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New York Times:
Redacted Version of Original Op-Ed — The Iraq Study Group has added its voice to a burgeoning chorus of commentators, politicians, and former officials calling for a limited, tactical dialogue with Iran regarding Iraq. The Bush administration has indicated a conditional willingness to pursue …
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What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran — HERE is the redacted version of a draft Op-Ed article we wrote for The Times, as blacked out by the Central Intelligence Agency's Publication Review Board after the White House intervened in the normal prepublication review process and demanded substantial deletions.
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The Smoking Gun:
Congressman's No Muslim Fan — Republican warns immigration crackdown needed to halt influx — Here's the letter Representative Virgil Goode sent to Virginia constituents warning that unless there is an immigration crackdown "many more Muslims" will be elected to public office.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:Video: Keith Ellison responds to Dennis Prager and Virgil Goode
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Herschel Smith / The Captain's Journal:
Haditha Events Coming to a Head — CNN is reporting that the events of Haditha are coming to a head. … If we can back off of this giddy and hyperventilating CNN account for a moment, I would like to mention some things we don't yet know, some things we believe that we know, and some things that are an absolute certainty.
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Michael A. Ledeen / American Enterprise Institute:
Iran "Votes" — The first step toward understanding the Iranian "elections" is that they weren't. Elections, that is, at least in our common understanding of the term, namely the people vote and the counters count those votes and so we find out what the people want.
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Opinion Journal:
Who's Tough on Tehran? — Iranian voters are, but not the U.N. Security Council. — Iranians made their feelings plain about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week by voting to reject his allies in municipal elections and in the Assembly of Experts, a clerical body that theoretically has authority over Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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LiberalNC / BlueNC - blog entry:
Robin Hayes says we will win in Iraq by "spreading the message of Jesus Christ" there. — Robin Hayes has the solution to the Iraq war: have our soldiers convert all Muslims to Christianity. — Having won the election by only a hair's width and almost getting himself kicked out of Congress seems …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Eyeing '08, Democrats Nurse Freshmen at Risk — When newly elected Democratic members of Congress showed up here last month, they were taken on the traditional round of orientation, civic-minded lessons on how Congress works, tours of the Capitol and receptions with their new colleagues and leaders.
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Spiegel Online:
Hamsters Return to Nature in Eastern Germany — Germany, warned five years ago by the European Union to revive its field hamster population, has brought a French pair of the rodents to get busy in a hamster-decmiated eastern state. — This week, officials cleared the final bureaucratic hurdles …
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Murray Waas / The Huffington Post:
The Wag Time Pet Spa Conspiracy... And a Cancer Survivor's Right to Respect — As an investigative reporter and independent journalist, I have pursued a career course of independence so as to not be beholden to anyone. A grandiose notion, perhaps, and I will perhaps leave it to others to judge my work against the ideal.
New York Times:
PATH Tunnels Seen as Fragile in Bomb Attack — An analysis done for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says that the PATH train tunnels under the Hudson River are more vulnerable to a bomb attack than previously thought, and that a relatively small amount of high explosives …
Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
A feud over Bush's pick — Warren Bell draws criticism as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting appointee. — NEW YORK — President Bush quietly appointed television sitcom producer Warren Bell to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting this week, overriding opposition …
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Issue Advocacy Ads May Run During an Election, Three-Judge Court Rules — A divided three-judge court ruled yesterday that ads advocating for an issue and mentioning candidates can run during an election, creating a loophole in the law that sought to control the power of big money in elections.
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ConservativeHome's YourPlatform:
John O'Sullivan: Frank Johnson - A Tory Individualist — Former special adviser to Margaret Thatcher and Editor of America's National Review, John O'Sullivan CBE pays tribute to his friend Frank Johnson (pictured) who died last week. — One Monday morning in the early summer of 1973 …
Rachel Ehrenfeld / Washington Times:
Carter's Arab financiers — To understand what feeds former president Jimmy Carter's anti-Israeli frenzy, look at his early links to Arab business. — Between 1976-1977, the Carter family peanut business received a bailout in the form of a $4.6 million, "poorly managed" …
Washington Post:
Report Says TSA Violated Privacy Law — Passengers Weren't Told That Brokers Provided Data to Screening Program in '04 — Secure Flight, the U.S. government's stalled program to screen domestic air passengers against terrorism watch lists, violated federal law during a crucial test phase …
Washington Post:
Iraqi Prime Minister Tells Gates He'll Let U.S. Decide on Troop 'Surge' — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told visiting Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates that he would let U.S. generals decide whether there is a need for a "surge" in U.S. troops deployed in Iraq, according to Iraqi officials with knowledge of the meeting.
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