Dictator’s meet again in Iran
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his fourth trip to Iran in two years on Monday, state media reported, as the two countries sought to strengthen ties while their leaders exhort the international community to resist U.S. policies.

Lawmen under siege along Mexico border
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"They've got weapons, high-tech radios, computers, cell phones, Global Positioning Systems, spotters and can react faster than we are able to," said Shawn P. Moran, a 10-year U.S. Border Patrol veteran who serves as vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 1613 in San Diego.

LAPD Shelves Muslim Mapping Plan
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A police plan to map out Muslim communities, a proposal that civil rights groups sharply criticized as racial and religious profiling, has been shelved, a police spokeswoman said. "There was a clear message from the Muslim community that they were not comfortable with it. So we listened," said Mary Grady, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department.

Muslim FBI agent pleads guilty to spying
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Former FBI special agent and CIA analyst Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, admitted searching FBI databases for information on relatives suspected of having ties to Hezbollah, and fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.

20,000 Crack Dealers to be released early
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A federal rule that will shorten prison time for new crack cocaine offenders went into effect Nov. 1. It could mean earlier freedom for nearly 20,000 federal prisoners. Releasing that many prisoners would "jeopardize community safety and threatens to unravel the success we have achieved in removing violent crack offenders from high-crime neighborhoods," said Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher.

Congressional Spending is out of control
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Citizens Against Government Waste, which closely monitors federal spending, is putting the finishing touches on its tally of pork projects in the pending spending bills — and the picture isn’t pretty. The group estimates that there will be at least 8,000 earmarks this year, costing U.S. taxpayers, $18 billion to $20 billion.

Catholic Bishops of Colorado Denounce New Planned Parenthood Abortion Facility in Denver
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The Catholic bishops of Colorado have responded to Planned Parenthood's plans to begin construction this month on a new, larger abortion facility in Denver with a scathing denunciation of the organization. "The public deserves to know the facts about Planned Parenthood," wrote the state's three Catholic bishops last week. "The national organization is among the leading abortion providers, performing across the nation 264,943 abortion procedures in 2005 alone, a 29 percent increase since 2000. Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains has stated that it served 125,000 patients in five states, including Colorado, last year and of those 8,800 received abortions."

Dolly creator shuns cloning and SCNT
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Prof Ian Wilmut's decision to turn his back on "therapeutic cloning", just days after US researchers announced a breakthrough in the cloning of primates, will send shockwaves through the scientific establishment. This new method could end the research for human embryonic stem cells.

Huckabee: Pro-life, Pro-Family Presidential Nominee
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The battle for the Republican nomination in the upcoming 2008 presidential election has become a bitterly contested struggle centered largely around the authentic conservative identities of the candidates involved. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee's strong record on issues of life and family, and his reputation as an avid hunter and strong supporter of second amendment rights, are both widely praised and largely uncontested by most conservatives. However, similar to several of the other candidates, Huckabee's past record has spurred some to express disappointment and confusion over his positions on certain key issues and has even led some to question his identity as a fiscal or otherwise so-called 'governmental' conservative.

Hillary Takes Cash From Recipients of Bill's Pardons
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Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour pardons issued by former President Bill Clinton in January 2001 have donated thousands of dollars to the presidential campaign of his wife, Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., according to campaign finance records examined by ABC News, in what some good government groups said created an appearance of impropriety.

Congressmen want probe of prosecutor after smuggler indicted again
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Three congressmen are calling for the immediate release of imprisoned Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean and a complete investigation of their prosecutor after the arrest last night of the drug smuggler at the center of the case. Reps. Ted Poe, R-Texas, Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., say that with the arrest of Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, Congress and the attorney general should launch a full-scale review of U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton's prosecution of the border agents.

Colorado Sheriff ridicules ban on Christmas lights
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"While the secular progressives have tried to take Christ out of Christmas, supported and bolstered by the ACLU which is waging its own Jihad against Christianity, the majority of Americans, including those living in Larimer County and Fort Collins, recognize and value our Christian heritage. Valuing our heritage while being tolerant of other religions!" Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden wrote.

Atheists want state trooper memorial down in Utah
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Attorneys for the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) supports Utah highway patrol officers and their families in a lawsuit filed against the state patrol and Transportation Department by the group American Atheists has no merit. ADF will protect the memorial that has crosses off of the US Interstate.

Michael Yon: Mass in Baghdad
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The Bishop returned to St John’s Church in Baghdad where a crowd of locals welcomed him home. They were joined at the service by soldiers from the 2-12 infantry battalion, many of whom had fought hard to secure these neighborhood streets. Members of the hard-fighting Iraqi Army 3rd Division were also here for this special day.

A Shot At The 2nd Amendment
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Bill Of Rights: What does "the right to keep and bear arms" really mean? If the Supreme Court reviews the overturning of the draconian gun-control law in effect in the District of Columbia, we may finally have an answer.

"Diamonds v. Pearls" Student Blasts CNN about question in Debate
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Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred "diamonds or pearls" at last night's debate wrote on her MySpace page this morning that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. “CNN ran out of time and used me to "close" the debate with the pearls/diamonds question. Every question from the audience was pre-planned and censored. That's what the media does. See, the media chose what they wanted, not what the people or audience really wanted. That's politics; that's reality.”

South America going through global cooling period
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On October 14, 1997, Vice President Al Gore said, “For those who argue that global warming is already changing the world’s climate, this year’s El Nino weather front is more than enough evidence”, the audience was told by Gore. In the next day, a report by the San Francisco Chronicle said: “Gore links El Nino to Global Warming”. The Vice President stated at the summit that growing frequency of El Nino episodes could be connected to the gradual heating of the atmosphere caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Ten years later residents in Argentina and Brazil are wondering if this winter will ever end. Buenos Aires recorded the lowest November temperature in 90 years. The culprit? Gore’s El Nino! But Al says there is global warming?

“The Golden Compass”: The Christmas-Crushing Movie
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Buyer beware: Narnia it’s not. It’s the anti-Narnia. Instead of a Christian allegory, it’s an anti-Christian allegory. The author of “The Golden Compass,” Philip Pullman, is an atheist who despises C. S. Lewis and his much-beloved Narnia series. “I thought they were loathsome,” he said of those books, “full of bullying and sneering, propaganda, basically, on behalf of a religion whose main creed seemed to be to despise and hate people unlike yourself.”

Analysis links cohabitation to child abuse
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Many scholars and front-line caseworkers interviewed by The Associated Press see the abusive-boyfriend syndrome as part of a broader trend that deeply worries them. They note an ever-increasing share of America's children grow up in homes without both biological parents, and say the risk of child abuse is markedly higher in the nontraditional family structures.

Gender Neutral Bathrooms at University
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The University of Southern Maine library bathrooms are designed to accommodate several people simultaneously, and they have no exterior door locks. Men and women were seen entering and leaving the bathrooms freely, often together as groups, throughout the transgender event.

Baseball Star Indicted
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Barry Bonds, the former Giants star and baseball's career home run king, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the BALCO sports steroid scandal.