The Telegraph:
A video was released early today showing Alan Johnston, the BBC reporter kidnapped in Gaza, providing the first proof of life since his abduction almost three months ago.
While the date of recording is unclear, the footage comes as a huge relief to friends and colleagues who in April were told Mr Johnston had been executed.| MORE ›
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In the Opinion Journal Peggy Noonan wonders why the Bush administration showed such bad manners speaking to conservatives recently.| MORE ›
Doctor Jack Kevorkian, also known as “Dr. Death” has been released from prison.
Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist dubbed “Dr. Death” for claims that he participated in at least 130 assisted suicides, left prison after eight years Friday still believing people have the right to die.
A smiling Kevorkian, now 79, said it was “one of the high points in life” as he walked out with his attorney.| MORE ›
Mohammed ElBaradei described his job for BBC Radio:
“I wake every morning and see 100 Iraqis innocent civilians are dying,” he said. “I have no brief other than to make sure we don’t go into another war or that we go crazy into killing each other.| MORE ›
Bad news for Rudy Giuliani: his presidential bid “has provoked a groundswell of opposition from disparate forces including conservative Catholics, remnants of Pat Buchanan’s presidential campaigns and regional political operatives seeking to break into the Republican firmament.”
The opposition is united in its determination to block Giuliani, a supporter of abortion rights and gay rights, from becoming the GOP’s standard bearer.| MORE ›
From now on, I want to publish posts written by other people… occasionally. This is not a group blog, and it will not become one either, but I would like to give the opportunity to readers and other bloggers alike, to contribute something to this blog (once, or every once in a while): I believe that this will raise the level of the blog (after all, just me isn’t exactly uplifting) and might inspire some great debates.| MORE ›
Former Senator John Edwards, a Democratic presidential candidate, told an interviewer on Wednesday that he had read the classified October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate before voting to authorize force in Iraq, but his campaign retracted the statement yesterday.
A spokesman for Mr. Edwards said the candidate had “simply misunderstood the question” and noted that Mr. Edwards had read only a declassified version of the intelligence report.| MORE ›
Ed Morrissey had the honor to interview both Senator John McCain and Governor Mitt Romney. You can listen to both interviews at Blog Talk Radio. Both interviews are very interesting and I encourage all of you to go and listen to them.
AMERICAblog has the following headline up: “Religious extremism increasing in UK.” Now, before one gets the wrong impression, we are not talking about Muslim extremists here.
Well, actually, we are not really talking about extremism at all:| MORE ›
How mainstream are America’s Muslims?
A comprehensive survey of U.S. Muslims released last week, apparently the first of its kind, offered a mostly mainstream picture of a community that has fallen under a microscope since 9/11.| MORE ›
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