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McCain and Boehner: Ignorant or Complicit?

It’s an age old tradition. Politicians will always choose looking ignorant or stupid over revealing a cold hard truth they don’t want to deal with. In politics, being perceived as foolish is preferable to being perceived as cowardly. That’s where Senator John McCain and Speaker John Boehner come in. Frankly, it’s simply not possible for […]

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Washington Examiner editor David Freddoso spikes Column on Huma Abedin

Diana West, a columnist whose articles appear in the Washington Examiner, wrote a piece about Huma Abedin, as well as the concerns expressed by Reps. Bachmann, Franks, Gohmert, Rooney, and Westmoreland about Abedin’s background and access to State secrets as Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Staff. Her editor (David Freddoso) refused to publish it and […]

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Accuracy in Media’s Kincaid: Produce Huma Abedin’s Security Clearance Form and end the dispute

Michele Bachmann and four other Congressmen want assurances that people like Huma Abedin have been adequately screened and pose no threat to national security based on her known familial connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. In response, they’ve been smeared by the likes of Keith Ellison, John (I? L?) Esposito, Huma’s sister Heba (Abedin? Khalid?), and […]

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Perhaps the three John Espositos should start a Baseball team

This is a follow-up post to this story about the ‘Three Espositos.’ For those who would feel comfortable with more evidence that John Esposito, John L. Esposito, and John I. Esposito are the same person… Remember, the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA) once listed John Esposito with no middle initial at all. It now […]

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Hillary Clinton publicly defends Huma Abedin; applauds McCain for doing same

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now publicly on record as defending her closest adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin. She’s also praising John McCain for doing the same. Via POLITICO: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended her own top State Department aide Huma Abedin against charges that Abdein had ties to radical […]

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Charlie Daniels: Hillary would have been better than Barack

Sentiment is widespread among conservatives that Barack Obama has been an unmitigated disaster for the country. However, there is also a belief among many of them that Hillary Clinton would have been a better president. Charlie Daniels, the conservative musician who gave us, ‘The Devil went down to Georgia,’ is among them. Via the Daily […]

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It’s time for Karl Rove to come clean about what he knew

After publishing this post yesterday, which included a photo circa 2000 that shows Abdurahman Alamoudi meeting with George W. Bush and Karl Rove, I decided to look into the book that Rove was quite likely given by the delegation seen in the photo. It’s entitled, The Cultural Atlas of Islam and was written by a man […]

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Newt Gingrich rightfully defends Michele Bachmann in Op-Ed

Last week, Newt Gingrich interviewed with POLITICO and defended Michele Bachmann’s efforts to investigate Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the U.S. Government in general, and the background of Huma Abedin, who has close access to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in particular. Gingrich has followed that up with an eight-page Op-ed. Via POLITICO: Unlike the Cold […]

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If Bashar Al-Assad Is Ousted, The Islamists Will Take Over Syria

By Theodore Shoebat Those who think that the U.S should help the rebels in Syria oust out Bashar al-Assad, do not know anything about the Middle East. Within this region of the earth, people have been living under dictators for thousands of years. In a nation like Syria, as is most of the Near East, […]

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More Evidence connecting Heba Abedin (Khalid) to IMMA

On July 27th, we posted about Huma Abedin’s sister – Heba Abedin – also being listed as an Assistant Editor with the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). We also concluded that the name “Heba A. Khalid” which appears on the IMMA website is actually Heba Abedin. Today, we explain how we reached that conclusion. […]

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Exclusive: Huma Abedin’s Sister (Heba) also connected to Muslim Brotherhood

It has been learned that the sister of Huma Abedin (Heba Abedin), like Huma, has served on the Editorial Board of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA) as an Assistant Editor; Heba continues to serve in that capacity after Huma left in late 2008 to work for Hillary Clinton at the State Department. Please […]

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House Majority Leader defends Bachmann (sort of)

After John McCain’s Senate floor rant in defense of Huma Abedin, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) was asked to chime in and essentially defended Abedin as well. He has been taking a lot of heat from those who have the cold, hard facts. Perhaps that has something to do with why House Majority […]

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Trent Franks grills Asst Attorney General on criminalizing criticism of Religion (Islam)

Two very important names here. First, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) is one of the five Congressmen who signed five separate letters to various IG’s. Those letters call for investigations into the potential of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the U.S. Government. Second, Thomas E. Perez is the Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights […]

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Washington Post publishes defense of Huma Abedin; authored by IMMA Board Member

The Washington Post has published an op-ed by an individual named John L. Esposito, who vehemently defends Hillary Clinton Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin against what he calls ‘xenophobic’ attacks against her character by the likes of Michele Bachmann. What neither Esposito nor the Washington Post offers the readers is a full disclosure. There […]

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