Jack Straw has admitted the Government caved in to Libyan demands that the Lockerbie bomber be included in a prisoner transfer deal with Britain.
The Justice Secretary said he originally wanted Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi omitted from the agreement, but relented and agreed the bomber should be eligible.
He said the Libyans deserved "something" in return for giving up their nuclear weapons programme but vehemently denied striking a "backdoor deal" over Megrahi.
Libya got normalization of relations with Britain and the U.S. instead of sanctions... and they weren't invaded like Afghanistan and Iraq. That is quite enough to suffice any reasonable nation.
Shortly after the reversal of Britain's stance, a multi-billion pound oil exploration deal between Libya and BP was rubberstamped.
Mr Straw insisted on Sunday that the disclosures were a "red herring" as Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish justice minister, made the final decision on Megrahi's release.
Alex Salmond, Scotland's First Minister, stressed that Libya's PTA application had been rejected, and the terminally-ill bomber was freed on compassionate grounds.
But Opposition parties increased their demands for a full inquiry into suspicions that the PTA was a "terrorist-for-trade" deal.
A series of leaked letters were published on Sunday in which Mr Straw argued that it was in the UK's "overwhelming interests" that Magrahi be eligible for return to Libya.
In a BBC interview, the Justice Secretary said he originally wanted a "carve-out" for Megrahi in the PTA but: "The Libyans resisted this on the grounds that it was wholly unnecessary."
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We can sympathize with her while recoiling at the awfulness of her covering up for her creepy husband.
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St. Elizabeth lied to the American people to advance her lying cheating husband's chance at the highest office. I have no sympathy. The memoirs, the Oprah visits, the press conferences...all lies
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John and Elizabeth Edwards? Yea.... all the way to the end of the street, hang a right. Their's is the faded blue doublewide right next to the recycling bins.
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The Largely Self-Inflicted Pain of Elizabeth Edwards
There, fixed it.
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she had a very high standard for masculine role models
Ha. I think she had a very skewed standard. That would at least explain her choice of husband, whose true character was not that difficult to see.
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Not necessarily, Spot. I don't think character mattered as highly in her calculations as earning potential or chance of getting to ride on Air Force One. Under those standards, yeah, she had very high ones for the man she would choose to marry.
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Mr. Hitchens comments admiringly in the piece that Mr. Edwards married the smartest girl in their law school class, and it's clear Mr. Hitchens has enjoyed the friendship with her. Mr. Clinton married one of the smartest girls in his law school class, too, as he mentioned several times over the years. Both women married ambitious men who took them to a world they were willing to sacrifice the usual standards in order to stay in. Clearly Hillary and Elizabeth considered the humiliation they endured well worth what it bought, so I feel no sympathy. Mrs. Edwards did not get what she paid for, because the man she chose was not at good at what he did as the man Mrs. Clinton chose. As for her standards, Mr. Hitchens makes it clear her beloved father had been flirting with other women in front of his wife for many years, a calculated insult for behaviour he should have had the grace to keep hidden. Friendly teasing is one of the joys of being a member of a species with two sexes; what Mr. Hitchens appeared to describe is quite something else.
The one who gets my sympathy is the wife of Governor Sanford, who dumped the idiot when she found out about his Brazilian adventure.
If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure how they would vote.
Overall, these numbers are little changed since last October. When Congress was passing the unpopular $700-billion bailout plan in the heat of a presidential campaign and a seeming financial industry meltdown, 59% wanted to throw them all out. At that time, just 17% wanted to keep them.
There has been a bit of a partisan shift since last fall. With Democrats controlling both chambers of Congress, it's not surprising to find that the number of Democrats who would vote to keep the entire Congress has grown from 25% last fall to 43% today. In fact, a modest plurality of Democrats would now vote to keep the legislators. Last fall, a plurality of Democrats were ready to throw them all out.
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While Democrats have become more supportive of the legislators, voters not affiliated with either major party have moved in the opposite direction. Today, 70% of those not affiliated with either major party would vote to replace all of the elected politicians in the House and Senate. That's up from 62% last year.
