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Veronika Oleksyn / Associated Press:
Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years — VIENNA, Austria - Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty Monday to denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to three years in prison, even after conceding he wrongly said there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Veronika Oleksyn / Associated Press:
Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years in Jail — VIENNA, Austria — Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust _ a crime in the country where Hitler was born.
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Holocaust denier Irving is jailed — British historian David Irving has been found guilty in Vienna of denying the Holocaust of European Jewry and sentenced to three years in prison. — He had pleaded guilty to the charge, based on a speech and interview he gave in Austria in 1989.
Dawood Wafa / Reuters:
Afghan cartoon protesters threaten to join al Qaeda — JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of Afghan students shouted support on Monday for Osama bin Laden and threatened to join al Qaeda during a protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. — In an attempt to cool the controversy …
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Ray Robison / The American Thinker:
The proof has been right in front of you the entire time. Documents available on the internet, which pass the smell test and are probably genuine, show the link between Saddam and al Qaeda. — On October 11th, 2004 an online news service called CNSnews published 42 documents that they claimed came from the Iraq Survey Group.
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Roots — Taylor Marsh did a post recently that really stuck with me and I've been meaning to do something on it for a while. It was about local radio, and how the Republicans have such an excellent network of people they can rely on to get their message out. There is nothing like it that exists on the left:
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The dying scandal that keeps growing — Ever since the NSA scandal began, Bush followers, led by Karl Rove, and even some frightened Democrats, have loudly insisted that this scandal is actually beneficial for Republicans, because they can use it to depict Democrats as weak on national security.
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Will Bunch / American Prospect:
With A Little Help From His Friends — Exclusive: An investigation into the private and public finances of Rick Santorum suggests that the Senate GOP might want to reconsider making him its ethics czar. — "In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when …
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Will / Attytood:
How Santorum paid for his Va. house...and his Starbucks coffee — Last spring, I wrote a post that was highly critical of a New York Times Magazine profile of Sen. Rick Santorum. We thought the piece overplayed his "spiritual" side, and overlooked some inconvenient facts about both his agenda …
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush: U.S. on Verge of Energy Breakthrough — MILWAUKEE - Saying the nation is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that would "startle" most Americans, President Bush on Monday outlined his energy proposals to help wean the country off foreign oil. — Less than half the crude oil used …
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New York Times:
More Objections to Port Takeover by Arab Entity — WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — Conditions set by the federal government for approving an Arab company's takeover of operations at six major American ports are not enough to guard against terrorist infiltration, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday.
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Maha / The Mahablog:
Patriotism v. Francis Fukuyama — This is only tangential to the "patriotism v. nationalism" series I seem to have embarked on, but I'd like to toss it in to the mix now before it gets stale. — Some years ago I read the original "The End of History?" article that Francis Fukuyama wrote in 1989 …
John / AMERICAblog:
The Republican party doesn't believe in America — Read closely the article below about Bush and his illegal domestic spying program: … Now note a few of the details. — Bush wants this to be like Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus. Well, a few points there. First, read what habeas corpus actually is:
thetowntalk.com:
Beauregard motorists shot by quail hunter — Two Beauregard Parish motorists were accidentally shot in the face on Saturday by a quail hunter near Dry Creek. — A group of three men were hunting quail southeast of Dry Creek around 4 p.m. Saturday when a pickup truck with two men inside stopped to watch the hunters' birding dogs.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Rise Of The Cult, Day Three - Unanswered Challenges — When Peter Daou of the normally-serious Salon described some audience-boosting flatulence from Glenn Greenwald as "seminal", I took a bit of interest. What I found was an utterly generic diatribe bashing Bush and his supporters.
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William Beutler / MyDD:
In Defense of Hotline's William Beutler (By Hotline's William Beutler) — I asked Beutler to respond, and he kindly assented. Matt — On Saturday morning you may have read Matt Stoller eviscerating my Washington Examiner analysis of blogger-backed primary challenges in 2006.
