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• The Country America Fears Most.As the U.S. military moves in on al Qaeda in Yemen, residents tell Ellen Knickmeyer they fear they’re the next target of an American invasion.On a recent evening, I visited a Yemeni businessman who, after dinner, gave me a tour of his basement. What he wanted to show me was his stockpiles of water, rations, ammunitions and a crated, padlocked item that he identified as an anti-aircraft weapon. He gleefully took aim at his ceiling and mock-strafed imaginary F-16s. “We are all ready,” he said, with the mixture of hospitality and incipient lethalness that one finds here. “Every house in Yemen has this.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Barack Obama seeks peace with Islam on anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks.Barack Obama marked the ninth anniversary of the September 11th attacks by declaring that America will "never" be at war with Islam in a speech aimed at reducing tensions sparked by a pastor's plan to burn copies of the Koran."They don't trust me because of my middle name?"Yes Hussein you got at least this right!Read the full scandal story here.Click here for comments.

• Video:Candlelight Vigil for Mosque on Eve of 9/11.Did the Iman order this candle vigil after friday evening prayers?And if so was it to honor the Terrorists who killed 3000 Americans?And who's the Iman ?Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Fallen Fireman’s Dad: Obama Was Talking Down to Us Like We’re Racists and Bigots."I am very upset, you know. I think Obama was lecturing to us yesterday, talking down to us like, you know, like everybody is a radical and a racist and a bigot."Jim Riches, a former deputy with the New York City Fire Department, lost his son, Jimmy, also a firefighter, the day before Jimmy's 30th birthday.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Algeria bans Korans bearing Star of David.Gov't removes from shelves holy books decorated with Jewish symbol, offers to reimburse buyers.According to the Algerian government, the symbol on the cover "is not in keeping with the general ethics of the state".I wonder what they will do with them??Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:AmericanThinker.Two Years That Changed the World.The 2009 federal deficit was $1.413 trillion dollars, the largest in history. In fact, it was triple the 2008 deficit, which was the largest in history up until then. Even as a fraction of GDP, it was the largest ever in peacetime. What caused such a deficit? Was it tax cuts? Was it war? Was it bailouts? How, exactly, did Bush pull it off?To return to our Part I analogy of the U.S. economy as an airplane, Flight USA went from "all systems nominal" under Captain Bush and his Republican crew to stormy weather, mechanical malfunction, an all-new Democrat crew under Captain Obama, and a dangerous loss of altitude. All in two years.The passengers are nervous and restless, to say the least. Some even believe they heard "Allahu Akbar!" coming from the cockpit. Stay tuned for Part III of our flight.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Islamophobia's Slow Boil.It's not surprising that nine years after the 9/11 attacks, there’s a surge of anti-Muslim sentiment. What's strange is that it took so long to come to a head.The leadership of "They don't trust me because of my middle name Hussein" has for sure a lot to do with it. Why did it take nine long years for Islamophobia to get up a head of steam? Why did it take nine long years for Islamophobia to get up a head of steam?We actually aren’t sure anymore that we will eventually win.Not with this President on the wheel.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:TundraTabloids.Young sverigedemokrat tortured in his home by left extremists.With knife threats they forced themselves into the apartment where in about 20 minutes they were torturing David with a knife, for example, a neck scratch and cut a swastika on his forehead. Leftist extremists, who spoke in an Arab-like language and Swedish.Sweden Democrat party leader, Jimmie Akesson, commented:- My first reaction when I heard during the night that David was tortured in his home was an unreal feeling. It is difficult for me to come to terms with the idea that many socialists considered threats, violence and torture as a legitimate political tool.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• New York lockdown: 'Army' of police bracing for violence at rival Ground Zero mosque protests as America awakens to most divisive 9/11 yet.An 'army' of police officers are bracing for violence in New York today as America marked what may become the most divisive September 11 anniversary yet.Thousands of opponents and supporters of a planned 13-storey Islamic centre set to be built nearby are expected to flood the site on the site on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.Previous years have seen Americans come together in remembrance of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.John Bolton, who was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, was expected to send a videotaped message of support to the anti-mosque rally, as was conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.Anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who advocates banning the Koran and taxing Muslim women who wear head scarves, plans to address the crowd in person.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• US poverty on track to post record gain in 2009.The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.Census figures for 2009 - the recession-plagued first year of the Democrat's presidency - are to be released in the coming week. Demographers expect grim findings.The anticipated poverty rate increase - from 13.2 percent to about 15 percent - would be another blow to Democrats struggling to persuade voters to keep them in power.Obama :"We're on the right track".Yeah it's crystal clear where you're heading with America!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Free Speech Then and Now.Back in 2005, Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set the gold standard on defending free speech when, on being approached by perpetually aggrieved Islamic ambassadors hoping for official redress against Jyllands Posten (Cartoon Rage was just kicking in), he refused to hear their plaints, explaining to them and the world that it was not his place, as prime minister, to interfere with free speech in Denmark.“This is a matter of principle. I will not meet with them [the ambassadors] because it is so crystal clear what principles Danish democracy is built upon that there is no reason to do so…As prime minister, I have no power whatsoever to limit the press – nor do I want such power.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Shifting Islamic Strategy to Strangle Speech.CNS.com’s Patrick Goodenough reported on activity at the OIC hive, where busy bees are attempting to use the Florida Koran incident (whether it comes off or not) as an impetus for advancing OIC plans to censor the Islam debate — to seek a law “criminalizing all forms of offense against religions [read: Islam] under any circumstances” — through changes in international law.NB: “Religions” (plural) is a deception because under Islam it is in fact apostasy to believe in the validity of other religions because they have been in effect nullified by Islam.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.