July 5, 2008
Washington Post / Bart Barnes and Matt Schudel
Jesse Helms, the North Carolina Republican senator whose uncompromising conservatism made him one of America's leading crusaders against communism, liberalism, tax increases, abortion, homosexuality, affirmative action and court-ordered busing to integrate schools, died yesterday at Mayview.
July 5, 2008
washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook / Daniel Benjamin
The president's chronic failure to make decisions, and to carry them out, has hurt U.S. foreign policy.
July 5, 2008
Washington Post / Joel B. Pollak
At Harvard, the star of Arabic A is a girl named Maha. Maha Muhammed Abulaal, to be precise. She's the pouty protagonist in the melodrama that runs throughout "Al-Kitaab," the standard beginning text in Arabic classes at Harvard and other American universities.
July 5, 2008
Washington Post / Post
WHEN A NEWSPAPER gets its facts wrong, it's supposed to publish a correction, and, if someone's reputation has been harmed, a retraction and apology. It can be embarrassing, but the occasional taste of crow probably does more good than harm to the media's credibility.
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July 5, 2008
Telegraph News | Top News
Pentagon chiefs fear that Israeli plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear
programme will fail to destroy the facilities because neither the CIA nor
Mossad knows where every base is located
July 5, 2008
washingtonpost.com - Oil and Gas Prices / Gal Luft
When the founding fathers declared our independence, they could not have imagined that, 232 years later, the United States would be so spectacularly dependent on foreign countries. It would be roughly eight more decades before oil gushed from a well in Titusville, Pa.
July 5, 2008
Wake up America / Susan Duclos (noreply@blogger.com)
July 5, 2008
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(WXYZ) Our reporting partners at the Detroit News are reporting that the FBI has electronic surveillance that links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers to the Synagro scandal.The evi.
July 5, 2008
Washington Post / Joby Warrick
Soon after accepting the post of CIA director two years ago, Michael V. Hayden set an unusual goal for his scandal-beset agency: virtual invisibility.
July 4, 2008
Jihad Watch / Robert
As one might expect, the FBI proposes a common-sense procedure -- spend more time looking for terror activity among Muslims than among Methodist grandmothers -- and CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror funding case, cries foul.
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July 5, 2008
The Moderate Voice / DAMOZEL
I happen to think the FISA bill is a terrible piece of legislation — and not just because of the telecom issue — but I am pretty sure it’s going to pass. That’s not what this is about.
July 5, 2008
azcentral.com | news
Noose found on the mailbox of a former Yuma County supervisor who is Black.
July 5, 2008
Forum: News/Activism / wxyz.com
Our reporting partners at the Detroit News are reporting that the FBI has electronic surveillance that links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers to the Synagro scandal. The evidence reportedly proves that Conyers received either a payment or payments in connection with the city-approved sludge contract.
July 5, 2008
madison.com - RSS / TCT: The Capital Times
National and state emergency management officials are sending hydrologists into several Wisconsin counties to rectify the problem of standing water, the Federal Emergency Management Agency field