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group of predominately “I don’t think there is even a wife … more positively inclined by the conservative Federalist year for which their tax filings
Republican lawmakers organized specter of a conflict of interest,” toward corporate interests.” Society, in which he said his were readily available.
by the House Tea Party Caucus. said Toobin. Likewise, Feldman was amused critics appear “bent on Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a
-Alito attended a fundraising And Michael Waldman, by a December Times editorial undermining” the court and former state judge whose office
dinner for the conservative executive director of the left- urging Scalia to reject the Tea defended himself and his wife as drafted the Justice Department
American Spectator magazine. leaning Brennan Center for Party Caucus invitation lest he “focused on defending liberty.” letter, called Common Cause’s
Citing Virginia Thomas’s tea Justice at New York University’s “give the impression that he was Some on the right, meanwhile, campaign “a fundraising effort”
party group’s fundraising, as well School of Law, called the joining the throng — confirming have speculated that the liberal and suggested the goal is to
as the trips her husband and Scalia allegations that Thomas and his new moniker as the ‘Justice push to get Thomas to recuse intimidate the conservative
took to the Koch meetings, Scalia were biased by their from the Tea Party’.” from any healthcare case is really justices away from controversial
Common Cause in January asked affiliation with the Koch retreat In an interview with POLITICO, an effort to neutralize Republican decisions.
the Justice Department to “meritless. We see no basis for Feldman said “Justice Scalia had pressure to sideline liberal Justice “Judges are human and when
investigate whether the justices the accusations that the Justices’ his views a long time before there Elena Kagan from the case on there are threats made on you or
should have recused themselves decisions are based on anything was a tea party. Maybe the tea account of her work as Obama’s your family, as has been done to
from the Citizens United decision but the merits.” He warned that party is following Justice Scalia, solicitor general before joining the Justice Thomas, it affects you,” he
and to consider moving to vacate “people should think very hard but he’s definitely not following court. told POLITICO after a Thursday
the decision. before asking prosecutors to the tea party.” “The purpose of this isn’t really to press conference unveiling the
And Rep. Anthony Weiner (D- investigate judges just because Feldman compared the current pressure Thomas into a recusal, at letter.
N.Y.) is laying the groundwork they dislike the decisions they targeting of justices to the liberal which Thomas is almost certain to In fact, the threats referenced in
for a similar challenge should the make.” attacks on the Supreme Court in issue his trademark booming the letter were provoked by a
court overturn the healthcare In dismissing as “far-fetched” the 1920s and 1930s, when laugh, but to pre-empt the recusal conservative videographer at a
overhaul, having collected 90 Common Cause’s request that the justices (led by conservatives who argument for Elena Kagan,” the protest in which Common Cause
House Democrats’ signatures on a Justice Department investigate liberals branded ‘the Four conservative pundit Ed Morrissey participated outside January’s
letter urging Thomas to recuse whether the justices’ Koch Horsemen of the Apocalypse”) asserted recently. Koch donor conference in
himself from any healthcare case conference appearances warranted struck down progressive And congressional Republicans California.
because of his wife’s work. recusal, the Washington Post legislation as violating property last week went on offense against “After we impeach Clarence
“I don’t see this as part of some editorial board noted that liberal rights, as well as to the liberal court critics, alleging in a Thomas, what should we do with
broader tactical play,” said justices also have affiliated with conservative attacks on the liberal letter to the Justice Department him?” the videographer asks a
Weiner, who also intends to co- groups that have had interests Warren Court in the 1960s and that Common Cause’s efforts had handful of protestors featured in
sponsor Murphy’s bill. “But I can before the court. early 1970s. “incite(d) violence and his video. Among the responses
say this: if Justice Thomas does Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for Those attacks – which included encourage(d) racial slurs against offered – in at least one case after
not recuse himself and the court instance, appeared at a 2004 moves by congressional several Justices of the Supreme encouragement from the
rules (to strike down) the law, I lecture series cosponsored by the Republicans to impeach Fortas Court and their families” – and videographer, who tells the
will be making the point that this NOW Legal Defense and and Douglas over their acceptance also asking for an investigation of reluctant interviewee “you can say
is not a credible decision.” Education Fund, two weeks after of payments from foundations whether the advocacy group’s anything, we’re all friends” –
Yet, even liberal legal experts taking the liberal group’s side in a funded by controversial liberals – Supreme Court campaign violated were “Hang him” and “string him
have brushed off the complaints medical screening case before the eventually forced Fortas’s its tax-exempt status. up.”
as hollow. court. resignation from the court. Common Cause and the other Common Cause issued a
In an appearance with Weiner on And, though the justice’s late “The motivation was ideological liberal groups that have played a statement condemning the
CNN last month, the network’s husband, Martin Ginsburg, was but the form of the attacks could role in pressuring the conservative “hateful, narrow-minded
liberal legal commentator Jeffrey for years a partner in a high- be extremely personal,” Feldman justices – the Alliance for Justice, sentiments.” Spokeswoman Mary
Toobin flatly rejected the powered corporate law firm, said. Center for American Progress and Boyle asserted the video used
Democratic congressman’s call Harvard’s Feldman asserted in his Thomas himself pushed back on People for the American Way– misleading techniques including
for Thomas to recuse himself Times’ op-ed “surely no one the attacks in a speech late last had combined budgets of $65.4 LIBERALS page 9
from the healthcare case. believes that his career made his month to a symposium sponsored million in 2009, the most recent
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employees can all test the new “People like to show off,” Suttles Suttles, who has a 100 Mbps Guardian's Economics Editor. bonus for last year.
connection and have their results said, pointing to a recently Comcast connection at his house
show up in a shared view. popular Reddit thread where a for testing purposes, ended the
Suttles suggests there’s even visitor to a Korea showed off a call, saying he was going to go
bigger uses for that kind of wickedly fast connection. Each post the high score.
