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From MediaMatters

Questions Arise About Possible Coulter Plagiarism

Blogger Rude Pundit notes that passages from the conservative hatemonger’s new book are similar to previously published writings by other writers.

Posted on Jun 12, 2006 READ MORE | 59 READS

From The Guardian

Buzzflash: Why Not Just Put Zarqawi’s Head on a Pike?

The editors at Buzzflash argue that in displaying the picture of Zarqawi’s dead, bloated face the way it did, the Bush administration is once again displaying the same kind of sophomoric bravado (“Bring ‘em on”) that it used to its great detriment in the past.

Read Truthdig contributor Nir Rosen’s account of the life, death and intellectual underpinnings of Zarqawi.

Also: Buzzflash just won two Project Uncensored awards for contributor columns about U.S. civilian detention camps and “net neutrality.”

Posted on Jun 12, 2006 READ MORE | 74 READS

Successor to Zarqawi Is Announced

Al Qaeda in Iraq said in a Web statement that a militant named Abu Hamza al Muhajer had been chosen as the group’s new leader. Nothing is immediately known about Muhajer, except that his last name is Arabic for immigrant, implying that he is not Iraqi.

Posted on Jun 12, 2006 READ MORE | 14 READS

From cnn.net

Senate Jacks Up On-Air Indecency Fines

We missed this one a few days ago: Congress allowed the FCC to raise by tenfold the fines it can impose on radio and TV stations that air raunchy content. The vote was nearly unanimous in both houses of Congress.
Remember what the “Southpark” creators told us: Horrible, despicable violence is OK, as long as you don’t use potty language.

Posted on Jun 11, 2006 READ MORE | 28 READS

From NBC4

D.C. Cardinal: Gay Civil Unions Acceptable

The leader of the Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., lent his support to same-sex civil unions, but not same-sex marriage.

Posted on Jun 11, 2006 READ MORE | 110 READS

Marine’s Lawyer: Haditha Killings Were Lawful

A lawyer for a Marine involved in the Haditha massacre said his client had followed military rules of engagement.

Posted on Jun 11, 2006 READ MORE | 22 READS

From islam-online.it

U.S. Military: Gitmo Suicides Acts of ‘Warfare’

The commander of the Guantanamo detention center said the three detainees who killed themselves were “committed” and had carried out “an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us.” Rights groups, however, said the men were driven by despair.

Posted on Jun 11, 2006 READ MORE | 233 READS

From ThinkProgress

Blogs and the Left: An Emerging Symbiosis

Veteran N.Y. Times political reporter Adam Nagourney, reporting from the blog conference in Las Vegas, writes that “the blogosphere has become for the left what talk radio has been for the right: a way of organizing and communicating to supporters.”

Posted on Jun 11, 2006 READ MORE | 21 READS

‘Smart Pill’ Use Skyrockets Among Students

High school and college students are popping more speedy prescription pills than ever in an attempt to help them study.

Posted on Jun 11, 2006 READ MORE | 67 READS

Dems Closing Fundraising Gap with GOP

Even RNC chairman Ken Mehlman says that the Internet has proved much more lucrative for Democratic candidates than it has for Republicans.

Posted on Jun 11, 2006 READ MORE | 15 READS

Three Gitmo Inmates Commit Suicide

The detainees hanged themselves with nooses made of sheets and clothes, sparking renewed calls to close the detention facility.

Posted on Jun 10, 2006 READ MORE | 63 READS

AP	Insurgents Post New Beheading Video Beheading videos were the favored means of propaganda of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, and this new one was clearly made to quash hopes his death would hamper the insurgency. Posted on Jun 10, 2006 READ MORE \| 17645 READS

U.S. Raids Follow Zarqawi’s Death

American forces carried out almost 40 raids in the wake of the airstrike death of the terrorist leader. But as Truthdig contributor Nir Rosen writes, the absence of Zarqawi is likely to lead to greater sectarian bloodshed in Iraq.
(Also: Zarqawi survived the attack and tried to escape.)

Posted on Jun 10, 2006 READ MORE | 24 READS

From Tufts.edu

Sidney Blumenthal: Bush Sr. Tried to Replace Rumsfeld

The former president waged a secret campaign earlier this year to replace the secretary of defense with a retired four-star general, according to Sidney Blumenthal. (Pay wall / ad-watching req’d.)

Posted on Jun 10, 2006 READ MORE | 771 READS

From USA Today

Murtha May Run for Majority Leader

Rep. John Murtha, one of the most outspoken antiwar Democrats on the Hill, has told fellow lawmakers that he will run for House majority leader if the Democrats retake the House in November.