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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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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.
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 …
Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof and Feministe
Elaine Woo / Los Angeles Times:
Catalyst of Feminist Revolution
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.
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Dean / Dean's World:   Christian Ideology, and a Challenge for Rusty
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: … Video at BBC News.  —  Jeff Jacoby: "We are all Danes now"  —  Mark Steyn: "'Sensitivity' can have brutal consequences"  —  David Warren: "The Rage"
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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 …
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 …
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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John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:
Iran To Face Security Council
Discussion: Tammy Bruce and The Moderate Voice
Reuters:
Merkel likens Iran threat to Nazi era
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 …
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:   Back in the Saddle  —  Ah it's so good to be back in Plame again.
New York Times:
Tolerating Death in the Mines  —  Federal safety officials, faced with the death of two more West Virginia miners, are asking the coal industry to "stand down for safety" tomorrow to check the nation's mines for lethal working conditions.  This smacks of public relations more than worker protection.
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.
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.
Discussion: CorrenteWire
Melissa Kite / Telegraph:
Muslim protests are incitement to murder, say Tories  —  The Conservatives last night called on the police to arrest militant Muslims who threatened Westerners with violence during protests in London over newspaper cartoons that mocked the Prophet Mohammed.  —  As fanatics - some dressed …

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