Today’s Blogmarks

• Defectors Among the House Democrats
  While Democratic leaders say they are confident they will have the 218 votes needed to pass major health care legislation this weekend, a number of House Democrats, including several from Republican-leaning districts in the South, have announced that they will oppose the measure, which is President Obama’s top domestic priority.
• Fort Hood suspect emptied his apartment
  Soldiers reported that the gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the base commander.
  When are we going to learn that Islam, a false religion, poses a threat to our way of life?
• Rare virus poses new threat to troops
  U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus.
  More terrorism? Sounds like possible germ warfare against our troops. Why isn’t this all over the news?
• Local Muslims condemn shootings
  Under no circumstances — religious, political, or social — can such an act be justified or tolerated.

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