Republicans, not surprisingly, overwhelmingly support replacing everyone in the Congress. Their views have not changed. But Republican voters are disenchanted with their team as much as the Congress itself: 69% of GOP Voters say Republicans in Congress are out of touch with the party base.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) now believe that members of Congress are overpaid. That's up 10 percentage points from last October. Just five percent (5%) think their Congress member is paid too little. Thirty percent (30%) think the pay is about right.
One reason for this attitude may be that most voters say they understand the health care legislation better than Congress. Just 22% think the legislature has a good understanding of the issue. Three-out-of-four (74%) trust their own economic judgment more than Congress'.
Just 14% give Congress good or excellent review for their overall performance, while only 16% believe it's Very Likely that Congress will address the most important problems facing our nation. Seventy-five percent (75%) say members of Congress are more interested in their own careers than they are in helping people. On the brighter side, just 37% say most in Congress have extramarital affairs.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Americans believe that when members of Congress meet with regulators and other government officials, they do so to help their friends and hurt their political opponents. Most believe that's why politicians are able to solicit contributions from business leaders. Most, however, say it's generally a good investment because political donors get more than their money's worth. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of American adults say political donors get more than their money back in terms of favors from members of Congress.
Despite these reviews, more than 90% of Congress routinely gets reelected every two years. It's a shock when any incumbent loses. One explanation for this phenomenon frequently heard in Washington, D.C. is that "people hate Congress but love their own congressman."
Voters have a different perspective, and 50% say 'rigged' election rules explain high reelection rate for Congress.
When the Constitution was written, the nation's founders expected that there would be a 50% turnover in the House of Representatives every election cycle. That was the experience they witnessed in state legislatures at the time (and most of the state legislatures offered just one-year terms). For well over 100 years after the Constitution was adopted, the turnover averaged in the 50% range as expected.
In the 20th century, turnover began to decline. As power and prestige flowed to Washington during the New Deal era, fewer and fewer members of Congress wanted to leave. In 1968, congressional turnover fell to single digits for the first time ever, and it has remained very low ever since.
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Not only should they all be turned out of office, but they should be stripped of their pensions and other government benefits. All retired congressturds should similarly lose their pensions and benefits, effective 1/20/2011.
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The problem is that if you ask people, they will often say that they like their congrescritter. He or she should be re-elected, it is just the rest of those idiots in Congress who should be thrown out. As a result, the same crowd gets re-elected and re-elected ad nauseum.
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GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona . She writes an open letter to our nation's leadership:
I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?
Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:
One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This isn't to be confused with legal immigration.
Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.
Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.
Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.
Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!
Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don't you start there.
Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a du ck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.
Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why -- what do you have against shareholders making a profit?
Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.
Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band-Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.
Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try -- please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.
Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now. Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let's just slow down and get some input from some non politicians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.
I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.
From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington . Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.
We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work, pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For everyone of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have canceled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when he will rise lik e a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.
Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it, and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest.
As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. W e are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.
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CASCA: Why, there was a crown offered him: and being offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand, thus; and then the people fell a-shouting.
BRUTUS: What was the second noise for?
CASCA: Why, for that too.
CASSIUS: They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?
CASCA: Why, for that too.
BRUTUS: Was the crown offered him thrice?
CASCA: Ay, marry, was't, and he put it by thrice, every time gentler than other, and at every putting-by mine honest neighbours shouted. - Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
It is by the work of all such politicians, of life employment and retirement benefits, that the people will welcome Caesar into office.
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I'd vote to replace them in a heart-beat. Alas, I also think their replacements would soon sink to the same level.
And since P2k brought up Julius Caesar: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves...
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People hate Congress but love their own congressman."
Behold the earmark! The rubes in my congressional district have been bought off with Union built bicycle trails and the prospect of a high speed Choo-Choo train. Imagine the gravy train from the likes of Byrd and Murtha.
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When I was in college 40+ years ago, I had a professor who said that he always voted against the incumbent in any election. His philosophy was that the purpose of democracy and voting was to provide an orderly transition of power.
I am beginning to think he was very wise indeed.
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House Democrats are willing to rally around Rep. Charles Rangel in his latest spate of tax missteps -- but only as long as no more embarrassing revelations come to light, sources told The Post.
The head of the powerful Ways and Means Committee last week amended six years' worth of financial disclosure forms and revealed he'd earned $1.3 million in previously unreported income. That's on top of ongoing House Ethics Committee probes into four other areas of Rangel's financial past -- including failure to properly report income taxes on a Caribbean villa he owns.
