Patrick J. Buchanan - December 29, 2006.
Gerald R. Ford was a good man who served his country well in an evil time.
When he took office on Aug. 9, 1974, and declared, “Our long national nightmare is over,” Ford did not fully appreciate that those who had done the most to create the nightmare were still here. The establishment that Nixon had humiliated in his 49-state landslide, having just effected a coup d’etat, had crawled back into power. Read more »

DALIA NAMMARI RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Though much of the world regarded him as a tyrant, Saddam Hussein was mourned by Palestinians Saturday as a generous patron who remained one of their staunchest allies, right up until the moment of his death.

Saddam had rejected peace with Israel, sent money to the families of suicide bombers and welcomed many Palestinian refugees to Iraq. As he stood on the gallows, his last words reportedly were: “Palestine is Arab.” Read more »

After compensating nearly 1.7 million people in recent years, the fund is sending out its last checks to meet a Sunday deadline set by German law to finish its work.

“This isn’t just about money,” said Guenter Saathoff, director of the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future foundation that administers the fund. “It’s much more about morality: These payments are one way that Germany recognizes the wrongs inflicted on its victims.” Read more »

RALEIGH, N.C. - Ethics charges filed against the prosecutor at the center of the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case might constitute a conflict of interest that forces him off the case, legal experts said.
The bar cited 41 quotations and eight paraphrased statements made to newspaper and TV reporters, saying many of them amounted to “improper commentary about the character, credibility and reputation of the accused.”
Among them:
• Referring to the lacrosse players as “a bunch of hooligans.”
• “I am convinced there was a rape, yes, sir.”
• “One would wonder why one needs an attorney if one was not charged and had not done anything wrong.”
Nifong also is charged with breaking a rule against “dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation.” Read more »

TOKYO - On a pleasant November morning, some 300 Japanese executives paid $150 each to hear a lanky math professor named Masahiko Fujiwara give a secular sermon on restoring Japan’s greatness. Mr. Fujiwara spoke quietly, without notes, for 80 minutes. His message, a sort of spiritual nationalism, rang loudly, though: Japan has lost its “glorious purity,” its samurai spirit, its traditional sense of beauty, because of habits instilled by the United States after the war. “We are slaves to the Americans,” he said. Read more »

GLENVILLE, N.Y. — Black workers and their attorneys will share $1.25 million in the settlement of a class-action suit that accused an upstate locomotive manufacturer of allowing rampant racism in the workplace, court documents show.

Super Steel of Glenville was sued in April by black workers claiming the company turned a blind eye to insults and threats against them. They sought $175 million in damages. Read more »

LAS VEGAS — Former Us Weekly gossip columnist Timothy McDarrah, arrested in New York last year by undercover federal agents, has been found guilty of charges related to soliciting sex with a minor.

McDarrah, a former reporter at the Las Vegas Sun, was arrested after being charged with trying to seduce an undercover federal agent posing on the Internet as a 13-year-old girl. Read more »

Meat and milk from cloned animals may not appear in supermarkets for years despite being deemed by the government as safe to eat. But don’t be surprised if “clone-free” labels appear sooner.

Ben & Jerry’s, for one, wants consumers to know that its ice cream comes from regular cows and not clones. The Ben & Jerry’s label already says its farmers don’t use bovine growth hormone.

“We want to make sure people are confident with what’s in our pints,” company spokesman Rob Michalak said. “We haven’t yet landed on exactly how we want to express that publicly.” Read more »

Moscow says an anti-Kremlin businessman living in Israel could be behind the radiation poisoning of Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, but the allegation only further complicates a spectacularly bizarre murder case.

The prosecutor general said late Wednesday it had found links between the fatal poisoning of Litvinenko in November and Leonid Nevzlin, a former executive in the Yukos oil company who fled criminal charges in Russia and is now an Israeli citizen. Read more »

Both German and Jewish sensitivities are to face a severe test next month with the launch of a comedy movie in German that turns Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler into a clown with 90 minutes of juvenile jokes.

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Immigration to Israel fell to its lowest in 18 years in 2006, new figures show.

Israeli officials attributed this to a drop in the number of Jews arriving from former Soviet states, although immigration from North America also edged higher, Israeli officials said on Wednesday.

Some 21,000 Jews made “aliya”, the Hebrew word for immigrating to Israel, according to the Jewish Agency, which promotes immigration to Israel.

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 Almost one in six of the illegal migrants who try to travel from North Africa to the Canary Islands dies in the attempt, a Spanish officials have said.

