Nigerian Banker Says Terrorist May Be His Son

A prominent Nigerian banker is meeting with authorities and says he fears it may have been his son who attempted to blow up the flight where an attempted terrorist attack took place Christmas day.

Former bank official Alhaji Umaru Mutallab says he traveled from his home in the Nigeria’s Muslim-dominated north to meet officials in Abuja, the capital. The elder Mutallab says his son, identified by U.S. officials as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, was a student in London.

He said his son left London to travel, though he did not know where to.

Mutallab says: “I believe he …

Rep. Peter Hoeksta Immediately Politicizes Possible Terror Incident

Peter Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, used the possible attempt by a passenger on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit to blow up the plane, to play politics. (via Think Progress)

The passenger is identified as Abdul Farouk Abdul Muttalab, who suffered severe burns in the incident, but is expected to survive.

“It’s not surprising,” U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Holland Republican, said of the alleged terrorist attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight in Detroit. … “People have got to start connecting the dots here and maybe this is the …

On Friday’s Radio Show…

Merry Christmas! It’s the best of Alan Colmes.

Guests include:

• Super Bowl-winning coach and NASCAR championship team owner Joe Gibbs, author of Game Plan For Life

• Famed Pastor Joel Osteen, whose latest book is It’s Your Time: Activate Your Faith, Achieve Your Dreams, and Increase in God’s Favor

• Former President Jimmy Carter, author of We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work

• CBS Orchestra bandleader Paul Shaffer, who reveals his “Swingin’ Showbiz Saga” in We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives

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The Republican National Committee’s War On Christmas

The cards sent out by the Republican National Committee refer to the holiday season as “this blessed time,” but no mention of Christmas.  The White House doesn’t say the word “Christmas” either, but the Palin Christmas card does.  It’s obvious who really loves America. (h/t The Political Carnival)

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Donor Gives Homeless Week In Motel

In Colorado Springs, a woman walked into the Express Inn and insisted that her $640 pay for four rooms for homeless men and women camping along Fountain Creek.

The woman told the staff at C-C Boarding Home Annex, a nonprofit that sublets rooms from the motel for disabled veterans and people on social security, that her name was Linda Craft and that God told her to pay for the rooms.

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This week isn’t the first time the Express Inn has been used as a shelter. At the first freeze this year, Nam Tiggemann and her son Barry Tiggemann, …

Taliban Releases Video Of Captured US Soldier

The Taliban has released a video of a US soldier, supposedly captured more than five months ago in eastern Afghanistan.  He is identified in the video as “War Prisoner: Bowe Robert Bergdahl.” Bergdahl is known to have been captured in Paktika province on June 30.

A statement read by a Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, appears at the end of the video and renews demands for a “limited number of prisoners” to be exchanged for Bergdahl. The statement says that more American troops could be captured.

US Navy Rear Admiral Gregory Smith, director of communication with Nato’s International Security Assistance …

On Thursday’s Radio Show…

It’s the best of Alan Colmes.

Guests include:

• Max Lucado, author of Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear

• Christopher Andersen, author of Barack and Michelle

• Pollster Frank Luntz, whose latest book is What Americans Really Want…Really

• Singer/songwriter and environmental activist Carole King

• “Cheers” actor George Wendt, author of Drinking with George: A Barstool Professional’s Guide to Beer

• Tennis great Andre Agassi, whose autobiography is Open

• Victoria Gotti, who reveals life inside the nation’s most notorius crime family in This Family of …

Track Santa As He Goes On His Merry Way

The NORAD Santa Tracker lets you track the big guy using Google Earth and also allows you to send Santa to your phone.

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CPAC’s Way Of Being “Inclusive” Is To Make Sure Gay Group Doesn’t Speak

Liberty Council’s Matt Barber is threatening to boycott CPAC if a gay group called GOProud is a co-sponsor.  David Keene (r) of the American Conservative Union, which runs the conference, says they’re co-sponsors because CPAC is “inclusive” but the group in question won’t be permitted to actually speak at the event.  Some big tent.  (via Think Progress)

“CPAC’s tenuous’ Big Tent’ could collapse altogether as social conservatives led by Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber threaten to launch a boycott of the conference … unless CPAC drops a homosexual activist group, GOProud, as a co-sponsor,” says Peter LaBarbera of Americans for …

For Teddy

And here is what President Obama said:

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On Wednesday’s Radio Show…

• You say you want a revolution? Gary Johnson, the libertarian former New Mexico governor who is eyeing a 2012 presidential run joins Alan to explain why his initiative is just what America needs.

• Christmas Grinch: Alan talks with Irv Sutley, chairman of the Sonoma County’s Peace and Freedom Party who demanded an angel atop a Christmas tree be removed from a government building.

• Another step closer to reform. Alan will have the latest as the health care bill approaches reality in 2010.…