Would you expect a former writer for the Village Voice and The Nation to be harshly critical of soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his band of not-so merry manmade global warming alarmists?

 

Neither would I.

 

Yet there it was in the leftwing newsletter CounterPunch, written by editor Alexander Cockburn. (Hat tip NewsBusters)

 

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In late March, a macabre music video appeared on a television show for Palestinian children. "Duha," 4, as pale as a porcelain doll, is sitting on a bed, watching her mom dress before leaving home. "Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me?" the girl sings. The next day, Duha gets the answer from the evening news. It turns out her mother was carrying explosives and had blown herself up, killing four Israelis. The final scene shows the girl wistfully rummaging through her dead mother's bedside table. She finds a hidden stick of dynamite and picks it up. The implicit message is that someday Duha will follow her mother into blazing martyrdom.

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The top U.S. commander in Iraq reminded his troops Thursday that they must fight by the rules after a Pentagon survey found many soldiers and Marines support torture to save a comrade's life and would not report a member of their unit for killing or wounding civilians.

 

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Suddenly the Atlanta Falcons wish they hadn't traded Matt Schaub. According to profootballtalk.com, Mike Vick not only funded the dog fighting operation, but he's a huge fan of dog fighting and has been knowingly orchestrating and promoting the entire operation.   more »

One very amazing video...

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Suzy Kolber, how did you get this job and how do you keep this job? Those two questions are infinitely better than what you asked Brady Quinn during the draft.   more »

The Taleban's top military commander in Afghanistan, Mullah Dadullah, has been killed in fighting in the south.

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"Hey Bubba?" "Yeah, Leroy?"  "I love yer hairy butt..."

A suit was filed on behalf of a 12-year-old girl who claims she suffered psychological distress when a teacher showed in class the gay-themed movie "Brokeback Mountain."

The girl, Jessica Turner, and her grandparents Kenneth and LaVerne Richardson, are seeking more than $400,000 in damages under the suit filed Friday against the Chicago Board of Education and others. 

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Pete J. Costello, 28, pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to defraud the government and to Social Security fraud. He began receiving disability benefits when he was 8. He was ordered to repay the $59,226 he has received since turning 18.

 

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Planned Parenthood is under fire after one of its employees was recorded encouraging a student - who was posing as a pregnant minor - to lie about her age in order to obtain an abortion without the abortion provider having to report the "statutory rape" to the police.

 

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Following on the heels of an 'anti-discrimination' plan Christians insist would virtually outlaw their religious beliefs comes another proposal – introduced by openly homosexual U.S. Rep. Barney Frank – that requires businesses to give special privileges to "gay" and "transgendered" individuals.

 

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I wonder if the Leftwingers have put out a hit on the old boy yet?

"Why are conservative women pundits so much prettier than than the Liberals? Seriously, what is it? Is it because they shave their legs? Wear deodorant? Keep the armpit hair to a minimum? Im just curious."

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Abortion rights supporters — who believe that a woman has the right to make decisions about her own body — have had to grapple with the reality that the right to choose may well be used selectively to abort fetuses deemed genetically undesirable. And many are finding that, while they support a woman’s right to have an abortion if she does not want to have a baby, they are less comfortable when abortion is used by women who don’t want to have a particular baby.

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This pic DOES come in handy around here...

The narcissism of the Olberdork on full display.

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U.S. Rep. William "Cold Cash" Jefferson, D-New Orleans

House Democrats are suddenly balking at the tough lobbying reforms they touted to voters last fall as a reason for putting them in charge of Congress.

Now that they are running things, many Democrats want to keep the big campaign donations and lavish parties that lobbyists put together for them. They're also having second thoughts about having to wait an extra year before they can become high-paid lobbyists themselves should they retire or be defeated at the polls.

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"I fear that attempts are being made to purposefully subvert the public understanding of the nature of science in order to achieve political goals," he wrote in an e-mail. "Science is not about consensus, and to invoke this raises the hackles of scientists such as myself. The lure of politics and publicity is no doubt seductive, but it nevertheless amazes me that so many scientists have jumped on the bandwagon of consensus science, apparently forgetting or ignoring the sad history of consensus science."

 

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Amidst fake rape allegations, an agenda driven prosecutor, and a media determined to falsely convict them, Duke Lacrosse manages to rise above.   more »