Video: Tony Snow downplays Foley scandal as 'naughty emails' The scandal involving Congressman Foley and a teenaged Capitol Hill page is nothing more than "naughty emails", says White Press Secretary Tony Snow.
In the following video, Snow seems to be playing down the Foley scandal, telling reporters, "Yeah, look, I hate to tell you but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill. There have been other scandals, as you know, that have been more than simply naughty emails."
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Hijacked plane lands in Italy(ANSA) - Rome, October 3 - A Turkish plane landed at the southern Italian airport of Brindisi on Tuesday after being hijacked, reportedly in protest at Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to Turkey .
The plane, a Boeing 737 belonging to Turkish Airlines, was intercepted by two Italian military jets .
Turkish Airlines confirmed that a plane had been hijacked while travelling from the Albanian capital of Tirana to Istanbul but said none of the 113 passengers and crew a... (more)
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Sponsor a Missile
Homeland Security presents a new way to help fund the war on terror and win back public approval by letting the public sponsor a Missile. Watch as Donald Bush President of the Youth Bush League walks you through what you'll get in your freedom kit, if you sponsor a missile today.
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Sen. Patrick Leahy Questions Why Bush Administration Allowed 9/11 to Happen “A Total Rollback Of Everything This Country Has Stood Forâ€: Sen. Patrick Leahy Blasts Congressional Approval of Detainee Bill - democracynow.org
I caught this interview with Senator Patrick Leahy on Friday regarding the approval of the new detainee bill. At one point in the show Amy Goodman asks Leahy how anything would be different if ... (more)
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FOX News Anchor Lays War Dead at Bush's Feet. (video)This is a man bites dog type of story.
The Foley pedo scandal ate up so much bandwidth most people didn't even know Baghdad is under a daytime curfew. Therefore, it's no surprise this shocking exchange on FOX News fell completely off the table. It's so tasty, I just had to pick it up, transcribe it, and share it around.
Shep Smith is a popular FOX News anchorman with his own morning show,Studio B. Yet even this avid supporter of the war, Bush, a... (more)
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Pastors Guiding Voters to GOPWith a pivotal election five weeks away, leaders on the religious right have launched an all-out drive to get Christians from pew to voting booth. Their target: the nearly 30 million Americans who attend church at least once a week but did not vote in 2004.
Their efforts at times push legal limits on church involvement in partisan campaigns. That is by design. With control of Congress at stake Nov. 7, those guiding the movement say they owe it to God and to their own moral princip... (more)
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Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451'Alton Verm, of Conroe, objects to the language and content in the book. His 15-year-old daughter Diana, a CCHS sophomore, came to him Sept. 21 with her reservations about reading the book because of its language.
"The book had a bunch of very bad language in it," Diana Verm said. "It shouldn't be in there because it's offending people. ... If they can't find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn't have a book at all."
Alton Verm filed a "Request for Reconsidera... (more)
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Video: Congressman 'tolerated' forced abortions, sex slaveryRep. John Doolittle (R-CA) knew of and tolerated forced abortions, sex slavery and sweatshop conditions in the Northern Marianas Islands, says his challenger.
Retired Lt. Col. Charlie Brown, Democratic candidate for California's 4th District, asserts Doolittle was aware of the abuses while he helped, with the aid of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, to fund the islands' government that allegedly exploited its workers.
In a debate on KCRA 3 TV News in Sacramento, Bro... (more)
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Right on Time: The laughing 9/11 bombersFILM of the ringleader of the September 11 hijackers reading his “martyrdom” will inside Afghanistan at Osama Bin Laden’s headquarters has emerged five years after the Al-Qaeda outrage.
It is the first time that a videotape has appeared of Mohammed Atta — who flew an American Airlines plane into the north tower of the World Trade Center — at a training camp in Afghanistan. It fills in a significant gap in the timing of the build-up to the attacks on t... (more)
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Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to RiceOn July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Black laid out the case, consisting of communications intercepts and other top-secret intelligence showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaeda would soon attack the United States. It was a mass of fragments and dots ... (more)
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Bush calls for 'world offensive'STUNG by criticism, US President George W. Bush has called for fighting America's enemies "across the world" as he stepped up his counter-offensive following charges that his policies were breeding a new generation of Islamic terrorists.
