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Jed Babbin / Real Clear Politics:
The Haditha Story — The accelerating media feeding frenzy over the alleged killings of twenty-four Iraqi civilians in Haditha by US Marines last November is about to overwhelm American politics. Propelled by their most irresponsible war critics, the left will try use Haditha as it used …
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Los Angeles Times:
A Town Awoke to Slaughter — Iraqis say Marines went house to house killing Haditha residents. 'I wish I had died with them,' says a child who saw her family slain. — BAGHDAD — The killing began shortly after sunrise on a November day. As a U.S. patrol rolled through Haditha …
Richard Esposito Reports / The Blotter:
No Icons, No Monuments Worth Protecting — Richard Esposito Reports: — New York has no national monuments or icons, according to the Department of Homeland Security form obtained by ABC News. (Click here for the actual document.) That was a key factor used to determine that New York City …
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Making Light, Shakespeare's Sister, TAPPED, A Blog For All, Crooks and Liars, The Heretik, The Left Coaster and The American Mind
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USA Today:
Baseball's Rockies seek revival on two levels — DENVER — No copies of Playboy or Penthouse are in the clubhouse of baseball's Colorado Rockies. There's not even a Maxim. The only reading materials are daily newspapers, sports and car magazines and the Bible.
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The World Wide Rant
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Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Team takes issue with portrayal — Christian clubhouse story "over the top" — San Diego - Character, not religion, is the critical factor in the Rockies' chemistry, according to the players. That explains why so many players reacted negatively to the portrayal of their clubhouse …
Rolling Stone:
Was the 2004 Election Stolen? — Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. — The complete article, with Web-only citations, follows.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Shift in U.S. Stance Shows Power of Seven-Letter Word — The Bush administration's decision to consider sitting down with the Iranian government underscores a central truth of diplomacy today: Nuclear weapons buy leverage. — For six years, President Bush and his aides have dismissed …
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Peter Beinart / Washington Post:
Hijacking Harry Truman — No matter how polarized Washington becomes, there is still one Democrat Republicans love: Harry Truman. Last December, on this page, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared the Bush administration's democracy promotion efforts "consistent with the proud tradition …
Molly Moore / Washington Post:
Clashes in Paris Suburbs Recall Riots of Fall — PARIS, May 31 — Small gangs of youths pelted riot police with rocks and set cars and garbage bins ablaze late Tuesday in a second night of unrest in the Paris suburbs, raising fears of a return of the disturbances that inflamed 300 French towns and suburbs last fall.
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Confederate Yankee
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Third Time — America may be ready for a new political party. — Something's happening. I have a feeling we're at some new beginning, that a big breakup's coming, and that though it isn't and will not be immediately apparent, we'll someday look back on this era as the time when a shift began.
Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
TAXES ARE HARD. Some attention has already been paid to this hackish op-ed expounding on the conservative virtues of the Alternative Minimum Tax. It is, the author writes, the quickest way of taking the country to a flat tax, which should be the preferred conservative solution.
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll: Americans Support Searches — Public Sides With FBI in Congress Search Issue — June 1, 2006 — In the rift between Congress and the Justice Department, Americans side overwhelmingly with law enforcement: Regardless of precedent and the separation of powers, 86 percent say the FBI …
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The Political Pit Bull, Roger L. Simon, Ace of Spades HQ, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Strata-Sphere and Hit and Run
Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Iraq veteran sues Moore over 9/11 film — BOSTON - A veteran who lost both arms in the war in Iraq is suing filmmaker Michael Moore for $85 million, alleging that Moore used snippets of a television interview without his permission to falsely portray him as anti-war in "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Is Criticized by Ex-Official on Subpoenas — Subpoenas issued last month to reporters for The San Francisco Chronicle were criticized yesterday by a former chief spokesman for Attorney General John Ashcroft as a "reckless abuse of power." — The former spokesman, Mark Corallo …
Baltimore Examiner:
The politics of the Internet — WASHINGTON - Q We've heard so much about how differently Republicans and Democrats view the world nowadays, as if one could argue that "Republicans Were From Mars, and Democrats Are From Venus." If this sharp political polarization is to be believed, does it also translate to the Internet?
Michael Scherer / Salon:
The Blogfather — Netroots guru Jerome Armstrong says he's a freethinking pragmatist. But lefty bloggers say his backing of centrist Mark Warner shows he's become just another political consultant. — Jerome Armstrong, aka "The Blogfather," greeted me recently in the office of former Virginia …
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
Studies Portray Tropical Arctic in Distant Past — The first detailed analysis of an extraordinary climatic and biological record from the seabed near the North Pole shows that 55 million years ago the Arctic Ocean was much warmer than scientists imagined — a Floridian year-round average of 74 degrees.
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Big Lizards, All Things Beautiful, ¡No Pasarán!, The American Thinker, Blue Crab Boulevard and THE ASTUTE BLOGGER
Randy Dotinga / Christian Science Monitor:
In a June race for Congress, shades of fall — Tuesday's election in a California district is an early test of voters' views. — SAN DIEGO - By the numbers, Democratic congressional candidate Francine Busby shouldn't expect to get a federal paycheck anytime soon.
Associated Press:
Fundraiser Admits Illegal Bush Donations — TOLEDO, May 31 — A coin dealer and prominent GOP fundraiser at the center of an Ohio political scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges that he illegally funneled about $45,000 to President Bush's reelection campaign.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Good book news — (updated below) — We were notified last night that How Would a Patriot Act? has made the New York Times' Best Sellers List, and will debut at #11 [this upcoming Sunday] on June 11, on the Paperback Nonfiction List. The NYT has sent us the actual page as it will appear …
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