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N.C. delegation reacts to Giffords shooting; Shuler plans to carry gun more often

By | 01.10.11 | 10:50 am

Virginia FoxxIn light of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle GiffordsPolitico reports that North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) said in the future, he will take extra precautions of his own during public events: “After the elections, I let my guard down. Now I know I need to have [my gun] More…

Kaplan: Fort Hood Shows We Need More Muslim Soldiers

By | 11.16.09 | 2:44 pm

Robert Kaplan on the real lessons of Fort Hood:

The massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, in which 13 soldiers were shot and killed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, paradoxically took my memory back to April 2004, when I was embedded with a Marine battalion during the first

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Congressional Tri-Caucus Blasts Four Anti-Muslim Colleagues

By | 10.23.09 | 3:27 pm

It’s been about a week since four bigoted members of Congress used a book published by the birthers at WorldNetDaily to call for a witchhunt of Muslims on Capitol Hill. And, in a testament to sanity, no such investigation appears to be underway. But members from the Congressional “Tri-Caucus” More…

Rep. Sue Myrick’s Foreword to ‘Muslim Mafia’

By | 10.16.09 | 10:56 am

I’ve gotten a look at “Muslim Mafia,” the book by David Gaubatz that has compelled four members of Congress to demand investigations of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The foreword was written by Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.), as she proudly announced at a press conference this week.

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Myrick, Shadegg, Broun, Franks: Congress’ Anti-Muslim Bigot Caucus

By | 10.15.09 | 11:35 am

Via Justin Elliott, Greg Sargent and Tim Fernholz, the aforementioned Republican members of Congress are incensed that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a lobby group for the American Muslim community, would … lobby Congress. They’ve ordered the House sergeant-at-arms to investigate whether CAIR “is connected to or More…

The House GOP Anti-CAIR Press Conference

By | 10.15.09 | 11:32 am

Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) has uploaded the video of her press conference with Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.). “About a year ago,” said Myrick, “I learned that CAIR was trying to infiltrate the offices of members of Congress by placing interns More…

‘Muslim Mafia’

By | 10.15.09 | 11:02 am

This is a must-read: Jordy Yager’s report on the quartet of Republican members of Congress who’ve endorsed the “investigative” new book “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America.” WorldNetDaily’s report on the book, published in-house, is also worth a read for the quotes from More…