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Lazy and uneducated photo of the day! — Someone just sent me this. I think it's too good to be true, but you can inspect the full-sized version yourself by clicking the image. — If it is a photoshop, it's awfully well done. — Update: Readers think it's real. I concur.
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Power Line, Leaning Straight Up, Right Wing Nut House, Squiggler, Tammy Bruce and Flopping Aces
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Kerry apologizes for 'botched joke' on Imus — Kerry says administration has 'failed America,' playing distraction politics … In an unscheduled call-in interview this morning, Senator John Kerry (D-Ma) spoke with Don Imus about his misstatements in a speech Monday.
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After remark, Kerry curtails campaigning for Democrats … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John Kerry has canceled plans to campaign for several fellow Democrats after controversy over his comments to college students about getting "stuck in Iraq." — President Bush's 2004 presidential rival …
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Ford asks Kerry to apologize
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Hot Air, New York Times, MyDD, Volunteer Voters, RightWinged.com, Power Line, The Caucus, Ace of Spades HQ, www.johnkerry.com blog and On Deadline
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U.S. Central Command Charts Sharp Movement of the Civil Conflict in Iraq Toward Chaos — A classified briefing prepared two weeks ago by the United States Central Command portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos, in a chart that the military is using as a barometer of civil conflict.
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The Corner, Dick Polman's American Debate, Firedoglake, The Moderate Voice, Outside The Beltway, TAPPED, DownWithTyranny!, Riehl World View, Norwegianity, The Belgravia Dispatch, Political Animal, Bring it On!, The Agonist, Daily Kos, The Peking Duck, Matthew Yglesias, One Hand Clapping, Think Progress, Global Guerrillas, The Heretik, Donklephant and Needlenose
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Abandoning An American Soldier — While the media is obsessed parsing the ad libs of someone on no ballot this fall, something truly ominous has just happened in Iraq. The commander-in-chief has abandoned an American soldier to the tender mercies of a Shiite militia.
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Iraqi Demands Pullback; U.S. Lifts Baghdad Cordon
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Taylor Marsh, Political Animal, AMERICAblog, Informed Comment, Free Frank Warner, Bull Moose, the talking dog, FP Passport, Democrats.com and The Heretik
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Rush's Interview with President George W. Bush — RUSH: Mr. President. — THE PRESIDENT: Hey, Rush, how are you? — RUSH: Never better. It's a thrill to have you on the program today and many thanks for making time for us. — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, sir, for giving me a chance to visit with you.
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N. Korea Agrees to Return To Talks — North Korea agreed yesterday to return to the six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, just three weeks after it conducted its first test of a nuclear device. — The country's unexpected decision, which was announced by Chinese and U.S. officials in Beijing …
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Daniel W. Drezner, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, Truthdig, New York Times and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Letter from Mike Stark — The following is a letter to NBC29 from Mike Stark, the man who was tackled for a comment he made at Senator Allen's campaign stop in Charlottesville on Tuesday. — My name is Mike Stark. I am a law student at the University of Virginia, a marine, and a citizen journalist.
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Allen's Fumbles, Romney's Gain — Even before the votes are counted, over the Republican Party a "thick darkness broodeth" — words from a Victorian hymn, for a party with a Victorian tendency. But one Republican, who is not running for anything this year, will emerge from this bruising season with enlarged prospects.
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Governor race a tossup … The Maryland governor's race is a virtual tie less than a week before Election Day, as Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s relentless attacks on Mayor Martin O'Malley's record on crime and schools have eroded the Democrat's support in the Baltimore suburbs, a new poll for The Sun shows.
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The Most Important Senate Race — Yesterday, a group of African-American Democrats from Prince George's County, Maryland, endorsed Republican Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, a fellow black, for the U.S. Senate. It might be the most important political development in the country this week.
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Claire McCaskill's Bogus Soldier Stories Unraveled — On August 19, 2003, at 4:45 p.m. local time, a truck bomb exploded outside the United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad. Several American military personnel were called to the scene to evacuate those who were badly hurt...
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Nearly half of Americans uncertain God exists: poll — Nearly half of Americans are not sure God exists, according to a poll that also found divisions among the public on whether God is male or female or whether God has a human form and has control over events.
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protein wisdom, Pharyngula, The Sundries Shack, Shakespeare's Sister and The World Wide Rant
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What's Wrong With The Press Corps? — This. Greenwald comments: … It's not just unseemly, it's unprofessional. The point of journalism, of punditry, of analysis, is that it's independent. That doesn't mean it's not ideological, or even totally non-partisan, but that it's not written to attract external approval.
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Unclaimed Territory, Big Brass Blog, Crooks and Liars, Outside The Beltway, Eschaton, Daily Kos and Media Blog
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Partisan Trends: Dems Peaking at the Right Time — In the final full month before Election 2006, the number of people identifying themselves as Republicans has fallen to its lowest level since we began reporting this measure of partisan trends in January 2004.
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What if We're to Blame? — "Towering over Presidents and [Congress] . . . public opinion stands out, in the United States, as the great source of power, the master of servants who tremble before it." — James Bryce, "The American Commonwealth," 1888 — The problem of American democracy is (of course) democracy.
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