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Shakespeare's Sister:
Don't Just Blame the Victim; Prosecute Her — A 17-year-old girl went to police at the urging of her friends after she was allegedly gang-raped by three men, including her boyfriend. The men testified that the act was consensual. After reviewing all the information and statements …
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The Heretik:
TYPICAL — THE TYPICAL RESPONSE to rape in centuries past was the women asked for it. Now the typical response in Beaverton, Oregon may be go after the woman who claims rape if the charge of rape can't be proven. Because rape has historically been so well investigated and prosecutors in the past have cared so much.
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Running Scared
Arthur Silber / Once Upon a Time:
The Male Myth: Men Are Always Right, and They Are Never to be Questioned — This is a truly horrifying story: a teenage girl is convicted for filing a false rape charge, while her alleged attackers are believed sufficiently to get themselves off scot free — and the same alleged attackers' testimony …
Shakespeare's Sister:
Once my face burned with the shame of rape; now I smolder with anger. — I've spent the entire day burning up from the inside out about the Oregon case in which a rape victim was found guilty of filing false charges after prosecutors decided not to purse a case against her attackers.
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Loaded Mouth
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
In Newly Released Documents, a View of the Storm After Katrina — WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 - It was Thursday, Sept. 1, three days after Hurricane Katrina had ripped across the Gulf Coast. As New Orleans descended into horror, the top aides to Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Louisiana were certain …
Emily Bazelon / Slate:
Shoot To Kill — Alito's blank check for cops. — Late on an October night in 1974, Memphis, Tenn., police officer Elton Hymon responded to a call about a break in. At the scene, a neighbor said she'd heard glass shattering and pointed to the house next door. Hymon went behind it.
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Telegraph:
Al-Qaeda number three 'killed by CIA spy plane' in Pakistan — Al-Qaeda's third-ranking leader has been killed by a missile fired by an American drone in Pakistan, near the Afghan border, NBC television news reported yesterday. — Egyptian-born Abu Hamza Rabia, who is said to head al …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Oversight for Sore Eyes — It sounded on Thursday as if Senate committee chairmen were about to flex their oversight muscles. — An angry Armed Services Committee Chairman John W. Warner (R-Va.) summoned Pentagon officials for a briefing on the military's paying for favorable coverage in Iraqi newspapers.
David Corn / The Huffington Post:
What Happened Between the Second Novak and Rove's Laywer (An Exclusive?) — I have solved the Not-So-Great Mystery of the Second Novak—at least in part. — As readers of my blog and regular followers of the CIA leak case know, the latest bounce involves Time magazine reporter Viveca Novak …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
White House Seeks a Strategy for Victory, at Home and in Iraq — WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 - There could be no doubt about the theme of President Bush's Iraqi war strategy speech on Wednesday at the Naval Academy. He used the word victory 15 times in the address; "Plan for Victory" …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
A SPLENDID EVENING — Last night, Mrs. R. and I attended the Claremont Institute's Winston Churchill Dinner at the Beverly Wilshire, at which Mark Steyn was honored with the Henry Salvatori Prize. The evening was delightful. The Claremont people—Brian Kennedy, Bruce Sanborn, Larry Arnn …
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Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
FORWARD PROGRESS ON HAIFA STREET — I can imagine a scenario where various media outlets "divvied up" the President's speech at Annapolis, each claming a critical passage to do their best to discredit. This didn't happen, of course, but it's not hard to picture them printing the speech …
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Joseph Kahn / New York Times:
Torture Is 'Widespread' in China, U.N. Investigator Says — BEIJING, Dec. 2 - A high-level United Nations investigator condemned the "widespread" use of torture in Chinese law enforcement and said Beijing must overhaul its criminal laws, grant more power to judges and abolish labor camps …
Richard Reeves / Yahoo! News:
IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT — EVER? — PARIS — President John F. Kennedy was considered a historian because of his book "Profiles in Courage," so he received periodic requests to rate the presidents, those lists that usually begin "1. Lincoln, 2. Washington ..."
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Military Admits Planting News in Iraq — WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 - The military acknowledged Friday in a briefing for a ranking Senate Republican that news articles written by American troops had been placed as paid advertisements in the Iraqi news media and not always properly identified.
John / AMERICAblog:
Ford Motor Company embraces homophobia in order to appease religious right — UPDATE: Some initial contact info for Ford's public relation's people. Let's fill their voice mail boxes over the weekend. Ask them if they'd pull all their advertising in black media or Jewish media if the Klan gave them a call:
