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Professor beaten; attackers cite KU creationism class — LAWRENCE - A professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design was canceled after he sent e-mails deriding Christian conservatives was hospitalized Monday after what appeared to be a roadside beating.
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Mirecki hospitalized after beating — Douglas County sheriff's deputies are investigating the reported beating of a Kansas University professor who gained recent notoriety for his Internet tirades against Christian fundamentalists. — Kansas University religious studies professor Paul Mirecki reported …
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Saddam Vows No Return to 'Unjust' Court — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein shouted Tuesday that he will not return "to an unjust court" when it convenes for a fifth session the following day. As the end of the session, when the judges decided to resume the trial Wednesday, Saddam suddenly shouted: "I will not return.
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Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Concealed Witness Tells of Torture By Hussein's Forces — BAGHDAD — An unnamed woman, her face shielded behind a curtain and her voice masked, gave a harrowing account today of torture and sexual abuse at the hands of Saddam Hussein's security forces during the trial of the former Iraqi leader.
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David Lightman / courant.com:
Lieberman Calls For Formation Of 'War Cabinet' — WASHINGTON — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, increasingly isolated in his own Democratic party because of his strong support for the Iraq war, today called on the White House and congressional leaders to form a special "war cabinet" to provide advice and direction for the war effort.
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Robert Green / Reuters:
Professor acquitted of funding Islamist group — TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - A federal jury on Tuesday found a former Florida professor not guilty of funding a banned Islamist group in a verdict likely to be seen as a stiff blow to the U.S. government in its attempts to prosecute terror suspects.
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New York Times:
Texas Judge Lets Stand 2 of 3 Charges Against DeLay — HOUSTON, Dec. 5 - A Texas judge dismissed one charge against Representative Tom Delay on Monday but let stand two more serious charges, complicating Mr. DeLay's hopes of regaining his post as House majority leader when Congress resumes in January.
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Bill Nienhuis / PunditGuy:
Throwing National Security Under the Bus — It's as if the whole Valerie Plame matter never happened. — ABC News is blowing their 'EXCLUSIVE' horn again in an ongoing investigation to 'out' a handful of secret CIA prisons where alleged "enhanced interrogation techniques" are authorized for use by 14 CIA officers.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Solomon Amendment likely to survive — Congress' demand that law schools give military recruiters equal access to their students, despite the military's policy of barring homosexuals from service, appeared to have survived quite easily its constitutional test in the Supreme Court on Tuesday …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Is Harry Doomed? — The Daily Mirror dishes out some Harry Potter gossip that will likely have fans buzzing for the next year or so while they wait for the final installment of the Potter series to apparate at their local bookstores. Jim Dale, who provides the voice of Harry Potter …
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Marc Morano / CNSNews:
Men Warm Globe, Women Feel the Heat, Group Claims — Montreal (CNSNews.com) - The debate over climate change evolved into a battle of the sexes Monday at the 11th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal. The spokesman for a feminist-based environmental group accused men …
Pajamas Media:
Whose Internet is It Anyway? (Part 2) — Yesterday, our panel of experts weighed in on the issue of whether or not the UN should have a hand in internet governance. Today, several of Pajamas Media's member bloggers take a busman's holiday, discussing the topic from the "man on the street" perspective.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
What The Media Ignored From Howard Dean — Yesterday, the leader of the major American opposition party called the war in Iraq "unwinnable", compared the supposed scandal over intelligence — the same intel that Congress had seen since the Clinton administration — with Watergate …
MSNBC:
Trading bibles for porn in San Antonio — Atheist group at UTSA encourages students to exchange religious materials … MSNBC TV — TRANSCRIPT — Tucker Carlson — Anchor, 'The Situation' — •Profile — A group of atheists at the University of Texas in San Antonio …
worldtribune.com:
U.S. Army report: Israel can't stop Iran nukes — WASHINGTON — Geopolitical limitations render Israel's air force militarily incapable of halting Iran's nuclear weapons program according to a new report published the by U.S. Army War College. — The report asserts Israel lacks …
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BBC:
Cameron chosen as new Tory leader — David Cameron has been elected as the new Conservative leader by a margin of more than two to one over David Davis. — The 39-year-old beat Mr Davis by 134,446 votes to 64,398 in a postal ballot of Tory members across the UK.
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Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
CLEANING THE HOUSE: — I'm on deadline so I can't come anywhere near doing justice to this important subject, but yesterday the Center for American Progress held an an excellent forum on reforms to combat the increasingly—and shockingly—anti-democratic tendencies of the House of Representatives.
National Review:
Fear and Loathing Wal-Mart — A new documentary, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price trashes the much-maligned discount retailer. What the company's executives are now encountering is the high cost of progress. The political reaction against Wal-Mart is the latest iteration of the fear …
Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:
Baghdad Police Academy Attacked; 43 Dead — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two suicide bombers detonated explosives inside Baghdad's main police academy Tuesday, killing at least 43 people and wounding more than 70, police said. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack, the capital's deadliest in months.
