Reuters fires editor over Coulter bookReuters editor Joe Maguire has parted ways with the news agency after it reviewed a copy of his upcoming book, Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter, according to a report in today's New York Times.
According to a website promoting the book, called Ann Coulter Is Brainless, "In BRAINLESS, journalist Joe Maguire takes an incisive look at Coulter, both the private and the public personas, and takes aim at those issues at the helm of her agenda – 9/11, Iraq, abortion, C... (more)
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Echoing Drudge and Savage, Dobson and Henninger claimed Foley scandal is "sort of a joke" and a "prank[ ]" by pagesSummary: James Dobson and Daniel Henninger both echoed a claim previously made by Matt Drudge and Michael Savage that the sexually explicit communications that Rep. Mark Foley allegedly engaged in with former congressional pages were "sort of a joke" or a "prank[]" on the part of the former pages.
Commenting on the congressional page scandal surrounding former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) on the October 6 broadcast of Focus on the Family, James Dobson, founder and chairman of... (more)
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Web use overtakes newspapersThe time European consumers spend online has, for the first time, overtaken the hours they devote to newspapers and magazines, a study revealed.
But the growth of new media is expanding total media consumption rather than simply cannibalising print and television.
Print consumption has re-mained static at three hours a week in the past two years, as time spent online has doubled from two to four hours. Viewers are also spending more time watching television, up from... (more)
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Priest Says He Took Money Because He Was Underpaid: "He saw himself as the CEO of a multimillion-dollar company who wasn't properly compensated"DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- A priest who allegedly misappropriated millions of dollars from a Delray Beach Catholic church told police he saw himself as the CEO of a multimillion-dollar company who wasn't properly compensated, according to a search warrant.
Rev. John Skehan acknowledged misdirecting money from St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church when police arrested him on grand theft charges at Palm Beach International Airport last month, a warrant released Friday shows.
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Poll: Democratic candidates open large lead in congressional racesWASHINGTON — A Capitol Hill sex scandal has reinforced public doubts about Republican leadership and pushed Democrats to a huge lead in the race for control of Congress four weeks before Election Day, the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.
Democrats had a 23-point lead over Republicans in every group of people questioned — likely voters, registered voters and adults — on which party's House candidate would get their vote. That's double the lead Republicans had a... (more)
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Two sides of the same coin: Gore and Murdoch join forces in TV dealAl Gore, the former US vice-president, is bringing his user-generated content television channel to the UK, courtesy of James Murdoch’s British Sky Broadcasting.
Mr Gore launched Current TV, the US channel made of clips created by viewers and producers, in August last year, and said that the channel was “democratising television.”
Mr Murdoch, who has claimed that BSkyB was the first media company in the world to go carbon neutral, and Mr Gore share... (more)
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No Students Injured in Joplin School ShootingJoplin Police say no students were injured in a shooting at Memorial Middle School, 310 W. 8th St., in Joplin on Monday morning. The suspect is in custody. Parents are directed to Joplin Memorial Hall parking lot, 212 W. 8th St. where they may pick up their children or leave them until the end of the school day. Lunch will be provided. All but five students have been picked up and the others are expected to remain the rest of the day.
A 13 year old male student wearing a trench co... (more)
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Cheney Back Delivering the Grim Campaign SpeechMILWAUKEE -- Vice President Cheney sometimes starts speeches with a Ronald Reagan quotation about a "happy" nation needing "hope and faith." But not much happy talk follows. Not a lot of hope, either. He does, though, talk about the prospect of "mass death in the United States."
The not-so-happy warrior of the past two campaign cycles is back on the road delivering a grim message about danger, defeatism and the stakes of the coming election. If it is not a joyful exercise, it is a... (more) 
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New Poll: Americans Losing Faith In LeadershipThe Newsweek poll released yesterday showing Bush’s approval at a record-low 33 percent also demonstrates a “larger loss of faith” in government leadership across the board. Here are some of the other highlights:
– 52 percent of Americans believe the Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert covered up Mark Fole... (more)
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Graphic Girls’ Sex Ed Book Urging Lesbianism Published by Government Funded Toronto AgencyTORONTO, September 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Toronto youth are being given a manual with detailed instructions on lesbian sex acts that is published and distributed by Toronto social services agency, St. Stephen's Community House, an agency funded by all three levels of government.
The Little Black Book--A Book on Healthy Sexuality Written by Grrrls [sic] for Grrrls claims to be a youth-friendly guide to teenage sexuality, offering girls advice and information.
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Media reported Hastert took "responsibility," ignored his later denial that he had "done anything wrong"Summary: Following House Speaker Dennis Hastert's press conference, numerous media outlets trumpeted the news that Hastert took "responsibility" for the Mark Foley scandal but ignored his later statement, during that same press conference, that "I haven't done anything wrong."
