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George Jahn / Associated Press:
AP: U.S. to Give Iran Nuclear Technology — A package of incentives presented Tuesday to Iran includes a provision for the United States to supply Tehran with some nuclear technology if it stops enriching uranium _ a major concession by Washington, diplomats said.
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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 …
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Clinton Is the Life of the Democratic Party — WASHINGTON, June 5 — In what promises to be his most intensive campaign season since he left office, former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to appear at more than two dozen fund-raisers for Democrats around the country …
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Fitzgerald, Scooter and Us — The special prosecutor wants to use our editorial as evidence. Sorry. … Those words appeared in this column on July 17, 2003, under the headline "Yellowcake Remix." Three years later they show we were right about Joe Wilson and his false allegation …
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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.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Base Assumptions — This month's offensive by President Bush and his allies in Congress against gay marriage and flag burning proves one thing: The Republican Party thinks its base of social conservatives is a nest of dummies who have no memories and respond like bulls whenever red flags are waved in their faces.
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
A WORD ABOUT COURAGE — It was 62 years ago that US Rangers stormed the cliffs of Pointe Du Hoc near Omaha Beach. And as the veterans of that day grow oh so gray and bent, mere shadows of the lithe and limber youths who pulled themselves up the jagged bluffs, one hand over another …
BLACKFIVE:
D-DAY REMEMBERED — "The wind is cold, the spray is miserable. The clothes are soaked thru, and the landing craft is pitching and yawing like a kite in a windstorm. The boys vomit from the rollercoaster aaffects of the seas and smashing waves that jar your teeth out of your head.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Privately Funded Trips Add Up on Capitol Hill — Over 5 1/2 years, Republican and Democratic lawmakers accepted nearly $50 million in trips, often to resorts and exclusive locales, from corporations and groups seeking legislative favors, according to the most comprehensive study to date on the subject of congressional travel.
Felicity Barringer / New York Times:
Debate Over Wind Power Creates Environmental Rift — The 44 wind turbines near Thomas, W.Va., have been lethal to bats. The turbines are owned FPL Energy, the wind industry's dominant player. — OAKLAND, Md. — Dan Boone has no doubt that his crusade against wind energy is the right way to protect the Allegheny highlands he loves.
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Michelle Malkin:
THE GEORGIA CONNECTION — I obtained the unsealed March 2006 affidavit detailing charges against Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, one of the two Georgia-based Muslim men tied to the Canada terror bust. There are many interesting tidbits included—note the encrypted CD that FBI technicians are unable …
Ana Marie Cox / Time:
Inside the Cult of Kos — What makes the political blogger so mesmerizing to his followers? — "If I cared what commenters said, I'd kill myself." In the high-octane non-stop flame war that is the political blogosphere, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga knows how to get attention. He's kidding, of course.
CBC News:
Suspect accused of wanting to behead PM, lawyer claims — One of the suspects in an alleged bomb plot in Ontario is accused of wanting to storm Parliament, behead the prime minister and attack a number of sites, including the CBC building in Toronto, his lawyer says.
Pejman Yousefzadeh / TCS Daily:
Legal Overkill — It is the duty of a lawyer to be zealous in defending the interests of a client or in advancing a particular legal or policy agenda. But unbounded zealotry not only fails to take into account facts that must be dealt with in good faith, it also serves at times to generate …