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Deadly Attack On CBS News Crew — Two Team Members Killed, Correspondent Seriously Injured By Roadside Bomb In Baghdad — (CBS/AP) Two members of a CBS News team, veteran cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, were killed and correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39 …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Iraq'd — One of the things which constantly amazes me is the willingness of the mainstream media to give platform to people who hate them. I don't mean harsh critics - I'd welcome more presentation of serious harsh criticism - I mean people who have literally no respect for what journalism aspires to be.
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Crooks and Liars
Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
Memorial Day Truth: There Is No "War on Terror" — There is no "War on Terror." — There is, however, a "war" on the U. S. Constitution. — After September 11, 2001, we've learned that we can take a punch and move on. We've faced far worse threats to our national survival in our history …
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Owen West / New York Times:
The Troops Have Moved On — N EITHER party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. So said Abraham Lincoln in his second inaugural address …
Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:
Memorial Day — Reflections on those who made the ultimate sacrifice. — LONDON—In the Cotswold hills, in deep England, there is a pair of villages named Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter. In addition to its rather gruesome name, Lower Slaughter possesses a unique distinction.
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Democrats Eye November Landslide — Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking _ each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together. — First step: Voters must focus on the national landscape on Nov. 7 rather than local issues and personalities that usually dominate midterm elections.
US News:
Washington Whispers — The CIA's class of '85 must have been a doozy. Three alumni of that year's fall career training class are much in the news these days. There's Valerie Plame, the now retired spy whose outing is being investigated by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Frist Breaks With Others in G.O.P. Over Raid — WASHINGTON, May 28 — Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, on Sunday defended the raid by federal agents on a Democratic lawmaker's Capitol Hill office, breaking with senior House Republicans who had said the search was unconstitutional.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:Frist Backs Search of Congressman's Office
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
SUMMER'S HERE AND THE TIME IS RIGHT... ...for arguing about literature. I don't know about you, but we need a break from poltics. So, in anticipation of time at the beach, in the hammock or on the dock, we thought it would be fun to see what our readers consider to be the best American novels ever written.
Diane Cardwell / New York Times:
Mayor Says No National Bid, but Actions Keep Question Alive — For a man who says he is not running for president, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been sounding a lot like a candidate for the White House lately. — He spent last week thrusting himself into national politics …
Times of London:
MI5 at full stretch as 20 Islamist terror plots revealed — TWENTY "major conspiracies" by Islamist terrorists in Britain have been uncovered by the security services, John Reid, the home secretary, has disclosed. — Reid said that the existence of so many plots means that the police …
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Daily Mail:
Babies aborted for not being perfect — The ethical storm over abortions has been renewed as it emerged that terminations are being carried out for minor, treatable birth defects. — Late terminations have been performed in recent years because the babies had club feet, official figures show.
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Stuart Pfeifer / Los Angeles Times:
Terms Differ in Jail Releases — Experts worry Sheriff Baca's policy of having certain prisoners serve more time for the same crime may invite `equal protection' challenges. — Under its policy of selectively releasing criminals to ease jail overcrowding, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department …
Smash / The Indepundit:
Remember — EVERY YEAR, tens of thousands of people visit Cabrillo National Monument, on the tip of San Diego's Point Loma. On either side of the road leading to the monument lies a cemetery. — Most people never stop, or even slow down, to think about the legions who lie in that massive graveyard.
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
For Memorial Day: Editorials Still Oppose Iraq Withdrawals — NEW YORK Today marks another Memorial Day, this time with the American death toll in Iraq well past 2400 lives, with over 18,000 injured. Just over six months have passed since hawkish Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) …
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
A Few Years, and Then Another Bush? — WASHINGTON — Bush III? Or has the dynasty run its course? — Those are the questions some Republicans are asking themselves as political talk bubbles up yet again about President Bush's brother Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and his interest in the White House.
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