ISLAMABAD (AP) The lawyer for a man convicted of killing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl said Sunday he will file an appeal using an al-Qaida lieutenant’s recent confession that he beheaded the reporter.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has claimed that he planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, claimed at a U.S. military hearing at...
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Today in Moronia
- Gail Collins: ‘Instantly, like a daffodil in spring, a new committee popped up’
- Extract of Chinese herb kudzu reduces alcohol consumption
- California school food standards change teens eating habits for the better
- New male birth control procedure said to be 100% effective, completely reversible
- Video of police fatally beating homeless man causes spectators to leave courtroom
- Gene Weingarten is alarmed at how cheap he’d sell his moral integrity
- Plants use perfume to attract beneficial bacteria to their roots
- Privatized prison labor competes with regular business at 93 cents a day
- There is no invisible hand
- Does Mitt Romney support paid sick days for working mothers?
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Khalid confession will be used in appeal of Pakistani convicted of killing David Pearl
Today’s Quote
“The religion of Hell is patriotism.” –James Branch Cabell Jurgen, a Comedy of Justice
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Coultergeist: Murdered abortion doctors ‘had a procedure with a rifle performed on them’
“Those few abortionists were shot, or, depending on your point of view, had a procedure with a rifle performed on them. I’m not justifying it, but I do understand how it happened…. The number of deaths attributed to Roe v. Wade: about 40 million aborted babies and seven abortion clinic workers; 40 million to...
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Betting begins on Libby pardon
The online futures exchange Intrade.com has created a market in Libby pardon futures. “There’s good interest in the market already,” John Delaney, Intrade’s chief executive, said by telephone from Dublin. He said traders so far had collectively predicted a 23 percent chance of a pardon by the end of 2007 and 63 percent by...
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