Former Counterterror Official: 'We Don't Have Enough Muslim FBI Agents'

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Photo Credit: TwitterFormer Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Michael Leiter told NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that the FBI does not have enough Muslim agents or agents who understand Islam.

“We don’t have enough Muslim FBI agents. We don’t have enough FBI agents who understand Islam, and we don’t have enough people in government who are doing counterterrorism, who understand 15-to-29-year olds. They’re disengaged, and this is also the group which is likely to be most violent. It can’t just be Nancy Reagan with, ‘Say no to drugs.’ You have to do engagement with that demographic,” said Leiter.

Leiter acknowledged that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is using social media more so than al Qaeda did. He said ISIS tries to recruit “Jihadi Cool,” a new form of militant Jihadism designed to appeal to young people as something fashionable or cool.

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Naked Man Accused Of Raping Pit Bull In Neighbor’s Yard, Says ISIS Sent Him

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Photo Credit: Joe Raedle / GettyBy CBS Connecticut.

A naked man is accused of raping a pit bull in his neighbor’s yard.

Alice Woodruff told WTNH-TV that she confronted her neighbor at gunpoint while he was performing sex acts on her rescue pit bull that is kept on an 800-pound tow chain in her backyard.

“I thought my dog had killed somebody because I saw a man underneath her,” Woodruff explained to WTNH. “I started to scream. I had a citronella candle and I threw it at him, screaming ‘get off my dog, you have to get out of here.’ He said, ‘No, today is the day we are going to spend the rest of our lives together.’”

Woodruff said the man appeared mentally ill as he was telling her that the terror group ISIS sent him.

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Photo Credit: WTNH-TVThe Heinous Discovery Woman Made in Her Own Backyard Left Her Fearing an Imminent ‘Massacre’

By Jason Howerton.

Alice Woodruff reportedly entered her backyard in Waterbury, Connecticut, and discovered her neighbor, who was naked, sexually assaulting her rescue pit bull. Following the horrifying discovery, the situation grew even more scary and extremely bizarre.

Woodruff told WTNH-TV that she first thought her dog “had killed somebody” because she saw a man underneath the dog. Then she realized what was really going on.

“I started to scream,” she said. “I had a citronella candle and I threw it at him, screaming ‘get off my dog, you have to get out of here.’ He said, ‘No, today is the day we are going to spend the rest of our lives together.’”

Woodruff claimed the man “pranced through the yard naked, yelling ‘this is our day and you have to prosper in it.’” He also reportedly told the woman, “ISIS sent me.”

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Man Told To Remove His NRA Instructor Hat While Voting

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While he was early voting on Friday, a Douglasville, Georgia man says he was asked to remove a hat he wears everywhere, one that reads “NRA Instructor,” because poll workers said it was too closely associated with the Republican party.

Bundy Cobb, who is certified by the National Rifle Association in firearms training, wears the hat in part to promote his business, True Aim Defense. But poll workers apparently saw it as something different.

“I went by the first two ladies, and they didn’t say anything. And then the next lady, she said ‘sir, you’re going to have to take off your hat,’” Cobb recalled in an interview with The Daily Caller.

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50 Years Ago: The Speech That Launched the Reagan Revolution

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Photo Credit: Reagan FoundationFifty years ago today, Ronald Reagan gave a speech on behalf of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater that launched his own political career and “catapulted him into the political stratosphere,” recalls former aide Thomas Reed.

Reed reminisced about Reagan’s famous Oct. 27, 1964 speech entitled “A Time for Choosing” that laid out what would eventually become his governing philosophy of limited government and fierce opposition to totalitarianism.

Reagan himself later wrote that the speech “was one of the most important milestones of my life.”

“This is the issue of this election,” Reagan said five decades ago. “Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government, or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”

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Sheriff Joe: 36% of Criminals Turned Over to ICE 'Keep Coming Back'

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Photo Credit: Ross D. FranklinMaricopa Co., AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio reported that 36 percent of the criminals his sheriffs turned over to ICE “keep coming back” on Monday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel.

