PARIS (Reuters) - The United States and Israel, despite their democratic credentials, fall down badly in their respect for press freedoms in conflict zones, a media group said on Wednesday.

The reason I'm asking this is because I came across this photo at Andrew Romano's The Stumper:
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Take another look at that photo, and that nice, expensive silk scarf which she wore yesterday. Isn't that a really cute animal motif there? Why, yes, it is, since it features my favorite party animal:
The donkey. Yep, you got that---the Democratic donkey!

On the day of the 9-11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good.......Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)"

Obama tries out a few new lines in Colorado, Carrie Budoff Brown reports:
"But now suddenly, John McCain says he is about change, too. He even started using some of my lines. Suddenly he says he wants 'to turn the page.'

On June 5, 1873, in a letter to The Times, Sir Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and a distinguished African explorer in his own right, outlined a daring (if by today's standards utterly offensive) new method to 'tame' and colonise what was then known as the Dark Continent.