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Michael Roston / TPMCafe blogs:
Saddam and the cellphones — 1 of 1 people recommend this blog entry. — By now, millions of people have viewed the hanging of Saddam Hussein. Not just Al Iraqiya's pornographic tease of America's old pit bull just prior to his necktie party. No, I mean millions have watched Saddam actually hang.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Conflicts Shaped Two Presidencies — U.S., Iraq Continue to Experience Aftereffects of Their Confrontations — The day after he ordered a cease-fire and brought the Persian Gulf War to a close, President George H.W. Bush ruminated about the status quo he had left behind in Iraq.
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Hundreds flock to see Saddam's gravesite — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of Iraqis flocked to the village where Saddam Hussein was born on Sunday to see the deposed leader buried in a religious compound 24 hours after his execution. — Dozens of relatives and others, some of them crying and moaning …
David Kaspar / Davids Medienkritik:
Post Execution Media Reaction: The Death Penalty - Really a Wedge Issue?
Post Execution Media Reaction: The Death Penalty - Really a Wedge Issue?
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Pajamas Media, TigerHawk, American Thinker, Daled Amos, Don Surber and Blue Crab Boulevard
Najmaldin Karim / New York Times:
Justice, but No Reckoning — MY personal battle with Saddam Hussein …
Justice, but No Reckoning — MY personal battle with Saddam Hussein …
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normblog
Liz Fedor / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Area Somalis want peace for homeland — Many of the 1,500 protesters in Minneapolis were angered that the U.S. gave tacit support for ousting of Islamists. — More than a thousand Somalis gathered in Minneapolis on Saturday to call for Ethiopian troops to withdraw immediately from Somalia.
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Conyers accepts responsibility for possible ethics violations — Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has "accepted responsibility" for possibly violating House rules by requiring his official staff to perform campaign-related work, according to a statement quietly released by the House ethics committee late Friday evening.
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Blogs for Bush
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Tim Golden / New York Times:
For Guantánamo Review Boards, Limits Abound — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — At one end of a converted trailer in the American military detention center here, a graying Pakistani businessman sat shackled before a review board of uniformed officers, pleading for his freedom.
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the talking dog
Byron Calame / New York Times:
Truth, Justice, Abortion and the Times Magazine — THE cover story on abortion in El Salvador in The New York Times Magazine on April 9 contained prominent references to an attention-grabbing fact. "A few" women, the first paragraph indicated, were serving 30-year jail terms for having had abortions.
Times of London:
Hillary falls to earth in poll race — THE first vote is still more than a year away, but the campaign to replace President George W Bush in the White House is already throwing up surprises. — Unfortunately for Senator Hillary Clinton, long the front-runner in the Democratic drive to retake …
Times of London:
Science told: hands off gay sheep — Experiments that claim to 'cure' homosexual rams spark anger — SCIENTISTS are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of "gay" sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans.
Barbara O'Brien / Crooks and Liars:
Old Tapes — I know the young folks despair at the way we moldering relics of the Baby Boom can't let go of Vietnam. Let me say forthrightly that I know how you feel. — Imagine being a teenager in the mid-1960s and lusting after the Correges-style boots the other girls were wearing …
Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
AP Poll: Americans Optimistic for 2007 … WASHINGTON (AP) — The news from Iraq and other national headlines may be grim, but in Greenville, N.C., John Given has a new baby and his first home, and life is good. — So, too, for Sandra Trowbridge in tiny Magnet Cove, Ark. The situation …
Washington Post:
Localities Operate Intelligence Centers To Pool Terror Data — 'Fusion' Facilities Raise Privacy Worries As Wide Range of Information Is Collected — Frustrated by poor federal cooperation, U.S. states and cities are building their own network of intelligence centers led by police to help detect and disrupt terrorist plots.
New York Times:
And Now, a Word From Chile ... Everyone who followed the debate about privatizing Social Security back in 2005 has vivid memories of the Chilean model. Sometimes it seemed impossible to get through any discussion of fixing Social Security without hearing a free-market paean to the way Chile …
Telegraph:
Air Force enlists Stonewall for gay recruits — The Royal Air Force has called in a gay pressure group to help solve its recruitment crisis. The Service will take advice from Stonewall on how to make itself more attractive to homosexual and bisexual men and women, and is aiming to spend tens …
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Right Voices
Jesse Green / New York Times:
Not Everybody Loves Patricia — AT Frank E. Campbell's funeral chapel on Madison Avenue two weeks ago, friends and colleagues gathered to remember the actor Peter Boyle, who died on Dec. 12 at 71. They told stories about his impishness, his artfulness, his liberal fervor. Judy Collins sang "Amazing Grace."
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Brendan Nyhan