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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Spate of Good News Gives White House a Chance to Regroup — In a White House that had virtually forgotten what good news looks like, the past few weeks have been refreshing. A Republican won a much-watched special congressional election. President Bush recruited a Wall Street heavy hitter as Treasury secretary.
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Reuters, The Horse's Mouth, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Moderate Voice, The Washington Monthly, Decision '08 and The Reaction
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
In Iraq Visit, Bush Seizes on a Step Forward — WASHINGTON, June 13 — In visiting Baghdad on Tuesday, President Bush was trying to deliver a carefully calibrated message to Americans: that Iraq and the administration's strategy there appear to be turning a corner, but troops will not be withdrawn anytime soon.
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The Heretik, The Mahablog, Flopping Aces, AMERICAblog, Just a Bump in the Beltway and FP Passport
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:Don't call it a comeback — News outlets are filled …
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The Grit
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Webb Wins Democratic Nomination In Virginia — Ex-Republican to Face Allen for U.S. Senate — Virginia Democrats yesterday chose Vietnam War hero James Webb to challenge Sen. George Allen (R), siding with their party's national leadership, which had declared the former Republican …
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Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lieberman Ally Advises: Run As An Independent — A prominent ally of U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman urged Monday that Lieberman run for re-election as an independent and not trust his career to left-leaning Democratic primary voters in August. — John F. Droney Jr., a former Democratic state chairman …
New York Post:
RUDY GOES NUCLEAR — FORMULA FOR '08 SUCCESS — June 14, 2006 — A small gathering in Mid town yesterday got a sneak peek at Rudy Giuliani's formula as he gears up for a likely 2008 presidential run. That formula: one-third leadership, one-third technocratic centrist and one-third radical conservative reformer.
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:Giuliani Says Nation Lacks Energy Policy
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The Next Hurrah
David Morgan / Reuters:
US officials seeing new home-grown terror cells — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence and law enforcement authorities are discovering new home-grown cells of Islamist radicals in the United States that draw inspiration and moral support from al Qaeda, officials said on Tuesday.
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Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Global Image of the U.S. Is Worsening, Survey Finds — WASHINGTON, June 13 — As the war in Iraq continues for a fourth year, the global image of America has slipped further, even among people in some countries closely allied with the United States, a new opinion poll has found.
Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
FEMA Funds Spent on Divorce, Sex Change — WASHINGTON (AP) - Houston divorce lawyer Mark Lipkin says he can't recall anyone paying for his services with a FEMA debit card, but congressional investigators say one of his clients did just that. — The $1,000 payment was just one example cited …
Associated Press:
Your congressman just got a raise — WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite record low approval ratings, House lawmakers Tuesday embraced a $3,300 pay raise that will increase their salaries to $168,500. — The 2 percent cost-of-living raise would be the seventh straight for members of the House and Senate.
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Honest Reporting:
Gaza Beach Libel — Following Palestinian claims and the media reports of Israeli culpability in deaths on a Gaza beach, the real story emerges... It is now becoming clear that, despite the claims of the Palestinians and the international media's rush to blame Israel …
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Democracy Project, neo-neocon, CAMERA Snapshots, GOP Bloggers, Solomonia and Roger L. Simon
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littlegreenfootballs.com:
Mainstream Media Disgrace of the Month: Hadji Girl — We've been watching this develop, as earlier today the Council on American Islamic Relations sent out one of their infamous email alerts about an amateur music video of a song about a Marine lured into an ambush by a "Hadji girl."
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Liberal Activists Boo Clinton — Rejection of Iraq Timetable Gets Cool Reception at Conference — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) drew boos and hisses from an audience of liberal activists yesterday as she defended her opposition to a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq …
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David Sirota, The Moderate Voice, Outside The Beltway, The Politburo Diktat, Hugh Hewitt and BrothersJudd Blog
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
RWN's Ann Coulter Interview #3 — John Hawkins: Do you think teachers are underpaid? — Ann Coulter: The good ones are, that's why they deserve merit pay. The bad ones are — overpaid. Too bad their unions don't let us distinguish between the two. — John Hawkins: Is global warming occurring and caused by mankind?
Gordon Nickel / National Post:
Islam: A religion of peace? — The problem of Muslim radicalization has been on the agenda of all nations since 9/11. But Canada faces a unique dilemma because the doctrine of multiculturalism is seen as intrinsic to our national identity. The recent disruption of an alleged homegrown Islamist terror plot …
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