The Hill
Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest employer, is planning to launch a voter registration and education campaign this fall targeted at its 1.3 million employees in an effort to combat growing criticism from Democrats and labor unions.By doing so, the world’s largest retailer is striding into the national political arena, which until this election cycle it […]
Guardian Unlimited
Details emerged yesterday about the seven interrogation techniques the CIA is seeking to be allowed to apply to terror suspects. Newsweek magazine reported that a New York lawyer, Scott Horton, who has acted as an adviser to the US senate on interrogation methods, had acquired a list of the techniques. The details were corroborated […]
Dean looks at Bush’s election strategy
Some pretty good insight. Go read it.
Yahoo! News Photos
Iraqi Muslim women join other Iraqi Christians during Sunday mass at a Roman Catholic church in Baghdad September 17, 2006. Iraq’s government called on Muslims on Saturday not to attack the country’s small Christian minority in response to remarks by Pope Benedict that have angered Muslims. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud (IRAQ)
BBC NEWS
Christians in America are the target of FoxFaith, a home video label devoted to the country’s church-going audience.Encouraged by the box-office success of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, the 20th Century Fox unit will acquire Christian-themed films for DVD release.
It will also market the cinema release of up to 12 films a […]
globeandmail.
Thailand’s military leaders staged a peaceful, late-night coup yesterday, overthrowing the controversial government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who had travelled to New York to speak at the United Nations.Army commander General Sondhi Boonyaratkalin sent tanks and armoured personnel carriers into positions key government buildings.
The commander, a critic of the Prime Minister with close ties […]
The Anchoress writes on the Pope’s controversial speech
I was going to excerpt a teaser, but I couldn’t decide which part I liked best, and couldn’t quote the whole thing. Go read it, it is a fascinating and deep look at a speech that is deserving of more than the famous sound bite that has stirred […]
USATODAY.com
The Bush administration signaled Sunday that it is willing to compromise with Republican lawmakers to save a CIA interrogation program President Bush says is vital to defeating terrorists.National security adviser Stephen Hadley, making the rounds of Sunday talk shows, said the administration believes it can clarify interrogation rules without amending the Geneva Conventions. The […]
Mail & Guardian Online
An Iraqi militant group led by al-Qaeda vowed a war against the “worshippers of the cross” in response to a recent speech by Pope Benedict on Islam that sparked anger across the Muslim world.”We tell the worshipper of the cross [the pope] that you and the West will be defeated, as is […]
