

For me, "most alive" came after the binges on drugs and liquor - years after. It slipped up on me
when I least expected it, when by all the worldly standards, my life was over. It was years into
sobriety and prison, when prayer, early morning walks, dew on grass, birds overhead, or a cool
breeze stood out against the harsh background of my circumstances. Then, abruptly, as if waiting for
me my whole life, it came to me, this "most alive" moment, and said, "Hey, everything is okay, right
now, right here, where we are." I cannot say if it was God, but I think that it was.

It visits me still. Not every day, but often. When I let it. This sober realization that I am "most alive"
whenever and wherever - if I allow it. This beautiful gift is mine when I claim it. My life, truly, in
sobriety. Even in prison. Vibrant, creative, reflective, thoughtful, caring, mine. Fully appreciated. Fully
aware. Fully alive. God blesses us each in our own little self-created prisons, when we allow it. A
drink and drug brought me low. Putting those things behind me brought me to a place I could not
have arrived at in any other way. Now, today, though in prison, I'm more free than ever before. I am
enriched and whole and my life is mine. All mine with deep appreciation of who I am, what I lack,
where I have been, and where I am going; all the joy, sorrow, pain, and love. I took the path "less
traveled by" and pray that you, too, can find this "most alive" life in sobriety.

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Through Racist Eyes

Courtesy of MAFreedom malevolentfreedom.org

Every person experiences life differently. People standing right next to each other could witness an
event, and each could walk away with a different idea of what happened. It‘s not the vantage point
that causes this discrepancy of observation, but rather the viewers understanding of the world, and
how its viewed through their eyes.

Myself, I see the world through racist eyes. And trust me; I‘ve got both wide open.

Through racist eyes I see Christmas trees being removed and replaced with Menorahs after
complaints, and wonder why my culture is being removed in favor of a foreign one.

Through racist eyes I see a mulatto child being pushed in a carriage by a white parent and question
the child's sense of identity. Belonging exclusively to neither race, how could a child with no past
possibly have a future?
Through racist eyes I see the NAACP, ADL, and La Raza lobbying for their respective races cultural
identity while at the same time I see pressure on the white community to compromise their culture in
an attempt to make room for others in the name of acceptance and tolerance.

Through racist eyes I see immigrant families with four or five children "living off the system" while
working class Americans are forced to modify their lifestyle to be able to afford the costs of raising a
single child.

Through racist eyes I see my government acknowledging the "rights" of Muslims to build Mosques
and practice their faith freely, while it‘s forbidden to recite The Lord‘s Prayer in schools or to invoke
the name of God in any public place.

Through racist eyes I see immigrant criminals being referred to as "victims of poverty" while an
American offender who may be guilty of the same crime is labeled simply as a "criminal" who is
possibly responsible for committing a "hate crime".

Through racist eyes I see immigrants having jobs secured for them through such institutions as
Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Workplaces while Americans compete for whatever jobs are
left.

Through racist eyes I see the world around me, and I worry. As a
white American, I see my place in society becoming smaller. I see
those who choose to identify themselves as "White" being looked at
poorly by the same people who pledge to support the "Black
Community", the "Muslim Community", and the "Jewish Community".
I see immigrant professionals participating in the Black Business
Caucus and the Hispanic Business Caucus- yet I know that if any
group of business men chose to classify themselves or their business
as white that they run the risk of ostracizing themselves from the
consumer community.

Through racist eyes I see injustice perpetrated on the white race in the form of penalties and
persecution for making a society that others now take advantage of in an attempt to further
themselves, with little regard to that societies future.

Recently, my racist eyes have seen something that they have never seen before. Hope. My eyes see
hope in the groups of people who gather to protest the tyranny against our people. They see hope in
the crowds of people who rally for the Americans independence from an oppressive government.
Hope in those who show up in the rain to oppose the building of a monument to our enemy's being
built at the scene of their greatest victory.

Through racist eyes I see people, for the first time, taking an honest interest in their future- rather
than settling for what is laid out in front of them. I see people rejecting the idea that we are all a
"One World People" and embracing the idea that we deserve the right to exist as a "Stand Alone
People". I see people striving to be exceptional in an environment where mediocrity is preferred.

