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Yeah, it's still giving this nutcase attention, but it is sort of encouraging to see this : With a fringe Florida pastor’s plan for “Burn a Koran Day” coming under worldwide scrutiny, The Associated Press wire service said Thursday that it would not share any images of a Koran being burned. In a telephone interview, Kathleen Carroll, the executive editor of The A.P., said “there are lots of other similarly offensive images that we choose not to run all the time.” “Most people don’t know that because, of course, we don’t run them,” she said. Mr. Kent’s memo noted that the Koran burning may not take place at all. Should it take place, “The A.P. will not distribute images or audio that specifically show Qurans being burned, and will not provide detailed text descriptions of the burning,” he wrote. Yet.... “With the exception of these specific images and descriptions, we expect to cover the Gainesville event, in all media, placing the actions of this group of about 50 people i...

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Photo from BBC A "war to the bitter end." Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister, told parliament Israel was not fighting the residents of Gaza. "But we have a war to the bitter end against Hamas and its branches," he said. Barak said the goal is to deal Hamas a "severe blow" and that the operation would be "widened and deepened as needed." Israel's intense bombings — more than 300 airstrikes since midday Saturday — reduced dozens of buildings to rubble. The military said naval vessels also bombarded targets from the sea. America's passive one sided response as usual, coming from the worst Administration ever as Obama stays silent during vacation in Hawaii: On Monday, the White House released a statement saying "in order for the violence to stop, Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel and agree to respect a sustainable and durable cease-fire." But in Damascus, Syria, a senior exiled Hamas official said there can be no talk...

Original photo form Google.com That country talked about in the preceding title isn't Iraq, or Syria, or Zimbabwe. Sadly, this is another disturbing conversation about America. When our Department of Justice does things like this ( as well as the FBI ), it shows how the Cheney/Bush Administration has embarrassed our country. The vote suppression movement is running deep in this country now. From the assiduous Zachary Roth : Add the Obama campaign to the growing list of players who think that DOJ's election-eve investigation into ACORN is a repeat of the politicization of the department that we saw in the US attorney firings scandal. "With this voter fraud [investigation], we're seeing an unholy alliance of law enforcement and the ugliest form of partisan politics," Bob Bauer, an elections lawyer with the Obama camp, said on a conference call with reporters just now. Bauer compared the decision to launch the investigation with the US attorneys scandal, in which ...