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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Hawkish Democrat Calls for Iraq Pullout  —  WASHINGTON - An influential House Democrat who voted for the Iraq war called Thursday for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, another sign of growing unease in Congress about the conflict.  —  "It is time for a change in direction …
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house.gov:
The Honorable John P. Murtha  —  War in Iraq  —  (Washington D.C.)- The war in Iraq is not going as advertised.  It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion.  The American public is way ahead of us.  The United States and coalition troops have done all they can in Iraq, but it is time for a change in direction.
Rod Dreher / The Corner on National Review Online:
MURTHA BREAKS  —  Don't know how many of you caught Rep. John Murtha's very angry, very moving speech just now in which he called on the White House to institute an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.  CNN didn't air the entire thing, but as I listened to it, I could feel the ground shift.
CNN:
Senior Democrat calls for U.S. troops to leave Iraq  —  Rep. Murtha: 'U.S. and coalition troops have done all they can'  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Warning that other global threats "cannot be ignored," Rep. John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, a leading adviser on defense issues …
John / AMERICAblog:
Pentagon starts trying to swift boat Cong.  Murtha  —  Well, that didn't take long.  —  Anonymous sources (read: cowards) at the Pentagon are already telling CNN that Murtha, a 37-year Marine, is being "irresponsible" by alerting folks to the fact that our military is "suffering" …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
David Stout / New York Times:   Influential House Democrat Wants Immediate Iraq Withdrawal
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:   SHIFTING GROUND?....I don't know if this is a Walter Cronkite moment …
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
House Democrats Defeat Spending Bill  —  WASHINGTON - Legislation to fund many of the nation's health, education and social programs went down to a startling defeat in the House Thursday, led by Democrats who said cuts in the bill hurt some of America's neediest people.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Grand Old Spenders  —  The storm-tossed and rudderless Republican Party should particularly ponder the vote last week in Dover, Pa., where all eight members of the school board seeking reelection were defeated.  This expressed the community's wholesome exasperation with the board's campaign …
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Funding for Alaskan Bridges Eliminated
Discussion: New York Times and AMERICAblog
Adam Entous / Reuters:
Plame's husband wants Post to probe Woodward  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joseph Wilson, the husband of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame, called on Thursday for an inquiry by The Washington Post into the conduct of journalist Bob Woodward, who repeatedly criticized the leak investigation without disclosing his own involvement.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Post Reporter Is Held in Contempt in Civil Suit  —  A federal judge found a Washington Post reporter in contempt of court yesterday for refusing to reveal who gave him information about an investigation of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee.  —  U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer ruled …
Los Angeles Times:
Woodward Disclosure Causes a Stir
Open Source Media:
About Our Name  —  We are OSM.  A gentleman named Christopher Lydon has an excellent web site called Open Source.  He uses that as his corporate name, but not as his trade name.  His URL is RADIOopensource, and he's given up opensourcemedia.net - which we and our lawyers confirmed before we chose our name.
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The Hill:
Remember — please remember — 'Boogie to Baghdad'  —  I have to admit that I have failed miserably in my small effort to make the words "Boogie to Baghdad" part of the national conversation on ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.  —  In case you don't remember, "Boogie to Baghdad" …
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Francis Harris / Telegraph:   The world of bin Laden: no drinks, no gambling, no pictures of women
Knight Ridder:
In challenging war's critics, administration tinkers with truth  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney turned up the White House rhetoric Wednesday in attacking critics of the Iraq war, accusing some unnamed lawmakers of lacking "backbone."  —  Cheney's rough-edged remarks were the latest …
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Marty Kaplan / The Huffington Post:
Journalism: R.I.P.  —  Mainstream journalism has cancer.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
CNN:
Iraq official defends 'torture' facility  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraq's interior minister has defended a government facility that was found to be holding dozens of prisoners, including some showing signs of torture, saying it held "the most criminal terrorists."
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Washington Post:
1985 Memo by Alito Has Legal Weight, Senators Say  —  Two key Republicans and some Democrats said yesterday that Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. will be unable to assert during his confirmation hearing that his personal views have no bearing on how he might rule because he has stated legal opinions …
Discussion: TAPPED and The Carpetbagger Report
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Nina Easton / Boston Globe:
GOP leader fears backlash if Roe v. Wade is overturned
Discussion: Washington Post and TAPPED
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
A lie for a just cause  —  STOP ME IF YOU'VE heard this already.  But there are people out there — honest, decent, sincere people and deranged moonbats, too — who think that George W. Bush lied about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.  No, seriously, it's true.  "Bush lied, people died" is one of their catchier slogans.

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