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Telegraph:
How the Chicks survived their scrap with Bush — Adam Sweeting assesses how the Dixie Chicks have weathered a political storm — Will it be the salmon teriyaki with organic greens, or asparagus tempura and tuna sashimi? As the waiter hovers with pencil poised, the Dixie Chicks debate …
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Michelle Malkin:
DIXIE CHICKS QUESTION YOUR PATRIOTISM — But don't question theirs (gallon-sized hat tip: Coalition of the Swilling)... Here are country singers who aren't sickened by their country. — Support "ultra-patriotism" through Project Prayer Flag. — More photos of soldiers and American flags to turn Natalie Maines' stomach:
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Democrats Outline a Platform for the Fall — WASHINGTON, June 16 — Declaring their party "ready for this election," Democratic leaders in Congress on Friday announced the platform they hope to use to regain the majority in November. — Their plan, presented at a news conference …
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Antiwar Crucible in Connecticut — Back in 1962, when Joseph Lieberman was 20, he attended a raucous Democratic state convention in Hartford, Conn. Abraham Ribicoff, the former governor, had decided to leave his post in the Kennedy Cabinet to run for the Senate.
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Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lamont Tagged By `Bear' Spot — Lieberman Campaign Portrays Challenger As Agent Of Weicker — Remember the snoring bear? — He starred in a commercial Joseph I. Lieberman famously used in 1988 to unseat Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., portraying him as a sleeping bear who missed key Senate votes.
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Contradictions Cloud Inquiry Into 24 Iraqi Deaths — What really happened in Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005? — On that day, marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians, including 10 women and children and an elderly man in a wheelchair. But how and why it happened and who ultimately bears responsibility are matters of profound dispute.
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Moving Ahead, Rather Throws Sad Look Back — The 74-year-old man with the Mets cap pulled far down on his forehead slid into a booth at a diner on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and ordered a glass of milk without so much as turning a head — so quietly, in fact, that it was hard to believe it was Dan Rather.
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Sinan Salaheddin / Associated Press:
Baghdad explosions bring Iraq toll to 23 — BAGHDAD, Iraq - A series of explosions struck commercial areas in Baghdad within hours Saturday, killing at least 17 people and dealing a blow to a huge government operation to secure the capital. — The blasts — seven within five hours …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Karl Rove Laughs Last — THE LEFTIES AND THE MEDIA are right about Karl Rove. That's why they're in a dither now that Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has cleared Rove of any criminal wrongdoing in the overblown leak case involving CIA functionary Valerie Plame.
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Media Matters for America:
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser — Weekly Part 4: where do we go from here? — Three weeks ago, we began what has now turned into a four-part series: … A week later, we elaborated on the notion that the "dominant political force of our time is the media," with a look back at more than a decade …
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Pentagon Study Describes Abuse by Units in Iraq — WASHINGTON, June 16 — United States Special Operations troops employed a set of harsh, unauthorized interrogation techniques against detainees in Iraq during a four-month period in early 2004, long after approval for their use was rescinded …
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Guardian:
Police may let Muslims see terrorism intelligence — Vikram Dodd — The police are considering a proposal to let selected British Muslims examine the intelligence used to mount anti-terrorism raids before they take place, the Guardian has learned. — The proposal will be considered …
Garance Franke-Ruta / American Prospect:
Hard Sell — Warner flops with the Kossaks, gets a bounce with the MSM, and learns that courting the Democratic netroots is no simple thing. — LAS VEGAS — The YearlyKos convention that took place at the end of last week wasn't a bit like the bar scene in Star Wars.
Washington Post:
Indictment Rejected For Rep. McKinney — A D.C. grand jury has decided not to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) for scuffling with a U.S. Capitol Police officer this year. — U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Wainstein issued a statement yesterday saying the decision followed "an extensive and thorough" …
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Spencer Ackerman / The Plank:
THE SWIFTBOATING OF GENERAL HAGEE: — Yesterday bloggers picked a new military target—General Michael Hagee, the outgoing commandant of the Marine Corps. Hagee, apparently, is a secondary target in the ongoing campaign to destroy Jack Murtha. Yesterday, The Washington Times reported …
Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
Betting on Defeat? — It's far from a safe bet. — National Review Online — Lately, it has become popular to recant on Iraq. When 2,500 Americans are lost, and when the improvised explosive device monopolizes the war coverage, it is easy to see why — especially with elections coming up in November …
Associated Press:
Records: Press aide knew online chat risks — BARTOW, Fla. - In Internet and phone chats with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, a Department of Homeland Security press aide talked about underage sex, boasted about his job and called President Bush a "liar," according to transcripts released by prosecutors.
Ray Robison / Fox News:
Documents Support Saddam-Taliban Connection — Prologue: — Did Saddam Hussein's inner circle and the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan actively court each other in hopes of forging an anti-American alliance in the region? — Ray Robison, a former member of the CIA-directed Iraq Survey Group …