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Posted on Sep 27, 2006

In the news today:

  • Bush’s odious torture legislation clears procedural hurdles, moves closer to passage
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  • Security forces storm a Guatemalan prison controlled by inmates who produce drugs and live in luxury.
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  • For all you Sam Harris fans: Richard Dawkins is coming out with a new book that savages God and religion.
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  • The massacre of a U.S.-trained Colombian anti-drug force demonstrates the difficulty of fighting the drug war.
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  • New York City’s board of health votes to ban trans fats in restaurants—upsetting small-government conservative types.
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  • A German opera is canceled because of a scene depicting the severed head of Muhammad.

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