Top Items:
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden — WASHINGTON, July 3 — The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday. — The unit, known as Alec Station …
Discussion:
The Raw Story, Liberty and Justice, Captain's Quarters, Security Watchtower, The Heretik, The American Street, The Democratic Daily, A Blog For All, AMERICAblog, Thoughts of an Average Woman, The Sundries Shack, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Carpetbagger Report, TBogg, Outside The Beltway and TalkLeft
RELATED ITEMS:
consortiumnews.com:
Symbiotic Relationship — The implications of this new evidence are troubling, too, for the American people as they head toward another election in November 2006 that also is viewed as a referendum on Bush's prosecution of the "war on terror." — As we have reported previously at Consortiumnews.com …
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A Dissident's Holiday — Have you ever noticed a certain hesitant quality to the expressions of patriotism by progressives or left-wingers? — The patriotism of the conservative goes unquestioned. It's assumed that every politician on the right will wear a flag on his lapel …
RELATED ITEMS:
John Kerry / The Huffington Post:
How to Love Your Country — This Fourth of July it's right to spend some time thinking about what it means not just to be an American, but to be a patriot — because the concept of patriotism itself is under assault in ways that remind me of a different time in our history.
Discussion:
The Sundries Shack
New York Times:
Senator's Plan B Creates Quandary for Democrats — Six years ago Joseph I. Lieberman came within a hairbreadth of the vice presidency after the Democratic Party chose him as a moderate face whose support for family values and a stronger military might attract Reagan Democrats and independents.
Discussion:
The Next Hurrah, LamontBlog, The Moderate Voice, A Blog For All, Captain's Quarters and The Influence Peddler
RELATED ITEMS:
Examiner:
Christopher Hitchens: This July Fourth, ignore polls on America's image — WASHINGTON - Here's what I want to know, and here's why I want to know it. At what point in history, exactly, did the Pew Center decide that it knew how to measure world opinion? — I ask this because almost every week …
Discussion:
Cold Fury
RELATED ITEMS:
Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
NASA Gives Green Light for Shuttle Launch — CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA officials decided a crack in Discovery's fuel tank insulating foam wasn't enough of a threat to stop the countdown Tuesday to their first Independence Day shuttle launch. The launch is set for 2:38 p.m. EDT.
RELATED ITEMS:
Josh White / Washington Post:
Ex-Soldier Charged in Killing of Iraqi Family — Coverup Is Alleged; Four Others Implicated — A former U.S. Army soldier was charged yesterday with the rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman and the slayings of three of her family members in their home south of Baghdad in March, federal prosecutors said.
RELATED ITEMS:
Agence France Presse:
US stars align in anti-Iraq war hunger strike — Star Hollywood actor-activists including Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon and anti-war campaigners led by bereaved mother Cindy Sheehan plan to launch a hunger strike, demanding the immediate return of US troops from Iraq.
Discussion:
Riehl World View
RELATED ITEMS:
Jerusalem Post:
Asheri killers surrender to IDF troops — Three Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorists suspected of kidnapping and killing Itamar resident Eliyahu Asheri last week, surrendered to elite IDF troops in Ramallah early Tuesday morning after a three-hour standoff. — According to Army Radio …
RELATED ITEMS:
BBC:
Al-Qaeda 'bid to infiltrate MI5' — Al-Qaeda sympathisers have been trying to infiltrate the British security service MI5, the BBC has learned. — Whitehall officials confirmed what some had long suspected, says BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner. — But those with al-Qaeda sympathies …
RELATED ITEMS:
MSNBC:
Dirty wars, dirty bombs — Plus, Slacker Friday letters — I am taking an extra day because I love my country, sooo much. If people really miss me, I'll be on Al Franken's show around 1:30 p.m. ET. — I've got a new Think Again: The Best of Times . here. — We're not yet a police state.
New York Times:
No News Allowed — News has always been a tough nut for Communist dictators. It happens unexpectedly, giving bureaucrats precious little time to prepare the correct ideological explanation; it often undermines whatever propaganda line the state is pushing, and if it happens …
Jerusalem Post:
Switzerland: Israel violating int'l law — GENEVA — Switzerland said Monday that Israel has been violating international law in its Gaza offensive by heavy destruction and endangering civilians in acts of collective punishment banned under the Geneva conventions on the conduct of warfare.
Marilynn Marchione / Associated Press:
Docs: Comatose Man's Brain Rewired Itself — Doctors have their first proof that a man who was barely conscious for nearly 20 years regained speech and movement because his brain spontaneously rewired itself by growing tiny new nerve connections to replace the ones sheared apart in a car crash.
Gateway Pundit:
Happy Independence Day, 2006!... "One Nation, Under God!" — Please, on this Independence Day, remember our brave men and women sacrifice so much for our freedom our future. — A final look at the funeral of PFC Thomas Tucker this Independence Day weekend.
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