Reporting on House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's (R-IL) October 5 press conference, numerous media outlets trumpeted the news that Hastert took "responsibility" for the scandal surrounding former Rep. Mark Fol... (more)
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The Secret Letter From IraqWritten last month, this straightforward account of life in Iraq by a Marine officer was initially sent just to a small group of family and friends. His honest but wry narration and unusually frank dissection of the mission contrasts sharply with the story presented by both sides of the Iraq war debate, the Pentagon spin masters and fierce critics. Perhaps inevitably, the 'Letter from Iraq' moved quickly beyond the small group of acquantainaces and hit the inboxes of retired generals, officer... (more)
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GIs ask when Iraqis will take the lead The U.S. Cavalry's Crazy Horse, 3rd Platoon ventures out into Southern Baghdad, where the enemy is invisible, Iraqi allies untrustworthy, and where American troops increasingly ask themselves if this is their fight anymore. And who is the enemy?
"It's not clear now who we're always fighting: they're terrorists, they're criminals, they're religious radicals," says Sgt. Mike Schmieder of the Army's 1-14 Cavalry.
Just how... (more)
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Military recruiters work hard to leave no child off their listsMy daughter just started high school. This milestone was marked by the arrival in our home of a ream of paperwork. Along with the usual bureaucratic permissions, I found tucked into this package a seemingly innocuous form that carries extraordinary consequences: Failing to fill it out might result in my daughter being harassed, assaulted, or being fast-tracked to fight in Iraq.
This form asks us if we want to opt out of having our daughter's contact information sent to the U.S. mi... (more)
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Bushies 'used' Colin, wife sez Colin Powell fought the Viet Cong, but he was no match for the Bush administration hard-liners who "used" his prestige to sell the Iraq war to the American people, his wife says.
In "Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell," Powell's wife, Alma, says the former secretary of state was "callously used to promote a war she wished had never happened," author Karen DeYoung writes.
"They needed him to do it because they knew people would believe him," she told DeYoung, an edito... (more)
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Bomb Kills 14 in Iraqi City That Bush Had Lauded as SafeBAGHDAD, Oct. 7 -- A suicide car bomb slammed into an Iraqi army checkpoint Saturday and killed at least 14 people in Tall Afar, a northern city that President Bush has previously hailed as a symbol of security and normalcy in Iraq.
The fiery explosion, which occurred at 10 a.m. in the city's Salam neighborhood, also wounded at least 11 people, mainly civilians in cars that had been stopped at the checkpoint, authorities said.
"There were screams and shouts of peopl... (more)
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Teen failed for stand on gaysA 13-YEAR-OLD student was failed after she refused to write an assignment on life in a gay community, because of her religious and moral beliefs.
Her outraged mother, Christian groups and the State Opposition want an investigation into the treatment of the Year 9 student at Windaroo Valley State High School, south of Brisbane.
"It's no wonder our kids are struggling with the basics when the Government is allowing this sort of rubbish to be taught in the cla... (more)
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£140,000 for studying pocketsThe Government is spending £140,000 of taxpayers’ cash — to study POCKETS.
The cash to fund research, two staff, a website and exhibition was slammed last night as a “frivolous waste”.
Students at Southampton University will spend three years studying tie-on pockets, worn by women under petticoats or aprons from the late 17th century.
There will also be a nationwide touring exhibition.
Tory MP Geoffrey Clif... (more)
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Soldier 'saw US tank fire on ITN car' A British soldier said yesterday that he saw the car of the ITN journalist Terry Lloyd burst into flames after being fired on by an American tank during the invasion of Iraq.
The soldier, understood to be a member of the special forces who was carrying out surveillance, said he thought the tank "engaged" first on a convoy which included the reporter's car and an Iraqi pick-up truck with a gun mounted on the top.
He said... (more)
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Jeb Bush gets rude welcome Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, in town for a fund-raiser for Sen. Rick Santorum, had a close encounter with a large group of anti-Republican protesters as he was making his way to the Duquesne Club, Downtown.
It was about 4:15 yesterday when Mr. Bush met up with the protesters near the corner of Liberty and Sixth avenues. The protesters were marching to join other pickets already gathered in front of the exclusive club, a little more than a block... (more)
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Limbaugh Blames Pages For Foley’s MisconductToday on his radio program, Rush Limbaugh blamed Congressional pages for Mark Foley’s misconduct. He said that the communications reported by ABC were example of “young kids” who like to “make fun of gay people.” Rush’s evidence? As a child, he used to order refrigerators over the phone for adults he thought were “odd or weird” as a prank. Here’s an excerpt:
Back in these days you could call Sears and order a refrigerat ... (more)
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Amid questions, ABC says messages 'couldn't be a prank'Faced with claims by the conservative political website The Drudge Report on Thursday that lurid instant message exchanges between disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) and the former page who was outed on a conservative website yesterday were the result of an elaborate prank, insiders at ABC News say the network stands behind its story.
Drudge alleges that the young Republican "goaded Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young H... (more)
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