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Robert Levinson, Broward Man Who Disappeared in 2007, Hostage Photos Released

Robert Levinson, a Coral Springs private detective, disappeared in March of 2007 while visiting Kish Island in Iran while researching a cigarette-smuggling case. In March of 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the U.S. State Department had received indications that Levinson was ... More >>

The Thrilling Manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty

David Horowitz Has Made Taunting College Students a Spectator Sport

Allen West Blames Obama for Libya Attack

What's this? An Obama Done Coddled the Terrorists and Apologizes to Them All the Time party? And Allen West wasn't invited? No, wait. There he is. With Mitt Romney leading the way and attacking a statement the president never actually made and Sarah Palin getting in on the Obama is BFFs with terro ... More >>

Allen West Blames Obama for Afghanistan Suicide Bombing

In a tweet this morning, Congressman Allen West linked to an article detailing a suicide bombing in Kabul, the Afghan capital that President Barack Obama had just departed from, and... took the side of the Taliban."Pres flew into Afghanistan at night for 7 hrs," West wrote. "As sun came up, Taliban ... More >>

The Pelican in Lake Worth: North Indian Home Cooking, Served in an Americana Setting

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw Faces Accusations of Sexism

Feds Release Bits of Additional Information Against Khan Family -- None Against Izhar Khan

Photo by Mike RiceThe scene at the June protest outside Margate's Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen mosque​Since a gathering of the religulous assembled for a protest against Margate's Masjid Jamaat Al-Mumineen in early June, we've been waiting to hear any shred of evidence aside from accusations in a fed ... More >>

Feds Say They Haven't Released All the Evidence Against Izhar Khan

Photo by Mike RiceScene from the Margate mosque protest in June.​U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan denied a bond request earlier this week for Hafiz Khan -- a Miami imam who's among six people charged with conspiring to support the Pakistani Taliban -- but the judge made no such ruling for h ... More >>

Federal Judge "Needs to Hear More Evidence" Before Making Bond Decision on Izhar Khan

Phot by Mike RiceScene from the Margate mosque protest.​U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan denied a bond request yesterday for Hafiz Khan -- a Miami imam who's among six people charged with conspiring to support the Pakistani Taliban -- but the judge made no such ruling for his son, Izhar Khan.I ... More >>

Four Thoughts For Islamophobes

​It's been a busy few weeks for Muslims, Muslim countries, and Islam in the news. Most of the coverage has not been favorable. Here, then, are four thoughts for readers who find themselves worrying about Muslims this Sunday. 1. Muslims serve in the military, too. Last week, the world learned that ... More >>

David J. Stern Employs Gigantic Balls and Asks for Money in Possibly Shady Cases his Firm Handled

Stern, behind those handsome glasses, says he's owed big from his former clients.​Imagine the audacity of running a law firm like a mortgage document factory, with employees who routinely pushed through foreclosure documents without checking to be sure the homeowners even knew it it was coming. Th ... More >>

Margate Imam Arrested For Taliban Connection; But His Mosque Sure Seems Nice!

​Mufti and imam Izhar ul-Haq Khan has just been arrested for providing material support to the Taliban in Pakistan, planning the murder of Pakistani civilians, and plotting to overthrow the Pakistani government and replace it with a theocracy. But there's a lot more to the man! He's also "has a ... More >>

Ann Coulter Misleads, Defends Torture

​Ann Coulter is either cynical or crazy. I'm hoping for the latter, because I'd hate to think my home state contains anyone willing to dissemble as freely and viciously as she does in her latest column -- a hot mess of half-assertions and quarter-truths too sloppy to illuminate anything even in th ... More >>

Death Photo: Why Obama Is Wrong on This One

​Yes, actually, one more thing ... President Obama made just about all the right moves when it came to killing Bin Laden.Take a huge risk and conduct the operation despite having concrete proof that Bin Laden was even in the compound? Check. Conduct a precise ground raid instead of an ai ... More >>

Terrorist Orlando Bosch Is Dead

Yesterday, 84-year-old Orlando Bosch breathed his last. This Cuban exile, extremist, letter-bomber, accomplice to murder, and disrespecter of human life was felled by "a long and painful illness." But Orlando Bosch was sick long before his body failed him.When future generations review our moment in ... More >>

Toby Keith's "American Ride Tour" Should Fire Up Cruzan Amphitheatre

Top Five Other Menial Jobs That May Be Path to al Qaeda Leadership

"By a show of hands, who wants to be my personal assistant?"​If the FBI is to be believed, Adnan El Shukijumah is the terrorist's version of a Cinderella story, having worked his way up from dishwasher to his current rank as director of overseas operations. Granted, this former Miramar resident di ... More >>

Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade allies with a dubious business partner

Former New Times Writer on Second Holiday in Hell, AKA, Afghanistan

Rafal GerszakClick on the photo for a slideshow from Afghanistan.Former New Times writing fellow P.J. Tobia went to the last place most people would think of spending their Thanksgiving: to an Army base in Afghanistan. The result was "Afghaniscrewed," which ran this week in New Times. Now Tobia's he ... More >>

Race Trudges On After Dullsville Debate

John Rodstrom Up, Sam Zell Down

L.A. Times' Editor's Farewell Note

The Way He Lives Now

As his fourth film in a decade arrives in theaters, the movies' most enigmatic leading man reveals the method behind his onscreen madness

Moolah for Mullahs

All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols' good-time Charlie

Spam Takes No Holiday

From Gitmo With Love

The elephant in Guantanamo's living room gets 4,200 calories a day and a Koran.

Troubled Water

Deepa Mehta completes her trilogy amid outrage from Hindu fundamentalists.

Who's Laughing?

Albert Brooks looks for comedy and comes up empty

Baghdad Boy

What was really behind Farris Hassan's trip to Iraq? Ask his father, who has a fascinating and checkered past.

Terror Alert

Ol' Whiny Voice

Gilbert Gottfried ducks obscurity with those vocal cords

The Bad America

Bill Maher continues to coax controversy

Err America

A plane crash in Afghanistan has a Florida company defending its mercenary profits in court

Cybercreep

If all it took was rage, Jaemi Levine would single-handedly nail the guy who molested her teenaged daughter

A Worldly Pitch

A $60 million park may bring Broward into the bigs of the world's second most popular sport

Letters for March 27, 2003

A Hate-Love Relationship

The War Within

Listen to the leaders of two South Florida mosques tied to terror

First Pledge

Out front on Michael Newdow's story, we become a target

Print and Politics

The Broward Times delivers unconventional, often shrill journalism to an unsuspecting town

Screwed

Aging porn publisher Al Goldstein ponders a run for sheriff, bordellos, and his dwindling obscenity empire

A Most-Wanted Attorney

The government wants his money. The judiciary wants him disbarred. So what's F. Lee Bailey's next move? Sue the bastards!

1999's Top Ten

New Times' critics actually have some faves

Webbed Feat

This is not your father's radio

The Sultan of Swap

He's a hillbilly boor, a promotional genius, a political trickster, a lovable rogue, and a control freak. Preston Henn is also the owner of one of the biggest flea markets in the world.