Neil Cavuto was livid and about to burst a blood vessel today (September 21, 2006) over Hugo Chavez's plan to sell heating oil at discount prices to low income residents of New York City. (Chavez also plans to donate 100 gallons of heating oil to 12,000 rural Alaskans, which, curiously, Cavuto didn't mention.) Avoiding obvious questions like why U.S. oil companies don't donate oil to our poor, or why it is that people in this country can't afford to heat their homes, Cavuto, wearing an American ... (more)
September 22, 2006 -- U.S. President George W. Bush said today the first he heard of a purported five-year-old U.S. threat to bomb Pakistan was when he "read it in the newspaper today."
Bush's comments came after Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage threatened to bomb his country "back to the Stone Age" after the September 11, 2001, attacks unless Pakistan helped Washington fight Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.... (more)
Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez's outrageous comments about President Bush brought wide condemnation from political friends and foes alike yesterday - as Chavez hinted that Bush plotted the 9/11 attacks and again called him the devil.
"You don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district, and you don't condemn my President," Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) scolded after Chavez's rambling, 90-minute rant at Harlem's Mount Olivet Baptist Church.
During a segment on the September 19 edition of the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club about Pope Benedict XVI's recent controversial comments about Islam and Al Qaeda's reaction, host Pat Robertson stated: "[W]e understand the leaders of Al Qaeda are calling for a holy war between Islam and Christianity. It's going to come, ladies and gentlemen."
As Media Matters for America noted, Robertson stated on the August 29 edition of The 700 Club that "Osama bin Laden may be o... (more)
A short film about the downing of Cubana Airlines Flight 455 and the death of all 73 on board, and the necessity to extradite the organizer of that terrorist act, Luis Posada Carril... (more)
Fox News turned to fomenting war against another country Wednesday (Sept. 20, 2006), with one of its anchors warning of a Cuban missile crisis looming with Venezuela and claiming th... (more)
Bill O'Reilly may be the most fervent flag waver on cable—a patriot who believes in torturing terrorists and profiling all Muslims. But is that enough to get him targeted by Al Qaeda?
The loofah-loving Fox News host is raising plenty of eyebrows around the office after telling Barbara Walters in an interview with ABC's 20/20 that, "the FBI came in and warned me and a few other people at Fox News that Al Qaeda had us on a death list." O'Reilly describes the experience—a... (more)
RAMALLAH – A group claiming to be al-Qaeda yesterday announced it was behind the assassination last week of a senior Palestinian security official, accusing the officer of "collaborating" with the "Zionists" and the United States.
The group, calling itself Al-Qaeda in Palestine, warned of more killings. It said its next attack in the region would be "more destructive" and would use "trucks full of explosives."
Last Friday, Jad Tayeh, director of foreign relat... (more)
Bill O'Reilly will not rest until he proves that harsh interrogation, never call it torture, really gets results. Tonight he had Brian Ross, ABC News, on The Factor to reinforce his claims that the CIA use of "alternative" interrogation methods like waterboarding are not only safe but very effective breaking down 14 terror suspects.Then Carol Bogart, Human Rights Watch, appeared so BOR could feel personally vindicated but his plan fell short. .
More than half of voters believe Tony Blair's 'war on terror' has made Britain a more dangerous place, according to a devastating new poll.
Almost three in four people now think the world is more violent than it was 50 years ago, and the majority believe religion is at the root of most conflict.
The public believes Government policies have helped make terrorism now the second biggest violent threat to the UK, after crime.
China Netease, one of China's most popular Internet portals, held a survey on the subject "If there were a next life, would you like to be a Chinese." 64 percent of Internet surfers answered that they "would not like to be a Chinese again next life." The survey sparked vigourous discussions, but now the web page has been shut down.
10,234 people participated in the Netease survey, which ran from September 4 to September 10. Sixty-four percent of those surveyed "would not like to ... (more)
The Texas Tech Student Government Association will discuss passing a resolution to make The Daily Toreador change how they display the death toll of the people who died in Iraq.
Scott Gorenc, a senator in the SGA, was the author of the resolution.
"How someone displays a graphic is powerful," Gorenc said. "How The Daily Toreador puts it is not an image of respect."
Gorenc said he would suggest The DT put the numbers in more of a script style.
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Many adults in the United States believe the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) should avoid the use of forceful interrogation techniques, according to a poll by Gallup released by USA Today. 57 per cent of respondents want the CIA to abide by the same Geneva Convention standards that apply to the U.S. military.
The 1949 Geneva Convention defines prisoners of war as members of rival armed forces captured during a conflict. Since the start of the war on terrorism on October 2001, th... (more)
On Friday, September 15, the film, "The Ground Truth," opened in selected cities around the country, including Austin. The riveting documentary directed by Patricia Foulkrod is scheduled to run for one week at the Dobie Theatre. The film gives voice to young veterans of the Iraq war, who speak candidly about the successive phases of their military experience: recruitment, basic training, combat, re-entry into civilian society, physical and psychological war injuries and the consequent realizatio... (more)
Straight talk from soldiers, veterans and their family members tells what is missing from the sales pitches presented by recruiters and the military's marketing efforts.
For the first time, Pakistani President Pervez Musharaff has revealed that his government may know the general whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
Speaking at a meeting in New York earlier this week, Musharaff conceded that bin Laden may well be in his country, according to people who heard his comments.
"We believe he is somewhere between Bajaur, Pakistan, and the province of Kunar in Afghanistan," he said at a meeting connected to his appearance at the United Nations... (more)
Monroe — Some Monroe-Woodbury School District parents received an unexpected refresher course in the ABCs of sex last week.
An inappropriate font inadvertently was used as the cover sheet for a third-grade spelling curriculum at Pine Tree Elementary School in Monroe. The font depicts male and female stick figures contorted into various kinky positions to form the letters of the alphabet.
The spelling packet was handed out to parents of third-graders, not the s... (more)
Sept. 17, 2006 — An in-your-face documentary out this weekend is raising eyebrows, raising hackles and raising questions about evangelizing to young people.
Speaking in tongues, weeping for salvation, praying for an end to abortion and worshipping a picture of President Bush — these are some of the activities at Pastor Becky Fischer's Bible camp in North Dakota, "Kids on Fire," subject of the provocative new documentary, "Jesus Camp."
Pope Benedict XVI has been targeted by the Mujahideen's Army movement in Iraq for a suicide attack, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The threat — revenge for the Pope's recent comments about Islam and jihad — was posted on a Web site used by rebel movements in Iraq. A message posted by the Mujahideen's Army said members of the organization would "smash the crosses in the house of the dog from Rome."
European religious and political leaders have backed th... (more)
