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Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush slams leak of terror finance story — WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday sharply condemned the disclosure of a program to secretly monitor the financial transactions of suspected terrorists. "The disclosure of this program is disgraceful," he said.
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Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
The New York Times at War With America — Why do they hate us? No, I'm not talking about Islamofascist terrorists. We know why they hate us: because we have freedom of speech and freedom of religion, because we refuse to treat women as second-class citizens, because we do not kill homosexuals, because we are a free society.
Hugh Hewitt:
Mr. Keller Believes You Are Easily Confused — The NYT's Executive Editor Bill Keller refuses interviews but does provide a wholly unpersuasive reponse that is, at best, defensive posturing. … First, unless Mr. Keller makes himself available for interviews on this subject, he is not taking the questions and concerns seriously.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
BILL KELLER ISN'T VERY BRIGHT, or else he thinks you aren't.
BILL KELLER ISN'T VERY BRIGHT, or else he thinks you aren't.
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Roosevelt Room / White House:
President Bush Meets with Supporters of U.S. Military in Iraq and Afghanistan — THE PRESIDENT: I have just had a remarkable discussion with some of my fellow citizens who have dedicated their lives to making sure our troops know that this country supports them as they help secure our country and spread freedom.
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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Bush Condemns Bank Record Search Leak — President Bush said today that a secret program to search global bank records for terrorism-related transactions was "fully authorized" under U.S. law, and he denounced the public disclosure of the program as "disgraceful."
W. Thomas Smith, Jr / Townhall.com:
Spinning Haditha — So I receive a phone call from a reporter at ABC News. They are working on a story about Haditha, and the reporter's comments to me go something along the lines of; "I am particularly interested in your recent pieces on Haditha in which you say that in order to understand what happened …
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Sarah Womack / Telegraph:
Family life faces State 'invasion' — Government surveillance of all children, including information on whether they eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, will be condemned tomorrow as a Big Brother system. — Experts say it is the biggest state intrusion in history into the role of parents.
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Jane Merrick / Daily Mail:
State to interfere in childrens' home lives — The home life of every child in the country is to be recorded on a national database in the ultimate intrusion of the nanny state, it has emerged. — Computer records holding details of school performance, diet and even whether their parents provide …
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Karl Rove / Time:
Lessons from a Larger-than-Life President — Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most remarkable figures in America's story. Adventurous, brave, opinionated, a larger-than-life personality, he was a man of action, energy and motion. T.R. loved what he called "the literature of history" …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Decisions: campaign finance limits nullified; five rulings overall — (NOTE: The next decision day will be Wednesday, the Supreme Court announced. Five decisions remain (see below). Presumably, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., will announce on Wednesday when the Term will end.
Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
Democrats split on a 2d run by Kerry — Some embrace recent rhetoric; others say it's time for a new face — WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry has intensified his quest to regain the Democratic presidential nomination with a sharp move to the left, presenting himself in high-profile speeches …
Ray Robison / Fox News:
Was Saddam Regime a Broker for Terror Alliances? — Prologue: — Newly declassified documents captured by U.S. forces indicate that Saddam Hussein's inner circle not only actively reached out to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan and terror-based jihadists in the region …
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Paul Bass / New Haven Independent:
Lieberman Lies, Leaps Into Gutter — He did it with this new attack flyer mailed to Democratic voters. — Joe Lieberman's reelection campaign for U.S. Senate has already been widely criticized, even by conservatives sympathetic to the candidate, for its low-grade attack tactics on Ned Lamont …
Roger Alford / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Fletcher rides a few hundred feet home — BUT KENTUCKIANS URGED TO WALK MORE — FRANKFORT - Under a blue Kentucky sky, birds sing from the boughs of the oaks and magnolias on the Capitol lawn. People walk their dogs. Joggers pass by. — Gov. Ernie Fletcher finishes a day at the office …
Los Angeles Times:
The Dems' Iraq gap — Senate Democrats' resolutions on the war are dubious from both a policy and political standpoint. — IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE THAT DEMOCRATS in the U.S. Senate would use the war in Iraq to send a political message to the party faithful, as some did last week in voting …