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Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press:
Japan considers strike against N. Korea — TOKYO - Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on the North's missile bases would violate its constitution, signaling a hardening stance ahead of a possible U.N. Security Council vote on Tokyo's proposal for sanctions against the regime.
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Judd / Think Progress:
White House Accuses Clinton of Sending 'Flowers and Chocolates' To Kim Jong-il — Facing increasing criticism of their North Korea policy from the right and left, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow lashed out at the Clinton administration. Snow accused the Clinton administration …
New York Times:
The U.N. Sideshow on Korea — The United Nations Security Council certainly should register international condemnation of last week's North Korean missile launches. But if any serious progress is going to be made on this and the related North Korean nuclear issue, it will not be through Security Council resolutions or sanctions.
Susan Haigh / Newsday:
Lieberman campaign files forms to run as petitioning candidate — HARTFORD, Conn. — Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman filed paperwork Monday that will allow him to collect signatures to petition his way onto the November ballot if he loses an August primary. — Lieberman's campaign announced the move in an e-mail to reporters.
Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Judge: FBI Raid on Lawmaker's Office Legal — WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI raid on a Louisiana congressman's Capitol Hill office was legal, a federal judge ruled Monday. — Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan said members of Congress are not above the law.
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Beheading Desecration Video of Dead U.S. Soldiers Released on Internet by al Qaeda (Video/Images) — A brutal video showing the desecration of the bodies of two U.S. soldiers has been released on the internet by an al Qaeda linked group. The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Tucker and Menchaca — Bryan and I have been debating for the past half hour or so whether I should post this. Michelle's away from the computer at the moment; when she returns, she might make an executive decision to have it removed. — Be warned that it's extremely gruesome.
John Aloysius Farrell / Denver Post:
Rove: Bush to veto DeGette bill — President Bush will likely cast the first veto of his presidency if the Senate, as expected, passes legislation to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, White House aide Karl Rove said today. — "The president is emphatic about this," …
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Marc Danziger / Examiner:
Democrats would be weaker without Lieberman — WASHINGTON - The week's big news is the decision by Joe Lieberman to hedge his bets and gather the signatures he will need to run — and most likely win — as an independent. — I've not been a big fan of Lieberman's; he's one of the key votes …
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Kos Campaign — Liberal blogs like Daily Kos have made Joe Lieberman their first domino. But without a bigger vision, they may be the ones who fall. — M — arkos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder and chief firebrand of the liberal blog Daily Kos, sounded weary in a post …
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John Holusha / New York Times:
Gas Explosion Blamed for N.Y. Building Collapse — A gas explosion flattened a landmarked town house on the Upper East Side this morning and left buried in the rubble a doctor who used his portable telephone to talk to rescue workers as he lay in the burning debris.
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CNN:
Russia kills most-wanted warlord — MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) — Russia's most wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, has been killed by the country's special forces, the state security chief has told President Vladimir Putin. — FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev said on Monday that Basayev …
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BBC:
Zidane blames Materazzi insults — Zinedine Zidane's agent says the France captain headbutted Marco Materazzi in Sunday's World Cup final because the Italian made a "very serious" comment. — Zidane appeared to react to something that was said and was dismissed for his violent charge into his opponent.
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Washington Post:
Well-Paid Benefit Most As Economy Flourishes — Wages are rising more than twice as fast for highly paid workers in the Washington area as they are for low-paid workers, an analysis of federal data by The Washington Post shows. — That means the spoils of the region's economic expansion …
Dave Astor / Editor and Publisher:
Universal Says It Doesn't Think Coulter Plagiarized — NEW YORK Universal Press Syndicate said today that it doesn't think controversial columnist Ann Coulter is guilty of plagiarism. — When reached for reaction to Universal's statement, the head of the company the New York Post asked …
Los Angeles Times:
Wake up, Democrats: Ideas and vision do matter — Just waiting for the Republicans to self-destruct is a losing strategy. — SOMETHING HAPPENS to a political party when it is not just out of power but has had to play on the home field of its opponents for a generation: It loses faith in itself and becomes scared.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Inside Higher Ed: "We are as fair as we can bring ourselves to be" — For those of you who haven't seen this Inside Higher Ed piece, take a look. Then blink, and look again. — Does the story as it appears at Inside Higher Ed match the version of events we all watched unfold over the last few days?
The Prowler / American Spectator:
Introducing Eric Lichtblau — Despite the Bush administration's giving the New York Times and Los Angeles Times the courtesy of full briefings leading into the papers' decision to publish top secret information about the SWIFT terrorism financing monitoring program, the N.Y. Times reporters …
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