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Veronika Oleksyn / Associated Press:
Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years  —  VIENNA, Austria - Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty Monday to denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to three years in prison, even after conceding he wrongly said there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Veronika Oleksyn / Associated Press:
Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years in Jail  —  VIENNA, Austria — Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust _ a crime in the country where Hitler was born.
BBC:
Holocaust denier Irving is jailed  —  British historian David Irving has been found guilty in Vienna of denying the Holocaust of European Jewry and sentenced to three years in prison.  —  He had pleaded guilty to the charge, based on a speech and interview he gave in Austria in 1989.
Dawood Wafa / Reuters:
Afghan cartoon protesters threaten to join al Qaeda  —  JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of Afghan students shouted support on Monday for Osama bin Laden and threatened to join al Qaeda during a protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.  —  In an attempt to cool the controversy …
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Ray Robison / The American Thinker:
The proof has been right in front of you the entire time.  Documents available on the internet, which pass the smell test and are probably genuine, show the link between Saddam and al Qaeda.  —  On October 11th, 2004 an online news service called CNSnews published 42 documents that they claimed came from the Iraq Survey Group.
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Roots  —  Taylor Marsh did a post recently that really stuck with me and I've been meaning to do something on it for a while.  It was about local radio, and how the Republicans have such an excellent network of people they can rely on to get their message out.  There is nothing like it that exists on the left:
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The dying scandal that keeps growing  —  Ever since the NSA scandal began, Bush followers, led by Karl Rove, and even some frightened Democrats, have loudly insisted that this scandal is actually beneficial for Republicans, because they can use it to depict Democrats as weak on national security.
Daily Kos:   Local races  —  One thing I hope to encourage everyone …
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush: U.S. on Verge of Energy Breakthrough  —  MILWAUKEE - Saying the nation is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that would "startle" most Americans, President Bush on Monday outlined his energy proposals to help wean the country off foreign oil.  —  Less than half the crude oil used …
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Will / Attytood:
How Santorum paid for his Va. house...and his Starbucks coffee  —  Last spring, I wrote a post that was highly critical of a New York Times Magazine profile of Sen. Rick Santorum.  We thought the piece overplayed his "spiritual" side, and overlooked some inconvenient facts about both his agenda …
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
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Will Bunch / American Prospect:
With A Little Help From His Friends  —  Exclusive: An investigation into the private and public finances of Rick Santorum suggests that the Senate GOP might want to reconsider making him its ethics czar.  —  "In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when …
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Troubleshooting the Tale of a Hunt Gone Sour  —  WASHINGTON — Mary Matalin, Vice President Dick Cheney's longtime troubleshooter, was sleeping in last Sunday when the phone jangled her awake at 8 a.m. She groggily picked it up to hear, 'The vice president shot somebody, and he's O.K.' "
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
How Not to Keep Your Head Down  —  Nothing makes journalists madder …
Jimmy Carter / Washington Post:
Don't Punish the Palestinians  —  As the results of the recent Palestinian elections are implemented, it's important to understand how the transition process works and also how important to it are actions by Israel and the United States.  —  Although Hamas won 74 of the 132 parliamentary seats …
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Patrick Hynes / anklebitingpundits.com:
Is Jimmy Carter On The Hamas Payroll?
Discussion: Suitably Flip
Matthew Verrinder / Associated Press:
N.J. Senator Latest to Assail Port Sale  —  NEWARK, N.J. - Democratic senators assailed an Arab company's takeover of operations at six major American ports and said Monday that President Bush should stop the deal to better protect the U.S. from terrorists.  —  "We wouldn't turn …
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thetowntalk.com:
Beauregard motorists shot by quail hunter  —  Two Beauregard Parish motorists were accidentally shot in the face on Saturday by a quail hunter near Dry Creek.  —  A group of three men were hunting quail southeast of Dry Creek around 4 p.m. Saturday when a pickup truck with two men inside stopped to watch the hunters' birding dogs.
Discussion: RightWinged.com and Say Anything
Maha / The Mahablog:
Patriotism v. Francis Fukuyama  —  This is only tangential to the "patriotism v. nationalism" series I seem to have embarked on, but I'd like to toss it in to the mix now before it gets stale.  —  Some years ago I read the original "The End of History?" article that Francis Fukuyama wrote in 1989 …
Jim Tankersley / toledoblade.com:
Hackett's research targeted Brown  —  Votes to cut funding for intelligence cited  —  Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown voted to cut intelligence funding more than a dozen times before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a record that Paul Hackett's campaign advisers called proof …

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