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Nico / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong — Air America Radio will announce a major restructuring on Friday, which is expected to include a bankruptcy filing, three independent sources have told ThinkProgress. — Air America could remain …
Amit Paley / Washington Post:
At Least 62 Bodies Found in Baghdad — Nearly 100 people were killed or found dead in a series of bloody incidents throughout the Iraqi capital over the past 24 hours, authorities said. — At least 62 unidentified bullet-riddled corpses—all bearing signs of torture …
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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
General Affirms Anbar Analysis
General Affirms Anbar Analysis
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Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Real story behind Armitage story — When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did. I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.
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Daily Mail:
Bush to hold talks on Ali G creator after diplomatic row — US President George Bush is to host White House talks on British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. — Cohen, 35, creator of Ali G, has infuriated the Kazakhstan government with his portrayal of Borat, a bumbling Kazakh TV presenter.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A Reprise of the Grand Old Party Line — House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) was his genial self at a meeting with reporters yesterday morning, showing off his golf-ball-pattern tie and talking of a conversation he once had with Jack Nicklaus about the baby-blue cravat.
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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."
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Specter bill much closer to being enacted today — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today on various proposals relating to the Specter FISA bill, as well as the other competing FISA bills pending before the Committee. This report from the AP's Laurie Kellman, published in The Washington Post …
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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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Travis Reed / Associated Press:
Mother of Missing Boy Commits Suicide — Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: "Where were you?
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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. — ...And while you're here, please check out our book, "The Blog of War," now on sale at Amazon.
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Warren Fiske / Virginian-Pilot:
Sen. Allen again apologizes for remark, regrets use of Confederate flag — WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. George Allen offered a broad apology Tuesday for failing to grasp how his use of words and symbols, including the Confederate flag, could be offensive to racial minorities.
Washington Post:
Cardin Wins Md. Senate Primary — U.S. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin beat out former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume to win the Democratic nomination to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, even as chaos at polling sites Tuesday delayed final results and left some other races too close to call.
Baz Bamigboye / Daily Mail:
Watch the video of George Bush being assassinated — Web exclusive: This is the video that's outraged America, showing the moment of George Bush's violent assassination. — The shocking footage, which you can preview exclusively here, is from a new Channel 4 movie to be broadcast on More4 in October …
Avi Rubin / avi-rubin.blogspot.com:
My day at the polls - Maryland primary '06 — I don't know where to start. This primary today is the third election that I have worked as an election judge. The last two elections were in 2004, and I was in a small precinct in Timonium, MD. This time, I was in my home precinct about 1/2 a mile from my house.
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.