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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
One of the leaders of a group allegedly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars bankrolling an effort to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices believes America needs to treat Muslims the way Germany treats neo-Nazis: with police raids and incarceration.
Bryan Fischer, the director of issue analysis for government and public policy at the American Family Association (AFA), says whatever the U.S. government does in efforts to “make it unthinkable for America’s youth to join a white supremacist group,” they should use “to make it as unthinkable for a resident of America to embrace Islam.”
From Fischer’s blog:
Islam obviously, as 9/11 and 32 subsequent foiled terrorist attacks on U.S. soil attest, has great potential for violence. It includes radical jihadists (a “violent subculture”) within its ranks, does some of its best recruiting in prison (one imam in Britain actually directs terrorist cells from inside the prison where he resides as an inmate), cultivates a jihadist and anti-semitic mentality in youths (the valedictorian of a Saudi-funded high school in Virginia is now in prison for trying to assassinate the president of the United States, and Muslim youth are taught that Jews should be wiped off the planet), and aims to impose sharia law on all Americans at the point of a sword if necessary (can’t get any more “authoritarian” than that).
Fischer’s comments follow a similar blog last week where he said Muslim values are “grossly incompatible with American values,” and therefore no community in America should allow a mosque to be built. He later argued that Muslims could be guilty of treason, since Islam is “determined to wipe out the Constitution.”
Fischer’s organization is providing huge financial support to social conservative leader Bob Vander Plaats’ campaign to convince Iowans to vote against retaining the three state Supreme Court justices on the ballot this fall due to their vote in the case that effectively legalized same-sex marriage.
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