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Associated Press:
Dutch bishop: Call God 'Allah' to ease relations — Roman Catholic leader stokes already heated debate on religion — AMSTERDAM - A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding, stoking an already heated debate …
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Ace / minx.cc:
Genius: Dutch Catholic Bishop Suggests All People, Including Christians And Jews, Refer To God As "Allah" To Foster "Understanding" — Good idea. Maybe we can start calling Jesus "Mohammad" and also start calling "The Holy Bible" the "Koran" while we're at it.
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Washington Post:
An Early Clash Over Iraq Report — Senior congressional aides said yesterday that the White House has proposed limiting the much-anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill next month of Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker to a private congressional briefing …
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Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
NSA Judge: 'I feel like I'm in Alice and Wonderland' — Ryan Singel and David Kravets are blogging the U.S. 9th Circuit hearing on the NSA's spying, and AT&T's alleged complicity, reporting live from the San Francisco courthouse. Hit 'refresh' in your browser and scroll to the bottom for updates.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
U.S. Defends Surveillance to 3 Skeptical Judges
U.S. Defends Surveillance to 3 Skeptical Judges
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Rush Interviews Karl Rove — BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — RUSH: I would like to introduce you all to Karl Rove. Karl, welcome to the EIB Network. I cannot tell you how great it is finally to have you here with us. — KARL ROVE: Well, thanks, Rush. I'm honored you'd ask me and delighted to be with you.
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Monte Hayes / Associated Press:
Earthquake kills at least 337 in Peru — LIMA, Peru - A powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Peru's coast near the capital, killing at least 337 people and injuring 827, the Civil Defense said early Thursday. — Civil Defense Commander Aristides Mussio released the figures …
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Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press:
Army Suicides Highest in 26 Years — WASHINGTON — Army soldiers committed suicide last year at the highest rate in 26 years, and more than a quarter did so while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new military report. — The report, obtained by The Associated Press ahead …
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Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Hot tempers on global warming — INTRODUCING Newsweek's Aug. 13 cover story on global warming "denial," editor Jon Meacham brings up an embarrassing blast from his magazine's past: an April 1975 story about global cooling, and the coming ice age that scientists then were predicting.
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Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
The Death of Diversity — People in ethnically diverse settings don't care about each other. — Diversity was once just another word. Now it's a fighting word. One of the biggest problems with diversity is that it won't let you alone. Corporations everywhere have force-marched middle managers …
Julian Borger / Guardian:
US documents show Pakistan gave Taliban military aid — The Pakistani government gave substantial military support to the Taliban in the years leading up to the September 11 attacks, sending arms and soldiers to fight alongside the militant Afghan movement, according to newly released US official documents.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Death toll from Iraq bombings likely to be worst of war — BAGHDAD — Officials said Wednesday that as many as 500 people probably died in a series of coordinated truck bombings that devastated two northern Iraqi villages Tuesday and set a record for mass carnage in war-torn Iraq.
Jack Shafer / Slate:
Reign of Error — THE AVERAGE NEWSPAPER CORRECTS VERY FEW OF ITS FACTUAL ERRORS, SAYS PROFESSOR. — The average newspaper should expand by a factor of 50 the amount of space given to corrections if Scott R. Maier's research is any guide. — Maier, an associate professor at the University …
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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Rumsfeld Resigned as Defense Secretary on Day Before Elections — Donald H. Rumsfeld, who came to symbolize the Bush administration's problems in the war in Iraq, resigned as secretary of defense one day before last fall's elections, although President Bush did not announce the move until the day after the elections.
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Steven Stark / Real Clear Politics:
The Debates Are Killing Edwards & Obama — Conventional wisdom says that, in the presidential-nomination process, debates help everyone but the front-runner in the polls, because they give the pack exposure and face time next to the leader. But so far in Campaign 2008, the opposite has been true.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Fred Thompson's Gamble — When Fred Thompson makes his long-delayed entrance into the Republican presidential race, he will not tiptoe quietly. Instead, he will try to shake up the establishment candidates of both parties by depicting a nation in peril from fiscal and security threats …