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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Remembering John Lennon's Untimely Departure — It was 25 years ago today. At night to be exact. — I was working the night shift at the Wichita Eagle, one of three reporters and a tiny staff of editors unlucky enough to have to work the late hours that night.
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Paul Hughes / Reuters:
Iran's president questions Holocaust — TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday expressed doubt that the Holocaust occurred and suggested Israel be moved to Europe. — His comments, reported by Iran's official IRNA news agency from a news conference he gave …
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Siobhan Morrissey / Time:
Eyewitness: "I Never Heard the Word 'Bomb'" — A passenger on Flight 924 gives his account of the shooting and says Rigoberto Alpizar never claimed to have a bomb — At least one passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 924 maintains the federal air marshals were a little too quick …
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CNN:
Marshals', witnesses' accounts differ on jet bomb threat claim — Man suffered from bipolar disorder, relative says … MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — As investigators try to piece together the final moments before two air marshals shot and killed an American Airlines passenger, questions are arising about whether he made a bomb threat.
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The Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Hullabaloo, Balloon Juice, Macsmind and New England Republican
TimChapman / Townhall.com:
Blogger call with Representatives Kingston and Kline — Today, at 11:00, Capitol Report will be in on the call below. Details to follow. … UPDATE: The call has begun...but we are waiting. — Congressman Kingston just had a meeting with Rumsfeld and was whisked off to the White House, thus the delay.
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Terrorists Announce Murder of American Hostage Ronald Schulz — Reports have begun circulating that Ronald Schulz has been murdered. The website used by The Islamic Army in Iraq, though, has not carried this message. Instead, it was posted at an Islamic bulletin board.
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Kevin Bohn / CNN:
Source: Time reporter deposed in CIA leak case — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald continued his investigation into the leaking of a CIA agent's name by taking sworn testimony from a Time magazine reporter Thursday, said a source close to Time Inc.
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:It's a Jungle Out There — Can I just say it is absolutely crazy out there?
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Needlenose
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
How the CIA Blew Its Prisons Cover — WASHINGTON - While Secretary of State Rice fends off questioning in Europe over CIA-run air flights of prisoners in the war on terror, some analysts outside the CIA are asking how the flights were exposed so easily. — The CIA's legendary capacity for stealth …
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Peter Savodnik / The Hill:
NRSC plans multi-state attack tying Democrats to Abramoff — The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is planning a public-relations offensive tying leading Democrats to lobbyist Jack Abramoff in an effort to neutralize accusations that Republicans have been embroiled in a "culture of corruption."
Dave Johnson / Seeing the Forest:
Dropping the Code-Word "Liberals" and Accusing Jews Directly — There has been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about "mainstreaming extremism" lately. That is Republicans injecting hard KKK stuff, disguised to sound more moderate, into mainstream outlets.
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Burt Prelutsky / Townhall.com:The Jewish Grinch who stole Christmas
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Brilliant at Breakfast, Julien's List, The Happy Feminist, First Draft, Roger Ailes, Demagogue, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and Pandagon
Ken Silverstein / Los Angeles Times:
Pentagon Memo on Torture-Motivated Transfer Cited — A court filing describes a classified proposal to send a detainee away for information extraction. — WASHINGTON — Although Bush administration officials have denied that they transfer terrorism suspects to countries where they are likely to be abused …
Atrios / Eschaton:
Occasional Reminder — Whenever I write one of these posts people always assume something has annoyed me or that I'm whining or being ungrateful or something. I'm not doing any of these things. I just think it's a useful service to provide now and then.
Suzanne C. Ryan / Boston Globe:
At 87, Wallace still tells it like it is — Mike Wallace and his hard-hitting brand of journalism have been synonymous with ''60 Minutes" since CBS introduced the program in 1968. Now 87 years old, Wallace, who has interviewed everyone from Malcolm X to Johnny Carson, has written his second memoir.
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The Carpetbagger Report
David / Israellycool:
JIB Awards 2005 — For the second year running, I am proud to present to you the JIB Awards. — The word JIB, besides being an acronym for Jewish and Israeli blog, also represents the small triangular sail of a sailboat, as compared to the main sails. The jib's role is to direct the wind …
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This Blog Is Full Of Crap
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Chair Lift — Howard Dean is being vilified again—not only by Republicans in the White House and Congress, but by his fellow Democrats as well. And once again it's for making a critical comment about the administration's conduct of the Iraq war. In an interview Monday with a San Antonio radio station …
Deborah Kolben / New York Sun:
First-Graders Made To Clean A Bathroom — A charter school run by the United Federation of Teachers hired a new consultant this week after the principal raised the ire of parents by allegedly ordering a group of first-graders to clean up human waste in the bathroom.
Kash / Angry Bear:
Spending Growth in Context — Are the budget deficits due to profligate spending by the Bush administration? Are Congressional Republicans truly more spendtrift in their ways than French socialists? — I find a little historical context helpful in assessing these claims from the right.
Drudge Report:
EXCLUSIVE: GOP TO LAUNCH 'WHITE FLAG' DEM ATTACK — The DRUDGE REPORT has learned from a top GOP operative that the Republican National Committee will provide state parties with a web video prior to release tomorrow afternoon that shows a white flag waving over images of Democrat leaders making anti-war remarks.
