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August 13, 2010

Trillion with a T: How to Spend $1,000,000,000,000.00

Presented with the kind permission of Fox News Channel.
Special thanks to Brian Gaffney.

So how do you spend $1,000,000,000,000?

In this exclusive FOX News investigative report, “Special Report” host Bret Baier will address the trillion dollar question.

We’ll reveal the good, the bad and the ugly of President Obama’s spending bill:

President Obama’s 700-page, trillion-dollar stimulus plan has moved through Congress with breathtaking speed — too fast even for lawmakers to read it before they voted.

So, for the past month a FOX News investigative team has gone behind the chaotic scenes with Senators and members of Congress, Capitol Hill staffers, liberal and conservative interest groups as they wrestled with the bill.

But will this mammoth spending bill save the economy or will the politicians’ partisan agendas bankrupt America?

And is America doomed? Or is help on the horizon?

That’s the trillion-dollar question.

August 13, 2010

Religion in America: Church and State

Presented with the kind permission of Fox News Channel.
Special thanks to Brian Gaffney.

For the past half-century, the first country in the world to guarantee religious freedom has been locked in a legal war that has driven the symbols of God and religion out of its schools and courthouses, its statehouses and city halls and threatens to go further.

… join host Brit Hume as FOX News tour of the religious battlefields of the United States.

We’ll show you what the Founding Fathers thought they were doing when they first guaranteed American religious freedom.

We’ll investigate how the wall of separation between church and state really gets built in modern America and how Americans are fighting back.

Tune in for a fair and balanced examination of one of the most divisive and important issues in America today.

August 13, 2010

Do You Know What Textbooks Your Children are Really Reading?

The Second grade reading curriculum now requires a book about gay penguins

Presented with the kind permission of Fox News Channel.

Hosted by Tucker Carlson

Fox News Reporting investigated the $10 billion dollar-a-year textbook industry and how the drive to be politically correct might be taking over American schools.

Host Tucker Carlson, asked experts, teachers, publishers and parents the same question: “Do you know what is inside your children’s textbooks?” From kindergarten through college, we found staggering errors and omissions which may be pushing agendas, hidden and otherwise.

We spoke to the author of “The Language Police,” education historian Diane Ravitch, who said textbook publishers censor images or words they deem to be controversial in children’s textbooks. She told us that publishers pander to special interest groups, and assemble bias and sensitivity review committees. These committees decide what words to ban or redefine, and even what images are deemed offensive.

And we examined some college textbooks both in print and in digital forms. We found a glaring mistake in an expensive history book written by Alan Brinkley, Provost at New York’s Columbia University.

And in Fairfax County Virginia, questions remain about what textbooks are used in the private Islamic Saudi Academy. The ISA teaches about 1000 students each year pre-K — 12. Questions have been raised about its textbooks at least since 2006.

This summer, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, ISA’s 1999 valedictorian, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 2002 Al Qaeda plot to assassinate President George W. Bush.

The ISA is wholly owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and teaches students from textbooks, which according to a report by a Saudi scholar interviewed by Fox News, continues to “propagate an ideology of hate to the unbeliever.” Fox News Reporting obtained some of their current 2008-2009 textbooks which were supposed to be purged of inflammatory language. We found proof otherwise.

We tracked down two American college professors who were paid by the ISA to review these textbooks. They signed a letter obtained by Fox News that the ISA’s 2008-2009 textbooks “do not contain inflammatory material…” One of them sat down for an interview; the other refused.

And in California’s Alameda County, our cameras were there as parents were embroiled in a heated debate over a mandatory curriculum designed to teach students from grades K-5 about different types of families, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lifestyles. After a vote by the Alameda Unified School District in May of this year, the second grade reading curriculum now requires a book about gay penguins.

Fox News Reporting examines what is really inside children’s textbooks.

Protests against the Islamic Saudi Academy in Virginia USA

August 13, 2010

Americans Held Hostage In Iran

Some of the 52 US citizens held hostage for 444 days by Iran

Presented with the kind permission of Fox News Channel.

“On the Record” host Greta Van Susteren hosts “Fox News Reporting: Americans Held Hostage in Iran” on Fox News Channel. This hour-long exclusive Fox News documentary commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Iranian hostage crisis.

On November 4, 1979, America had its first showdown with radical Islam when the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran was stormed by students hoping to stage a three-day sit-in. Initially, the Islamist students’ intent was to protest America’s decision to allow the exiled Shah of Iran to enter the United States for medical treatment. Instead, the ordeal became 444 days of hostage hell for 52 Americans.

In this watershed moment in American history, Fox News talks to key players in the crisis and examines how President Jimmy Carter struggled to resolve the crisis in an election year. Among those interviewed include: Former Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher; Fox News contributor Bob Beckel, who was Deputy Assiatant to the President during the crisis; White House Chief of Staff James Baker. Several of the hostages, who were released as Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president in January 1981, also relive their frightening days in captivity.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

August 13, 2010

Escape From Hamas

Christian convert, ex Hamas member, Mosab Hassan Yousef

Presented with the kind permission of Fox News.
Special thanks to Brian Gaffney.

January 2009

What is stronger than hate and bloodshed?

While Israel and Hamas engage in “all-out war” in the Gaza Strip, a FOX News documentary tells an extraordinary story of faith, courage, violence, betrayal and conversion.

Correspondent Jonathan Hunt’s investigation goes deep inside Hamas, through a series of stunning exclusive interviews with the son of a founding member of the Islamic terrorist group. Mosab Hassan himself became the leader of the radical Islamic Youth Movement, fought Israeli tanks and troops in the streets, celebrated suicide bombings and recruited young men to the cause.