“We turn them [illegal aliens who have committed crimes] over to ICE and they should be deported. 4,000 people, I think I mentioned a while back, on your show, that nobody seems to cover until now, 4,000 people in our jails for state crimes in the last eight months,” Arpaio said. “They’re here illegally. We turn them over to ICE and 36 percent keep coming back. Last month a guy came back 25 times. So what is this? Either the border is really unsecure, or they’re letting these guys out in the streets of Maricopa County. We got a big problem” he said. Arpaio added that releasing illegal aliens with criminal records was a “form of amnesty by the Obama administration.”

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New Jersey Releasing Quarantined Nurse

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Photo Credit: AP / University of Texas at ArlingtonBy Associated Press.

New Jersey officials say a nurse who was quarantined after working in West Africa with Ebola patients is being released.

The state Health Department said in a statement Monday that Kaci Hickox had been symptom-free for 24 hours and would be taken on a private carrier to Maine.

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U.S. soldiers returning from Liberia monitored for Ebola in Italy

By CBS/AP.

U.S. soldiers returning from Liberia are being placed in isolation in Vicenza, Italy out of concern for the Ebola virus, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

The soldiers being monitored include Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams who was the commander of the U.S. Army in Africa but turned over duties to the 101st Airborne Division over the weekend, Martin reports. There are currently 11 soldiers in isolation.

They apparently were met by Carabinieri in full hazmat suits. If the policy remains in effect, everyone returning from Liberia – several hundred – will be placed in isolation for 21 days. Thirty are expected in today, Martin reports.

A Pentagon spokesman calls it “enhanced monitoring.” The soldiers are confined to a building and unable to see their families, Martin reports. The decision made by the Army and applies only to soldiers returning from Liberia. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will decide whether to make isolation apply to members of all services returning from Liberia.

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NYC Boy Being Observed for Possible Ebola Symptoms

By Thomson/Reuters.

A 5-year-old boy is being observed in isolation at Bellevue Hospital in New York City for possible Ebola symptoms, according to media reports on Monday.

The boy, who arrived in the United States on Saturday from Guinea, had a 103 degree Fahrenheit (39 degrees Celsius) fever, ABC News reported. He has not been tested for the virus and is not under quarantine, ABC said, citing officials with New York City’s health department.

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Photo Credit: NJ Governor’s Office Chris Christie insists he DIDN’T do U-turn under pressure from Obama after Ebola nurse is allowed to leave New Jersey hospital quarantine tent to return to Maine

By David Martosko and Francesca Chambers.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Monday morning that the release of a quarantined nurse by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t indicate that his state-level Ebola-containment policies had shifted at all.

‘I didn’t reverse any decision,’ he told reporters outside a campaign event for Florida Gov. Rick Scott. ‘If she was continuing to be ill she would have to stay. She hadn’t had any symptoms for 24 hours and she tested negative for Ebola so there’s no reason to keep her.’

A Christie spokesperson told MailOnline that nurse Kaci Hickox ‘was never going to be quarantined for 21 days in the hospital.’

State policy, she said, called for Hickox to be quarantined until she no longer had medical symptoms for at least 24 hours, after she arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport from west Africa.

New Jersey residents, the spokesperson explained, can be quarantined in their homes. But since Hickox is from Maine, her isolation had to be carried out at University Hospital, which was prepared to accept patients like her.

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Over 200,000 Doctors Avoiding Obamacare Plans

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Photo Credit: WND The number of physicians nationwide that are declining to accept health plans from Obamacare exchanges is growing, according to a study from the American Action Forum.

As of May 2014, over 214,000 doctors wouldn’t participate in Obamacare plans, and that number may be growing,according to AAF, a free-market think tank in Washington. While some Obamacare kinks have been worked out over the past year, exchange plans remain as unfriendly to doctors as ever.

Obamacare puts physicians — especially the dwindling number of those in private practice — in an especially difficult financial situation, expecting doctors to eat the costs of patients who discontinue coverage and to simply take on more patients to make up for bottom-level reimbursements.