This year, about 6,000 died en route to the Spanish archipelago while 31,404 reached the islands successfully, Froilan Rodriguez, Canary Islands vice-director of immigration, said on Wednesday.

About 600 bodies have been picked up on the shores of the African mainland and the Canaries this year but the total of migrants killed is about 10 times that, Rodriguez said.

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PARIS - If you get pulled over on a California highway next month, you might want to address the officer as “Monsieur le policier.”

That’s because 32 French motorcycle officers are trading the gray Parisian winter for sunny, southern California for an 11-day training program. Read more »

The 15-year-old Sikh boy, who claimed he was a victim of a racist attack in Edinburgh last month, had allegedly made up the story after cutting his hair.

Sikh community leaders on Monday called for “compassion” for the teenager who falsely claimed he was the victim of a racist attack. Hundreds of people attended a vigil after the boy claimed four white thugs had cut off his hair — a deeply offensive act for the Sikh faith. Read more »

Jimmy Carter has a bull’s-eye on his back. Critics are taking shots. But that’s OK, the former president said, because the rising volleys aimed at him are boosting sales of his latest book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

More important, the burst of publicity focuses on issues he feels need an honest airing, issues widely hashed over in Israel, but given short shrift in the United States. Read more »

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A freeway shooting that left a 12-year-old boy dead and was at first thought to be a case of road rage, may be tied to an immigrant smuggling ring, according to investigators.

A man arrested in the shooting, Pedro Escobedo, 43, of San Bernardino pleaded not guilty to murder charges Friday morning, just hours after Gabriel Garcia was taken off life support and pronounced dead at Riverside Community Hospital, the Los Angeles Times reported. Read more »

At a news conference in London, Irving endorsed actor Mel Gibson’s drunken comments earlier this year that Jews were responsible for all modern wars.He also referred to his success as an author in the 1970s by talking about how he had once used cash to buy a Rolls-Royce - the colour of which he described by using a racial slur against blacks. Read more »

A Nova Scotia professor who has faced criticism from his university and colleagues for attending an Iranian conference that cast doubt on the Holocaust lashed out against the school Friday for failing to defend his academic freedom.Shiraz Dossa, a political science professor at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., raised the ire of the university after presenting a paper at the conference earlier this month. Read more »

MEDFORD, Massachusetts (AP) — A conservative, student-run journal at Tufts university published a satirical Christmas carol that ridiculed black students and campus affirmative action policies, then issued an apology after some students called on the school to stop funding the journal.

The carol, entitled, “O Come All Ye Black Folk,” was published in the most recent edition of the Primary Source, which bills itself as “the journal of conservative thought at Tufts University.” Read more »

Samy Naceri, the acclaimed French actor who has spoken out against racism in France, has been sentenced to six months in jail for racial abuse.Naceri, 44, whose father is Algerian and mother is French, won a best actor prize at Cannes film festival this year for his role as a Moroccan soldier in the French box-office hit Indigènes (Days of Glory), which rails against racism and is competing for an Oscar for best foreign film. Read more »

Once again, the mainstream media jumps to the conclusion that because the Democrats won some elections in November, the majority of Americans want third world immigrants in our country.  After viewing the recent events in Riverside, NJ, I have seen that the majority of local townspeople are deadset against the third world invasion.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Reaching into the back of a truck, U.S. anti-immigration activist Don Pauly grabs a Mexican flag, a can of lighter fuel and an aluminum baking tray and heads to the curbside outside the Mexican consulate. Read more »

U.S. Hispanic groups and activists on Thursday called for a moratorium on workplace raids to round up illegal immigrants, with some saying they were reminiscent of Nazi crackdowns on Jews in the 1930s.

They accused the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of “racial profiling,” or selective enforcement against Hispanics, for arresting 1,300 workers on immigration violations in December 12 raids at meatpacking plants in six states. Read more »

German police detained two people as about 500 demonstrators rallied against neo-Nazi marchers in the northwestern city of Minden today, according to police.Police acted after demonstrators hurled stones at a group of far-right extremists walking past the city’s Neuplatz, police said in a statement distributed by OTS newswire. The rear window of a squad car was broken. MORE>>>

Target Corp said on Friday it had pulled a CD carrying case bearing Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s image after an outcry by critics who label the Marxist revolutionary a murderer and totalitarian symbol.

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I guess the myth of illegals taking jobs americans don’t want won’t hold up too well.

