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Debbie Schlussel:
Premature Articulation: The REAL Jill Carroll for Jimmy Carter Geraghty and Others w/Reading Comprehension Deficiencies — Here's a note to you bloggers—especially the suddenly blind conservative ones—who want Jill Carroll to be what she is not. Please read it VERY CAREFULLY and S-L-O-W-L-Y …
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Decision '08, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Don Surber, In Search Of Utopia, Donklephant and The Moderate Voice
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Jill Carroll Hostage Case: A Black Eye To Blogging (UPDATED) — TMV NOTE: Since we've added a major update, we're moving this previous post to the top of this site. Please scroll down for newer posts. … So now former hostage Jill Carroll is free from captivity.
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Middle Earth Journal, Instapundit.com, PoliPundit.com, Power Line, Macsmind and Decision '08
Lauren La Rose / Globe and Mail:
Man dies in explosion at Toronto Tim Hortons — Toronto — The heart of Toronto's trendy Yorkville shopping district was shocked to a standstill Sunday after an explosion killed one man at a Tim Horton's outlet. — Police would not confirm early reports that a man had entered the washroom shortly …
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TigerHawk
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ctv.ca:
Gas can blamed for Tim Hortons explosion — A small can of gasoline is being blamed for an explosion that rocked a downtown Toronto Tim Hortons, claiming one man's life and causing the evacuation of a city block Sunday afternoon. — The blast occurred in the washroom of the coffee shop …
Crooks and Liars:
John McCain just loves Falwell now — John McCain just loves Falwell now — John McCain, joined Tim Russert, on MTP this morning and was challenged on a number of issue including his new found affection for Jerry Falwell. — Video-WMP low res Video-QT (pretty big file)
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Matthew Campbell / Times of London:
Barbarians of suburbs target French Jews — THE pretty schoolgirl known as Yalda wore tight white trousers and thigh-high boots to the rendezvous. Her target, a young Jewish telephone salesman, quickly fell under her spell. He meekly followed her when she suggested a nightcap at her place.
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QandO, Captain's Quarters, COUNTERCOLUMN, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, Infidel Bloggers Alliance and Penraker
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toledoblade.com:
Advisory post gave Noe voice in U.S. Mint policy — Coin dealer pushed gold pieces; Treasury Dept. conducts probe — WASHINGTON — In the months before Tom Noe came under scrutiny for his state-funded rare-coin venture, he used a federal appointment to forge relationships with U.S. Mint officials …
Editor and Publisher:
Condi Rice in U.K. Flunks Reporter's 'Sgt. Pepper' Test — NEW YORK Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's goodwill trip to England has been met with protests at nearly every stop, and she had to explain Saturday that when she said that the U.S. had made "thousands" of mistakes in Iraq she meant figuratively, not literally.
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Elizabeth Day / Telegraph:
Condimania — The Dean of Blackburn is a holy man and …
Condimania — The Dean of Blackburn is a holy man and …
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Gateway Pundit
Robert B. Reich / New York Times:
The Poor Get Poorer — It is not exactly a new debate. On my bookshelf sits "Which? Protection or Free Trade," edited by H. W. Furber and published in Boston in 1888. That was some 70 years after the British economist David Ricardo first suggested that the gains from trade exceed …
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Kevin Phillips / Washington Post:
How the GOP Became God's Own Party — Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush's conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history.
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Don't deny that some Muslims are hot for jihad — If I were an anti-war leftie, I'd be very depressed by the Iraq anniversary protests. A few hundred people show up hither and yon to see Cindy Sheehan get arrested for the 15th time that week, or Charlie Sheen unveil his critically acclaimed …
Mark Townsend / Observer:
Official: Iraq war led to July bombings — The first official recognition that the Iraq war motivated the four London suicide bombers has been made by the government in a major report into the 7 July attacks. — Despite attempts by Downing Street to play down suggestions that the conflict …
Dan / Riehl World View:
911 Audio - Edited And Enhanced — The recently released 911 audio tapes from September 11th, 2001 were over two hours long and more than fifty percent administrative audio for logging purposes. I've edited and enhanced the tapes in several ways. — A much quicker paced and more listen-able version …
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Hyscience
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
The President as Average Joe — Trying to Boost Support, Bush Brings Banter to the People — President Bush was taking questions from an audience the other day when he was asked about the immigration debate raging in Washington. — "It's obviously topic du jour ," he said.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
FEMA Calls, but Top Job Is Tough Sell — WASHINGTON, April 1 — The calls went out across the nation, as Bush administration officials asked the country's most seasoned disaster response experts to consider the job of a lifetime: FEMA director. But again and again, the response over the past several months was the same: "No thanks."
Dr. Sanity:
NO RELATION TO REALITY, INDEED — Unbelievable material from MEMRI (hat tip: LGF). Read/watch the entire interview, but here is the final bit: … If there was ever in history a better example of the paranoid fear of female sexuality, I can't think of it.
New York Times:
The Endgame in Iraq — Iraq is becoming a country that America should be ashamed to support, let alone occupy. The nation as a whole is sliding closer to open civil war. In its capital, thugs kidnap and torture innocent civilians with impunity, then murder them for their religious beliefs.
Adam / Adam Nagourney's Personal Diary:
It's April fools- duh! — what up hags! — More proof that liberals have no sense of humor:( That ullltra liberal, in your face, Americablog guy fell for my April fools joke. I mean hello? I worte that piece almost 18 months ago. The f**ked up thing is I handed it in to the Times and they fell for it too.