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their affairs. links with Libya. Hague says that papers and that the notion that are "operational matters decided 3.38pm: Hague has just finished
4.22pm: Julian Brazier, a he has other issues to worry about Britain is a leader in the crisis by the professionals", he says. now. His statement was quite
Conservative, says "humanitarian at the moment, although he exists only in Hague's head. Has David Cameron and other lengthy, but he was padding it out
aid supported by military means" concedes that there are lessons to Hague considered resigning? colleagues were aware of this, he with plenty of general comments
is unlikely to be seen as aid. be learnt. Hague says he takes the doctrine says. about what is happening in the
Hague accepts that Brazier has a 4.07pm: Hague is still answering of ministerial responsibility Hague says Britain "led the way" region. He covered the MI6/SAS
point. He stresses that the questions. In response to a seriously. in getting Libya suspended from mission in just five sentences.
government is involved in question from the Tory, Bernard 3.56pm: Labour's Bob Ainsworth the UN human rights commission. Here is the full quote.
contingency planning. Jenkin, about taking credit for suggests that Hague is more British foreign policy has had an Last week I authorised the
4.19pm: Andrew Murrison, a what goes right and taking the concerned about being seen to be "extremely powerful" impact on dispatch of a small diplomatic
Conservative, asks what the EU blame for what goes wrong, doing something than actually the situation, he says. team to Eastern Libya in uncertain
foreign service is doing about the Hague jokes that, when he led the doing something. 3.48pm: Hague thanks Douglas circumstances which we judged
crisis. Conservative party for four years, 3.56pm: Sir Menzies Campbell, Alexander for paying tribute to required their protection to build
Hague says Lady Ashton, the EU he never came across this notion. the former Lib Dem leader, says the work of the SAS in rescuing on these initial contacts [with the
"foreign minister", has been 4.02pm: Here's the killer quote the mission was poorly conceived. people from the oil field areas. Libyan opposition] and to assess
making visits to the region. from Douglas Alexander that I 3.54pm: Labour's Jack Straw He is talking now about the Arab the scope for closer diplomatic
4.16pm: Labour's Jeremy Corbyn referred to at 3.46pm. Alexander says, in his experience, ministers League. (It sounds as if he is dialogue. I pay tribute to that
asks about Bahrain and Saudia started by reading out the Mustafa are always offered an impressive playing for time, before having to team. They were withdrawn
Arabia. Human rights is more Gheriani question from the Times: amount of operational detail about address Alexander's points about yesterday after a serious
important than selling arms, he "If this is an official delegation missions like this when asked to the MI6/SAS mission.) misunderstanding about their role
says. why did they come with a approve them. Are government 3.46pm: Douglas Alexander asks leading to temporary detention.
Hague says it is important for helicopter? Why didn't they ministers getting less detail than Hague if he would introduce This situation was resolved and
people to be allowed to protest [inform the revolutionary council] Labour ministers did? himself to new neighbours by they were able to meet [an
peacefully. that 'we are coming, we'd like to Hague says the situation has not knocking on the door - or by opposition leader]. However it
4.15pm: Labour's Barry Gardiner land at Benina airport', or come changed. But every operation is climbing into their garden in the was clearly better for this team to
asks who the "diplomats" on the through Egypt like all the different, he says. middle of the night. be withdrawn.
MI6/SAS mission were supposed journalists have done." Then 3.53pm: Hague says there would I'll post the full quote later. It was 3.36pm: Hague says Andrew
to be meeting. And why did they Alexander said this: have to be a "demonstrable need" a lethal line, made all the more Mitchell, the international
have multiple identities. The British public are entitled to for a no-fly zone for one to be effective by Alexander's deadpan development secretary, has visited
Hague says the group met the wonder whether, if some new imposed. There would have to be delivery. the region to find out about the
head of the revolutionary council. neighbours moved into the foreign support from other countries in 3.44pm: Douglas Alexander asks humanitarian crisis on Libya's
4.12pm: Rory Stewart, a secretary's street, he would the region, he says. Hague to confirm that the border.
Conservative, asks Hague to introduce himself by ringing the 3.49pm: Hague is still replying to revolutionary council HQ is just 3.35pm: Hague says 180 Britons
consider setting up escrow doorbell, or instead choose to Douglas Alexander. He says two miles away from where HMS are still in Libya. Some of them,
account for Libyan oil revenues. climb over the fence in the middle contingency planning should be Cumberland was docked in port. such as journalists, have said they
Hague says he is looking at ways of the night. done for a no-fly zone. Labour And he quotes the question from intend to stay.
of restricting the money going to 4.00pm: Labour's Ben Bradshaw agree with this, he says. Mustafa Gheriani included in the The international criminal court
the Libyan regime. He will look at asks why the MI6 team did not go On this issue of the mission, he Times article - see 3.31pm. is investigating alleged crimes in
that kind of measure, he says, straight into Benghazi. says Alexander is "right about the 3.43pm: Douglas Alexander, the Libya, he says.
4.12pm: The full text of Hague's Hague says that diplomats are factual points". That is an answer shadow foreign secretary, is EU sanctions against Libya came
opening statement is now on the protected in line with the to the point about the opposition speaking now. He started by into full force last Thursday. That
Foreign Office website. intelligence and security advice. HQ being just two miles from the acknowledging that these was the quickest ever imposition
4.10pm: The Tory MP Robert 3.58pm: Labour's Denis port. decisions are difficult. But then he of EU sanctions.
Halfon asks Hague to set up an MacShane says that he has been Hague says he authorised the listed a series of apparent errors HAGUE page 51
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3.33pm: Hague says he why did they come with a week that the government was on Mandelson's comments about could join them in a coalition and
authorised the dispatch of a "small helicopter? Why didn't they sending advisers to eastern Libya Ed Miliband. But there are plenty Mandelson acknowledges that
diplomatic team" to Libya in [inform the revolutionary council] to help the rebels. It was of other revelations and "the short-term temptation is for
circumstances that meant they that 'we are coming, we'd like to emphasised that the government observations in there. Sunder us to try to isolate Nick Clegg and
needed armed protection. They land at Benina airport', or come would not supply them with arms Katwala has written some of them to pick off the many Lib Dem
were withdrawn after a through Egypt like all the as there is an embargo currently. up at Next Left, John Rentoul has voters obviously disgruntled with
misunderstanding about their journalists have done," Mustafa Yet the rebels, unsurprisingly also mentioned some on his blog the compromises he has had to
intentions, he says. Gheriani, a spokesman for the angered by an operation that and I quoted from it here and here make". But the Lib Dems could
3.32pm: 3.32pm: William Hague revolutionary leadership, asked. could further inflame the over the weekend. Here are a few do well enough at the next
is speaking now. He says MPs 3.25pm: According to the Sun situation, reported that the men in other points worth mentioning. election to ensure that there is
will be concerned by the violence version of the MI6/SAS story, the helicopter had ammunition, • Mandelson suggests that tuition another hung parliament.
