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A Good Leak — President Bush declassified some of the intelligence he used to decide on war in Iraq. Is that a scandal? — PRESIDENT BUSH was right to approve the declassification of parts of a National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq three years ago in order to make clear why he had believed …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Does Fred Hiatt Even Read the Washington Post? — Update: Folks are gathering over at the post.blog to make their feelings on the subject known. — For years now the GOP machine has succeeded in strong-arming the Washington Post into legitimizing their propaganda, dribbling …
SusanG / Daily Kos:
Joe Wilson Responds to Washington Post Editorial — The world awakened this morning to a puzzle of ridiculousness: a Washington Post op/ed that can only be described as a hit piece on Joseph Wilson's "absurdly over-examined visit" (the editorial's words, certainly not mine) to Niger …
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Controversy May Sap Bush's Credibility — His alleged role in the scandal might hurt his image and erode public support for the Iraq war. — WASHINGTON — Ever since he began running for president, George W. Bush has told Americans that he is a "plain-spoken man," a leader who would never play games with words.
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Specter: CIA Leak Roles Must Be Explained — WASHINGTON — President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should speak publicly about their involvement in the CIA leak case so people can understand what happened, a leading Republican senator said Sunday. — "We ought to get to the bottom …
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Newsweek:The Leaker in Chief? — Is he a CEO who stays above the fray?
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Eriposte / The Left Coaster: A Washington Post Editor Caught Brazenly Lying: When is this going to stop?
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:WaPo Shocker: Editorial Supports President Bush on Recent Leak Allegations
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Garry Wills / New York Times:
Christ Among the Partisans — THERE is no such thing as a "Christian politics." If it is a politics, it cannot be Christian. Jesus told Pilate: "My reign is not of this present order. If my reign were of this present order, my supporters would have fought against my being turned over to the Jews.
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"Christianism": A Defense — Some readers have objected to my attempt to coin a new word to describe those who would deploy the teachings of Jesus as a political ideology as "Christianists." They don't like the analogy to Islamists, and think it imputes to politicized Christians an endorsement of terror or violence.
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Martin Peretz / The New Republic:
JOHN KERRY AND JESUS: — Continuing his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, John F. Kerry addressed (by telephone) a conference convened by that racist hustler and prevaricator Al Sharpton who won, if I'm not mistaken, exactly one delegate at the party convention in 2004.
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SY HERSH: BLOWING U.S. COVER — Seymour Hersh appeared on CNN with Wolf Blitzer today to share such pearls of wisdom as this: "Instead of talking about bombing, let's talk about talking." Hat tip to Allah Pundit, who writes: "Here's the man of the hour, defending his willingness to publicize info …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Hersh: Bush Plans On War With Iran UsingTactical Nukes (UPDATED)
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Helen Thomas / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Want more Bush? Elect McCain — WASHINGTON — In his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, Sen. John McCain is moving to the right. — The Arizona Republican, who failed to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, is the most visible Republican on television …
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
No easy answers on immigration conundrum — Here's my immigration "compromise": We need to regularize the situation of the 298 million non-undocumented residents of the United States. Right now, we get a lousy deal compared with the 15 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented American community.
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Lieut. General Greg Newbold / Time:
"Why I Think Rumsfeld Must Go" — A military insider sounds off against the war and the "zealots" who pushed it … In 1971, the rock group The Who released the antiwar anthem Won't Get Fooled Again. To most in my generation, the song conveyed a sense of betrayal by the nation's leaders …
Time:
Pssst! Who's behind the decline of politics? [Consultants.] — On the evening of april 4, 1968, about an hour after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy responded with a powerfully simple speech, which he delivered spontaneously in a black neighborhood of Indianapolis.
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Should We Ban Abortion For Non-Affluent Women? That Is The Only Question — This is, alas, not from a pessimistic feminist sci-fi novel: … What we have in El Salvador, then, is an actually principled forced pregnancy legal regime. This framework does not have the procedural inequities …
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The ghost of Abner Snopes rides these dusty backroads — Scary monsters. Super freaks — Welllll.... I wrote a little post over at Firedoglake last night and it would seem that the object of my inspection has his white robe in a bunch and has a few issues with what I wrote.
Jill Abramson / New York Times:
When Will We Stop Saying 'First Woman to _____'? — IT was the Platonic ideal of the ladies' lunch. There was chicken salad, parfait and blue Tiffany gift boxes. There was the first woman president, her friend Louise and, though we did not know it for certain, the first female solo network news anchor.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
READY. AIM. SHOOT! — Another round of pro-illegal immigration demonstrations is scheduled to take place tomorrow. One of the groups organizing tomorrow's demonstrations is a Communist organization called International A.N.S.W.E.R. A.N.S.W.E.R., which has championed every tyrant …
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