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Crooks and Liars:
Coulter on the Today Show: Attacks 9/11 Widows — Coulter on the Today Show: Attacks 9/11 Widows — "I have never seen people enjoying their husband's death so much." — Even her idiotic writing stunned Lauer. The last time she was on the show he treated her as a normal person.
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Media Matters for America:
Why is NBC's Today offering a platform for conservative hate?
Why is NBC's Today offering a platform for conservative hate?
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The Horse's Mouth
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Coulter Won't Buy Into Lauer's Liberal Logic
Coulter Won't Buy Into Lauer's Liberal Logic
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The American Mind
Jon Henke / QandO:
UNITED STATES TO OFFER NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TO IRAN — Finally, diplomatic progress... I already see some people expressing disapproval of this and comparing it to the Agreed Framework, but I think this is far different. For one thing, we don't have Jimmy Carter cowboying off to conduct his own brand of "Trust!
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Did Iran Get What It Wants? — The Associated Press reports …
Did Iran Get What It Wants? — The Associated Press reports …
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Ninth State
Associated Press:
Voters cast ballots in bellwether for fall election — CARLSBAD, California (AP) — Voters in eight states go to the polls Tuesday, with the most-watched congressional contest the only one that will actually put someone in office — a special election in southern California to replace jailed former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
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Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Hijacking Haditha — I had hired car and driver in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates and was heading to a camel market when we drove by this sign. I thought my eyes must be tired. Did that say, WRITING IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN? Then we passed another, and another, and another.
Popular Mechanics:
Hydrogen on the Cheap — Last month, we took an in-depth look at alternative fuels. Among them was Earth's most abundant element, hydrogen. Although its future looks bright—the only by-product of a hydrogen fuel cell is water, and experts believe they can one day be used to create electricity …
Matthew Hickley / Daily Mail:
Special forces to use strap-on 'stealth wings' — Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favour of strap-on stealth wings. — The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes …
Toronto Star:
Plan to storm Parliament alleged — Terror suspects remanded for bail hearings — Jun. 6, 2006. — SURYA BHATTACHARYA AND JESSICA LEEDER — Bombings, an armed assault on Parliament and even the beheading of Prime Minister Stephen Harper were among a chilling miscellany …
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Gateway Pundit:
Clashes Break Out in NW Iran, Qom Protesters Drive Out Rafsanjani — The ethnic Ahwazis put together a video showing glimpses of the regime's horrible oppression, HERE — Here is a powerful line from the video, "We Resist Without Hate." — The former president of Iran, Hashemi Rafsanjani …
Rocky Mountain News:
Campos: Rose-colored view of history — This column was originally going to be about a couple of law professor-pundits, Hugh Hewitt and Glenn Reynolds, who specialize in defending the Bush administration. My learned colleagues are now busy claiming that the supposed "media frenzy" …
CNN:
Baghdad targeted civilian killings soar in May — Most were victims of execution-style murders, Iraqi official says — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Nearly 1,400 Iraqi civilians died in a wave of targeted killings in Baghdad last month, according to a high-ranking Iraqi Health Ministry official.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Emphasis on Ideology Has Some in G.O.P. Anxious — WASHINGTON, June 6 — Though some Republican candidates may relish the Senate's current concentration on same-sex marriage and other ideologically charged topics, Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island is not among them.
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AMERICAblog
pewresearch.org:
Bush's Troubles Shake the GOP Base — Both Moderate and Conservative Partisans Grow Restless — As public approval of George W. Bush languishes at all-time low levels, supporters of the president are increasingly hard to find. In the months following his re-election …
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The Moderate Voice
Gerard Baker / Real Clear Politics:
BBC Bringing 'Sophisticated' News to America — To much fanfare, and a fair amount of predictable gushing from its liberal admirers in the US, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the state-owned bureaucracy that bestrides the UK cultural and political landscape like a colossus, launched a 24 hour news channel in America last week.
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Study: Web is the No. 1 media — Web media is the dominant at-work media and No. 2 in the home, according to a new report from the Online Publishers Association. — The Web also ranked as the No. 1 daytime media. — A research project, conducted by Ball State University's Center for Media Design …
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First Draft
Lisa De Pasquale / Human Events:
Exclusive Interview: Coulter Says Book Examines 'Mental Disorder' of Liberalism — What led you to write Godless: The Church of Liberalism? — It's the third of a trilogy. Slander was about liberals' methods, Treason was about the political consequences of liberalism …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
25 Years of Deadly Lessons — "In the period October 1980-May 1981, 5 young men, all active homosexuals, were treated for biopsy-confirmed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia at 3 different hospitals in Los Angeles, California. Two of the patients died." — Centers for Disease Control,
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Hullabaloo