in Libya. There are credible after the mission "Libyans were explosives and a number of fees would have gone up to In this event, Ed Miliband will
reports of the use of helicopter filmed holding underpants said to passports of different £6,000 if Labour had won the not make enough Lib Dem friends
gunships. belong to one Brit - which they nationalities. election. by harking on about their "tragic
In Tripoli there have been said had a secret compartment 2.49pm: Since John Prescott is in When I [set up the Browne mistake" in going in with the
"disturbing reports of hostage sewn into it." the news today, it's worth pointing review] in November 2009 I Tories and offering them the
taking". 3.19pm: William Hague will be out that Lord Mandelson seems to assumed, as the Treasury did, that chance to recant and come hither.
In large swathes of the country, making his statement to the be blaming him for the fact that the outcome would have to In the short term, of course, more
Colonel Gaddafi's authority is Commons in 10 minutes. He's Labour does not its own Big include a significant increase in leftwing Lib Dems may well be
contested. going to have to explain why he Society policy. This is from the tuition fees. I felt that they would enticed by that approach. In the
Gaddafi must put "an immediate sent an MI6/SAS mission into new preface that Mandelson has certainly have to double in order longer term, he, and we, need to
stop" to the use of armed force Libya by helicopter at night to get written for the paperback edition to offset the deficit-reduction repair and rebuild relations with
and hand over power, Hague says. in touch with the rebels when it of his autobiography, The Third measures that we too would have the Lib Dem leadership as well.
3.31pm: And here's an extract appears he could have just called Man. implemented had we won the 2.42pm: Here's George Osborne
from the Times story explaining them up to arrange an The "big society" has roots in our election. explaining why the cabinet
why the MI6/SAS story was so appointment. In an article in own New Labour search for a • Mandelson says it would be a decided to meet in Derby today.
odd. today's Guardian, my colleague political model that would better mistake to write off the Lib Dems. The reason the cabinet has come
The team could have come in Richard Norton Taylor explains define the role of a decentralised My suspicion is that Clegg's en masse to Derby, to this great
with HMS Cumberland, a British quite how odd this was. state, and the relationship between decision to take his party into company here, is to show that
frigate that was openly docked in Why, as reporters in Benghazi government and the governed, for government may work out better there's a future for Britain that is
Benghazi port yesterday, and asked on Sunday, did a unit of six the new century ... Exactly how to in the end than it appears now ... not so dependent on debt, on the
caught a taxi a couple of miles to SAS troops, apparently in the do this - how government, [If the economy does not fall back City of London, or growth just in
the court building where the company of two "diplomats", communities, charities, families into recession] Clegg will be able the south east of England which is
revolutionary council's have to be dropped by helicopter interact in their neighbourhoods - to argue that, for all the difficult where we've been for the last
representatives meet the press and in the desert in middle of the night is something we had simply not moments, he has taken his party decade, but actually we've got an
conduct their daily business. That when they could have walked worked out by the time we into national office for the first economy in the future which is
way, they might have avoided down the gangplank of the departed office. Tony had left this time since the heyday of the old going to manufacture things again
being captured. destroyer HMS York on the whole area of policy Liberals at the beginning of the in Britain and it's going to grow in
The rebel council, which declared Benghazi quayside? Perhaps they fundamentally unreformed, in last century. all parts of the country, including
itself this weekend the sole cannot resist the temptation of John Prescott's ministerial • Mandelson suggests Ed the East Midlands.
legitimate authority in the mounting an operation that would domain, and it was not picked up Miliband needs to repair relations According to the Press
country, expressed surprise and sound really daring if it was by Gordon when he took over. with Nick Clegg. Some Labour Association, Osborne also
annoyance at the British written up in the media. The new preface is fascinating. figures have said that the Lib claimed that the cuts were being
delegation's "James Bond" antics. Sources – I cannot describe them After the first extracts were Dems would have to get rid of HAGUE page 52
"If this is an official delegation in any other way – said late last released, the news reports focused Clegg as leader before Labour
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spread "pretty fairly" across the former head of UK Trade and shadow political and running round the fashion shops Labour former chairman of the
country and that "some of the Investment, told the World at One constitutional reform minister, has giving their political views. It's a foreign affairs committee, has told
biggest cuts are in David that Prince Andrew achieved "a said that the prince should be wifeocracy! They're not elected the BBC's Daily Politics show
Cameron's own constituency whole series of successes" in his dropped because he's "a bit of an by anybody! I mean, bloody hell, that Prince Andrew should give
[Witney in Oxfordshire]." role as trade ambassador in the embarrassment". But Labour you've only got to talk about the up his job as a trade envoy
Does anyone know if that's true? five years that Cahn was at UKTI. sources have said that this is not Speaker's wife, haven't you? They because "he's an embarrassment
2.29pm: One of the glories of the According to PoliticsHome, this is the party's official position. (See only get on 'cos of who they're to the Royal family". According
British constitution is that we how Cahn put it. 9.01am and 11.55am.) married to! They might not like to PoliticsHome, Gapes said the
appear to make it up as we go He's there for the long term and • David Cameron has sought to this, but that's what it basically is. prince should be replaced by
along. Sir Gus O'Donnell, the he has a status which other trade illustrate the government's 12.45pm: In Derby David someone like an MP or a peer
cabinet secretary, has tried to representatives don't have. He's commitment to boosting growth Cameron has been talking about who would be accountable to
impose some rigour on the system particularly effective in the Gulf, by chairing a cabinet meeting at a his decision to hold a cabinet parliament.