But that all changed when Mossab says he realized the true nature of Hamas and radical Islam, during a stint in an Israeli prison.

He converted to Christianity and now — despite an Al Qaeda death sentence hanging over him — he speaks out for the first time about Hamas, an organization he says betrays the Palestinian cause, tortures its own members and will never honor any ceasefire with Israel.

August 13, 2010

2008 Presidential Character & Conduct: Barack Obama

Presented with the kind permission of Fox News.
Special thanks to Brian Gaffney.

This documentary was created during the 2008 Presidential election.

In this in-depth documentary … Fox News Channel explores the character and conduct of Barack Obama and looks at the decisions he has made in his personal and professional life and how they could play a role in how he would lead during this critical time in our nation’s history.

Through interviews with Barack Obama’s colleagues, friends and critics, this series focuses on the life he has led and experiences he has had, both in and out of public office. This series addresses existing questions about Obama’s potential to lead, and provides new insight into what made him who he is today.

Barack Hussein Obama 2008 election

August 13, 2010

Company of Heroes

US Marines preparing for strike on Fallujah

Presented with the kind permission of Fox News.
Special thanks to Brian Gaffney.

In November 2004, Fallujah was a safe haven for the most hardened terrorists in Iraq — terrorists who vowed to stop the march of democracy in Iraq.

That was until the Marines of India Company blasted through a railway embankment and crossed into the city.

Their mission: to secure a foothold ahead of the rest of the invading forces.

They were sent into a hellish city to hunt down terrorists house-to-house. The fight for Fallujah made them heroes, but victory came at a cost.

(This FOX News Channel special looks at a) war that is both stark and intimate.

From graphic battle footage to interviews with the families they left behind, join a Marine company in the thick of the War on Terror.

We’ll take you to the battlefield and the home front, where the families of these Marines are American heroes, too.

The mother of a US Marine

August 13, 2010

Mission to America: Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XIV and President George W Bush

Pope Benedict XVI and President George W Bush

Presented with the kind permission of Fox News.
Special thanks to Brian Gaffney.

Sunday, April 13 2008. Hosted By Chris Wallace

In April 2008, Pope Benedict XVI makes an historic trip to the United States, his first since being named pope. This one-hour documentary taps the world-wide resources of FOX News to examine the man and his mission, and the role he will push for the Roman Catholic Church in the 21st century.

Born Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict grew up in the small villages of Bavaria, Germany as Hitler came to power. He became a priest, a brilliant college professor, and a top advisor to Pope John Paul II.

After John Paul’s death, Pope Benedict XVI took over a church faced with significant challenges, including: dwindling numbers of Catholics in Europe, scandals and priest shortages in the United States, a growing secularism throughout the West, and the spread of radical Islam throughout the world.

“Mission to America: Pope Benedict XVI” reveals the inside stories behind Benedict’s plan to revitalize the faith of Catholics in America; his outreach to American Protestants, including Evangelicals; his visit to Ground Zero — the site of Al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 attack on New York City; his White House meeting with President Bush, and his historic address to the United Nations.

August 13, 2010

Jihad, USA: Homegrown Terror

New York City Police Dept, Hercules Team on guard against terrorists

Presented with the kind permission of Fox News.
Special thanks to Brian Gaffney.

Sunday, April 6 2008. Hosted by E.D. Hill

Six years after 9/11, are we again failing “to connect the dots” that point to a new kind of jihadist menace?

This Fox News investigation exposes the homegrown Islamic terror threat: Muslim extremists radicalized in the U.S. and plotting against Americans.

Executive Producer: Brian Gaffney,
Producers: Danielle Cangelosi, Steve Kurtz

July 23, 2010

Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip

Bud, Horatio Nelson Jackson's trusty travelling companion

Presented with the kind permission of Ken Burns.

From the PBS website:

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled “horseless carriage.” At the time there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire country, all of them within city limits. There were no gas stations and virtually no road maps as we know them today. Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson’s trip would prove them wrong.

Traveling with his co-driver Sewall K. Crocker and a bulldog named Bud (who wore goggles, just like his master, to keep the dust from his eyes), Jackson had the adventure of his life. He encountered pioneers in wagon trains, cowboys who used their lariats to tow him out of sand drifts, ranch wives who traded homecooked meals for a brief ride on the “Go-Like-Hell Machine,” and people who deliberately sent him miles out of his way just so their relatives could get their first glimpse of an automobile.

His car, which he christened the Vermont in honor of his home state, splashed through streams, got stuck in buffalo wallows, bounced over railroad trestles to cross major rivers, and frightened horses on the dusty trails. And as he moved eastward, his quest slowly became a national sensation, with huge crowds (tipped off by the telegraph of his approach) lining the streets of town as he whizzed through at 20 miles per hour. “It Startled the Natives,” one headline proclaimed; another announced “A Real Live Auto.”

This was America’s first transcontinental road trip, and like all road trips that would follow it included the usual mix of breakdowns and flat tires, inedible meals and uncomfortable beds, getting lost and enduring bad weather — and having a truly unforgettable experience crossing the nation’s vast landscape. Throughout it all, Jackson’s indomitable spirit and sheer enthusiasm was as indispensable as the fuel for his car.

Partway through his improbable journey, Jackson learned that his spur-of-the-moment trip had turned into something of a race. First the Packard company, and then the Oldsmobile company dispatched their own autos from California in the hopes of passing him and gaining the publicity of being first across the nation. Sixty-three and a half days after leaving San Francisco, Jackson arrived triumphantly into New York City and claimed the honor for himself.

On the centennial of Jackson’s achievement, Ken Burns and Florentine Films … made a documentary film that follows his historic — and hilarious — journey.

Horatio Jackson Nelson

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