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Guest Post: Senator John McCain On North Korea — Please welcome Senator John McCain as a guest poster at Captain's Quarters. He delivers a tough, no-nonsense reponse to the latest provocation from North Korea. — Time for Decisive Action on North Korea — Korea doubts the world's resolve.
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William J. Perry / Washington Post:
In Search of a North Korea Policy — North Korea's declared nuclear bomb test program will increase the incentives for other nations to go nuclear, will endanger security in the region and could ultimately result in nuclear terrorism. While this test is the culmination of North Korea's long-held aspiration …
Washington Post:China Says It Will Back Sanctions On N. Korea
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David Brown / Washington Post:
Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000 — A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
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New York Times:
Iraqi Dead May Total 600,000, Study Says — A boy at his father's coffin in Baghdad yesterday. Death rates were higher outside the capital, the study said. — A team of American and Iraqi public health researchers has estimated that 600,000 civilians have died in violence across Iraq since …
Malcolm Ritter / Associated Press:
Study: 655,000 Iraqis die because of war — NEW YORK - A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates. — The timing of the survey's release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it "politics."
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Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Iraqi Death Toll Exceeds 600,000, Study Estimates — WASHINGTON — A new study asserts that roughly 600,000 Iraqis have died from violence since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, a figure many times higher than any previous estimate. — The study, to be published Saturday …
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:THE DEATH RATE IN IRAQ....A team at Johns Hopkins has done another study …
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Associated Press:
Hastert Vows to Fire Anyone Who Hid Page Info — WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe said Tuesday he told the House official in charge of the page program as early as 2001 about Rep. Mark Foley's ''creepy'' e-mail to a former page. — Kolbe, the only openly gay Republican in Congress …
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John / AMERICAblog:Hastert does press conference about Foley scandal in front of a graveyard
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:Republicans are Whistling Past the Foley Graveyard
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New York Times:
Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to Center — Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the political mainstream are arguing that Islam cannot be reconciled with European values. — "You saw what happened with the pope," …
Margaret Webb Pressler / Washington Post:
Researchers See a Downside as Keyboards Replace Pens in Schools — Researchers See a Downside as Keyboards Replace Pens in Schools — The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand. — When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
It's The Economy, Even If The Media Doesn't Report It — Bill Clinton got elected on the James Carville slogan, "It's the economy, stupid." Fourteen years later, it's the media playing stupid, as a roaring economy has been treated with more secrecy than national-security programs by newspapers and television news channels.
ABCNEWS:
Foley's Reputed Visit to the Page Dormitory — New Testimony May Pose Problems for GOP Leadership — House speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., tries to change the subject. But the accusations about Hastert subordinates who were apparently told about Congressman Mark Foley's questionable activities keep coming.
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John Pomfret / Washington Post:
Fence Meets Wall of Skepticism — Critics Doubt a 700-Mile Barrier Would Stem Migrant Tide — CALEXICO, Calif. — Legislation passed by Congress mandating the fencing of 700 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico has sparked opposition from an array of land managers, businesspeople …
Drudge Report:
'SCARY MOVIE' PRODUCER MAKES CAMPAIGN AD; MOCKS DEMOCRATS — The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained an exclusive copy of a "scary" campaign advertisement created by Hollywood producer and director David Zucker that was intended to be used by GOP organizations in the closing weeks of the 2006 campaign.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
History of Foley Messages' Release Clarified by Players — 2 Sources Explain Motives, Citing Concern for Hill's Pages — Two of the news media's sources of Mark Foley's sexually explicit instant messages to former House pages said this week that they came forward to expose …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
FBI Agents Still Lacking Arabic Skills — Five years after Arab terrorists attacked the United States, only 33 FBI agents have even a limited proficiency in Arabic, and none of them work in the sections of the bureau that coordinate investigations of international terrorism, according to new FBI statistics.
Associated Press:
Lawmaker fires back at governor's comments on age of Earth — BOZEMAN — A Republican state lawmaker is criticizing Gov. Brian Schweitzer for comments he made to a newspaper here about the lawmaker's belief that the planet is not millions of years old. — Rep. Roger Koopman, R-Bozeman …
USA Today:
FBI investigating actions of Specter staff member — WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating whether a member of Sen. Arlen Specter's staff broke the law by helping her husband, a lobbyist, secure almost $50 million in Pentagon spending for his clients, the senator acknowledged Tuesday.
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