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Did the U.S. Incite Iran's Crackdown?

Time

Tehran's jailing of Haleh Esfandiari, a 67-year old grandmother who holds dual Iranian-American citizenship, as well as the interrogation of others with similar papers, is evidence that Washington's latest attempt to foist change on Iran is backfiring — as Iranian democracy advocates had warned. The Bush administration had trumpeted its $61.1 million democracy program, including Farsi-language broadcasts into Iran, education and cultural exchanges and $20 million worth of support for "civil society, human rights, democratic reform and related outreach" as an important effort. However, sources tell TIME that several key Iranian reformers had repeatedly warned U.S. officials through back channels that the pro-democracy program was bound to expose them as vulnerable targets for a government crackdown whether they took Washington's funds or not.

Terror Watch Looks South of U.S.

Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- The foiling of an alleged plot to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport is sharpening focus among law-enforcement agencies on the potential threats from within Islamic communities in the Caribbean and Latin America. Four Muslim men allegedly tied to radical Islamist groups in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana were charged Saturday with targeting fuel lines headed into Kennedy Airport in a bid to disrupt the U.S. economy. While U.S. Justice Department officials stressed the plot was far from operational, they said they were intensifying their focus on the potential for attacks coming from the Caribbean and ...

Border Agents Warn Immigration Bill Will Compromise National Security

TownHall.com

A group of former Border Patrol Agents convened on Monday to warn U.S. senators that the current immigration bill would compromise national security if signed into law. Chairman of the National Association of Border Patrol Officers Kent Lundgren said, “First and most dangerous, is the fact that there will be no meaningful criminal or terrorist record checks of the applicants. If the amnesty passes, we will legalize them despite what past history they may have. Despite what the Administration and Congress say about record checks to ease voters’ minds, they are lying about it.”

Ahmadinejad: It's 'Too Late' to Stop Iran's Nuke Program

FoxNews.com

TEHRAN, Iran — Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that it was "too late" to stop Iran's nuclear program and warned the U.S. and its allies not to push for new U.N. sanctions on Iran, which he compared to a lion sitting quietly in a corner. "We advise them not to play with the lion's tail," Ahmadinejad said, prompting applause from a room of reporters, Iranian officials and foreign dignitaries at a Tehran news conference. "It is too late to stop the progress of Iran," Ahmadinejad said. "Iran has passed the point where they wanted Iran to stop."

Broadcasters Win Expletive Dispute With FCC

ABC News

A court ruling on a new federal policy against the accidental use of profanities on TV and radio may complicate government efforts to impose indecency fines. "Practically, this makes it difficult to go forward on a lot of the cases that are in front of us," Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin told The Associated Press after the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the FCC on Monday in a case involving two Fox Television shows.

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Senate Set to Slug It Out Over Immigration Bill

Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- The Senate faces a contentious debate next week on immigration, with backers of a compromise overhaul bill hopeful it will hold up. The landmark immigration bill, the outcome of talks between congressional leaders and the White House last month, has stirred deep passions on both sides. During a recess last week, many senators' offices were bombarded with phone calls, emails and visitors critical of the legislation, while supporters organized their own postcard drives, rallies and opinion pieces in local newspapers. The measure would tilt policy toward immigrants with skills, lay out a path for illegal immigrants here to gain citizenship and beef up border security. Next week, the Senate is set to vote on more than a dozen amendments, including ones aimed at allowing more relatives of immigrants to join them in the U.S. and making it harder for illegal immigrants already here to gain legal status.

Commanders Say Push in Baghdad Is Short of Goal

New York Times

BAGHDAD, June 3 — Three months after the start of the Baghdad security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control fewer than one-third of the city’s neighborhoods, far short of the initial goal for the operation, according to some commanders and an internal military assessment.

Bush Climate Plan: Amid Nays, Some Maybes

New York Times

President Bush’s shift last week toward cutting worldwide emissions linked to global warming was greeted with widespread skepticism. But mixed in with the doubts was a substantial dose of support, albeit conditional.

Edwards, Clinton And Obama Spar On Iraq

CBS News

(AP) Democratic presidential candidates clashed on Sunday on Iraq and over the security of the country since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, trailing both New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in national polls, criticized their cautious approach in forcing President Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq. While some members of Congress spoke out "loudly and clearly" last month against legislation to pay for the war through September but without a withdrawal timetable, "others did not," Edwards said.

Border Safety at Focus of TB Case

Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- Investigators are looking into whether Homeland Security agents last week positively identified a man infected with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis when he arrived at the U.S. border, but ignored instructions to detain him because he didn't look ill. The line of inquiry by congressional and Homeland Security investigators raises further questions about the security of U.S. borders. When news of the TB case first broke, it appeared that the patient had slipped into the country undetected. Andrew Speaker, 31 years old, drove as far as New York City before going to a hospital, despite an international search by U.S. authorities. The Centers for Disease Control had caught up with Mr. Speaker in Rome, where it advised him not to use commercial aircraft.

