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Washington Post:
Moderate GOP Senator Beats Conservative Challenger in R.I. — Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee, a moderate who has frequently clashed with the Bush administration, beat back a strong conservative challenger Tuesday night in the GOP primary in Rhode Island. — The victory came amid heavy turnout …
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Chafee BEATS Right Wing Laffey in RI Primary: Bolton Stance Supported — Lincoln Chafee has triumphed in his primary vote count tonight. While many will groan about Chafee's victory because it makes the Rhode Island contest a greater hurdle for the Democratic challenger, I am pleased that Chafee has knocked out the far-right Laffey.
Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:
Violence rages in Iraq; 65 bodies found — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Police found the bodies of 65 men who had been tortured, shot and dumped, most around Baghdad, while car bombs, mortar attacks and shootings killed at least 30 people around Iraq and injured dozens more.
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Democrats Call NSA's Input To Senate Panel Inappropriate — Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee are complaining that the National Security Agency has played politics in support of the secret program to intercept phone calls between alleged terrorists in the United States and abroad.
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John / AMERICAblog:
We just had lunch in NYC with a real president — We just finished a two hour blogger lunch with President Clinton at his NY office in Harlem. He had reached out to a group of us a few weeks ago, before the Disney/ABC blow up, simply because he wanted to meet some bloggers.
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Ian Bishop / New York Post:
TALIBAN GETS BURY LUCKY — FURY AS NICEY-NICE BRASS CALL OFF — STRIKE ON FUNERAL — Taliban terror leaders who had gathered for a funeral - and were secretly being watched by an eye-in-the-sky American drone - dodged assassination because U.S. rules of engagement bar attacks in cemeteries, according to a shocking report.
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Paul Garwood / Associated Press:
173 dead in Afghan bombings this year
173 dead in Afghan bombings this year
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Smash / The Indepundit:
The Cold Shoulder — Welcome Instapundit readers! For more on my recent history with Code Pink at Walter Reed, including interviews with founders Gael Murphy and Medea Benjamin, start here. — IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT, and I'm trolling for interviews at the Code Pink protest outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Tells Group He Sees a 'Third Awakening' — President Bush said yesterday that he senses a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as "a confrontation between good and evil."
Helen Pidd / Guardian:
Reborn — We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as painless as possible. But is that really the truth? Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
In Fifth District DFL race, Ellison outran opponents — The party's endorsed candidate captured 41 percent of the votes in the DFL primany. Sabo's choice, Mike Erlandson, finished second. — State Rep. Keith Ellison overcame setbacks and questions about his past to win the DFL nomination …
Steve Kornacki / New York Observer:
Jersey Turns, Dems Panic; Torricelli, Anyone? — A powerful clue that U.S. Senator Robert Menendez might ultimately be forced to withdraw from his bid for a full term in New Jersey emerged last Friday, when he addressed the question head-on just hours after the world learned that he is the subject of a federal criminal investigation.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Bin Laden's Victory — NEW YORK — I hear Osama bin Laden laughing. I heard him all day on Sunday and Monday as the mass murder of Sept. 11, 2001, was memorialized at the Pentagon and in that field in Pennsylvania and especially here, where the most people died and where countless cameras recorded …
Ramesh Ponnuru / New York Times:
How to Win by Losing — CONSERVATIVES are dreading the November elections. The Republican capture of the House of Representatives in 1994 was one of modern conservatism's signal political accomplishments. Now the Democrats are poised to take back the House.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House GOP Leaders Fight Wiretapping Limits — House leaders moved yesterday to temper many of the controls that a bill headed toward rapid passage would have imposed on the Bush administration's program for wiretapping terrorism suspects without court approval.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Correction: Report of Hekmatyar's Capture Incorrect — Initial report of Hekmatyar's capture was a case of mistaken identity — On 9-11, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported "the commander of the Hizb-i-Islami militia in Hafezan in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar …
Redstate:
Name the Earmarkers — REDSTATE WELCOMES THE MAJORITY LEADER … Last January, I warned of the need for action in Congress to combat the growing perception among Americans that their government is for sale. I singled out the ancient congressional practice of "earmarking," …
Times of London:
You must do a lot more to pull your weight, Nato chief chides refuseniks — THE political head of Nato appealed yesterday for alliance members to provide hundreds more troops for the mission in southern Afghanistan. — With most of the fighting burden falling on the shoulders of the British …