05-07-12: Is Fast and Furious the Next Watergate? (Plus: Gov. Christie’s Islam Problem)

1)               Anderson Cooper exposes MoveOn.org partisan agenda 2)               Escort: Secret Service agents were ‘stupid brutes’ 3)               Government gone wild: Parties, clowns and magicians, oh my! 4)               'My life is in your hands Mr. President': Heartfelt video plea from Al Qaeda hostage urging Barack Obama to give in to terrorist demands 5)               Military tribunal for suspected 9/11 terrorists underway 6)               Top General: Obama Knew About OBL’s Hideout in Abbottabad Since Summer of 2010 – Refused to Act Until May 7)               France Turns LEFT: French voters reject austerity tack, oust Sarkozy for Socialist leader 8)               Frank Gaffney: We’re ignoring the ‘civilization jihad’ being waged by the Muslim Brotherhood and we certainly are NOT safer than we were 10 years ago 9)               'Lost Colony': Researchers believe they have found a possible clue to what happened to the 16th century Roanoke settlers. 10)         GSA under fire for possible kickback scheme size=3 width="100%" align=center>  PLEASE DONATE TO FSM ! Read FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor J. Christian Adams' SHOCKING new book! Buy it here      Is Fast and Furious the Next Watergate? by ALAN CARUBA “Operation Fast and Furious wasn’t a ‘botched’ program. It was a calculated and lethal decision to purposely place thousands of guns in the hands of ruthless criminals”, and designed by this Administration to destroy our right to bear arms. Rep. Paul Ryan's Budget Is a Moral Budget by STAR PARKER Ryan deserves credit for casting his proposed reforms in moral as well as economic terms. It challenges today's conventional wisdom that morality and economy are separate, having little to do with each other. Lawyer For 9/11 Plotter Demands Women In Gitmo Courtroom Wear Hijabs, Show “Cultural Sensitivity” To Defendants by JANE SUTTON Five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks refused to answer a U.S. military judge's questions on Saturday in a chaotic court hearing in which defense lawyers sought to cast the war crimes tribunal as unfair. We Are Not Powerless: How to Resist Financial Feudalism by CHARLES HUGH SMITH It's comforting to think "I can't do anything to resist the Central State and its financial Plutocracy," but it's not true. There are many of acts of resistance you can pursue; here are 12 perfectly legal ones. ‘Real’ Unemployment Rate Remains at 14.5 Percent by MATT COVER The "real" unemployment rate - a broader, more inclusive measure of the country's jobless picture than the one usually used - remained unchanged at 14.5 percent in April, as the economy created a paltry 115,000 jobs. The European Uprisings of 1848 Reverberate in Today's Arab Spring by DR. LAINA FARHAT-HOLZMAN Americans think that our 1776 revolution was a model for all others. This may account for the wacky optimism of Western journalists cheering on the street demonstrations in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. How wrong they were. Reliving 9/11: One Joke after Another by GADI ADELMAN Eleven years after the 9/11 attacks, mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants finally went to court for their arraignment. What followed was nothing more than a continuation of an ongoing mockery of justice. It’s not at all true. Islam's War on Wilders and U.S. by DIANA WEST Watch out, America. Abusing the right to freedom of expression is the latest technique to block criticism of Islam’s repressions. But hats off to Geert Wilders and Sean Hannity for having the courage to confront the Sharia-Powers-that-Be. HSBC: Leading Western Enabler of Financial Jihad? HSBC's track record regarding compliance with money laundering regulations is bad, especially with the revelation that their deplorable record on money laundering reportedly involves transactions involving Iran... Compulsory Blindness -  The Obama administration is enforcing a false orthodoxy. by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY A few years back, I wrote a book called "Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad." It was about being on the "front lines," so to speak, of the battle against Muslim terrorism. I put "front lines" in quotes because, though the terrorists saw themselves as fighting a doctrinally ordained war of armed combat, we were treating them as mere criminals - such that our idea of a battlefield was the federal courthouse, and our idea of a commander was, well . . . me. ICNA Relief Promotes Jihad Donations by STEVE EMERSON This new ICNA Relief link, with the organization's decades of radical education and rhetoric, show that ICNA's leadership still believes in supporting jihad and pursuing Islamic supremacy. Do they think they’re fooling us? Chris Christie's Islam Problem by DANIEL PIPES, STEVE EMERSON The governor of New Jersey has an Islam problem that can and should get in the way of his ascent to higher office. Frequently he has sided with some pretty nasty Islamist forces against those who protect us. Europe's Crisis Is About to Get a Whole Lot Worse by DANIEL HANNAN Many European countries are going farther left, as is America. This will accelerate all their present unhappy conditions: wastrel spending, unsustainable borrowing, punitive taxation, deeper integration. What's the impact? Click here to sign up for FSM's e-mail updates!