Bush Proposes Goal to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

New York Times

WASHINGTON, May 31 — President Bush, fending off international accusations that he was ignoring climate change, proposed for the first time on Thursday to set “a long-term global goal” for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and he called on other high-polluting nations to join the United States in negotiations aimed at reaching an agreement by the end of next year.

Terrorists: Cease-fire talk means U.S. defeat in Iraq

WorldNetDaily

TEL AVIV – Washington's announcement of talks with Iraqi militants about a cease-fire arrangement is a "big victory" for the insurgency and demonstrates the U.S. now recognizes the legitimacy of so-called terror groups, Palestinian terrorist leaders told WND. In a briefing with reporters earlier today, Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno said U.S. commanders at all levels are being empowered to reach out for talks with militants, tribes, religious leaders and others, including insurgents and sectarian rivals. "We are talking about cease-fires, and maybe signing some things that say they won't conduct operations against the government of Iraq or against coalition forces," Odierno told reporters in a video conference from Baghdad. Reacting to Odierno's announcement, Muhammad Abdel-El, spokesman and a leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terror group, called truce talks with insurgents "a big victory for the resistance."

Civil unions are now the law in New Jersey. WHAT'S NEXT?

NJFPC

Same-sex "marriage" advocates have promised to move legislation in the next two years that will upgrade civil unions to full "marriage." We must petition our legislature to protect marriage from radical redefinition!

Fraud feared in deal worked out on immigration

San Diego

WASHINGTON – Opponents of immigration overhaul legislation in the Senate are warning that it could draw an influx of illegal border crossers with phony documents who want to settle permanently in the United States, repeating the fraud that was rampant after passage of an immigration law in 1986. Backers of the measure, already battling charges from conservatives who say the proposal amounts to an amnesty, acknowledge the problem and promise to fix it before the bill becomes law.

Banking on Stem Cells

Time

A San Francisco company announced Tuesday that they would be the first to offer IVF patients the option of growing, freezing and banking their own embryonic stem cells. Until now, couples undergoing in vitro fertilization could not earmark stem cells derived from their embryos for their own future use; they could only donate them to the nationwide pool of embryos used for stem cell research.

Does Jesus Have a Place at High School Graduation?

ABC News

High school valedictorian Shannon Spaulding never expected her graduation speech to create such debate. But the blond honors student, who graduated at the top of her 383-member class at Wolfson High in Jacksonville, Fla., gave a valedictory speech that some said sounded more like a sermon.

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Rice Holds Line on Iran Nuclear Program

ABC News

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held the hard U.S. line against concessions to Iran over its nuclear program Thursday and renewed a conditional offer to talk to the clerical regime on any subject. Iran also refused to budge ahead of talks Thursday between Iran's chief international negotiator and the European Union's senior foreign policy official.

Bush challenges lawmakers on immigration bill

USA Today

President Bush challenged lawmakers Tuesday to support the immigration overhaul bill, asking them to have the courage needed to approve comprehensive changes. Speaking at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center near Brunswick, Ga., Bush stressed administration efforts to tighten the borders. He cited a doubling of funding for border security, and said a decline in arrests reflect a decrease in illegal crossings. The measure pending in Congress, the result of a deal struck between the Senate and the White House, would allow people who immigrated illegally before Jan. 1 to apply for provisional legal status when the bill takes effect.

Oil May Allow Sudan to Escape Sanctions’ Pain

New York Times

The Bush administration’s new sanctions against Sudan aim to squeeze the country’s economy by freezing Sudanese companies out of American financial institutions and curtailing their dollar transactions. Administration officials described the sanctions as a significant move to raise the pressure on Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, to bring a quick end to the violence in Darfur. But the sanctions will do little to stem Sudan’s oil exports, which are the main source of the country’s wealth, analysts said. They also noted that existing sanctions against Sudan, which date back to 1997, have been unevenly enforced.

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Iran Rejects Suspending Nuke Enrichment Ahead of Talks With EU

FoxNews.com

TEHRAN, Iran — On the eve of talks with the European Union foreign policy chief, Iran's nuclear negotiator rejected Wednesday the possibility of Iran suspending its controversial nuclear enrichment program. "Suspension is not the right solution for solving Iran's nuclear issue," the state news agency quoted Ali Larijani as saying before leaving Tehran for Spain. "Past experiences have shown that suspension is not acceptable, at all." Larijani, who arrives in Madrid on Wednesday afternoon, is expected to hold talks with EU's Javier Solana on Thursday.

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