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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Libby Versus The Press — Libby's team continues their tussle with the press. I intend to post the documents shortly. … Hmm, I am looking at more than 45 pages here. — 1. Here is Part 1 of the Consolidated response (23 page .pdf) — 2. Here is Part 2 (27 page .pdf)
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Hugh Hewitt:
NYT Editor Bill Keller: Slayer of Straw Men; Inventor of Privileges — Like most Americans, the Wall Street Journal's editors have a low opinion of leakers passing top secret material to "reporters" who in fact act as fax machines to the front page. — New York Times' editor Bill Keller responds …
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Adam Green / The Huffington Post:
Mike McCurry — Hurting The Internet, Hurting His Admirers — I feel sorry for Mike McCurry. I really do. — As a George Washington University political communications student in the 1990's, I joined many in looking up to Mike McCurry as the best in our field.
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New York Times:
Keeping a Democratic Web — "Net neutrality" is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the Internet democratic. Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service are talking about creating a two-tiered Internet, in which Web sites that pay them large fees would get priority over everything else.
talkingpointsmemo.com:
More on Mike. — Below (via Atrios) I flagged this Huffington Post Mike McCurry post about the Net Neutrality debate. But I wanted to focus in on this one paragraph where Mike is discussing not so much the NN debate as the culture of the blogosphere and the relationship between blogs and the mainstream media ...
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Shelby Steele / Opinion Journal:
White Guilt and the Western Past — Why is America so delicate with the enemy? — There is something rather odd in the way America has come to fight its wars since World War II. — For one thing, it is now unimaginable that we would use anything approaching the full measure of our military power …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Time to stop feeling guilty and start really bombing — (updated below) — The Wall St. Journal's Opinion Journal today published an Op-Ed by Shelby Steele that advances one of the most truly incoherent and just plain inane arguments I have read in a long time.
Amanda / Think Progress:
FACT CHECK: U.S. Government Commissioned Spanish-Language 'Star-Spangled Banner' in 1919 — The right wing is up in arms over a new version of the Star-Spangled Banner written in Spanish. Last week President Bush stated that "the national anthem ought to be sung in English."
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Michelle Malkin:
THE PICTURES YOU WON'T SEE — ***updated 5/2 940am EDT...*** — Compare the NYTimes' white-washed May Day photo section with these candid shots of yesterday's National Day to Hate the Yanquis: — Protest Warrior Chicago exposed ugly, American flag-trashing advocates...
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Reuters:
Iran says Russia and China will not back sanctions — TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister was quoted on Tuesday as saying that Russia and China had officially informed Tehran they would not support sanctions or military action over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
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Baltimore Examiner:
Arrogance defined by McCain — The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner — WASHINGTON - James Madison, the prime mover behind the U.S. Constitution, and his colleagues among the Founders rightly feared arrogant men like Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., so they limited the central government to a few, well-defined powers.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Cole Report — When it comes to Iran, he distorts, you decide. — In some ways, the continuing row over his call for the complete destruction of Israel must baffle Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. All he did, after all, was to turn up at a routine anti-Zionist event and repeat …
The Raw Story:
New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal — New Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union today reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered interrogators to "go to the outer limits" to get information from detainees.
Drudge Report:
MARY CHENEY SAYS HER FATHER SAID EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTED TO HEAR WHEN SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS GAY — Vice president tells VANITY FAIR his image might be better if he spent more time trying to improve it, "but that's not why I'm here" — New York, N.Y. - In her new memoir, NOW IT'S MY TURN …
Nelson Hernandez / Washington Post:
Iraqis Begin Duty With Refusal — Some Sunni Soldiers Say They Won't Serve Outside Home Areas — BAGHDAD, May 1 — The graduation of nearly 1,000 new Iraqi army soldiers in restive Anbar province took a disorderly turn Sunday when dozens of the men declared that they would refuse …
Todd Gitlin / Chronicle of Higher Education:
The Self-Inflicted Wounds of the Academic Left — Truly this is a bizarre time for the life of the mind in America. The airwaves and best-seller lists are noisy with anti-intellectual jeers. The ruling party embraces the nostrums of "No Child Left Behind" while tossing the teaching …
Michael Wines / New York Times:
How Bad Is Inflation in Zimbabwe? — HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 25 — How bad is inflation in Zimbabwe? Well, consider this: at a supermarket near the center of this tatterdemalion capital, toilet paper costs $417. — No, not per roll. Four hundred seventeen Zimbabwean dollars is the value of a single two-ply sheet.
Reuters:
Iran will hit Israel if US does "evil": agency —Text+TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will target Israel first if the United States does anything "evil", a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday. — The United States says it wants Iran's nuclear standoff …
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