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President Discusses Marriage Protection Amendment — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Good afternoon, and welcome to the White House. It is a pleasure to be with so many fine community leaders, scholars, family organizations, religious leaders, Republicans, Democrats, independents.
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Captain's Quarters, Shakespeare's Sister, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Anchoress, Hugh Hewitt and On Deadline
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John / AMERICAblog:
ACTION ALERT: Call Congress, ask if THEY'RE defending THEIR marriages — UPDATE: Here how one call went to Senator Crapo's office (R-ID) - it's hysterical - and a few other offices. And you can now watch Bush's bigoted White House announcement about the amendment today.
Maria Newman / New York Times:
Senate Debates Gay Marriage Ban Unlikely to Pass — President Bush reaffirmed his support for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage today as the Senate began several days of debate on the measure, which is not expected to be passed. — The president, speaking …
David Carr / New York Times:
Show Me the Bodies — FOR war photography, Vietnam remains the bloody yardstick. During the Tet offensive, on Feb. 9, 1968, Time magazine ran a story that was accompanied by photos showing dozens of dead American soldiers stacked like cordwood. The images remind that the dead are both the most patient and affecting of all subjects.
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Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
SHOW ME THE MONEY SHOT — "I don't like working in Iraq. The terrain is flat and uninteresting, the food is terrible, the weather is ridiculous, and to be honest, the people are not that charming or interesting." — (Sorry, you'll have to read the whole thing for the attribution.)
Gina Holland / Associated Press:
Supreme Court to hear schools race case — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether public schools can consider skin color in student assignments, reopening the contentious issue of affirmative action in a major case that will turn on the votes of President Bush's new justices.
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David Stout / New York Times:
Justices to Rule on Race and Education — WASHINGTON, June 5 — The Supreme Court agreed today to consider an issue of enormous importance to parents and educators across the country: the extent to which public school administrators can use racial factors in assigning children to schools.
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The Raw Story:
Bush press secretary says gay marriage amendment civil rights measure; Stumbles when asked to define civil rights — At the White House press briefing today, Bush press secretary Tony Snow signaled that Bush considers an amendment barring same-sex marriage a "civil rights" matter …
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Immigration shapes congressional races — The nasty fight on Capitol Hill over the Senate's immigration-reform plan is already shaping key races in this year's congressional elections. — From districts along the Mexican border to deeply landlocked districts, immigration has become …
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Beth Duff-Brown / Associated Press:
Paper: Canadian police supplied explosives — MISSISSAUGA, Ontario - Several members of a suspected terrorist ring prayed daily at a storefront mosque in a middle-class city west of Toronto but never spoke of hurting others, one of their prayer leaders said. — "I will say that they were steadfast, religious people.
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Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule — The Pentagon's move to omit a ban on prisoner humiliation from the basic guide to soldier conduct faces strong State Dept. opposition. — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention …
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Outside The Beltway, The Washington Monthly, Firedoglake, Fact-esque, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, Blog for Bell, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Carpetbagger Report, Shakespeare's Sister, BluegrassReport.org, On Deadline, FP Passport, Stop The ACLU, The Heretik, Midtopia, Rising Hegemon and Think Progress
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Conservative Stalwart Andrew Sullivan is MORE MORAL THAN THOU (UPDATED)
Conservative Stalwart Andrew Sullivan is MORE MORAL THAN THOU (UPDATED)
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time.blogs.com, Winds of Change.NET, The American Mind, Riehl World View, QandO, Balloon Juice and The Agonist
Peter Wehner / Washington Post:
And Now For Some Good News — By now Americans know the litany: The nation is engaged in a difficult and costly war in Iraq; Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon; gas prices are high; the costs of reconstructing the Gulf Coast region are huge; illegal immigration is a major problem — and more.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Hell of War — Why Haditha isn't My Lai. — Unjust though the assumption may prove to be, let us imagine that the Marines of Kilo Company did indeed crack up and cut loose in Haditha that day. Something like this has certainly been waiting to happen.
Seth Borenstein / Washington Times:
Apocalypse tomorrow? 666 arrives — Is tomorrow's date — 6-6-6 — merely a curious number, or could it mean our number is up? — There's a devilishly odd nexus of theology, mathematics and commercialism on the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year.
Media Matters for America:
Cavuto: Media biased if they cover Iraqi insurgency, biased if they don't … On the June 1 edition of Fox News' Your World, host Neil Cavuto complained that "the media is all over" the alleged killings of Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq, but that there has been …
Mark Blumenthal / Mystery Pollster:
Is RFK, Jr. Right About Exit Polls? - Part I — Late last week, Rolling Stone published an article by Robert Kennedy, Jr. that asks provocatively, "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" While it covers many topics involving alleged suppression and fraud in Ohio, the article disappoints …
A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
PERU EXIT POLL: GARCIA WINS — Alan Garcia, probable winner, Peru presidency, and second-time lucky — ... and his far-left Hugo-Chavez-style opponent, Ollanta Humala is trailing by about five percentage points. Assuming there are no surprises, this represents one of the greatest political comebacks …
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Iran's China Syndrome — In the middle of a tirade about the pointlessness of talking with the Bush administration, a senior Iranian official I met in Tehran last month abruptly paused and asked if he could speak off the record. Then he said: "What we need is an American president …