Exchange plans nationwide pay on average significantly less than plans in the private market and even Medicare, according to AAF. While private plans generally pay doctors $1.00 for performing a given service, Medicare averages just $0.80; exchange plans are allowing doctors just $0.60 for the same thing. That puts Obamacare plans more in line with Medicaid reimbursements, AAF reports, and Medicaid’s low reimbursement rates have been driving doctors away for years.

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Follow Up: Father Who Shot Felon During Home Invasion Arrested

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Photo Credit: Guns Save LivesLast week we reported on a story out of Sarasota, Florida in which a father of a young boy shot and killed a convicted felon who allegedly broke into his home in the middle of the night and opened fire.

An 11 year old boy was also in the home at the time of the shooting.

Police investigated the incident and it seemed that it was a case of self defense.

However, now the father, Christopher Bane, has been arrested on gun charges.

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LAX Flight Delayed After WIFI Hotspot "Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork"

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Photo Credit: AlamyAn American Airlines flight from Los Angeles International Airport to London was delayed Sunday after concerns over the name of a WiFi hotspot.

A passenger saw the WiFi connection, named “Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork,” and expressed concern to a flight attendant.

The plane was held at a remote part of the airport for three hours and passengers were told to turn off their electronic devices. Passengers said they were initially told that it was a maintenance issue.

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After victory in key Iraqi town, time for revenge

By Reuters.

After helping government forces break Islamic State’s grip over a strategic town just south of Baghdad on Saturday, Shi’ite militias decided it was time for payback.

A Reuters witness saw the fighters in green camouflage uniforms scream and swear at members of the Islamist group as they kicked and struck them with rifle butts in Jurf al-Sakhar.

As the angry crowd of militiamen around the unarmed militants swelled, shots rang out. The three men lay soaked in blood in the dirt with gunshot wounds to the head.

“Those dogs are Chechens. They don’t deserve to stay alive. We took confessions from them and we don’t need them anymore,” said one of the Shi’ite militiamen.

The victory could allow Iraqi forces to prevent the Sunni insurgents from edging closer to the capital, sever connections to their strongholds in western Anbar province and stop them infiltrating the mainly Shi’ite Muslim south.

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Abortion Laws in Doubt: 23 Weeks is ‘The New 24’ in Terms of Survival

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Photo Credit: TownHallBy Cortney O’Brien.

The current abortion law in England states that abortion can be carried out until the 24th week of pregnancy. New medical advances across the pond, however, prove that babies can survive outside the womb earlier than initially believed. The Daily Mail reports on what this could mean for national policy:

One top paediatrician says care for very premature babies has improved so significantly that at his hospital those born at 22 and 23 weeks are now more likely to live than die.

In light of this revelation, Dr. Martin Ward Platt, a consultant neonatologist at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, England, said more mothers are opting to carry their children to term:

“The conversations we are having with parents are very different from the ones we were having ten years ago. Twenty three [weeks] is in essence the new 24. Things have shifted so much that most parents tend to be up for saying, ‘let’s give it a go.’”

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Pro-choice psychologist describes abortion she witnessed; baby would now be adult

By Sarah Terzo.

Dr. Magda Denes was a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who died in 1996. 20 years before her death, she wrote a book called “In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death inside an Abortion Hospital. “

Magda Denes was pro-choice for her entire life and talks in the book about why abortion should remain legal. However, when it was published, the New York Times reviewer called it ”a highly emotional anti-abortion tract.” Why?

It seems that Denes, who had had an abortion herself, was honest about what she witnessed in the clinic, instead of sugar coating the reality of abortion the way the New York Times (and other mainstream media) has always tended to do. She used plain, honest language to describe abortion procedures and the bodies of aborted babies.

One procedure she described was a D & E (dilation and evacuation) abortion. This procedure, which was new at the time, is still popular today. It takes place in the second and early third trimesters and consists of the abortionist reaching into the womb with forceps and pulling apart the unborn baby. You can see a diagram of it here.

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