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Burt Herman / Associated Press:
North Korea Pledges to Drop Nuke Programs — BEIJING - North Korea agreed Monday to stop building nuclear weapons and allow international inspections in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation and security assurances, a breakthrough that marked a first step toward disarmament after two years of six-nation talks.
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Associated Press:
Negotiators: N. Korea to halt nuke programs — In breakthrough, Pyongyang vows to rejoin arms treaty, allow inspectors — BEIJING - North Korea pledged to drop its nuclear weapons development and rejoin international arms treaties in a unanimous agreement Monday at six-party arms talks …
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Jesse Taylor / Pandagon:
Stupid S**ts — PowerLine may be the dumbest sacks in the history of dumb sackdom. It's not just that they're dumb sacks, it's that they're dumb sacks the threads of whose existence are drawn from high-dumbass worms found in rare and near-impassable mountains, spun by monks of s**theadery trained …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
UNCHARTED TERRITORY, ONCE AGAIN — In recent years, the Democrats have violated many of the tacit conventions of civility that have enabled our political system to work for more than two centuries. Yesterday another barrier fell, and once again, we entered uncharted waters …
Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:
Bill Clinton Is No-Class Slime — Big surprise: … "Breaking with tradition?" Yeah, but he did that way back shortly after Bush was elected. (Anyone who cares to Google that could certainly find quite a few examples in a few seconds.) Also, I specifically remember Clinton supporting Bush's invasion …
Chester / The Adventures of Chester:Clinton the Strategist: A Dissection
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
U.S. Claims Success in Iraq Despite Onslaught — BAGHDAD — Using enemy body counts as a benchmark, the U.S. military claimed gains against Abu Musab Zarqawi's foreign-led fighters last week even as they mounted their deadliest attacks on Iraq's capital. — But by many standards …
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Toothless Taliban — Afghanistan has successfully conduct its second round of elections since its liberation from the Taliban in 2001. Turnout is estimated at over fifty percent. Despite promises to disrupt the election from al Qaeda and the Taliban, the violence on election day was insignificant.
Geir Moulson / Associated Press:
Germany Weighs Next Move After Election — BERLIN - Conservative leader Angela Merkel and the chairman of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats said Monday they both had initiated contacts with potential coalition partners as they wrestled over what government will emerge from Germany's inconclusive parliamentary election.
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:Der Stillstand — German voters get a chance for reform but choose gridlock instead.
Bertrand Benoit / Financial Times:Germany slides into political chaos after election
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Patrick Cockburn / Independent:
What has happened to Iraq's missing $1bn? — One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq's defence ministry in one of the largest thefts in history, The Independent can reveal, leaving the country's army to fight a savage insurgency with museum-piece weapons.
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Juan / Informed Comment:One to Two Billion Dollars Missing at Ministry of Defense
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Stephen Moore / Opinion Journal:
The GOP's New New Deal — The bill for Katrina may fall due next November. — There's an old adage that no one in Washington can tell the difference between $1 million and $1 billion. Seldom has that Beltway learning disability been more vividly demonstrated than in the weeks since Katrina.
US News:
A Different Path for Hurricane Campbell — It's probably the most important story about the media's coverage of Hurricane Katrina that you didn ' t read: Today, Weekend Edition coanchor Campbell Brown 's gutsy and heartfelt reports cemented her position as NBC's top choice to replace the Today show's Katie Couric.
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Cathy Young / Boston Globe:
Muslims and the Holocaust — RECENTLY IN England, four Muslim-staffed committees appointed to advise Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Cabinet on issues related to Islam have come up with a recommendation: Get rid of an official event viewed as offensive to Muslims. What event would that be?
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Schumer is no match for Roberts — Democratic Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Dianne Feinstein of California had tried to hide their frustration while questioning Judge John G. Roberts Jr. for the second time last week. But once the confirmation hearing ended …
National Review:
An American Hero — When the White House called Corporal Tibor "Ted" Rubin to tell him he was to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor he thought it was one of his friends playing a joke. President Bush has called the 76-year-old Korean War veteran "one of the greatest Jewish soldiers America has ever known."
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J.D. / evolution:
rino sightings XI: hornitarian jihad — [Editor's note: This post will remain first for the time being. New posts are below this one.] — Feel the point of the horn, infidel extremists! Your Kool-Aid will stain the carpeted halls and Herman Miller walls of your party headquarters!
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Carter-Baker Panel to Call for Voting Fixes — Election Report Urges Photo IDs, Paper Trails And Impartial Oversight — Warning that public confidence in the nation's election system is flagging, a commission headed by former president Jimmy Carter and former secretary of state James …