by producing a"Cabinet Manual" for example, where for many Rolls Royce plant in Derby."I meeting at a Rolls Royce plant. 11.55am: I'm just back from the
setting out the rules. In December royal families who are there, for know some good work's been According to the Press Number 10 lobby briefing. One
he published a fresh draft of this many years who are friendly with done [on the growth review] but Association, he said this: rule of lobby briefings is that the
document saying that, in the event our Royal family and who listen we have a lot more to do to make The point of the cabinet today is longer they go on, the less
of a hung parliament, the prime to what they have to say. sure this really does help to make really to ask one fundamental informative they tend to be. This
minister is not expected to resign Ministers come and go. The the economy rebalance and to question: what is it that we can do one went on for ages because
until it is clear that someone else Duke of York is there for a much grow," Cameron said. (See in government to help the journalists were trying, without
can form a government. That does longer term and anyway what the 12.45pm.) economy to rebalance, to grow, any success, to get Downing
not sound particularly Duke of York does is add to what • Downing Street has said that and for businesses to start up to Street to a) confirm reports that
controversial. ministers do. He can make more William Hague took the decision invest and to employ people? That Prince Andrew's position as a
But it is. In a report today on the trips than ministers can, but to authorise the botched MI6/SAS is large businesses but also all the trade envoy is under threat and b)
Cabinet Manual, the House of particularly at his level. And he mission to Libya. Hague will way down the chain to start-up explain why the government
Lords constitution committee says gets an access that more junior make a statement about the affair businesses as well. We've got just landed SAS officers by helicopter
this passage should be rewritten. ministers can't get. in the Commons at 3.30pm. two weeks to go before the at night in Libya to get in touch
It is a matter of debate as to You always have stuff swirling 12.57pm: If you haven't already budget. I think that gives us an with the opposition when it would
whether a prime minister has a around the Royals. All I know is looked at Decca Aitkenhead's opportunity to make sure what have been quite easy to set up a
duty to stay in office until it is that in the five years that I worked interview with John Prescott for we're all looking at in the growth conventional diplomatic meeting
clear who might command the with him he was highly regarded G2, you should. It's a very jolly review, issues as far and wide as in Benghazi in office hours. Here
confidence of the House of overseas and achieved a whole read. Appropriately enough, on planning, housing, enterprise, are the key points.
Commons. The Manual should series of successes. He's a really the day Cherie Blair takes up a taxation, all those things, we can • David Cameron has full
distinguish between the right to effective trade ambassador. Labour policy role (see 10.51am), bring them together in that confidence in Prince Andrew in
remain in office and the duty to 1.06pm: Here's a lunchtime the interview includes Prescott budget. I know some good work's his role as a trade envoy, the
do so ... The Manual should state summary. having a go at the "wifeocracy". been done but we have a lot more prime minister's spokesman said.
that there is a degree of • Downing Street has said that I talk to Tony more than Gordon. to do to make sure this really does There is no "review" of the
uncertainty on this point ... David Cameron has full But then Tony keeps in contact. help to make the economy prince's role. "We fully support
We ... consider that an incumbent confidence in Prince Andrew in Gordon switches off. I'm not rebalance and to grow. him in his role as a trade envoy.
prime minister has no duty to his role as a trade envoy. The going to tell you what I think According to the BBC's Laura He has made a very important
remain in office following an prime minister's spokesman has about that, 'cos you'll bloody well Kuenssberg, Cameron has been contribution, and continues to do
inconclusive general election until denied reports that the prince's print it. But we hear more from taking questions from reporters so." The spokesman would not
it is clear what form any role is under review and paid his wife than him, don't we? What about growth. But he has not been comment on the various reports
alternative government might tribute to the "valuable is it with this wifeocracy? All the answering questions about Libya today saying that the prince's role
take. contribution" that the prince wives! Cherie Blair. Even or Prince Andrew. HAGUE page 53
1.39pm: Sir Andrew Cahn, the makes. Labour's Chris Bryant, the Cameron's wife. They're all 12.36pm: Mike Gapes, the
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is going to be downgraded or that denied a claim from a TV reporter away from international slipped behind their savings target • George Parker in the Financial
he is effectively on a final that Cameron cancelled an investment for fear of risking for the financial year by at least Times(subscription) says Nick
warning. These stories were based interview planned for today. similar opprobrium, Britain's £70 million. London is expected Clegg does not want tax cuts for
on unattributable comments, the Other ministers would be put up relative decline in the global to bear some of the toughest cuts motorists to be the priority in the
spokesman said. The spokesman instead, the spokesman suggested. economy can only worsen. It is in the coming years with moves to budget.
also promised to produce a list of 10.51am: Cherie Blair is to lead a difficult enough already for us to a system of community-based Mr Osborne is being urged by Mr
quotes from British companies Labour taskforce looking at ways compete against the world's rising care. Some mid-size hospitals are Clegg, the deputy prime minister,
testifying to the fact that the of improving the lives of women economic powerhouses. If on top likely to face mergers or closure, not to go too far in offering tax
prince has made a valuable in the developing world, the BBC of our present disadvantages – with a focus on fewer major acute cuts to motorists. He argues that
contribution in his role as a trade reports. high relative costs of production, hospitals. scarce resources should be
envoy since he took it up in 2001. I'm off to the lobby briefing. I'll considerable regulatory • T h e F i n a n c i a l focused on raising the income tax
• William Hague, the foreign post again after 11.30am. constraint, weak entrepreneurial Times(subscription) says the threshold towards £10,000, a long
secretary, took the decision to 10.29am: You can read all drive and barriers to entry to independent commission on -term target in the coalition
authorise the botched MI6/SAS today's Guardian politics stories many fast-growing markets – we banking is not expected to agreement.
mission to Libya, Downing Street here. And all the politics stories introduce a further hurdle of recommend splitting banks into 10.16am: Vince Cable, the
said. The spokesman was at first filed yesterday, including some in rejection of any country less retail banks and investment banks. business secretary, is today
evasive when asked who took the today's paper, are here. savoury and democratic than our George Osborne, the UK promoting a £50m fund to help
decision for the flight to go ahead, As for the rest of the papers, here own, our employment levels and chancellor, believes that expected businesses develop skills. It will
but eventually he said: "The are some articles worth noting. standard of living are going to recommendations on restructuring fund initiatives like training
foreign secretary takes these • Lord Mandelson in the Financial fare very badly in this century. retail and investment banking projects and the extension of
decisions." But he also said that Times(subscription) says that the • Sam Lister in the groups by the Independent national skills academies. "This
Cameron and Hague had been last Labour government was right Times(paywall) says most Commission on Banking are government understands that to
discussing this issue for days and to establish business links with hospital trusts in London are "going in the right direction", an rebalance and grow our economy,
that Cameron had said publicly Libya and that the backlash refusing to agree budgets for the aide insisted on Sunday. we need to tackle the skills
that he wanted to "strengthen and against these deals has gone too next financial year. The commission, chaired by Sir shortages that hold companies
deepen" the government's far. The majority of hospital trusts in John Vickers, is investigating the back," Cable says in a statement
understand of and relationship The stigmatisating of every London are refusing to sign their merits of splitting up the big UK in the Department for Business
with the Libyan opposition. business leader, academic, budgets for the next financial year banks into separate retail and news release.
