Dec

31

‘Porno posters’ embarrass new EU head

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[From CNN.com]
‘Porno posters’ embarrass new EU head
Spoof images of Queen, Bush, Chirac raise eyebrows in Austria
VIENNA, Austria (Reuters) — Spoof posters depicting Britain’s Queen Elizabeth having sex with the U.S. and French presidents that are displayed across Vienna are causing embarrassment just days ahead of Austria’s taking over the EU presidency.
The images show two naked [...]

Dec

31

Politics1 – American Politics, Elections, Candidates & Campaigns

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[From Politics1.com]
ABRAMOFF SCANDAL. There must be lots of very nervous people on Capitol Hill this weekend — elected officials and key GOP staffers alike. According to numerous news sources, indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s lawyers and federal prosecutors in Miami have reportedly agreed upon nearly all the terms of a plea deal. Both sides met [...]

Dec

31

The Murray Documents

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[From Politics in the Zeros]
Blair Watch broke the story about US/British complicity in torture in Uzbekistan by publishing documents from former Ambassador to that nation, Craig Murray. They printed these documents at considerable legal risk to themselves too.
Craig Murray’s site and Blair Watch are Ground Zero here. Go to their sites for the latest [...]

Dec

31

Intelligent Design Hall of Fame

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[From Intelligent Design Hall of Fame]
We honor those exceptional journalists, editors, publishers, museum directors, school boards, etc., who have helped us promote Intelligent Design, and the Design Movement. This prestigious international award has been given since 1901 for the reduction of biology to rubble. More recently the reduction of chemistry or physics to rubble is [...]

Dec

31

The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail

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[From the Washington Post]
The U.S. Family Network, a public advocacy group that operated in the 1990s with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay and claimed to be a nationwide grass-roots organization, was funded almost entirely by corporations linked to embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to tax records and former……
Continue reading The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail at [...]

Dec

30

Covert CIA Program Withstands New Furor

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[From The Washington Post]
The effort President Bush authorized shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, to fight al Qaeda has grown into the largest CIA covert action program since the height of the Cold War, expanding in size and ambition despite a growing outcry at home and abroad over its clandestine tactics, according to former and…
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Dec

29

NBC Mocks Christianity

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[You can continue on to the AFA web site and sign up for action alerts (either email or RSS feed). You can then use their web site form to send your own letters to the people/companies they are condemning or praising. Don't know why I didn't think of this. -RS]
[From The J-Walk Blog]
I would [...]

Dec

29

Saddam Hussein, Al Qaeda, 9/11 and WMD

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[From PR Newswire]
Sizeable Minorities Still Believe Saddam Hussein Had Strong Links to Al Qaeda, Helped Plan 9/11 and Had Weapons of Mass Destruction (Harris Interactive)
           
However, the numbers have fallen substantially this year
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. [...]

Dec

28

Early EdBlogging Voices

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[From Weblogg-ed News]
One of the earliest edbloggers is Peter Ford who, with Adam Curry, started schoolblogs a long, long time ago, at least in blog years. Today, Peter has a great post about the state of the edblogosphere and the changes it’s undergoing:

Weblogs have had great impact so far because they have an inherent flexibility [...]

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