But unless the Ethics Committee probes hit Rangel with something more than a slap on the wrist -- or a bigger scandal arises -- Democrats are unlikely to push him off the Ways and Means Committee, a Washington insider said.
"He doesn't strike me as someone who would go quietly, and he's not afraid to play the race card on his own party," the DC source said.
Friends like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and the New York delegation are committed to keeping Rangel in place, sources said.
"Unless he's done something absolutely insane that hasn't come out yet, he's protected," said a Democratic official.
Rangel filed his amended forms during Congress' August break, just three days ahead of his extended deadline.
"He was smart to get this new information out now, before we are back in session and working on the health-care bill," said a Republican lawmaker close to the issue.
"If he'd waited two more weeks, a lot more Republicans would be there to demand he step down," the Republican said.
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It must be nice not to be a "little person" and have that "get out of jail free card".
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Term Limits would preclude 'old guard' like Rangel, Waxman, and Pelosi [and for that matter, the good old boys from the other side of the aisle] from stacking the committees with these two leggers, as in four legs good, two legs better.
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Why would they want to get rid of him? I'm sure that right now, he would be very, very compliant with whatever Madame Pelosi would want him to do. (Not that he wasn't willing to go along before, but now there's no way in hell he would dare even make a squeak against anything she wants.)
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It aint the race card or Nancy Pelosis cover that makes Charlie virtually untouchable. Hes a Fixer. And like any competent Fixer you accumulate dirt on your friends and foe equally. His talent for veiled threats disguised as wry comments have served him well thus far theres no reason to believe it wont in the future.
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"The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history."
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said on Sunday that Vicki Kennedy should be considered to replace her late husband in the Senate.
How about having the election that state law requires?
Oughtn't the Party show a little consideration for the grieving widow? A year is customary, according to Miss Manners.
Hatch, one of Kennedy's closest friends in the Senate, said on CNN's State of the Union that Vicki Kennedy is well-qualified to serve, even if only until a January special election to fill the rest of the term. "I think Vicki ought to be considered. She's a very brilliant lawyer. She's a very solid individual. She certainly made a difference in Ted's life, let me tell you. And I have nothing but great respect for her," Hatch said on CNN.
Another close friend of Kennedy, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), acknowledged that Vicki Kennedy has not expressed much interest in filling in for her husband, but said he would support her next step.
"Whatever Vicki wants to do, I'm in her corner," Dodd said on State of the Union. "She knows that. And she's expressed to me her own sort of reluctance to [fill in for Kennedy], but she could change her mind. If she did, I'm for it. I think she'd be great."
"She brings talent and ability to it, and to fill that spot I think is something the people of Massachusetts would welcome. We could certainly use her in the Senate," Dodd said. "But I leave that up to her. She's got a lot on her mind right now, and frankly, I'll leave it up to her decision-making process."
"Her process is steady, even if her emotions are not, at the moment." They'd best be careful, or they're going to create the first Kennedy Republican, just as exceedingly high pressure turns carbon into diamond.
Massachusetts lawmakers, spurred by a letter from Kennedy himself, have begun discussing new legislation that would allow Gov. Deval Patrick (D) to appoint a temporary replacement to serve until an election. State law passed when Gov. Mitt Romney (R) was in office took the power to appoint a replacement away from the Republican when Sen. John Kerry (D) appeared in strong position to win the presidency.
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So the Mormon Hatch is a buddy of Teds?
Drinking, cocaine and wenching one?
Something doesn't compute here....
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Hatch and Dodd also requested a name change to Grand Duchy of Massachusetts.
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In addition to Dodo's comment, it begs the question, when did the Mass. Senate become the House of Lords? Wasn't this the kind of crap that our forefathers were trying to prevent when they came up with the model of government we have today?
John Adams must be spinning in his coffin in Quincy.
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The Kennedys got stuff for Massachusetts every since JFK was elected to the senate, plus the prestige of having their very own "royal family". The younger Kennedys will not be able to deliver in the same way because they haven't the seniority. Nor, by all accounts, do they have the charisma to carry off the very idea of being royalty. Certainly Senator John F. Kerry has done nothing for his voters, either in terms of prestige -- beyond losing the 2004 presidential race -- or in terms of delivering goodies, and it isn't likely he has the ability to start doing so now that his cousin has left the scene.
