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At some point he embraced Islam and became the local leader of a Muslim sect known as the Ummah. In court documents, federal authorities describe the Ummah as a "nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group consisting mainly of African Americans" who converted from Christianity while serving prison sentences. The Ummah's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Was a Controversial Imam Shot 20 Times? | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

Republicans still chafe at being labeled as the party of no; House Republican Conference chairman Mike Pence claimed last Friday that Obama's visit to talk to the GOP caucus had validated their contention that they have legitimate policy ideas of their own. But there is no doubt that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Republicans Win Big as the Party of No? | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

Still, there's only so much you can oppose before you become part of the problem, says Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. And the White House is counting on that fact to try to make the Republicans' refusal to even consider supporting some moderate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Republicans Win Big as the Party of No? | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

In his State of the Union, Obama made that clear: "Just saying no to everything may be good short-term politics, but it's not leadership. We were sent here to serve our citizens, not our ambitions. So let's show the American people that we can do it together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Republicans Win Big as the Party of No? | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

Congressional observers like Ornstein believe that the GOP has to do more to emphasize the positive and - in the tradition of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who won the House for Republicans in a surprise wave in 1994 - introduce some version of a new Contract with America. "The approach [to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Republicans Win Big as the Party of No? | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

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