Quoted: Pakistan’s younger Islamic militants are bringing the jihad waged in Afghanistan back home: breaking with senior mullahs, renouncing elections and killing police officers, soldiers and, perhaps, Benazir Bhutto.

Quoted: The U.S. military's claim that violence has decreased sharply in Iraq in recent months has come under scrutiny from many experts within and outside the government, who contend that some of the underlying statistics are questionable and selectively ignore negative trends.

Quoted: Medical research, tackling poverty and education, and reconstruction of New Orleans would all be ways to spend $1.2 trillion. Here’s another: The war in Iraq.

Example #2. The great American paper the Washington Post. Try to find the part where the Iraqi captain says he wants to Americans out. Hmmm, guess that part was left on the editing room floor. But they are a liberal paper, aaargh.

Quoted: JAKARTA (Reuters) - The healing power of sport has always been an objective issue. Its ability to unite people is balanced by its capacity to divide.

An Australian paper. Note where the Iraqi captain is quoted as saying he wants the Americans out of Iraq.

Quoted: EMOTION swept Iraq to a fairytale Asian Cup win at Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta on Sunday night, but the joyous victory sprint of the match-winning captain, Younis Mahmoud, could not outpace the tragedies of his strife-torn nation. -

Quoted: Keith Olbermann offers his take on Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's scare tactics: "We are risking all of our rights and protections and risking the anger and hatred of the rest of the world for the sake of Michael Chertoff's gut."

Rosa Brooks writes in her Los Angeles Times opinion column: "Like freed hostages who gradually cease to identify with their captors, mainstream media outlets seem to have been seized by a new spirit of liberation in their coverage of the Bush administration. Lately, we've seen a rash of astonished, outraged stories and editorials relating to the administration's recently discovered malfeasance. . . .

"[I]f the media have finally noticed that the emperor has no clothes, it's all to the good. Still, I'm troubled by the suggestion that all of us were somehow 'tricked' by administration subterfuge into accepting its nefarious policies. . . .

"Someday, historians will ponder our strange collective passivity in the face of Bush-Cheney madness. Why did the editorial boards of our major newspapers either parrot the administration line or raise only muted criticism on so many issues, and for so long? Where were the tough journalistic questions? Why didn't more members of Congress protest the administration's blatantly unjustified policies and transparent constitutional outrages? . . .

"It's hard not to conclude that collectively, we were all too cowardly, slothful or puffed up with our own self-importance to ask the right questions and stand up for principle. The administration didn't trick us; we tricked ourselves."

Quoted: The Australian, Australia's national daily newspaper.

Why are we funding abstinence programs again? And what is abstinence-only sex education in the first palce? Don't have sex until you're 18? Don't have sex until you're married? Don't have sex until you're divorced? Is the motivation to prevent teen pregnancy? And doesn't teen pregnancy break down along socioeconomic lines? Maybe the social geographers can help me out here...

Quoted: A long-awaited national study has concluded that abstinence-only sex education, a cornerstone of the Bush administration's social agenda, does not keep teenagers from having sex. Neither does it increase or decrease the likelihood that if they do have sex, they will use a condom.