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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.
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
STYLE POINTS: — Over at Tapped, Greg Sargent has an interesting take on my post from earlier today. He writes, "it was Chait who threw down the gauntlet first and set an 'uncivil' tone in the initial column." — Ah, I see. So before I wrote my column last Sunday …
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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.
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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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 …
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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?
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Michelle Malkin:
OUR BORDER PATROL...OR MEXICO'S? — ***scroll for updates*** — Who does the U.S. Border Patrol work for? Apparently, not for us. — If you have high blood pressure, don't read on. The Daily Bulletin reports: … To top it all off, Border Patrol agents are reportedly being told …
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 …
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 …
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In From the Cold, Blue Crab Boulevard, USS Neverdock, The Glittering Eye and Texas Rainmaker
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Iranian's Letter to Bush Emerges — In his letter to President Bush, Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared that Western-style democracy had failed and that the use of secret prisons in Europe and aspects of the war in Iraq could not be reconciled with Mr. Bush's Christian values.
Molly Ivins / truthdig.com:
The Best Little Whorehouse in Washington — AUSTIN, Texas—Of course I am above sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. So serious a servant of the public interest am I, I can fogey with the best: On my better days, I make David Broder look like Page Six. — I don't care what anyone smoked 20 years ago …
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 …
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.
New York Post:
DUBYA'S DILEMMA — WHY SINKING POLLS NOW? — May 9, 2006 — THE great national experiment in cognitive dissonance continues. — It's been only a week since the revelation that economic growth in the first quarter of this year was nearly 5 percent - and about a week since reports of a significant jump in personal incomes.
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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Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
Angry Darfur Refugees Riot in Demand for U.N. Troops — KALMA CAMP, Sudan, May 8 — An African Union interpreter was hacked to death on Monday in this vast, squalid camp by a mob of angry demonstrators within hours of a visit from the top United Nations aid official.
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