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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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Greg Sargent / The Horse's Mouth:
WASHINGTON POST EDITORS HELP KARL ROVE BURNISH HIS REPUTATION. The political media is utterly incapable of acknowledging its own role in shaping voter perceptions of our political figures. This blind spot borders on pathological. — Case in point: In today's Washington Post …
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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.
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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Time:
Exclusive Book Excerpt: How an Al-Qaeda Cell Planned a Poison-gas Attack on the N.Y. Subway — The plot was called off by Bin Laden's No. 2 only 45 days from zero hour, according to a new book by Ron Suskind — Al-Qaeda terrorists came within 45 days of attacking the New York subway system …
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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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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