Through racist eyes, I see the beginning of a great and necessary revolution- and my eyes are
smiling.
~~~
 A Look at Unity

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http://malevolentfreedom.org

The people of the movement are strong and dedicated. We claim we are a Brotherhood, but there is
one problem. Like Brothers, we fight. Unity is hard in the movement because many small thing divide
us. Not only that, but we disagree about certain teachings. Some people feel drug use is ok. No, it is
not. It is a burden on our society and damages us. Some people prefer to listen to other kinds of
music. So long as it isn‘t glorifying the Left or consists of sub-human filth, music is great, it‘s
inspirational. And one more reason as an example, is some people think it‘s ok to breed outside our
race because their partners believe what we believe. National Socialist ideals can be placed
anywhere, but mixing with the Sub-humans, taking the purity of the white race and degrading
yourself is not ok. They are scum, and even if they have the little bit of intelligence to want National
Socialism is no reason to degrade yourself.

So, what are we to do? Look at the left. For some reason, stupidity seems to bond them. The ideas
of equality and people working together seems to draw them in. The idea that all races are
supposedly equal and an idea of world peace. What a joke, yeah? Let me tell you how Communism
and diversity really work. You have all the head party members at the top, otherwise known as the
Jews and the few puppets that are ―white‖, and the rest are stupid, ignorant sheep that are removed
the second they step out of line. I‘ve noticed that in every communist society, there has always been
a genocide of the intellectuals. Do you know why? It‘s because morons are easier to trick then the
intelligent. The few smart people in the communist society are forced to work under the government,
usually creating weapons. Other intellectuals become teachers, trying to appease their government in
hopes their doors aren‘t broken down in the middle of the night and they‘re shipped off to a camp. As
for diversity, there is no such thing as equality and trying to mix other races together causes chaos
and impurity. Now, George Orwell wrote the famous line, ―Ignorance is Bliss‖, in his novel 1984, and
I disagree with this. To be ignorant brings chaos and mankind‘s downfall, but the left seems keen on
that already by choosing idiotic political ideals. Communism, Socialism, and Marxism seem to all have
the same basic ideas and even if there are a few things that the Leftists may disagree on, they are
still bonded. We though, the National Socialists, the White Power Men and Women, the good people
of the world; we are divided, despite being united under the Right-side.

I can‘t get over this, and I continue to wonder why. We do what we feel is right. We crave justice
and preservation of our race, lands and cultures, but we can never have it if we can‘t put aside the
meaningless squabbles, and unite under what the Fuehrer taught us. We are a Brotherhood, the
warriors of Justice and the providers of a safe world, and perhaps it‘s time we set in motion what
National Socialism is in our time, fit it to our time period and lands, so we can truly be the force to
secure our Race, our Lands and our White Cultures.
 Norman Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894, in New York City to Jarvis
Waring Rockwell and Anne Mary "Nancy" (née Hill) Rockwell. His earliest
American ancestor was John Rockwell (1588–1662), from Somerset, England,
who immigrated to America probably in 1635 aboard the ship Hopewell and
became one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut.

Norman transferred from high school to the Chase Art School at the age of 14.
He then went on to the National Academy of Design and finally to the Art
Students League. During the First World War, he tried to enlist into the U.S.
Navy but was refused entry because, at 6 feet (1.83 m) tall and 140 pounds
(64 kg), he was eight pounds underweight. To compensate, he spent one night gorging himself on
bananas, liquids and doughnuts, and weighed enough to enlist the next day. However, he was given
the role of a military artist and did not see any action during his tour of duty.

Norman Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing over 4,000 original works in his lifetime. Most of his
works are either in public collections, or have been destroyed in fire or other misfortunes. Rockwell
was also commissioned to illustrate over 40 books including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
During his long career, he was commissioned to paint the portraits for Presidents Eisenhower,
Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, as well as those of foreign figures, including Gamal Abdel Nasser and
Jawaharlal Nehru. One of his last works was a portrait of Judy Garland in 1969.

For "vivid and affectionate portraits of our country," Rockwell received the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, the United States of America's highest civilian honor, in 1977. Rockwell died November 8,
1978 of emphysema at age 84 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

George Washington is an American hero whose fame is not wholly accounted for by the record of his
life. A military genius, he wrested liberty from tyranny; a statesman, he helped evolve a stable
government from political chaos; a patriot, he refused a crown.

Wisdom, patience, tolerance, courage, consecration to the righteous cause animated his every act.
Ingratitude, injustice and treachery never embittered him, but served to strengthen his character. He
grew in dignity and in capacity to the need of his growing responsibility and power, but he never became
arrogant and ambition and opportunity never tempted him from the narrow path of honor.

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 to Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger. Benjamin was
Josiah‘s fifteenth child. The place of his birth was Milk Street, Boston.

The musical aspect of his personality is revealed in his skills of playing guitar, harp and violin. He invented
the glass harmonica.
The Harvard and the Yale Universities awarded him the honorary degrees.

In 1762, the Oxford University honored him with a doctorate.

Franklin was elected to the Second Continental Congress and worked on a committee of five that helped
to draft the Declaration of Independence.

Some of his inventions include lightning rod, Franklin‘s stove, bifocal glasses and the urinary catheter. He
did not like patenting inventions. He thought that his inventions gave him an opportunity to serve the
society. In 1729, Benjamin Franklin bought a newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin not only
printed the paper, but often contributed pieces to the paper under aliases. His newspaper soon became
the most successful in the colonies. This newspaper, among other firsts, would print the first political
cartoon, authored by Ben himself.

Franklin died on April 17, 1790 at the age of 84. 20,000 people attended the funeral of the man who was
called, "the harmonious human multitude." His electric personality, however, still lights the world.

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 Andrew Jackson
―It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.‖

―It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish
purposes.‖

―The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are
able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in
obtaining...and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst
for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given
or bartered away… Farewell Address, 1837‖

Patrick Henry
―Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately,
nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.‖

―Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for
our defense?‖

―They tell us sir that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be
stronger?‖

John Adams
―The Revolution was affected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the
people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the
principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.‖

Benjamin Franklin
―He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else‖

―Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest‖

―How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them‖