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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Media finally starting to report the President's systematic lawbreaking — (updated below) — On March 24, 2006, The Boston Globe published an article by Charlie Savage reporting that the President, after signing into law the bill which renewed the Patriot Act, issued a "signing statement" …
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Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
Ignoring Colbert: A Small Taste of the Media's Power to Choose the News — The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner was televised on C-Span Saturday evening. Featured entertainer Stephen Colbert delivered a biting rebuke of George W. Bush and the lily-livered press corps.
Boston Globe:
Examples of the president's signing statements — Since taking office in 2001, President Bush has issued signing statements on more than 750 new laws, declaring that he has the power to set aside the laws when they conflict with his legal interpretation of the Constitution.
Frederick / dailykos.com:
Re-Improved Colbert transcript (now with complete text of Colbert-Thomas video!)
Re-Improved Colbert transcript (now with complete text of Colbert-Thomas video!)
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Stephen Colbert and George Bush Lampoon President Bush
Stephen Colbert and George Bush Lampoon President Bush
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New York Times:
Sharp Reaction to G.O.P. Plan on Gas Rebate — WASHINGTON, April 30 — The Senate Republican plan to mail $100 checks to voters to ease the burden of high gasoline prices is eliciting more scorn than gratitude from the very people it was intended to help. — Aides for several Republican …
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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
From Senator Clinton, a Lesson in Tactical Bipartisanship — WASHINGTON, April 29 — Only eight years have passed since Lindsey Graham, then an ambitious Republican member of the House, paraded over to the Senate each day to argue the impeachment case against President Bill Clinton.
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Associated Press:
Day without immigrants approaches — Some big businesses closing for the day — NEW YORK (AP) — Now that immigrants have grabbed the nation's attention, what next? — Monday has been set aside for immigrants to boycott work, school and shopping to show how much they matter to their communities.
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
With Calls for Boycott by Immigrants, Employers Gird for Unknown — Leading up to a new wave of immigration demonstrations around the country set for today, employers met with workers, posted letters on bulletin boards and in employee lunchrooms, and braced for the day ahead.
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Hot Air
Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
Osama Needs More Mud Huts — Global Islamic terrorism is the product of scattered groups. It has much less support in the Muslim world than people think. — May 8, 2006 issue - Imagine if a few months after September 11 someone had said to you, "Five years from now, in the space of a single week …
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StrategyPage:
Why Al Qaeda Is Retreating From Iraq — April 30, 2006: Despite the many brickbats of the media, al Qaeda has been defeated in Iraq, and is now retreating to lick its wounds where it can. If it can. Just over four and a half years, al Qaeda has gone from being the dominant terrorist group …
Martin Weil / Washington Post:
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith Dies at 97 — John Kenneth Galbraith, the author, scholar, diplomat and presidential adviser, who was a preeminent symbol and source of liberal political thought, died last night in Cambridge, Mass. He was 97. — His son Alan said his father died …
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Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Divisions Cast Aside in Cry for Darfur — Clutching signs that read "Never Again," thousands of protesters from across religious and political divides descended on the Mall yesterday along with celebrities and politicians to urge President Bush to take stronger measures to end the violence …
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Peter Beinart / New York Times:
The Rehabilitation of the Cold-War Liberal — This fall, for the third time since 9/11, American voters will choose between Democrats and Republicans while knowing what only one party believes about national security. In 2002, Democratic candidates tried to change the subject, focusing on Social Security and health care instead.
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Merits of Partitioning Iraq or Allowing Civil War Weighed — As the U.S. military struggles against persistent sectarian violence in Iraq, military officers and security experts find themselves in a vigorous debate over an idea that just months ago was largely dismissed as a fringe thought …
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Washington Post:
Polls Suggest Ethics Issues Could Haunt GOP — The day before the Republican House leadership struggled for five hours to bring lobby reform legislation to the floor, Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) declared that voters have little or no interest in ethics legislation. — "Do I think they care about it?
Robert / Jihad Watch:
A trip to the nuthouse — A few days ago you could have checked my biography at Wikipedia and found this: … Of course, this has happened before. Jihad Watch News Editor Anne Crockett has noted here before that Wikipedia, since anyone can edit it, is absolutely worthless …