Asked why the government did politician and public servant who in the strongest indication yet of investment banking companies or 9.30am: You would have thought
not just send a diplomatic team to has had anything to do with Libya the cash pressures on the NHS forcing those operations to be that the CBI would welcome the
meet the rebel leaders by taxi, the in the last seven years has been and the possible scale of cuts to capitalised separately. It appears speech David Cameron gave
spokesman said: "I'm not getting taken to ridiculous lengths in patient care. to favour the latter option, which yesterday declaring war on "the
into the operational aspect of this some quarters. Spurred by The Times understands that more is fiercely opposed by the big enemies of enterprise". But John
issue." He said Hague would be universal disgust with the Gaddafi than two thirds of the 22 hospital banks ... Cridland, the CBI's director
saying more when he made his dictatorship's recent outrages, trusts are refusing to accept the A belief is growing in the City – general, was guarded when he
statement to the Commons at sense and judgment have flown funding allocated to them by the following the Project Merlin was asked about it on the Today
3.30pm. out of the window as normally primary care trusts that currently peace accord between the programme this morning. "We've
The spokesman also said that intelligent commentators vie in control most of the health service government and the big UK banks got to make sure that the action
there were no plans for Cameron their denunciation of anyone who budget. The concerns in the on pay and lending – that a radical lives up to the words," he said.
to give any television interviews acted in the public interest in capital are seen as a barometer of restructuring, even if "They've yet to prove themselves.
this afternoon. This is unusual deepening ties with Libyan pressures that will be felt across recommended by the commission, We're working with them and I
because Cameron is on a regional people, institutions or that the health service. would not be implemented by the hope they will." Today the CBI is
visit, and normally getting country's economy. Board papers from NHS London Treasury, but this belief was publishing its own proposals for
television coverage is a key part If, as a result of this pressure, for January show that the hospital described by an Osborne aide as HAGUE page 55
of a regional tour. The spokesman British businesses in future shy trusts and primary care trusts have "wishful thinking".
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boosting growth. price. The private sector can't just embarrassment and I just can't Downing Street is now suggesting
9.13am: This morning the come in and undercut, because it's imagine the next time it's that the weekend briefing saying
Guardian has led on a story based actually from the point of view of proposed that he goes to a foreign that the prince is on a yellow card,
on comments from Dr Mark patients and for those in the NHS country what the ambassador and that he will lose his trade
Porter, the chairman of the British who are designing services, it's would think. envoy job if he causes any more
Medical Association's hospital about delivering quality. But Cable, in his interviews, said embarrassment, went too far. The
consultants committee. Porter 9.01am: Vince Cable, the that the prince was playing a cabinet is on its second regional
says Andrew Lansley's health business secretary, and Chris valuable role as a trade away-day. And this afternoon
reforms will take the NHS back to Byrant, the Labour former ambassador. we're due to hear more about the What's On Tonight: 'The
the 1930s. Foreign Office minister, have He has been involved in three of botched SAS mission to Libya. Event,' 'The Chicago
Very deliberately the government both been talking about Prince four activities that I've seen Here's a full list: Code,' 'Good Eats'
wishes to turn back the clock to Andrew this morning. Bryant said particular in relation to senior 10.30am: Cabinet minsters arrive
the 1930s and 1940s, when there that the prince had been executives in India, and he's at the Rolls Royce plant in Derby Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
were private, charitable and co- maintaining relationships with played a very positive role in that for an away-day cabinet meeting. Submitted at 3/7/2011 6:30:00 AM
operative providers of healthcare. people who were "very dodgy" and made them feel welcome, 2.30pm: Theresa May, the home
But that system failed to provide and that the prince should be give them support and I've secretary, takes questions in the Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
comprehensive and universal dropped as a trade ambassador. personally got no criticisms of Commons. Previews Here's what's on TV
service for the citizens of this According to PoliticsHome, here what he's done. And I think we 3.30pm: William Hague, the tonight (all times Eastern). Check
country. That's why health was are some of Byrant's comments. need to remember he's doing this foreign secretary, is expected to your local TV listings for the full
nationalised. But they're Having a member of the Royal as a volunteer, he's not a make a statement about the MI6 schedule.
proposing to go back to the days Family, particularly in some government appointee, he's not officers and SAS soldiers 8PM
before the NHS. countries, really opens some somebody who is appointed and captured in Libya. ABC:'The Bachelor'
Lansley was asked about the doors that others won't be able to sacked. And I think the As usual, I'll be covering all the NBC:'The Event'
story on Sky this morning. do. But when that happens it's got assessment of businesses I've seen breaking political news, as well as FOX:'House'
According to PoliticsHome, the to be someone who's respected, who've worked with him is he's looking at the papers and bringing ABC Family:'Pretty Little Liars'
health secretary said Porter was who, I would suggest in these been supportive and helpful. you the best politics from the Disney XD:'Zeke & Luther'
"just simply wrong". days of austerity, doesn't travel in Asked if he had the power to web. I'll post a lunchtime 8:15
I'm afraid Dr Mark Porter in this such extravagant style as the "sack" the prince from his role, summary at around 1pm and an Cartoon Network:'MAD'
respect is just simply wrong. It's prince does … All too often Cable replied: afternoon one at about 4pm. After the jump, the rest of the
not going to be like that at all, the ambassadors have complained As I say he is a volunteer, he has Andrew Sparrow schedule and the late-night talk
commissioning services, GP either that he's been phenomenally offered to perform these roles. I guardian.co.uk© Guardian News shows.
