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Guardian:
Revealed: the tough interrogation techniques the CIA wants to use — Ed Pilkington in New York and Clare Dyer — Details emerged yesterday about the seven interrogation techniques the CIA is seeking to be allowed to apply to terror suspects. Newsweek magazine reported that a New York lawyer …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Leak: CIA interrogation techniques revealed — They're seeking Congressional authorization for seven discrete procedures, each more brutal than the last. The Guardian has a complete list. Click here if you want to see, but be forewarned — they're extremely graphic.
Donald Sensing / Winds of Change.NET:
Muslims bomb, burn, shoot and threaten for being called "violent" — Work with me here. Am I understanding this correctly? — Pope Benedict gives a speech in his native Germany in which he states that "Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul," …
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Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Iranian leader urges more papal protests — CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida in Iraq warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that its war against Christianity and the West will go on until Islam takes over the world, and Iran's supreme leader called for more protests over the pontiff's remarks on Islam.
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Little Green Footballs
BBC:
In pictures: Fresh anti-Pope protests — Muslims have staged yet more protests over comments on Islam quoted by Pope Benedict XVI in a speech in Germany last week. This image is from a march in Jakarta, Indonesia. — In Pakistan many women joined the demonstrations …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Exiled Muslim Cleric Behind London Protest Calling for Pope's Death — As suspected, it was followers of exiled cleric Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed who organized a rally yesterday outside of London's Westminster Cathederal calling for the death penalty for the Pope's blasphemy.
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Daily Mail, Dean's World, Boston Herald, Hot Air, Slapstick Politics, Power Line, Right Wing Nut House, Townhall and Riehl World View
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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 …
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 …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Ohio Senate: Brown (D) 47% DeWine (R) 41% — In Ohio's edge-of-seat Senate race, Democratic challenger Sherrod Brown now claims a six-point lead of 47% to 41% over Republican Senator Mike DeWine (see crosstabs). — The tables have turned slowly but dramatically in this hard-fought campaign.
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Surge in Anti-Muslim Incidents Reported — Md., Va. and D.C. Among Top 10 Locations for Harassment — A national Muslim advocacy organization yesterday blamed a "negative and politically charged" environment on the Internet and talk radio for the 30 percent jump in anti-Muslim incidents reported to the group last year.
Business Week:
What's Really Propping Up The Economy — Since 2001, the health-care industry has added 1.7 million jobs. The rest of the private sector? None — If you really want to understand what makes the U.S. economy tick these days, don't go to Silicon Valley, Wall Street, or Washington.
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Olbermann: "The President of the United States owes this country an apology" — Keith Olbermann delivered another stunning special comment tonight, this time attacking Bush's Rose Garden press conference from last Friday. — Olbermann: Finally tonight, a Special Comment about the Rose Garden news conference last Friday.
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Firedoglake
Debbie Schlussel:
BREAKING/Exclusive: Why FBI Raided Largest U.S. Islamic Charity Today — I've been writing about LIFE for Relief and Development for years, and I think my columns (especially this one, a shorter version of which appeared in the New York Post), have finally made a difference.
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 …
Tom Malinowski / Washington Post:
Call Cruelty What It Is — President Bush is urging Congress to let the CIA keep using "alternative" interrogation procedures — which include, according to published accounts, forcing prisoners to stand for 40 hours, depriving them of sleep and use of the "cold cell," in which the prisoner …
Senator Bill Frist:
Americans Deserve Secure Borders — Bringing the "Secure Fence Act of 2006" to the Floor — A nation that can't secure its borders can't secure its destiny or administer its laws. And the reality is that America's borders today are inexcusably porous. — One of the most important …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
What Did You Get For It, Joe? — It seems every time No-Show Joe opens his mouth these days, he is touting the virtues of bipartisanship and decrying Ned Lamont for engaging in partisan politics. It's a nice sound bite if you can get away with it, and the press have certainly let him do so.
Politics Central:
AL-DURA: THE TRIAL (PART THREE) — Nidra Poller's concludes her coverage ... for now ... of the Al-Dura Trial in Paris with a blow-by-blow account of the trial with analysis of the proceedings. — Disclosure: I make no pretense to objectivity in my reports on this trial.
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 …
CTV.ca:
Four Canadians killed in Afghan suicide bombing — The first of four Canadian servicemen killed by a bicycle bomber targeting troops in southern Afghanistan was identified on Monday as a Manitoba-based soldier. — An undisclosed number of Canadian soldiers and at least 27 Afghan civilians …
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The Belmont Club
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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Dick Polman's American Debate