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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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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.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Gray Lady's Editors Continue Spinning For North Korea
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CNN.com International:
Russia kills most-wanted warlord — MOSCOW, Russia — Russia's most wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, has been killed in an operation by special forces, the state security chief told President Vladimir Putin on Monday. — FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev said Basayev …
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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 …
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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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 …
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?
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Inside Higher Ed:Crossing a Line — "I enjoy writing things that inflame …
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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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CNN:
New York building collapses, burns — Eleven injured; gas explosion appears to be cause — NEW YORK (CNN) — An explosion and fire leveled a residential building on New York's Upper East Side Monday morning, fire officials told CNN. Eleven people were injured.
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John Holusha / New York Times:Gas Explosion Blamed for N.Y. Building Collapse
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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.
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.
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
A Matter of Ethics... I am an attorney by training and by my professional practice of the law for a number of years. Although I am no longer practicing (this blog and motherhood taking up a substantial amount of my time), I do keep my mind in the game by reading a lot of the newer opinions …
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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.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Hoekstra's Whistleblower? — Earlier, we surmised that the whistleblower that House Intelligence Chairman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) was referring to was NSA whistleblower Russ Tice. Then we reconsidered. — Now another candidate has stepped forward: Dave Gaubatz.
Nancy Zuckerbrod / Associated Press:
Online Wagering Under Attack in Congress — Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables won't like what Congress is doing. On Tuesday, the House plans to vote on a bill that would ban credit cards for paying online bets and could padlock gambling Web sites.
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