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for quality. They will be looking The truth is, we shouldn't be 8.41am: It's a patchy day. The
for where they need services to be using him for these delegations future of Prince Andrew as a UK
connected up for long term any more ... trade ambassador is dominating
conditions. I think the charge list now against the headlines although, according
There will not be competition on him is so long that he's a bit of an to the BBC's Nick Robinson,
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"Loser Like Me" and "Get It
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Darren Criss announced the news
on Live with Regis and Kelly
Monday morning. VIDEO: Jennifer
So far this season, the Warbler's
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Bills, Bills," Robin Thicke's
"When I Get You Alone" and
University) topped Billboard's
Hot 100 in November, the first
time a Glee recording hit No. 1 on
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Ben Popken (The Consumerist) becoming a luxury. Lenders used
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:00:00 PM to be able to make that promise
thanks to Fannie and Freddie
Plans are in the works to because they had already gotten
dismantle Fannie Mae and investors to buy in. But without
Freddie Mac, and that could mean the two big F's, locking in a rate
that what many Americans had might become something that
assumed came fourth after "life, homeowners have to pay extra to
liberty and the pursuit of get. Or, that option might be only
happiness," the 30-year mortgage, available to the best-qualified
could be on the outs. borrowers.
Without the government- The question is, are Americans
provided backstop of the really ready to pay the price for
Distracted driving: DOT and CR join American Dream, costs are going
to rise for borrowers. Many
investors are no longer willing to
cutting down on moral hazard in
the mortgage market?
Without Loan Giants, 30-Year
to educate the public make such a long-term bet as the
30-year mortgage and would
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an automatic garage door, its and it should stay open on its own ConsumerReports.org for expert
By: Benjamin Gran Everyone two games in one. And not in the
system of springs, cables, about 3 feet off the ground. If it Ratings, buying advice and
relates to money in different "Oh, thanks, Grandpa, this
brackets, and other hardware doesn’t, its overhead spring reliability on hundreds of
ways. The way we manage our Checkers with Dominoes set is a
might not be functioning properly probably needs to be products. Update your feed
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either. Tealy & Orangey is fun! thing to do, especially when they
You're the ball. You're both balls. start throwing crap like this at
One's in Teal Heaven and the you:
other is in Orange Hell. We aren't But on the whole, Tealy &
judging their past, we're just Orangey is fun to play and really
pointing out that they both have to adds a new level to the ol' maze
work together if they're going to game. For an added challenge, see
succeed and survive. The how far you can get without
destinies of these two balls are swearing! We made it to level
forever intertwined. two.
Tealy has to make leaps that Thanks to reader Matthew for the
Orangey doesn't, and vice versa. hint. He's the tops!
Since they both need to be
controlled at the same time,
you've got to watch both screens
at once. It can be a pretty hard
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Poll: Christie Tied With Obama as
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Submitted at 3/7/2011 5:36:09 AM feel about national figures, Christie, 48, has campaigned for
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including politicians.” Republicans in other states and
way to tell you," Schilling said at just pull this off. Monday, 07 Mar 2011 11:36 AM Kevin Roberts, Christie’s has been asked repeatedly about
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working on this game, this is the preview: The path of promises The poll, released today, finds 1 0 0 d e g r e e s o n a “ f e e l i n g Gingrich, former Massachusetts
first time they've all worked originally appeared on Joystiq on one group gives the two sharply thermometer.” The higher the Gov. Mitt Romney, and
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Beck,” David Carr wrote in for Islamic radicals who want to
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within the past few decades that "What we want to understand Sitting on a stool next to him, about his eczema. (She tubes, each holding the 16S pieces
scientists have begun to first," says Human Microbiome Kong asks a series of questions. recommended that he take diluted harvested from a particular area of
understand just how many Project coordinator Lita Proctor, Which medications are you bleach baths during bad flares, the participant's skin.
varieties of bacteria live in or on "is what's considered the norm. currently taking? Does your which has given him some relief.) He puts the tubes on ice in order
our bodies. And now they What does a typical healthy school use antibacterial soaps? But he says he's proud to be part to FedEx them to a building five
increasingly suspect that many human have?" HMP researchers How bad are your allergies this of the effort to understand this miles north, the NIH Intramural
diseases are caused not by are building a reference database month? On a diagram of a body, disease, in case his future children Sequencing Center. There,
individual bacteria, but by the of the genetic fingerprints of she notes all the spots where end up with the same troubles. machines read the precise
delicate interplay between about 3,000 different bacterial Jake's rash has croppedup that Moist: Inside the nose, between sequence of 1,500-odd letters in
multiple bacterial species and the species. Scientists are also day. Then she pulls on a pair of the fingers and toes, and the heel-- each 16S fragment, giving the
human host. thoroughly characterizing the blue examination gloves and turns these areas of skin and folds chemical signature of each
Oily: The scalp, upper back and makeup of microbial communities to a tray containing a row of contain many sweat glands. species. Finally, technicians
crease of the nose all have an found on half a dozen body sites- sterile swabs and scalpels. The Eczema flares are sometimes upload the sequence data to an
abundance of oil-producing including the gut, the mouth, the swabbing comes first. Jake found in moist skin areas. Howard internal network, ready to be
sebaceous glands. Oily regions skin and the groin-of 300 normal stretches out his right arm, palm Schatz mined by Segre and Kong.
tend to have less bacterial people. The next step is to up, and Kong firmly rubs a wet Jake's skin samples, like those The skin is an ecosystem. Like
diversity than other regions. compare those results with what foam swab in a circular motion in from the more than 20 other any other ecosystem, it harbors
Howard Schatz researchers find in patients with the crook of his elbow; the sterile children participating in the study, permanent residents and also
In the Human Microbiome specific medical conditions such water solution stings when it hits wind up in a nearby laboratory migrant species that flock to a few
Project, researchers plan to as eczema, Crohn's disease and his open sores. Kong places the complex, where they are stored in hotspots during certain seasons.
characterize the vast numbers of ulcerative colitis. tip of the swab into a plastic tube a large freezer set at -112oF. The Those fluctuations powerfully
bacteria, fungi, protozoa and The skin samples from Jake and filled with the same liquid and inside of the door is lined with influence how the skin works.