With luck the next decade will see the fading of the Kennedys from public politics.
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Certainly Senator John F. Kerry has done nothing for his voters, either in terms of prestige -- beyond losing the 2004 presidential race
Losing the 2004 Presidential race is certainly one of John Kerry's most notable achievements, but we should also honor him for the snark and political ridicule he has inspired - his magic hat, his search for Marlon Brando up around the Cambodian border, "HALP US JON CARRY - WE R STUCK HERE IN IRAK" and, of course,the savage war wounds for which he was awarded the Purple Heart, but never needed to be hospitalized.
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3dc, I take it you have never heard the saying about fishing with Mormons then?
(If you are going fishing with two Mormons, bring a sixpack for yourself. If you are going with one Mormon, better bring a case. Maybe two.)
Flights out of Salt Lake were notorious back in the day for, um, higher than average alcohol consumption by the passengers. I believe they still are. Go figure....
The publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Sunday accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, of "bullying" his newspaper by telling an employee he wants the Review-Journal shut down. Sherman Frederick alleged in a column in his newspaper that the "full-on threat" was made during a brief exchange between Reid and the newspaper's advertising director Wednesday at a luncheon for the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
Frederick said that as Reid shook the employee's hand, he said, "I hope you go out of business."
While acknowledging that his newspaper does not always see "eye to eye with him on matters of politics," Frederick noted that ad director Bob Brown has "nothing to do with news coverage" or opinion pages.
It's unclear whether Reid's comment was meant in jest. A representative for Reid could not be reached for a response.
But Frederick apparently did not take it lightly.
"Such behavior cannot go unchallenged. You could call Reid's remark ugly and be right. It certainly was boorish. Asinine? That goes without saying," he wrote. "But to fully capture the magnitude of Reid's remark (and to stop him from doing the same thing to others) it must be called what it was -- a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he's shaking them down."
In excoriating him, Frederick referenced Reid's upcoming 2010 election -- which a recent poll published by the Review-Journal shows is a tough race for the powerful incumbent senator.
"No citizen should expect this kind of behavior from a U.S. senator. It is certainly not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate. And it absolutely is not what anyone would expect from a man who now asks Nevadans to send him back to the Senate for a fifth term," he wrote. "So today, we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated."
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State officials are examining whether public money has been improperly used to pay for Islamic mosques on charter school campuses in Blaine and Inver Grove Heights.
Chas Anderson, deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education, said officials will study Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy's (TiZA) use of state "lease aid'' grants, which were created more than a decade ago to help charter schools rent adequate facilities.
"If it is subsidizing a mosque, in our view, that would be a violation of state and federal law,'' Anderson said.
The probe is the latest in a series of church-vs.-state conflicts involving TiZA and several Islamic nonprofit organizations with ties to the charter school.
Anderson said the inquiry was sparked by a lawsuit filed against the school this year by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota, which claims taxpayer dollars paid to TiZA are unconstitutionally promoting religion.
TiZA spokesman Darin Broton said the school will cooperate, but he accused officials of conducting a politically motivated investigation. He said the department has conducted 19 TiZA inquiries in the past year and a half.
"The behavior of the Minnesota Department of Education regarding TiZA Academy continues to confound common sense or conscience,'' Broton said in a statement Friday. "At some point we trust they will focus on student achievement not discriminatory harassment.''
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Skeeters must have driven the Twin City folk right over the bend....
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but he accused officials of conducting a politically motivated investigation.
Yep you know how those anti-diversity bastards are over at the ACLU. And if only the Union thugs at the Minnesota Department of Education would sign on to a multi-cultural platform this would be a non-starter.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Jack Straw has admitted the Government caved in to Libyan demands that the Lockerbie bomber be included in a prisoner transfer deal with Britain. 
The publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Sunday accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, of "bullying" his newspaper by telling an employee he wants the Review-Journal shut down. Sherman Frederick alleged in a column in his newspaper that the "full-on threat" was made during a brief exchange between Reid and the newspaper's advertising director Wednesday at a luncheon for the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. 
