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Brett Arends / Boston Herald:
McCain no longer rocks in Granite State — As Mitt, Hillary, Barack and a dozen others jump into the presidential stampede, something interesting is happening in New Hampshire. — For seven years, conventional wisdom has said that the state's pivotal independent voters would line …
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Zogby:
Zogby New Hampshire: 3 Dems In Tight Race; McCain Leads Republican Field — Zogby's latest telephone polling in New Hampshire shows Obama holds slight edge over Clinton and Edwards in tight Dem battle, while Arizona's senior senator leads in what is—at least for now—a two-man GOP race
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An American in Paris — Buchwald launched his career as a columnist in 1949 in Paris, where he wrote about the light side of Paris nightlife in the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune. He returned to the United States around 1962 and moved to Washington, where he began writing columns filled …
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Richard Severo / New York Times:
Art Buchwald, 81, Columnist and Humorist Who Delighted in the Absurd
Art Buchwald, 81, Columnist and Humorist Who Delighted in the Absurd
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Melissa Drosjack / Fox News:
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY TO ALLOW REBUTTAL AFTER CARTER SPEECH — WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter won't go unchallenged after his appearance next week at Brandeis University, where he is lecturing on his latest book about what he terms the Palestinian apartheid by Israel.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Republicans Halt Ethics Legislation — Senate Republicans scuttled broad legislation last night to curtail lobbyists' influence and tighten congressional ethics rules, refusing to let the bill pass without a vote on an unrelated measure that would give President Bush virtual line-item-veto power.
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Robert Bluey / Examiner:
How bloggers took on Harry Reid and won on earmark reform — WASHINGTON - In ways both big and small, bloggers are changing how business is done on Capitol Hill. — Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., learned firsthand last week the effect bloggers can have on public policy when he was handed …
New York Times:
A Spy Program in From the Cold — Of the many ways that President Bush has trampled civil liberties and the balance of powers since the 9/11 attacks, one of the most egregious was his decision to order wiretaps of Americans' international calls and e-mail without court approval.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Grave and Epic War — Spending time with Alberto Gonzales …
The Grave and Epic War — Spending time with Alberto Gonzales …
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Happy Hours — SOMETHING odd happened on Capitol Hill this week. Something that seemed to start out as a publicity stunt — the House Democratic leadership's 100-hour agenda — actually turned into a ...qualified success. — The passage of the Democrats' eight-part legislative package …
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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Speaking Chic to Power — LAUDING someone for their style on Capitol Hill is a lot like celebrating the best surfer on Florida's Gulf Coast — it's all relative, and some would argue irrelevant. Washington has never embraced fashion (nor, for that matter, has the fashion world embraced Washington), and for understandable reasons.
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ArmsControlWonk:
Chinese Test ASAT? — I noticed this blurb on SEESAT today: … I've been hearing the same murmurings—and my sources tell me that a major defense publication is working on the story. So, I suppose it is time to mention what is now an open secret inside the US defense community.
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Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Mahdi Army expressing siege mentality — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mahdi Army fighters said Thursday they were under siege in their Sadr City stronghold as U.S. and Iraqi troops killed or seized key commanders in pinpoint nighttime raids. Two commanders of the Shiite militia said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX NEWS POLL: MOST THINK TROOP SURGE IS BUSH'S LAST CHANCE IN IRAQ — NEW YORK — A majority of Americans consider President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq his last chance for victory there, according to a new FOX News poll. — Overall, the president's plan receives only minority support …
John Heilprin / Associated Press:
Pelosi Creates Global Warming Committee — WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to create a special committee Thursday in an effort to jump-start long-delayed government efforts to deal with global warming and produce a bill by Independence Day.
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Ari Berman / The Nation:
No Blank Check on Iran — The Iraq Study Group recommended that the Bush Administration engage Iran. Instead, the Administration chose to threaten it. — In recent weeks President Bush attacked Iran in a speech announcing his escalation in Iraq, deployed a second naval battleship …
Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Clinton Remains the Front-runner Among Democrats — McCain and Giuliani are front-runners among Republicans — PRINCETON, NJ — Although the first primaries and caucuses of the 2008 presidential race are still one year away, there has already been a great deal of focus on the election.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Time Inc. Lays Off More Than 250 — Time Inc. began laying off more than 250 people today at its top magazines, including its most profitable title, People, which said it was shutting down its Washington, Miami and Chicago bureaus entirely. — Employees in those bureaus said they were …
Gateway Pundit:
Iranian Politicians Threaten to Wipe Ahmadinejad From Map — Forget Israel, with spiraling inflation and unemployment Iranian President Ahmadinejad may be the one wiped off the map! — Critics say that Ahmadinejad and the central government have been strong on populist slogans but weak on achievement.
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