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David Espo / Associated Press:
Senate OKs Border Fence, Mulls Citizenship — The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally. — Amid increasingly emotional debate …
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Lawmaker: Marines killed Iraqis 'in cold blood' — Navy conducting war crimes probe into November violence in Haditha — A video provided to Reuters in March by Hamourabi, a human rights group, shows covered bodies, which Hamourabi says are of 15 civilians shot to death by Marines in Haditha in November.
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Christian Lowe / Army Times:
Murtha: Marines may have killed Haditha civilians in cold blood — Rep. John Murtha, an influential Pennsylvania lawmaker and outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, said today Marines had "killed innocent civilians in cold blood" after allegedly responding to a roadside bomb ambush that killed …
Gary Gross / California Conservative:
John Murtha, Traitor — John Murtha's said some extremely outrageous things the past 6 months but nothing as outrageous as his latest pack of lies. He was barely tolerable when he was hurling lies about conditions on the ground. This latest tripe is the stuff that should get him expelled from the House.
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Update on the Rove Indictment Story — For the past few days, we have endured non-stop attacks on our credibility, and we have fought hard to defend our reputation. In addition, we have worked around the clock to provide additional information to our readership.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore — Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) will unveil two 60-second TV ads focusing on what it calls "global warming alarmism and the call by some environmental groups and politicians to reduce fossil fuel and carbon dioxide emissions."
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Said to Weigh a New Approach on North Korea — WASHINGTON, May 17 — President Bush's top advisers have recommended a broad new approach to dealing with North Korea that would include beginning negotiations on a peace treaty, even while efforts to dismantle the country's nuclear program …
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Dingbat Billing Dust-up Shuts Down Security Clearances — A minor billing dispute between the Pentagon and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is threatening operations throughout the U.S. national security community. — Last month, OPM — which currently handles background investigations …
Judith Miller / Opinion Journal:
Gadhafi's Leap of Faith — Libya's strongman feared appearing weak. — On Dec. 16, 2003, three days after Saddam Hussein was pulled from his hole near Tikrit, Robert G. Joseph, who headed counterproliferation on the White House National Security Council, flew to London for a secret meeting …
CBS News:
Bush Is Now A Lame Duck — CBS' Meyer: Forget November, Forget '08; President Is Done — (CBS) This commentary was written by CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer. — The great impulse of the punditocracy right now is to look at President Bush's swelling problems with the public and his party …
Will / Attytood:
The coming tidal wave — If there really is such a thing as a "Starbucks Republican" (aside from Rick Santorum), he (or she) lives in Chester County, Pa. The western exurban fringe of the Philadelphia area, it is a woody sprawl of bland subdivisions, gleaming office parks, and Ruby Tuesday's hamburger joints.
Fausta / Fausta's blog:
Hugo's travels and the marketing of competitive authoritarianism — Scott Burgess has an excellent post of how welcome Hugo was in London, Rapturous London Hosts Second Coming, which includes a brief resume of Hugo's accomplishments: … Sure enough, I looked up that post …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Victory In Primaries For Conservatives — Over the past week, many of us have written on the frustration felt by conservatives (especially fiscal conservatives) over the past few years. Some believe that the only manner in which to serve notice on the GOP that it cannot take conservative votes …
Henryk M. Broder / Spiegel Online:
"Voltaire and Erasmus Are Spinning in their Graves" — Holland's most famous immigrant — Ayaan Hirsi Ali — has been stripped of her citizenship overnight following television revelations about news that's long been public: she lied a little on her application for asylum years ago.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
G.O.P. Voters to Be Target of Radio Ads by Democrats — WASHINGTON, May 16 — House Democrats, trying to capitalize on conservative dissatisfaction with Republicans, are reaching out to Christian voters with radio advertisements critical of Republican proposals to overhaul Social Security.
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