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Attorney: Karr won't be charged with JonBenet's murder — Adjust font size: — BOULDER, Colorado (CNN) — Schoolteacher John Mark Karr will not be charged with the murder of 6-year-old beauty pageant competitor JonBenet Ramsey, Karr's attorney said Monday.
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Paula Woodward / KUSA-TV:
Sources: Karr's DNA not a match, charges won't be filed — KUSA - 9NEWS has confirmed from two sources that the DNA taken from John Mark Karr does not match the DNA samples taken from the crime scene in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case. — 9NEWS has also confirmed from different sources …
Jon Sarche / Associated Press:
John Mark Karr freed in JonBenet case — BOULDER, Colo. - Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case Monday against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the scene despite his repeated insistence he killed the 6-year-old beauty queen.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Blogosphere Unites in Pursuit of Masked Senator — Who's trying to stop the government from telling its citizens where their tax dollars are being spent? Help find out. — Just before the August recess, the Senate was set to vote on a bill co-sponsored by Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) …
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72 Hour Program Activated In RI.... Democrats were right in 2004: the Republicans have adopted a draft. It only applies, however, to party workers employed by state victory committees in the east of the Mississippi. For many it will be worse than boot camp.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Credit Where Credit is Due — If you'd asked me six months ago …
Credit Where Credit is Due — If you'd asked me six months ago …
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NY Daily News:
Moneymen missing — Dem rips weak $upport — Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel, who leads the Democrats' efforts to retake the House and Senate, is criticizing two of his party's leading allies - George Soros and MoveOn.org - for spending too little on the midterm elections.
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Solomon Moore / Los Angeles Times:
Deaths Drop in Iraqi Capital — Even as the nation's toll climbs by at least 80, including 6 U.S. soldiers, officials credit a military sweep for Baghdad's lower tally this month. — BAGHDAD — An ambitious military sweep appears to be dramatically reducing Baghdad's homicide rate …
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New York Times:
Radical Militia and Iraqi Army in Fierce Battle — At least 20 gunmen and 8 civilians were killed Monday when the Iraqi Army battled fiercely for hours with members of a militia loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric, in Diwaniya, Iraqi officials said.
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Ben Grossman / Broadcasting & Cable:
'Chris Matthews' Turns 5 — Chris Matthews' syndicated political talk show has its fifth anniversary next month. His MSNBC program Hardball may get more buzz, but The Chris Matthews Show, from NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution, is a force as well.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
FauxPhotography: The NYT cheesecake shot isn't photoshopped — Four different people have sent me this alleging that the mike cord has been photoshopped out: — Yeah, it looks weird, but there's an innocent explanation. And the site we owe our thanks to for getting to the bottom of it is ... no, I can't say it.
CNN:
Oops: Impostor scams Louisiana officials — Adjust font size: — KENNER, Louisiana (CNN) — A man who pulled a hoax on Louisiana officials and 1,000 contractors by presenting himself as a federal housing official said Monday he intended to focus attention on a lack of affordable housing.
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Washington Times:
Israeli general plots war with Iran — JERUSALEM — Israel has appointed a top general to oversee a war against Iran, prompting speculation that it is preparing for possible military action against Tehran's nuclear program. — Maj. Gen. Elyezer Shkedy, Israel's air force chief …
Geneive Abdo / Washington Post:
America's Muslims Aren't as Assimilated as You Think — If only the Muslims in Europe — with their hearts focused on the Islamic world and their carry-on liquids poised for destruction in the West — could behave like the well-educated, secular and Americanizing Muslims in the United States, no one would have to worry.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Pronouncing Blame on the Israel Lobby — It was quite a boner. — University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer was in town yesterday to elaborate on his view that American Jewish groups are responsible for the war in Iraq, the destruction of Lebanon's infrastructure and many other bad things.
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Roll the Tape — Go to the link above to see our latest WSJ.com video, in which we discuss that frivolous antiwiretapping decision, the Democrats' war on Wal-Mart, and Hezbollah's counterfeiting. — Eternal Plame — Or at least it seemed that way.
Pete Du Pont / Opinion Journal:
Trash the 'Compact' — An attempt to circumvent the Electoral College is really an urban power grab. — For more than 200 years America has chosen its presidents as the Constitution provides: through the Electoral College. Traditionally, each state has cast its electoral votes …