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Entries from September 2006

Poll: Dems Fear Torture, Wiretaps More Than Terrorists

by Scott Ott · 139 Comments

(2006-09-29) — According to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, 89 percent of Democrats believe it’s more likely that they will personally be subjected to NSA wiretaps and CIA waterboarding, than it is that Islamic terrorists will attempt another attack on U.S. soil.

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Tags: Law · Politics · U.S. News

Pelosi Slams Clinton Failure to Protect Detainees

by Scott Ott · 44 Comments

(2006-09-28) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, today criticized former President Bill Clinton for what she called “his failure to connect the dots and do more to protect terrorist detainee rights before 9/11.”

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Tags: U.S. News

Clinton: Conspiracy Theorists Out to Get Me

by Scott Ott · 198 Comments

(2006-09-26) — The morning after Fox News aired reporter Chris Wallace’s interview with a feisty Bill Clinton, the former president today said, “Right-wing, neocon conspiracy theorists are out to get me.”

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Tags: Global News · Politics · U.S. News

Intel Report: Fighting Terrorists Creates Terrorists

by Scott Ott · 84 Comments

(2006-09-25) — A newly-leaked top-secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) from April 2006 reveals that America’s 16 spy agencies have finally discovered that terrorists are created by attempts to defeat terrorists.

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Tags: Global News · U.S. News

Experts: Bin Laden Death Might Explain U.N. Sulfur Smell

by Scott Ott · 49 Comments

(2006-09-23) — United Nations authorities are probing a possible link between reports that al Qaeda leader Usama Bin Laden died recently and the peculiar sulfur smell which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he detected while speaking to the U.N. General Assembly this week.

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Tags: Global News

GOP Funds Ahmadinejad-Chavez Speaking Tour

by Scott Ott · 146 Comments

(2006-09-21) — The Republican National Committee (RNC) today offered to fund a coast-to-coast U.S. speaking tour featuring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

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Tags: Global News · Politics

Sorry Pope Considers Sainthood for Muhammad

by Scott Ott · 155 Comments

(2006-09-18) — A day after violent riots spurred Pope Benedict XVI to apologize for implying that Islam has brought more evil to the world, the Pontiff today agreed to consider a petition to add the name of Islam’s founder to the pantheon of Roman Catholic saints.

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Tags: Global News · Theology