viruses in our body by sequencing other children with eczema will places the tube in a bucket of dry thick white snow. Clay Deming, a Staphylococcus epidermidis, for
their genes. That won't be easy. In help Segre and Kong determine ice. Then comes the scalpel. Kong biologist at the lab, explained to example, may help educate the
the past, researchers had to grow whether changing profiles of skin moistens the blade and gently me how he prepares each sample. skin's immune system, training it
each species outside the body flora, and its interaction with the scrapes some skin from a spot He selects a tube and defrosts it; to recognize particular molecules
before they could identify it, a human immune system, are next to the area she swabbed. She adds lysozyme, an enzyme that so that it can better respond to an
process that required intense involved in the rising rates of the wipes the flakes from the blade breaks down bacterial cell walls; attack by harmful species. S.
research to determine optimum disease. Some 34.1 million with another swab and drops the and shakes the concoction using a epidermidis churns out proteins
growing conditions. Only the Americans suffer from asthma, tip into another plastic tube. Kong vortex mixer. This releases DNA that prevent unwanted invaders
hardiest and most numerous and up to 50 million have repeats the procedure on each from the bacterial cells so that it from adhering to skin. So it makes
bacterial species-for example, seasonal allergies. elbow, each inner forearm, the floats freely in the liquid. He then sense that disrupting these
Staphylococcus aureus and "In the last three decades, all of back of each knee, and finally a pours the solution over a gel filter, complex microbial interactions
Streptococcus pyogenes, which these allergic disorders-asthma, swab in one of his nostrils. Once designed so that just bacterial could lead to skin problems.
can cause life-threatening eczema, hay fever-they've all the sampling is over, she and her DNA fragments will stick to it. With the eczema study, Segre
infections-have been thoroughly tripled," Segre says. With that colleagues take pictures of Jake's With the DNA fragments thus says she hopes to find patterns in
studied in the laboratory. Now, short of a time frame, the culprit rash. Then they check his vital separated, Deming can use a the microbiome that could predict
advances in DNA sequencing-the can't be simply changes in our signs. technique called polymerase chain the onset of an eczema flare in a
very same that made it possible own genome. "So it must be Jake doesn't know much about reaction to make millions of particular child, or even help
for the Human Genome Project to something about the gene- what happens to his skin cells copies of one particular bacterial doctors choose a far more
decode the three billion base pairs environment interaction. And I once they disappear into the lab. gene: 16S. All bacteria carry the effective treatment; for some
of our own genome quickly-have now believe that that's modulated For the most part, he comes to the gene, but its DNA sequence varies patients, bleach baths might help,
provided the technology to make by the body's bacteria." clinic, which he found because he from species to species. After whereas for others, a round of anti
a comprehensive Human The first part of the exam is like was enrolled in an NIH study on amplifying the DNA fragments, OUR page 76
Microbiome Project possible. any other doctor's visit, Jake says. asthma, for Kong's helpful advice Deming is left with a new set of
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-inflammatory steroids might be differences. The six psoriasis specific locations on the body, other children with eczema at Metagenomics, however, is
the best choice. patients had considerably more rather than to individual humans. three points: during a normal, or immensely complicated.
Kong and Segre are not the only bacteria from the Firmicutes For example, the bacterial baseline, period; during a flare; Researchers know little about how
scientists looking into the phylum than people without communities under your arm are and two weeks after treatment. In the millions of microbial genes
connection between the psoriasis. What's more, the most more similar to those under a preliminary analysis of data might work together, and it's
microbiome and inflammatory common class of bacteria in someone else's arm than to those from 10 patients, Kong and Segre difficult to sort out which patterns
skin conditions. Martin Blaser, a healthy skin, Actinobacteria, was behind your knee. have confirmed older studies are signatures of disease versus
microbiologist and physician at significantly underrepresented in Dry: The forearms and buttocks showing that there are huge part of normal variation between
New York University, thinks the the lesions. have a relative paucity of sweat amounts of S. aureus on the skin people. "There's no way to
microbiome also plays a role in "Those results, which were and sebaceous glands. Bacteria during a flare. What wasn't known overemphasize the analytical
psoriasis. Some 25 years ago, important at the time, now are from dry skin sites are typically before, however, is that S. aureus challenges," Fraser-Liggett says.
Blaser's father had told him that kind of laughable because they're the hardest to grow in culture. crowds out the other bacterial "It's something that everybody is
his psoriasis-scaly red-and-white on such a small scale," Blaser Howard Schatz species during a flare. Kong and struggling with."
patches on the skin-seemed to get says. Now, with funding from the Jake is allergic to many things- Segre are trying to figure out how Early results from Segre's study
better after he started taking Human Microbiome Project, his mold, peanut butter, dogs, cats- treating these patients changes indicate that researchers might not
allopurinol, a medicine that treats team is looking in much greater and his asthma is severe. In 2009 their bacterial diversity and leads have to decode the entire
gout. Blaser, who has mild detail at how the overall microbial he almost died because he to better individual results. microbiome to better treat
psoriasis himself, took notice. He numbers, as well as changes in the couldn't breathe. "The scary thing Segre doesn't know whether children's skin diseases. She says
knew that because allopurinol species distribution, vary in was, within seconds, he was in bacteria associated with eczema she envisions a day in the not-too-
interferes with the synthesis of patients with psoriasis. respiratory and cardiac arrest," his are the cause of the disease or distant future when a
DNA, it kills bacteria or makes it In May 2009, Kong, Segre and mother recalls. "No warning. No simply a consequence of living dermatologist, during an office
very difficult for those bacteria to their colleagues published the first lip swelling or dizziness or mouth with it. To find out, she plans to visit, will drop a skin sample into
grow. comprehensive catalog of skin burning. He just went down." perform a metagenomic analysis a machine that spits out a
His father's experience spurred microbes, based on samples taken Eczema's strong link to allergies of the samples. During a signature of the microbiome.
