WND Scoops 2006

• WorldNetDaily was the first news source to give extended coverage of Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt’s hunger strike in protest of the Navy’s policy of discouraging military clergy from praying in Jesus’ name at official events. Klingenschmitt ended his fast after 18 days, but later protested newly released guidelines on prayer from the Air Force – despite other Christians hailing the new policy.
• As WorldNetDaily reported Feb. 22, the most likely victim of a hate crime in the U.S. is a poor, young, white, single urban dweller, according to an analysis of Justice Department statistics collected between July 2000 and December 2003. While race is, by far, the No. 1 factor cited as the reason for hate crimes, blacks are slightly less likely to be victims and far more likely to be perpetrators, the statistics show.
• In February, WorldNetDaily was first to reveal the findings of a report which showed men, not women, are the real victims of sexual discrimination so virulent it is shortening their life spans, causing them to be self-destructive and suicidal, crippling their educational opportunities and destroying a generation of fatherless children. The research contained in the report was conducted by the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men, one of several state panels convened to re-evaluate assumptions about the role of men in society. And as WND also reported, the same panel blew the lid off so-called “paternity fraud.” The panel found as many as 30 percent of men paying child support were, indeed, not the biological fathers of the children being supported. The commission found that even men who later were able to prove they were paying support for the children of other men were sometimes still forced by courts and state agencies to keep paying.
• On Feb. 3, WorldNetDaily broke the news of the impending sale of ABC Radio by parent Disney Corp.
• Hawaii’s gas price controls, imposed when the cost of fuel was hovering around $3 a gallon in many parts of the U.S., actually triggered much higher costs for consumers, WorldNetDaily reported Feb. 19. At one point, Hawaii drivers were paying the highest per-gallon costs in the nation, with record-setting prices of as much as $3.39. The national average at the time was $2.24 a gallon.
• WorldNetDaily broke the story of how shockingly unsanitary conditions discovered at an abortion clinic in which the proprietor was accused of eating a fetus prompted consideration of a bill by the Kansas Legislature to tighten up regulations for all medical facilities.
• Following Hamas’ stunning election victory in the Palestinian Authority, WorldNetDaily revealed how, according to the group’s own charter, Hamas believes the Rotary and Lions Clubs are “secret societies” which are part of the international Zionist conspiracy.
• The chairman of the NAACP, Julian Bond, compared the GOP to Nazis during a speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, WorldNetDaily reported in February. Bond also called President Bush a liar, and characterized Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as tokens.
• AOL’s new Instant Messenger slogan ‘I AM” came under fire by some critics who saw the pitch as a form of blasphemy and WorldNetDaily reported exclusively on the controversy. “I AM” is the English translation of YaHWeH, the self-proclaimed name of God.
• In January, WorldNetDaily was first to reveal NBC’s “The Book of Daniel” had been yanked from the network’s Friday night schedule. As WorldNetDaily also first reported, “The Book of Daniel,” written by a homosexual, was promoted as the only show on television in which Jesus appeared as a recurring character and the only network prime-time drama series with a regular male “gay” character, a 23-year-old Republican son. The main character, Daniel Webster, was a troubled, pill-popping Episcopal priest.
• Following a six-week suspension, Hal Lindsey, considered the best-selling non-fiction writer alive today, notified the Trinity Broadcasting Network he wouldn’t be returning to his twice-weekly Christian commentary program, “The International Intelligence Briefing,” because of what he considered to be efforts to muzzle his opinions about radical Islam, WorldNetDaily reported Jan. 3.
• The incapacitation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has made a pre-emptive U.S. and Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities nearly inevitable, WorldNetDaily reported in January. It was Sharon who vetoed the nearly unanimous recommendations of Israel’s generals that a quick strike was the Jewish state’s only chance at preventing Iran from building a significant nuclear arsenal.
• In January, WorldNetDaily reported on the apocalyptic religious zealotry demonstrated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and how his mystical pre-occupation with the coming of a Shiite Islamic messiah figure – the Mahdi – is raising concerns that a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic could trigger the kind of global conflagration he envisions will set the stage for the end of the world.
• WorldNetDaily reported Jan. 21 that a radical Hispanic group which claims the southwestern United States belongs to Mexico is hailing elusive al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden as the “Pancho Villa of Islam.”
• Three Ohio cities adopted resolutions urging the federal government to make protecting the nation from nuclear terrorist attacks the top security priority, and WorldNetDaily was first to report the story Jan. 17.

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