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Dunkin Donuts has pulled a commercial featuring pitchwoman Rachael Ray wearing a scarf because Michelle Malkin and other conservative observers thought the scarf looked too much like a keffiyeh, what Malkin describes as “the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad.”
WASHINGTON — In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controversial issues produced a memoir damning of his old boss on nearly every level _ from too much secrecy to a less-than-honest selling of the war to a lack of personal candor and an unwillingness to admit mistakes.
Hillary Clinton’s argument for staying in the race took a disturbing turn today. While meeting with the editorial board of South Dakota’s Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, she raised the specter of Obama’s assassination as a reason to stay in the race:
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it.”
Last night’s all new “Saturday Night Live” was hosted by actor Shia Labeouf. The show opened with Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton giving a message to America. Poehler’s Clinton says how the race is “hopelessly deadlocked” and she gives reasons why she will make the better president. Reason one? “I am a sore loser… I will probably refuse to campaign for him.” Second: “My supporters are racist.” It goes from there. Read more »
Since the fall of dictator Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia’s ongoing civil war has caused more than 300,000 deaths. In recent days, more than 90,000 have fled the Somali capital. Since the collapse of dictator Siad Barre’s government in 1991, a number of Islamist groups have sprung up all over Somalia and have banded together as the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC). This organisation rivals the interim government of Somalia, composed of former warlords and their factions. The present regime has been divided by internal quarrels and disagreements about the presence of external peacekeepers on Somali soil. more
Amran Abocar is Canadian treasury editor, based in Toronto. A Somali-Canadian citizen, she has worked for Reuters since 1998 and is temporarily based in Dubai. In the following story she recounts experiences of the roads in the most congested city in the Middle East. By Amran Abocar
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