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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Needing to wake up, West just closes its eyes — In five years' time, how many Jews will be living in France? Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey called Sebastien Selam was heading off to work from his parents' apartment when he was jumped in the parking garage by his Muslim neighbor Adel.
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The Ilan Halimi case: issues of institutional racism? — Now that the Ilan Halimi case has gone mainstream, almost two weeks after the young Parisian Jew was found dying of the horrific injuries his kidnappers inflicted on him, the French state has gone into the level of gesture solidarity politics it does so well.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
I'M ONLY SLEEPING — Mark Steyn begins his weekly Chicago Sun-Times column with a look at the blinkered coverage of the torture/muders of Sebastien Selam and Ilan Halimi: "Needing to wake up, West just closes its eyes." He moves on to consider European attitudes to Iran and Israel.
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Independent:
Iraq's death squads: On the brink of civil war — Most of the corpses in Baghdad's mortuary show signs of torture and execution. And the Interior Ministry is being blamed. By Andrew Buncombe and Patrick Cockburn — Hundreds of Iraqis are being tortured to death or summarily executed every month …
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Ted Bridis / ABCNEWS:
Homeland Security Objected to Ports Deal — Homeland Security Objected at First to Ports Deal, Then Went Along With Others — WASHINGTON Feb 25, 2006 (AP)— The Homeland Security Department objected at first to a United Arab Emirates company's taking over significant operations at six U.S. ports.
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Scotsman:
US leader crashed by trying to 'pedal, wave and speak at same time' — MURDO MACLEOD — HE MAY be the most powerful man in the world, but proof has emerged that President George Bush cannot ride a bike, wave and speak at the same time. — Scotland on Sunday has obtained remarkable details …
Jeremiah Marquez / Associated Press:
Don Knotts, TV's Barney Fife, Dies at 81 — LOS ANGELES — Don Knotts, who kept generations of TV audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show" and would-be swinger landlord Ralph Furley on "Three's Company," has died. He was 81.
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Louie Estrada / Washington Post:
Don Knotts, TV's Barney Fife, Dies — Don Knotts, the rail-thin comic actor who was perhaps best known to millions of television viewers as the bungling Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife in "The Andy Griffith Show" and the squirrelly landlord in "Three's Company," died of lung cancer Feb. 24 at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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TalkLeft:
NSA Goes Shopping at Silicon Valley for Data Mining Tools — Whatever the outcome of Bush's warrantless NSA surveillance program, it seems clear that government surveillance of our communications and even our social networks is only going to increase. The New York Times reports on recent …
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Judd / Think Progress:
Kristol: "We Have Not Had A Serious Three-Year Effort To Fight A War In Iraq" — This morning on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, one the staunches defenders of the administration's policy in Iraq, said the war in Iraq was not a "serious effort." — Transcript:
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
HEROISM....Over at The Corner, Warren Bell calls for Hollywood to make more movies about "the heroism of American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq." In particular, he'd like to see someone make a movie about the death of football star Pat Tillman, who left his lucrative civilian career to join …
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New York Times:
A Judicial Green Light for Torture — The administration's tendency to dodge accountability for lawless actions by resorting to secrecy and claims of national security is on sharp display in the case of a Syrian-born Canadian, Maher Arar, who spent months under torture because of United States action.
CBS News:
Montana's Coal Cowboy — (CBS) The governor of Montana says he can turn the billions of tons of coal under his state into enough diesel fuel to greatly reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. — And there's an added benefit, says Gov. Brian Schweitzer: the United States will be sticking it to the …
Sydney Morning Herald:
Power to the people: now everyone can make a difference — Democracy, the internet and NGOs are fuelling a global empowerment of ordinary citizens, writes Bill Clinton. — THREE things have happened since the end of the Cold War to give private citizens an unprecedented capacity to do public good.
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Paul Burkhardt / Associated Press:
Bolton Blasts 'Sex and Corruption' at U.N. — NEW YORK - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Saturday that the world body is hobbled "by bad management, by sex and corruption" and a lack of confidence in its ability to carry out missions. — John Bolton also criticized the U.N.'s budget …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Russian Relations Under Scrutiny — U.S. Concerned About G-8 Talks With Putin as Host — The Bush administration is quietly exploring ways of recalibrating U.S. policy toward Russia in the face of growing concerns about the Kremlin's crackdown on internal dissent and pressure tactics toward its neighbors …
Estes Thompson / Associated Press:
Army Charges 7 With Having Sex on Video — RALEIGH, N.C. - The Army has recommended that seven 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers be discharged following allegations they engaged in sex acts shown on a gay pornographic Web site. — Three soldiers face courts-martial on charges of sodomy …
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