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NBC: N. Korea prepares 2nd missile test — The revelations from South Korean media follow Wednesday's confirmation by the United States that it had prepared its missile interceptors to meet a specific threat - North Korea's launch of a long-range missile said to be capable of reaching Alaska.
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worldtribune.com:
Venezuela's Chavez planning arms-for-oil trip to N. Korea — North Korea and Venezuela are discussing a strategic alliance motivated by a common goal — expanding anti-American forces. — During Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in late July …
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Sheehan: 'I'd Rather Live Under Chavez than Bush', Norah Gives Cindy Rough Ride
Sheehan: 'I'd Rather Live Under Chavez than Bush', Norah Gives Cindy Rough Ride
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Decision reached on Yale Taliban; Update: Talibanned — Just got an e-mail from Clinton Watson Taylor of the "Nail Yale" blog, which is currently offline while Town Hall works out the bugs. A reporter from the New York Times called him this afternoon for reaction to the news …
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Alan Finder / New York Times:
A Taliban Past, and a Cloudy Yale Future — A student at Yale University who was once a roving ambassador for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been denied admission to a degree-granting program at Yale, one of the student's financial supporters said yesterday.
Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Senate Colleagues to Help Lieberman — WASHINGTON — Embattled Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman is getting a little help from his Senate friends as he tries to fend off an anti-Iraq war challenger in an intraparty fight. — Sens. Joe Biden of Delaware, Barbara Boxer of California and Ken Salazar …
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M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Salazar says he'll back Lieberman — WASHINGTON — Sen. Ken Salazar is risking the ire of some fellow Democrats by pledging to support incumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in November's election whether or not he wins the Democratic primary. — Lieberman, a centrist and stalwart supporter …
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Alistair Bell / Reuters:
Leftist has surprise lead in Mexico recount drama — MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A leftist anti-poverty campaigner took a slim lead over his conservative rival in a dramatic recount of Mexico's presidential election vote on Wednesday and warned the country's stability was at stake.
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Mark / Mark in Mexico:
Mexico election - liveblogging the District counts — The 300 federal election District Committees are reporting their vote package counts. Remember, they are not counting vote by vote. The votes from each casilla (poll) are sealed in "paquetes" and may not be opened except in 4 very special cases.
Dave Astor / Editor and Publisher:
UPDATE: Coulter's Syndicate Requests Report From Plagiarism Prober — As She Hits Back at 'NY Post' — NEW YORK Universal Press Syndicate has requested a copy of a report about Ann Coulter's alleged plagiarism, according to a post on the TPMmuckraker.com blog.
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The Carpetbagger Report
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Henry Allen / Washington Post:
Ken Lay's Last Evasion — To Some, CEO Is Cheating Them One More Time — Ah, Kenneth Lay of Enron: America hardly knew you before your trial, but learned after your big-hammer jury conviction that you had left countless suckers broke, employees cheated and stockholders betrayed.
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Matt Daily / Reuters:
Enron founder Ken Lay dies of heart disease
Enron founder Ken Lay dies of heart disease
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Michelle Malkin:
ONE-WAY TICKET TO VENEZUELA — I've done a little browsing on Expedia for Cindy Sheehan, who says she'd rather live under Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez than in America (transcription below). (Here's the video via Allah.) Here are current one-way ticket prices from NYC to Caracas: — Fund-raiser, anyone?
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Ray Robison / Fox News:
Iraq How-to Manual Directed Arab Military Operatives In Afghanistan — An Arab regime, possibly Iraq, supplied how-to manuals for Arab operatives working throughout Afghanistan before 9/11, and provided military assistance to the Taliban and Al Qaeda. — That's the most likely conclusion drawn …
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Confederate Yankee
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
A Touchy Topic: Boomer in Chief Hits the Big 6-0 — WASHINGTON, July 5 — Let us now peek into the psyche of America's most powerful baby boomer, George W. Bush. — He is not given to self-analysis — "George is not an overly introspective person," his wife, Laura, once said with dry understatement …
Eric M. Weiss / Washington Post:
Consultant Breached FBI's Computers — Frustrated by Bureaucracy, Hacker Says Agents Approved and Aided Break-Ins — A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI's classified computer system and gain the passwords of 38,000 employees …
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Lady Liberty Trades In Some Trappings — MEMPHIS, July 4 — On Independence Day, Lady Liberty was born again. — As the congregation of the World Overcomers Outreach Ministries Church looked on and its pastor, Apostle Alton R. Williams, presided, a brown shroud much like a burqa was pulled away …
Nancy A. Youssef / Mercury News:
In Basra, state of emergency provides little relief from violence — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's first major security initiative, a 30-day state of emergency intended to restore peace to Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, appears to have failed, residents there report.
Editor and Publisher:
'Stars and Stripes' Lands Exclusive, and Revealing, Bush Interview — NEW YORK When Stars and Stripes nabbed anexclusive interview with President Bush on July 4 — aboard Air Force One — it devoted most of the questions to ones submitted by service members.