The line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. meat-processing plant earlier this week was out the door Thursday. Read more »

A group of four Pacifica teens were the victims of an act of violence in San Francisco Saturday as they walked to the Civic Center BART station after attending a “Rancid” concert at the Warfield at 9th and Market Streets.

A group of six African-American teens, who took a moment to first cover their faces, approached the four Pacifica teens, who happened to be Caucasian, and made a derogatory comment against white people. They attacked one Pacifica boy by punching him in the mouth. His tooth cut through his lip, causing it to bleed, and he fell to the ground. While he was on the ground, one of the attackers kicked him in the ribs. As his friends ran to his aid, they, too, were hit on the face. No one was robbed. Read more »

CLEVELAND - A retired auto worker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard lost another battle Thursday in his fight to avoid deportation to Europe. John Demjanjuk, 86, of suburban Cleveland, was ordered deported in 2005 after a federal immigration judge determined he had served at several Nazi death camps during World War II. Demjanjuk has denied the allegation and still has the right to appeal in federal court the ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals in Falls Church, Va. Read more »

Tempe, Ariz. - A police sergeant won’t be disciplined for his role in a television program that showed him asking two black men to perform a rap song to get out of a littering ticket, officials said. Sgt. Chuck Schoville, a 25-year department veteran, stopped the two men in August in a mall parking lot after seeing a motorist toss a paper bag from his window. The stop appeared on a segment of “StreetBeat,” which showed Schoville talking to the driver about the consequences of a littering ticket and asking the passenger to pick up the litter — as well as perform a rap song. According to the review, the driver, Louis Baker said the exchange “made him feel violated, categorized and confused.” An administrative review by the police department concluded that Schoville failed to make clear that the rap request was separate from enforcement, and the televised segment

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A Southern California school district where 92 percent of the students are Mexican immigrants has extended its winter break an extra week, to give immigrant families time to travel home to Mexico and Central America for Christmas. “What we had experienced before is that people would take a little extra time off at Christmas and miss school,” Santa Ana Unified School District spokeswoman Susan Brandt said Tuesday. “Some of our families do choose to go back and visit relatives in Mexico. That was the issue.” She said the travel plans of immigrant families were one factor considered and that teachers also appreciated the longer break. The additional days will be made up at other times in the school year. “This issue tends to trigger a lot of reaction from different sides but it wasn’t a political decision,” Brandt said. More>>>

NEW YORK - Macy’s has pulled from its shelves and its Web site two styles of Sean John hooded jackets, originally advertised as featuring faux fur, after an investigation by the nation’s largest animal protection organization concluded that the garments were actually made from a certain species of dog called “raccoon dog,” a species similar to domesticated dogs; also, secretive and not very aggressive, preferring to hide or scream rather than fight.

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LONDON - David Irving, the British author who was released on probation after spending 13 months in an Austrian prison for denying the Holocaust, said he felt no remorse for his views Thursday.

Irving spoke upon returning to England a day after Vienna’s highest court granted his appeal and converted two-thirds of his three-year sentence into probation.

At London’s Heathrow airport, Irving said he had been obliged to express regret during the court case but now had “no need any longer to show remorse.” He also called for a boycott of all Austrian and German historians until laws making Holocaust denial a crime in those countries are overturned. Read more »

The food coming from California has spread many diseases this year such as E Coli and Hepatitis.  Now their hospitals are killing babies due to unsanitary conditions. 

LOS ANGELES - The recent deaths of two premature babies at a hospital linked to an outbreak of a common bacterium raise questions about whether officials took the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of the hardy germ. Read more »

WASHINGTON - ‘So this is occupation,’ I mused, staring down at the large DENIED ENTRY stamp on my passport.

The Israeli authorities were denying me entry into the West Bank. They gave no reason, but I had little doubt that Israel’s Interior Ministry had learned of my enrollment at Birzeit University in the West Bank, where I had been studying Arabic since August. The university had warned me that Israel would not issue visas to international students for study in the West Bank, and students admitting that their destination was the West Bank would be denied entry. Read more »

ROCKY MOUNT, Va. - A congressman said Thursday that he will not retract a letter warning that unless immigration is tightened, “many more Muslims will be elected” and use the Quran to take the oath of office.

Republican Rep. Virgil Goode triggered angry responses from a civil rights group and some colleagues with a letter this month to constituents concerned about a decision by Rep.-elect Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim elected to Congress, to use the Quran when he is sworn in. Read more »

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