Blaser to look deeper into the from 20 different body parts-from suggests that the immune system metagenomic analysis, scientists If she finds certain microbial
connection between allopurinol the oily crease outside the nose to is key to the development of the compare thousands of genes profiles that predict the onset of
and microbes. He discovered that the moist spots between the disease, and researchers have present in a particular species's an eczema flare, for example,
a few decades earlier, researchers fingers-of 10 healthy people. By focused on inflammation for DNA. By looking at the biological doctors could use that data as a
had run clinical trials on sequencing hundreds of the 16S decades. So how does the skin function of the genes-what kinds guide for action. They might tell
allopurinol as a treatment for genes in each sample, the microbiome fit into this picture? of proteins they make and what the patient to take a few extra
psoriasis. The results were researchers found that our In 2006, a coalition of researchers kinds of biological pathways bleach baths that week, or to skip
inconclusive, but Blaser thought epidermal ecosystem is much from the U.S., France, Ireland and those proteins are involved in-the football practice. Researchers
that the medicine might work on a more diverse than anybody the U.K. discovered that up to half scientists can make educated might even be able to create
particular subgroup of psoriasis thought, with discrete bacterial of people with eczema have guesses about the role of each "probiotic" concoctions to replace
patients. populations ranging in size from mutations in filaggrin, a protein in species, and how different species the bacterial species that patients
In 2002, he finally secured 15 species behind the ear to 44 on the skin barrier, or top layers of may work with one another and lack during a flare, Segre says.
funding to study the microbiomes the forearm. The team also looked the skin. Now some researchers with our own genome. Hospitals are already routinely
of psoriasis patients. For the at whether the microbiome is suspect that this flaw in the skin "We all believe there's an swabbing people's noses to screen
project, Blaser performed a consistent across individuals; that barrier allows entry to particles interdependency among these for drug-resistant bacteria. "You
general census of bacteria living is, do some individuals always that trigger the immune response organisms. They're highly get that result in less than an
on the inner forearms of six have a certain set of bacterial and creates an ecological niche dependent on their neighbors for hour," Segre says. If the screen
healthy people. Later his group species, no matter what part of the for a different set of microbes. their survival," says Claire Fraser- turns up MRSA, for example,
did the same analysis on skin body those bacteria live in? To uncover any link between the Liggett, director of the Institute doctors can prescribe an antibiotic
from six people with psoriasis, The researchers learned that, no, skin barrier and microbes, Kong for Genome Sciences at the OUR page 78
and they found some striking the bacteria are finely tailored to and Segre are sampling Jake and University of Maryland.
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addressing that question, saying it sense of it all. concerned.
was "tantamount to school-yard Weirdness or not, Hoover's claim
taunts by jealous children." The is certainly an extraordinary one.
journal claims to be the victim of But as Carl Sagan once said,
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Nunes bill would direct the NRC Energy Subsidies do recognize that the Nunes idea insure that every kid gets a great difficult ones that will benefit our
to develop a set of guidelines for The goal of Congress should be for distributing subsidies through education—no matter what zip children and grandchildren.
technology-neutral nuclear plant to allow all energy sources to a reverse auction is a better code they live in. We lift the cap Walker is continuing Wisconsin’s
designs. Instead of mandating that compete subsidy-free in an open mechanism than is currently in on the number of students eligible long tradition of providing school
a specific nuclear technology be market. Such an approach would place. It could be improved even to participate in the Milwaukee choice options to parents. He is
wedded to a specific plant design, yield innovation and cost further if, instead of using royalty parental choice program and transforming the education system
the new guidelines would allow reductions and maximize energy funds from new gas and oil phase out the income eligibility in a way that will better equip
for other nuclear reactor supplies. The massive exploration, it took funding from limits. And across the state, we students for a bright future. It’s
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Government Association. It was conspirator” in the 1993 World Rahman; however, if anyone had painful than cuts to entitlements. you to rise above factional debate
an invitation that raised no Trade Center bombing. With actually done so, probably (3) The Kantian view of a new and lead when it is required. As
eyebrows: after all, Siraj Wahhaj obvious annoyance in his voice, Wahhaj would have supplied yet and more peaceful world order Founding Father John Jay argued
is one of the most sought-after Wahhaj complained that that another windy non-answer, reliant on international institutions and Ronald Reagan demonstrated,
speakers on the Muslim circuit, designation essentially meant generating a great deal of is demonstrably false. the best way to deter military
and has addressed audiences all nothing; an audience member righteous indignation from the Which leads to our final conflict is to maintain the “best
over the country. In 1991, he even drew sympathetic laughter when Muslims in the crowd but little to conclusion and recommendation possible state of defense.”
became the first Muslim to give she asserted that it meant that nothing in the way of actual for President Obama: Be bold. Strengthening America’s defenses
an invocation to the U.S. Wahhaj was “innocent.” Wahhaj information. Cut non-defense spending, reduce and its economic underpinning is
Congress. After 9/11, his renown did not explain to his UCF Siraj Wahhaj’s contacts with the our debt, and protect the defense the most significant job you have,
as a moderate Muslim grew when audience that he earned the Blind Sheikh are not the only budget from across-the-board so protect us, Mr. President.
he declared: “I now feel designation by sponsoring talks in blots on his reputation as a cuts. Listen to your defense — Ron D. DeSantis is a veteran
responsible to preach, actually to the early 1990s by the Blind “moderate.” He has warned that secretary, Robert Gates, who has of Operation Iraqi Freedom and
go on a jihad against extremism.” Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, in the United States will fall unless it transcended the partisan divide an officer in the U.S. Navy
But with Siraj Wahhaj, as with so mosques in New York City and “accepts the Islamic agenda.” He since his appointment, when he Reserve. Adam Paul Laxalt is a
many other Muslim leaders in the New Jersey; Rahman was later has also asserted that “if only says: “Suggestions to cut defense veteran of Operation Iraqi
U.S., things are not always as convicted for conspiring to blow Muslims were clever politically, by this or that large number have Freedom, a former lieutenant in
moderate as they seem. up the World Trade Center in they could take over the United largely become exercises in the U.S. Navy, and former special
When Siraj Wahhaj spoke at 1993. States and replace its simple math, divorced from assistant for arms control and
UCF, he was asked whether he Apparently no one pressed constitutional government with a serious considerations of international security to then
would condemn Hamas and Al- Wahhaj about whether he caliphate.” capabilities, risks, and the level of Undersecretary of State John
Qaeda. Instead of answering condemned the jihad terror resources needed to protect this Bolton.
directly, Wahhaj launched into a groups. Apparently also no one in country's security and vital Adam Paul Laxalt &
lengthy complaint against his the UCF audience asked Wahhaj interests around the world.” Ron D. DeSantis
having been designated a how his view of Islam differed Factions will complain, but being
“potential unindicted co- from that of Omar Abdel a leader and statesman requires
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