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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences — I long ago lost count of the number of times I've switched on the TV and seen crazy guys jumping up and down in the street, torching the Stars and Stripes and yelling ''Death to the Great Satan!'' Or torching the Union Jack and yelling ''Death …
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Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Protesters Torch Danish Embassy in Beirut — BEIRUT, Lebanon - Muslims protesting caricatures of Islam's prophet set fire Sunday to a building housing the Danish Embassy in Lebanon as security forces fired tear gas in an attempt to stop the protesters. — Thousands of protesters took part …
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Michelle Malkin:
VIDEO: AND THEN THEY CAME FOR THE EMBASSIES... You've seen the pictures of Syrian Islamists torching the Norwegian and Danish embassies. — Now, listen and watch as they scream "Allahu Akbar!" during their Stone Age mob rampage. Over what, exactly? Oh, yeah. A bunch of cartoons. Cartoons.
Michelle Malkin:
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER EMBASSY TORCHED — Via Reuters, here's the latest on what's happening in the Muslim world: … Associated Press adds this: … Jeff Jacoby: "We are all Danes now" — Mark Steyn: "'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences"
Associated Press:
Feminist Author Betty Friedan Dies at 85 — WASHINGTON - Betty Friedan, whose manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85. — Friedan died at her home of congestive heart failure …
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Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in 'Feminine Mystique,' Dies at 85 — Betty Friedan, the feminist crusader and author whose searing first book, "The Feminine Mystique," ignited the contemporary women's movement in 1963 and as a result permanently transformed the social fabric of the United States …
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Voice of Feminism's 'Second Wave' — Betty Friedan, the writer, thinker and activist who almost single-handedly revived feminism with her 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique," died of congestive heart failure yesterday, her 85th birthday, at her home in Washington.
Washington Post:
Surveillance Net Yields Few Suspects — NSA's Hunt for Terrorists Scrutinizes Thousands of Americans, but Most Are Later Cleared — Intelligence officers who eavesdropped on thousands of Americans in overseas calls under authority from President Bush have dismissed nearly …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Cartoon Debate — The case for mocking religion. — As well as being a small masterpiece of inarticulacy and self-abnegation, the statement from the State Department about this week's international Muslim pogrom against the free press was also accidentally accurate.
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neo-neocon, Rantings of a Sandmonkey, ParaPundit, TigerHawk, Secular Blasphemy and Decision '08
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Peter Conradi / Times of London:
Iran as bad as Nazis: Merkel — THE German chancellor, Angela Merkel, compared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to Adolf Hitler yesterday as Tehran vowed to resume the enrichment of uranium which could be used to make nuclear weapons. — Amid growing fears that the Iranians are intent on acquiring an …
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BBC:
Two Jordan editors are arrested — Two Jordanian newspaper editors who published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have been arrested. — Jihad Momani and Hisham Khalidi are accused of insulting religion under Jordan's press and publications law. — Mr Momani was fired from the weekly Shihan …
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Clarice Feldman / The American Thinker:
Court documents were released yesterday which appear to sound the death knell for Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's case against Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Leftists who once eagerly anticipated a "Merry Fitzmas" are likely to find a lump of coal in their stockings next December, before the trial …
Michelle Malkin:
IT IS NOT A "ROW" — Have you noticed how international newspapers and television stations are doing their best to downplay the global conflagration over the Cartoon Jihad? — And on and on and on. — A "row" is a quarrel. Married couples have "rows" over laundry and finances.
Christopher Caldwell / Financial Times:
The reality of cartoon violence — Stalin's quip - "How many divisions has the Pope?" - is often taken for a universal truth: for all its power to describe man's nature and destiny, religion lacks the brute force to affect the world of politics and diplomacy.
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David Rising / Associated Press:
Senators McCain and Lieberman cozy up at Munich conference — MUNICH, Germany — It was no surprise when U.S. senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman pulled chairs up next to one another Saturday to hear what German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to say at a prestigious defense conference.
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Mike Allen / Time:
How Gonzales Plans to Defend Eavesdropping — TIME Exclusive: Attorney General will tell Senators that wiretaps target suspects, not innocents … Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales plans to use a Congressional hearing on Monday to lash out at "misinformed, confused" …
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