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Daily Mail:
The Pope must die, says Muslim — A notorious Muslim extremist told a demonstration in London yesterday that the Pope should face execution. — Anjem Choudary said those who insulted Islam would be "subject to capital punishment". — His remarks came during a protest outside Westminster Cathedral …
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Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Pope pokes medieval Islam with a stick — Another European has stuck his foot in it. "It" being the violent, simplistic 14th century mindset predominant in the Muslim world. — Pope Benedict XVI, apparently engaged in some kind of intellectual discussion with his fellow Germans …
Telegraph:
Islam, like Christianity, is not above criticism — The Pope quotes a barbed medieval criticism of Islamic violence in the course of a scholarly discourse, and Muslims all over the world go into uproar; churches are firebombed. The Prime Minister's wife delivers a playful slap to a cheeky teenager …
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Sam Harris / Los Angeles Times:
Head-in-the-Sand Liberals — Western civilization really is at risk from Muslim extremists. — TWO YEARS AGO I published a book highly critical of religion, "The End of Faith." In it, I argued that the world's major religions are genuinely incompatible, inevitably cause conflict …
Rasmussen Reports:
Rhode Island Senate: Chafee Trailing By 8 — Whitehouse (D) 51% Chafee (R) 43% — The GOP establishment forcefully backed Republican Lincoln Chafee in the primary over a more conservative and arguably less-electable Republican. But, perhaps damaged by having to struggle so long for the nomination …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Montana Senate: Tester By Nine — Tester (D) 52% Burns (R) 43% — The latest Rasmussen Reports election survey in Montana shows Democrat Jon Tester leading incumbent Republican Sen. Conrad Burns 52% to 43% (see crosstabs). The candidates were tied at 47% in August's survey.
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
GOP talk of vibrant economy rings hollow — FALMOUTH, Ky. - Used boots fetch $3 and old salt-and-pepper shakers bring in a buck at a makeshift flea market along Highway 27, presumably not what President Bush and Republicans have in mind when they herald a vibrant economy.
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The Raw Story:
Sources: August terror plot is a 'fiction' underscoring police failures — Nafeez Ahmed — British Army expert casts doubt on 'liquid explosives' threat, Al Qaeda network in UK Identified — Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer …
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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Exiled Muslim Cleric Behind London Protest Calling for Pope's Death
Exiled Muslim Cleric Behind London Protest Calling for Pope's Death
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Report from the Steak Fry — The Tom Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola, IA yesterday was Barack Obama's coming out party as a national candidate for higher office. Whether that campaign is for President or Vice President in 2008 or 2012 is still up in the air — but there's no doubt …
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Time for a Time-Out? — Will the GOP learn its lesson on pork? — If Republicans lose big in November, one reason will be their tardy response to public outrage over profligate spending. The guilty pleas of former GOP Rep. Duke Cunningham and lobbyist Jack Abramoff prompted demands …
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Migrating To Modernity — After the terrorist attacks of 2001, voters understood that poor failed states could hurt them. President Bush launched a smart new foreign aid program and multiplied the U.S. commitment to fighting HIV-AIDS, and rich countries around the world boosted development spending.
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Major State Union Switches To Lamont — AFSCME Council 4 Drops Lieberman, Citing Movement Toward Bush Policies — One of the state's largest labor unions has dropped its endorsement of U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and switched its support to Democratic primary winner Ned Lamont.
Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
Republicans gain in midterm polls — Republicans appear to be gaining on the Democrats in the 2006 midterm campaign because of growing confidence in the economy, falling gas prices and President Bush's sustained political offensive on the terrorist threat, according to pollsters and campaign strategists.
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Ian Sample / Guardian:
Man rejects first penis transplant — Chinese surgeons have performed the world's first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse.
Electoral Vote Predictor:
Sep 18, Projected U.S. Senate: 50 Democrats 50 Republicans — Just one poll today, in Minnesota. Amy Klobuchar (D) has widened her lead over Mark Kennedy (R) to 24%, 56% to 32%. Maybe this should not come as a surprise as Kennedy underperformed Bush in 2004 in his own district (MN-06).
Ji Jobs / Journal Inquirer:
Give him another week — Almost 50 years ago, a reporter asked President Dwight Eisenhower what major contributions his vice president, Richard M. Nixon, had made to the Eisenhower administration. Ike's response was telling and hilarious. He said, "If you give me a week, I might think of one."
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Bret Stephens / Opinion Journal:
The Liberals' War — Why is the left afraid to face up to the threat of radical Islam? … Here's a puzzle: Why is it so frequently the case that the people who have the most at stake in the battle against Islamic extremism and the most to lose when Islamism gains—namely, liberals—are typically the most reluctant to fight it?
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Support for Electronic Filing of Senate Candidates' Campaign-Finance Records Gains Momentum — In the next few weeks leading up to Election Day, money will pour into candidates' coffers and voters will be able to see which lobby groups are trying hardest to buy their lawmakers' favor.
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Bryan / Hot Air:
When Atheists and Secularists Quote Scripture — I probably shouldn't wade into this, but it does dovetail with something I've been pondering lately. Namely, that an essentially post-Christian West comes to the battle with Islamism, Islamofascism, caliphascism, or whatever you want to call …
Extreme Mortman:
Jew! — A Virginia Senate campaign fought largely in Youtube got its newest Youtube moment today — courtesy the unlikeliest of sources, a reporter. — 9News Now reporter Peggy Fox probably wouldn't have been booed at Nuremberg. But that's the treatment she got inside the Hilton McLean Ballroom …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
A Show That Trumpeted History but Led to Confusion — It's little wonder that ABC's mini-series "The Path to 9/11" drew stinging criticism earlier this month for its invented scenes, fabricated dialogue and unsubstantiated accounts of how the Clinton and Bush administrations conducted themselves …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The Trap — There is now a clear and live contrast between Bush and the Democrats on an important issue in the war on terror. — Too bad. It will be. On September 6, 2006, President Bush set the trap. He spoke in the East Room of the White House on the war on terror.
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Greg Sargent / The Horse's Mouth:
RIGHT-WING POWERLINE BLOG MISLEADS READERS ABOUT IMPRISONED IRAQI ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER. Normally it wouldn't be news that right-wing Powerline Blog is misleading readers, but this is an important story. — The Associated Press has now announced that the U.S. military has been holding …