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Kelley Shannon / Associated Press:
Ex-Texas Gov. Ann Richards dies — AUSTIN, Texas - Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73. — She died at home surrounded by her family, the spokeswoman said.
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Rick Lyman / New York Times:
Ann Richards, Former Governor of Texas, Dies at 73 — Ann W. Richards, the silver-haired Texas activist who galvanized the 1988 Democratic National Convention with her tart keynote speech and was the state's 45th governor until upset in 1994 by an underestimated challenger named George W. Bush, died Wednesday at her home in Austin.
George Will / Real Clear Politics:
Liberalism as Condescension — EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. — This suburb, contiguous with Chicago's western edge, is 88 percent white. A large majority of the customers of the Wal-Mart that sits here, less than a block outside Chicago, are from the city and more than 90 percent of the store's customers are African-American.
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Thomas Sowell / Washington Times:
Cheap shots — Recently one of those increasingly familiar New York Times editorials disguised as news stories was headlined "Conservatives help Wal-Mart, and vice versa." There was a chart with photos of people from conservative think tanks saying things favorable to Wal-Mart's side …
John McWhorter / New York Sun:
I Love My Think Tank — For eight years after I got my P.h.D, I was a professor of linguistics. I first found myself involved with the media in 1996 when the Ebonics controversy hit. I happened to be the black linguist working closest to Oakland where the issue arose (I was at UC Berkeley), and so the media called me.
New York Times:
Panel in Senate Backs Bush Plan for Eavesdropping — Senators John McCain, John W. Warner and Lindsey Graham, all Republicans, Wednesday at the Capitol. They have voiced opposition to a White House plan to reinterpret a provision of the Geneva Conventions.
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:Bush seeks GOP support for terror bills
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Christopher Buckley / Washington Monthly:
Let's quit while we're behind — "The trouble with our times," Paul Valéry said, "is that the future is not what it used to be." — This glum aperçu has been much with me as we move into the home stretch of the 2006 mid-term elections and shimmy into the starting gates of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Asher Susser / Jerusalem Post:
Lebanon - a reassessment — Anyone following the war in Lebanon in the Israeli media could not but come away engulfed in deep depression. Israelis and their media tend to focus obsessively on themselves, their own losses and failings, remaining largely oblivious to what is happening on the other side of the divide.
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John Harwood / Wall Street Journal:
Bush Gets a Lift From Emphasis On Terror, Iraq — Poll Shows Uptick in Support — For President, War Effort; — Overall Approval Still Weak — WASHINGTON — President Bush's efforts to explain and win support for his policies on Iraq and terrorism appear to be paying some initial dividends …
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Think Progress, Air America Radio Bankruptcy — SNAKES IN MANHATTAN — Was Think Progress Used By Backstabbing AAR Faction? — For over a year, your Radio Equalizer has watched so- called "progressives" knife each other in the back in order to enrich themselves.
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Nate / Get In Their Face!:
Princeton University Creates Virus That Hacks Diebold Accuvote-TS Machine — ALERT: Breaking News! — This is MAJOR! Princeton University's Information Technology Policy Department has just put out their press release and built a web page complete with video about their findings.
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel — U.N. inspectors investigating Iran's nuclear program angrily complained to the Bush administration and to a Republican congressman yesterday about a recent House committee report on Iran's capabilities, calling parts of the document …
Washington Post:
In R.I., a Model for Voter Turnout — Employing Senate Primary Strategy May Give GOP an Edge — The turnout campaign that Republican operatives used to help pull Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee to victory in the Rhode Island primary was a potent demonstration of how money and manpower can transform …
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Travis Reed / Associated Press:
Mother of missing boy commits suicide — LEESBURG, Fla. - 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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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Democrats Form New Group for Fund-Raising and Ads — Sensing both political danger and opportunity, a top Democratic operative and a group of major party donors have banded together to deliver a barrage of late advertising and on-the-ground action to secure Democratic victories in November.
Associated Press:
Air Force chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs — WASHINGTON (AP) — Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday. — The object is basically public relations.
White House:
President Bush Applauds House Passage of S. 2590, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 — I applaud the House for today's passage of S. 2590, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, and look forward to final passage by the Senate soon.
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
ABC's 'Path' Not Taken — Does it matter that ABC invented and distorted history in its "warning: this is not a documentary" docudrama, "The Path to 9/11"? After all, the first night of the faux drama was trounced by the brother-against-brother actual drama of "Sunday Night Football."
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Gay Groups Renew Drive Against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' — MADISON, Wis. —The three young men who tried to enlist at an Army recruiting station here appeared to be first-rate military material. — Two were college students, and the other was a college graduate. They had no criminal records.
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