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  • Powell Comes Out of Hiding, Praises Ground Zero Mosque on 'The View'

    Gen. Colin Powell, the retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state under President George W. Bush,said Thursday that the Islamic community center and mosque planned near Ground Zero in New York City should go forward. Powell made his comments during an appearance on ABC's "The View."
     
    "The terrorists win if we become terrified and . . . change who we are and what we are," Powell said, as he argued that it is crucial for Americans to remain true to the values that set the country apart from the rest of the world.
     
    The retired general said that while he understands the sensitivity of New Yorkers to the mosque's proposed location near the site of the 9/11 attacks, he pointed to a Muslim prayer room in the Pentagon as an example of a place that had also been attacked, but has provided a space for Muslim worship nonetheless. He also pointed to President Bush's outreach to the Muslim community after September 11, when he assured the world that the American war on Islamist extremism is not a war on the Muslim religion.
     
    In addition to the mosque issue, Powell also addressed Florida pastor Terry Jones' plans to burn copies of the Koran on Saturday and warned that Jones' plans could put American troops in harm's way. "If we let Islamophobia go across this country, we put General Petraeus in a very, very bad situation," Powell said of the allied forces commander in Afghanistan.



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  • Probe Launched Into Dem Tea Party Dirty Tricks

    A one-man grand jury has been authorized to investigate possible election fraud in Oakland County.
     
    At the request of Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, the county’s circuit court judges approved the special investigator this afternoon.
     
    The request followed reports that Oakland County Democratic party officials were involved in helping put candidates for the so-called Tea Party on the November ballot. Several of those candidates said they did not sign affidavits to run for office that were notarized by recently resigned Democratic Party official Jason Bauer.
     
    A Free Press investigation published Friday also linked the county Democrats’ chairman Mike McGuinness to the effort to get Tea Party candidates to run in hotly contested races to draw votes from Republicans and help Democrats win.
     
    Patterson applauded the court for approving the request.



  • Hope Fades as Hollywood Celebs Dump on Obama

    President Barack Obama’s national job approval rating sits at 46 percent in the latest Fox News Public Opinion Poll, down 19 points from a high of 65 percent at his inauguration.
     
    And it looks like his popularity among his Hollywood supporters has also taken a hit.
     
    FOXNews.com interviewed several celebrities over the past several weeks who supported Obama’s candidacy. A year-and-change into his first term, many are expressing disappointment regarding his positions on such issues as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, gay marriage, health care and the economy, among other things.
     
    Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is upset that the slow pace with which the President has moved troops out of combat operations overseas. “We need to get out of the wars, we’re going through the same thing as Vietnam right now,” Hefner told Pop Tarts. “We can’t please the world and all we do is make enemies.”
     
    “True Blood” beauty Ashley Jones is upset with President Obama's health care initiatives.
     
    “I was hoping for a different type of health reform,” Jones said last weekend. “I would like to see him not just trying to equalize everything, but actually make the quality of everything (better). It's great that we're having a health care reform, but if the quality will be compromised in any way for the majority just so everyone can have it, it seems counterproductive in some ways.”



  • WATCH: Biden Thanks Bush

    President George W. Bush deserves “a lot of credit” for his role in ending the Iraq war, Vice President Biden said Wednesday on The Colbert Report.

     

    Asked by the mock conservative Stephen Colbert if he wanted to thank Bush and respond to Republicans who say the former president hasn’t been credited enough with his policies to wind down the war, Biden delivered this message to the camera:

     

    “Mr. President, thank you. You’ve honored these guys. You’ve honored these women. You’ve honored these troops. And I’ve known you your entire eight years as president. I’ve never known a time when you didn’t care about what happened. We disagreed on policy. You deserve a lot of credit, Mr. President.”