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  • Full face view of women urged

    02/28/2007 3:32:38 AM PST · by Masada · 4 replies · 640+ views
    Herald-Sun ^ | 2/28/07 | Anonymous
    MUSLIM women will have to make sure their face is fully visible when they have a photograph taken for the government's new access card. The proposed system will replace the Medicare card and be compulsory for any Australian who wants to access up to 16 other government health and welfare services. In its submission to a Senate inquiry examining the access card legislation, which is currently before parliament, the government provided examples of a how a photograph would be taken of a person wearing a headscarf.
  • BusinessWeek's "Martin Smithers": Sock Puppet, or Satirical Genius?

    10/29/2006 4:02:37 AM PST · by Masada · 3 replies · 1,179+ views
    Gawker.com ^ | Oct. 27, 2006
    We hear that after a recent redesign of the story pages, the level of reader commentary at BusinessWeek's site has dropped precipitously, whether for technical or aesthetic reasons. This prompted exec editor Kathy Rebello to perform some field tests: From: Rebello, Kathy Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:56 AM To: Litscher, Ross; Meersschaert, Niels Subject: RE: Reader Comments aren't working Ross, I kicked it around this morning posting comments here, there, and everywhere -- and it blessedly works. Thanks so much. This is such an important part of our site and I know that getting it working again was a...
  • Business Week Publishes Democratic Party Hit-Piece As News

    09/12/2005 10:40:06 PM PDT · by Masada · 13 replies · 1,033+ views
    Power Line Blog ^ | 9/12/05 | John Hinderaker
    Today's example of MSM bias: this Business Week article by Leo Hindery, Jr., titled "Tragedy and Telecom." The article is subtitled, "How the Bush Administration's antiregulation stance contributed to the post-Katrina communications collapse -- and what should be done now." Mr. Hindery's indictment of the Bush administration is the latest effort to blame the President for just about everything associated with Hurricane Katrina. Its reasoning is so fragmentary, however, that Hindery never does explain why "the Bush administration's antiregulation stance" had anything to do with the hurricane or its aftermath. That doesn't stop Hindery from dropping the usual snide comments....
  • Michaud loses defamation lawsuit (Canadian Antisemite Loses In Court)

    05/14/2002 9:24:25 PM PDT · by Masada · 235+ views
    Montreal Gazette ^ | May 14/02 | Sean Gordon
    SEAN GORDON Montreal Gazette Tuesday, May 14, 2002 Former MNA Yves Michaud, who provoked an uproar 15 months ago with comments he made about Jews, has lost a defamation lawsuit against a McGill professor who qualified Michaud's remarks as "anti-Semitic." Michaud had sought $15,000 in damages from Marc Angenot, a French professor who said during a Radio-Canada interview: "Yves Michaud has the right to make anti-Semitic statements and I have the right to find them contemptible." Michaud sued, claiming his reputation had been sullied by Angenot. In a written decision dated May 2, Quebec Court Judge Antonio De Michele found...
  • The White and the Outhouse

    03/02/2002 11:14:05 AM PST · by Masada · 7 replies · 231+ views
    New Zealand Herald ^ | 03-02-02 | Kiwi Correspondent
    Late on Tuesday night, when the will of the voters can no longer be denied, it's a near-certain bet that Congressman Gary Condit will step to the podium, turn those big, round, hangdog eyes towards the cameras and concede that his political career is officially over. We can expect him to say all the predictable things, to thank his dutiful family for standing by him through months of crisis and also, perhaps, to snarl a few bitter words about what it is like to be crucified by the media. If we're lucky - and this bit will make fine TV ...
  • The Importance of Israel

    10/06/2001 10:02:00 AM PDT · by Masada · 191 replies · 3,439+ views
    The Forward ^ | 10-5-2001 | editorial
    Disaster doesn't always bring out the best in us. Sometimes, tragically, it brings out the worst. A case in point: the finger-pointing in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, seeking to blame the atrocities on America's supposedly misguided support for Israel — and on Jewish Americans who supposedly manipulate the system to tilt our policy the wrong way. No, it's not a national groundswell. You hear it mainly on the margins, and if past experience is a guide, it will stay there. Still, the variety and persistence of the finger-pointers is startling: left-wing professors in California, right-wing fanatics ...
  • The Impotence of Being Earnest

    08/13/2001 9:37:57 PM PDT · by Masada · 17+ views
    Business Week Online ^ | By Lee Walczak
    Anybody who read Paul Gigot's piece in the WSJ on Friday might like to check out this link. It's an example of the liberal's anti-Gore orthodoxy, which he will now have to overcome if he ants to get the nomination. Anyway, it's an interesting attack on Gore -- and a cry from the heart for someone to emerge as the Dems' next Great Hope. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf20010814_868.htm