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William M. Arkin / Early Warning:
The Arrogant and Intolerant Speak Out — Well, one thing's abundantly clear about who will actually defend our rights to say what we believe: It isn't the hundreds who have written me saying they are soldiers or veterans or war supporters or real Americans and who also advise me to move to another country …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: William Arkin supports the troops in his own funny little way — Here's the man of the hour, playing softball last night with Alan Colmes about the WaPo column heard 'round the blogospheric world. Well, the right side of the blogospheric world, anyway. — N.B.: The clip has been heavily edited.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Molly Ivins, Columnist, Dies at 62 — Molly Ivins, the liberal newspaper columnist who delighted in skewering politicians and interpreting, and mocking, her Texas culture, died yesterday in Austin. She was 62. — Ms. Ivins waged a public battle against breast cancer after her diagnosis in 1999.
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Kevin Hayden / The American Street:A Sad Farewell to an American Great
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Defense Tech:
BREAKING: DOUBLE THE TROOPS IN "SURGE" (UPDATED) — President Bush and his new military chiefs have been saying for nearly a month that they would "surge" an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq, in a last, grand push to quell the violence in Baghdad and in Anbar Province.
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CNN:
Two held after ad campaign triggers Boston bomb scare … BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) — Authorities have arrested two men in connection with electronic light boards depicting a middle-finger-waving moon man that triggered repeated bomb scares around Boston on Wednesday and prompted the closure …
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August J. Pollak / xoverboard.com:
Thomas Menino is an incompetent coward — I have never lived in Boston, and I have never supported a Republican for any elected office. But I would send money to a Republican opponent against Boston Mayor Tom Menino just to get him out of office if he actually dares to do something as cowardly and abusive-of-power as this.
New York Times:
Bullying Iran — Given America's bitter experience in Iraq, one would think that President Bush could finally figure out that threats and brute force aren't a substitute for a reasoned strategy. But Mr. Bush is at it again, this time trying to bully Iran into stopping its meddling inside Iraq.
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Fox News:
TWO SENIOR IRAQI GENERALS EYED IN BRAZEN ATTACK ON U.S. SOLDIERS — Two senior Iraqi generals are being questioned in connection with last week's attack in Karbala that left five U.S. soldiers dead, Pentagon officials told FOX News Thursday. — Military officials also said the level …
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Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. delays report on Iranian role in Iraq — WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has postponed plans to offer public details of its charges of Iranian meddling inside Iraq amid internal divisions over the strength of the evidence, U.S. officials said. — U.S. officials promised last week …
shakespearessister.blogspot.com:
Shakes on a Campaign — I've got some news, Shakers. — I have been offered and have accepted a position as the Netroots Coordinator for John Edwards' presidential campaign, joining an outstanding internet team that now also includes Pandagon's Amanda Marcotte, with whom I'll be working closely.
Daily Mail:
Al Qaeda was behind 'plot' to behead soldier — A foiled plot to kidnap, torture and behead a British Muslim soldier was orchestrated by Al Qaeda, police sources have said. — Officers suspect the mastermind behind the appalling attempt to bring the horrors of Baghdad to the streets …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:Al Qaeda Behind British Beheading Plot; Bakri Mohammed Implicated …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Biden Unwraps His Bid for '08 With an Oops! — In an era of meticulous political choreography, the staging of the kickoff for this presidential candidacy could hardly have gone worse. — Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, who announced his candidacy on Wednesday with the hope …
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Josephine Hearn / The Politico:
Sanchez Accuses Democrat of Calling Her a 'Whore,' Resigns from Hispanic Group — Rep. Loretta Sanchez has quit the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, accusing the chairman, Rep. Joe Baca, of telling people she's a "whore." — Baca denied the charge. — In an interview with The Politico Wednesday …
San Francisco Chronicle:
MATIER AND ROSS — AIDE QUITS AS NEWSOM'S AFFAIR WITH HIS WIFE IS REVEALED — Campaign manager confronts mayor, who is 'in shock' — San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's re-election campaign manager resigned Wednesday after confronting the mayor about an affair Newsom had with his wife …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
A Tide For School Choice — Fifty-seven years later, Sumner Elementary School in Topeka is back in the news. That city's board of education is still wrongly preventing the right people from getting into that building. Two educators wanted to use Sumner for a charter school …
USA Today:
Giuliani: Can hero of 9/11 win over his own party? — BRETTON WOODS, N.H. — Rudy Giuliani would seem to have all the credentials a candidate for president could want: A hero of 9/11, a crime-busting federal prosecutor, a two-term Republican mayor in an overwhelmingly Democratic city …
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