The call, delivered in his weekly radio address, was aimed to counter a rash of accusations that the Bush administration had seriously mishandled the war in Iraq and created fertile political ground for Islamic extremism.
The critic... (more)
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Gore: Cigarette Smoking 'Significant' Contributor To Global WarmingFormer U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!"
Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that threatens the future of civilization on earth."
Gore showed computer-generated projections of ocean water rushing in to submerge the San Fra... (more)
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7 July survivor sues government A survivor of the 7 July bombings is the first to sue the government because she says she has been refused medical treatment on the NHS.
Beverli Rhodes, from Maidstone in Kent, was a passenger on the King's Cross train, and says she has been forced to travel overseas for help.
Her head was smashed against a pole by the blast, causing brain stem injury and post-traumatic stress.
The Home Office has said... (more)
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Spanish Man's Beard Alarms FlyersA Spanish university professor with a long beard and dark complexion said Thursday he was briefly forced off an airliner during a layover on the Spanish island of Mallorca by passengers who feared he was an Islamic terrorist.
Pablo Gutierrez Vega told The Associated Press that he was humiliated when three German passengers on an Air Berlin flight approached him during a layover in Palma de Mallorca on Aug. 30 en route from Seville, Spain, to Dortmund, Germany, and asked to search ... (more)
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Boys told no standing to urinateIt's an entirely new definition of "Standing Room Only." Or perhaps a new measure of "equality" has arrived.
Whatever it is, it has sparked a huge political debate at a school in Kristiansand, Norway, according to the Norwegian paper Fædrelandsvennen.
The trigger for the explosion of opinion? A decision in the local district that schoolboys must sit on toilet seats when ... (more)
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Christians: We'll fight for IsraelMillions of Evangelical Christians around the world support and constantly pray for the State of Israel , representatives at a meeting of the Knesset's Christian Allies Caucus said Wednesday.
Dozens of Evangelical pastors, parliament members, and leaders from an array of countries gathered at the Knesset in Jerusalem to proclaim their support for the country, during a meeting of the Caucus, which was also attended by Knesset Members from across the political spectrum.
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New Poll: 71 Percent Of Iraqis Want U.S. Forces To Withdraw Within A YearThe Program on International Policy Attitudes released a new poll on Iraqi public opinion today which finds that seven in ten Iraqis want US-led forces to commit to withdraw within a year. Moreover, an overwhelming majority believes that the US military presence in Iraq is provoking more conflict than it is preventing. The poll was conducted during the first week of September. Here ar... (more)
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Go back to sleep America: 'Is pump price drop tied to Nov. elections?'The sharp drop in prices at the pump has a number of readers wondering: Is this just a ploy to defuse the issue of gasoline prices from the upcoming November elections? Ted in Connecticut wants to know: When the stock market collapsed after the 2000 bubble — just where, exactly, did all that money go?
Does anybody but myself wonder why oil prices have begun a rather precipitous drop just as the November elections approach? Just a coincidence?
L.C. – Wil... (more)
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Confidence in Iraq Policies Drops to 20% in U.S.Fewer adults in the United States believe their government’s handling of the coalition effort has been adequate, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. Only 20 per cent of respondents are confident that U.S. policies in Iraq will be successful, down nine points in two years.
The coalition effort against Saddam Hussein’s regime was launched in March 2003. At least 2,708 American soldiers have died during the military operation, and more than 20,400 troops have been ... (more)
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UK: Exceeding Speed Limit Rarely Causes AccidentsFor the past decade, UK road safety policy has focused on legal compliance with posted speed limits as the most effective means of reducing the number of automobile accidents. Department for Transport statistics released today, however, show that fewer than five percent of accidents last year were caused by a motorist driving faster than the limit.
"Exceeding speed limit was attributed to 3 percent of cars involved in accidents, while going too fast for conditions was attributed t... (more)
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Teacher Pleads Guilty To Using Stun Gun On StudentA middle school employee on Tuesday pleaded guilty to charges that he used a stun gun on a student.
Shaun Ellis, 25, faces probation to six months in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree assault, prosecutor Kerri Lombardi said.
Ellis, who worked in an after-school program at Horace Mann Middle School, called a boy out class Jan. 11 and took him to the school's empty auditorium.
The boy said Ellis told him he was in trouble for tripping a girl... (more)
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