JIHAD WATCH 3 Hours Ago Muslim DHS adviser Mohamed Elibiary admits ties to convicted Hamas fundraiser "My comrade-in-arms, my pal, my buddy." —  Oriana Fallaci "Robert Spencer incarnates intellectual courage when, all over the world, governments, intellectuals, churches, universities and media crawl under a hegemonic Universal Caliphate's New Order. His achievement in the battle for the survival of free speech and dignity of man will remain as a fundamental monument to the love of, and the self-sacrifice for, liberty." —  Bat Ye'or "Perhaps the foremost Catholic expert on Islam in our country." —  Fr. C. John McCloskey, National Catholic Register "You simply cannot seriously argue about the question of the conflict between Islam and modernity if you have not carefully read his work."—  Standpoint Magazine "Robert Spencer is indefatigable. He is keeping up the good fight long after many have already given up. I do not know what we wo...

 RAW STORY 19 Minutes Ago Amber Alert system latest victim of government shutdown by  Scott Kaufman By Scott KaufmanMonday, October 7, 2013 8:45 EDT The federal Amber Alert website, which would normally be showing missing children bulletins, is the latest victim of the government shutdown. The most recent high-profile case of the effectiveness of the system is that of Hannah Anderson, the San Diego teenager kidnapped by family friend James DiMaggio after he allegedly killed her mother and brother. Instead of descriptions of missing children, like Anderson, and the vehicles in which they were believed to be traveling, visitors to amberalert.gov are presented with a stark white screen and this message: Due to the lapse in federal funding, this Office of Justice Programs (OJP) website is unavailable. California Highway Patrol Officers  told  NBC4 that if an alert were issued for California, it would "page the media," but that the signs along the highway that typically ...

 THEBLAZE.COM 3 Hours Ago Veteran New York Times Reporter's Surprising and Somewhat Alarming Take on the Obama Admin. by  Jason Howerton New York Times reporter David Sanger has spent roughly two decades covering the inner workings of Washington, D.C., but he says the Obama administration is the "most closed, control-freak administration" he's ever covered. The scathing critique is found in a yet-to-be released report on press freedom in the U.S. authored by Leonard Downie Jr., a former Washington Post editor. In the report, "he claims that national security reporters face 'vast and unprecedented challenges' as a result of government surveillance, secrecy and 'sophisticated control' of the news media's access to government,"  Politico reports . In this photo taken Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, President Barack Obama listens to a question during a wide-ranging and exclusive interview with The Associated Press in the White House library in Washingt...