| May 1, 2008 | - At a town-hall meeting in Iowa, Baptist minister Marty Parrish asked Republican presidential nominee John McCain whether it was true that he had called his wife, Cindy, a “cunt” in 1992. “You know,” McCain replied, “that's the great thing about town-hall meetings, sir, but we really don't, there's people here who don't respect that kind of language. So I'll move on.” Parrish was then escorted from the meeting by the Secret Service and local police.
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The Huffington Post
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| March 23, 2005 | -
Florida lawmakers were considering an Academic Freedom Bill of Rights, intended to stamp out “leftist totalitarianism,” that would allow students to sue teachers who insist that evolution is factual.
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Alligator.org
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| January 28, 2005 | -
Vladimir Putin noted that "as there were no good and bad fascists, there cannot be good and bad terrorists. Any double standards here are absolutely unacceptable and deadly dangerous for civilization."
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The Globe and Mail
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| May 24, 2004 | -
Israel's justice minister, Yosef Lapid, a Holocaust survivor who lost his father and grandmother to the Nazis, denounced the Sharon government's latest round of home demolitions in the Gaza Strip and said: "When I saw a picture on the TV of an old woman on all fours in the ruins of her home looking under some floor tiles for her medicines — I did think, 'What would I say if it were my grandmother?'" The comment was criticized for its implied comparison of the Israeli army to the Nazis. "We look like monsters in the eyes of the world," Lapid said. "This makes me sick."
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New York Times
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| May 14, 2004 | - New documents emerged about the CIA's friendly relationship with a number of former Nazis after World War II.
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New York Times
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| May 14, 2004 | -
European Union's envoy to Slovakia said that Gypsy children should be taken from their parents and put in boarding schools so that they can learn "European values."
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 1, 2004 | - Vandals defaced 127 graves with swastikas and other Nazi symbols in a Jewish cemetery in Alsace.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 13, 2003 | - Six neo-Nazis were arrested in Germany for plotting to blow up a Jewish cultural center.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 11, 2003 | - Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister of Italy, claimed that Benito Mussolini's dictatorship was "much more benign" than Saddam Hussein's.
"Mussolini did not murder anyone," he said.
"Mussolini sent people on holiday to confine them."
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Times of London
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| September 10, 2003 | -
Leni Riefenstahl died, as did Edward Teller.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 5, 2003 | - Three Israeli F-15 fighter jets piloted by the descendants of Holocaust survivors flew over the Auschwitz
death camp in Poland during a memorial service.
The Auschwitz Museum had opposed the flyover, saying that a military display was inappropriate on such an occasion.
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Associated Press
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| August 26, 2003 | -
Condoleezza Rice, the president's national security adviser, compared the Iraqi guerrillas to the Nazi Werewolves who resisted the Allies after World War II; Rice pleaded for patience and suggested that building democracy in Iraq might take a very, very long time.
"Our own history should remind us that the union of democratic principle and practice is always a work in progress.
When the Founding Fathers said, 'We the People,' they did not mean me.
My ancestors were considered three-fifths of a person."
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New York Times
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| July 16, 2003 | - A German tourist was arrested for trying to steal a crematorium door from a former Nazi
death camp in Poland.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Police near Savannah, Georgia, raided the homes of 11 middle-school
children and discovered firearms, satanic and Nazi posters, and bomb recipes, but no bombs.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Holocaust survivors filed suit against the United States because it did not bomb Auschwitz during World War II.
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| November 28, 2000 | -
Germany was busy deporting Albanians from Kosovo who had overstayed their welcome, though the word deportieren, with its Nazi connotations, was avoided carefully; Abschiebung, sending away, was preferred.
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| October 10, 2000 | -
Neo-Nazis firebombed a synagogue in Düsseldorf, Germany, on the anniversary of German reunification; last year 817 anti-Semitic crimes were reported in Germany.
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| September 12, 2000 | -
German
police confiscated 7,500 neo-Nazi
music CDs.
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