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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Digital Lynch Mob — Two weeks ago I wrote about Al Gore's new movie on global warming. I liked the film. In response, I instantly got more than 1,000 e-mails, most of them praising Gore, some calling him the usual names and some concluding there was no such thing as global warming, if only because Gore said there was.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Lapfull of Dick — Richard Cohen got 2,000 mean e-mails and this signals the end of the Democratic party. I'll leave you to figure out why that should follow. In case Cohen hasn't noticed nobody on the f**king planet likes squishy faux liberal courtiers. There's no political downside to hating Richard Cohen.
Tarek El-Tablawy / Associated Press:
Disorganization Worries al-Qaida in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Al-Qaida in Iraq is concerned about disorganization within its cells in the Baghdad area, with one extremist describing them as simply a "daily annoyance" to the Iraqi government, according to documents released Monday by the U.S. military.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
WHO'S WINNING? THEY SAY WE ARE — I missed this when it was released by Centcom, but our friend Ed Morrissey is on top of it: … This quote from a captured document, for example, supports Ed's characterization: … So the terrorists say we're winning in Iraq. Why is this fact so little recognized in America?
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Captured AQ Documents: "Every Year Is Worse Than The Previous Year"
Captured AQ Documents: "Every Year Is Worse Than The Previous Year"
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Senators to Renew Debate on Court Nominee — Senate Democrats today will try to make the case that Brett M. Kavanaugh is too much a conservative activist to deserve a federal appellate judgeship. In the process, they may experience some unsettling flashbacks to the Supreme Court confirmation …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Rove prepares 20 judges
Rove prepares 20 judges
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Atrios / Eschaton:
We're the Decider — Drum provides the regular lament that there ain't enough wonk talk in the blogosphere. There's more than he gives credit for - there's certainly a lot of reacting to the atrocity-in-Congress-of-the- day - and as Stoller points out it is to a great degree a waste of time.
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
LEFT-WING "DEBATE": — In my most recent column I argued that Joe Lieberman is annoying for all sorts of reasons, but beating him in the primary would be bad because 1) He would continue to play the role of Lone Democrat Honest Enough to Praise Bush, only now with the power of martyrdom behind him …
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Haaretz:
Ahead of UN vote, Peres warns that Iran, too, can be 'wiped out' — NEW YORK - Vice Premier Shimon Peres, speaking ahead of UN Security Council deliberations over sanctions for Iran, has cautioned that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map …
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HUD secretary's blunt warning — Alphonso Jackson says deal was scuttled after contractor admits not liking Bush — Once the color barrier has been broken, minority contractors seeking government work may need to overcome the Bush barrier. — That's the message U.S. Housing …
Robin Toner / New York Times:
Optimistic, Democrats Debate the Party's Vision — WASHINGTON, May 8 — With Democrats increasingly optimistic about this year's midterm elections and the landscape for 2008, intellectuals in the center and on the left are debating how to sharpen the party's identity and present a clear alternative …
Washington Post:
Another Possible Bump to the Debt Ceiling — A $2.7 trillion budget plan pending before the House would raise the federal debt ceiling to nearly $10 trillion, less than two months after Congress last raised the federal government's borrowing limit. — The provision — buried on page 121 …
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Agence France Presse:
Flying robot attack "unstoppable": experts — It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers and hijackers could be made redundant by flying robots is a real one, according to experts. — The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now highly advanced …
Jennifer Frey / Washington Post:
Out and About — The Vice President's Daughter Tells The Inside Story in Her New Book. But the Subject Is Politics. — NEW YORK — "Are the eyes too much?" — Mary Cheney is peering into the makeup artist's mirror in the early hours of the morning, getting "done" for her appearance on …
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Benedict Carey / New York Times:
In Men, 'Trigger-Happy' May Be a Hormonal Impulse — Handling a gun stirs a hormonal reaction in men that primes them for aggression, new research suggests. — Psychologists at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., enrolled 30 male students in what they described as a taste study.
Natalie Angier / New York Times:
One Thing They Aren't: Maternal — Oh, mothers! Dear noble, selfless, tender and ferocious defenders of progeny all across nature's phylogeny: How well you deserve our admiration as Mother's Day draws near, and how photogenically you grace the greeting cards that we thrifty offspring will send in lieu of a proper gift.
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Experts See a Strategy Behind CIA Shuffle — General May Help Intelligence Chief Rein In Rumsfeld and His Military Spy Plans — Gen. Michael V. Hayden isn't the first active-duty military officer tapped to lead the CIA — he is in fact the fifth — but many intelligence experts and officers …
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