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Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE DEMOCRATS' DILEMMA — Investors Business Daily has a hard-hitting editorial denouncing the Congressional Democrats and their "slow bleed" strategy. It begins: … And that's not the hard-hitting part! More important, IBD has a poll that highlights the danger the Democrats face:
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Why the Iraq war is turning into America's defeat — The week's news from Iraq: According to the state television network, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was wounded in a clash with security forces just north of Baghdad. A senior deputy was killed.
IAN / Hot Air:
Video: Hume smacks down Murtha; doesn't know "what the heck is going on in the world" — Brit Hume smacked down John Murtha on this morning's edition of Fox News Sunday. The Fox News host started his sizzling with "it's time a few things be said about him." Indeed.
SusanUnPC / NO QUARTER:
Brent Budowsky: Dear Editor, Washington Post — From Brent Budowsky — Mr. Kaiser, I am forwarding below the note I wrote to Messrs. Graham and Hiatt about Outlook's Victoria Toensing piece today. — With all due respect, I have long admired your work, but that piece today …
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Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:Washington Post Enables Toensing's Delusions
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Pachacutec / Firedoglake:Barbara Comstock Named Washington Post Editor?
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:Rashofitz - Where We Are In The Scooter Libby Trial
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farsnews.com:
Terrorists Use US-Gifted Arsenals — TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following a Saturday report about the use of US manufactured weapons in the recent terrorist operations in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, a security official provided FNA with a photograph of the said weaponry.
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Little Green Footballs:
Iranian Fauxtography Bust — LGF readers tipped me off to a blatant Photoshop fraud at Iran's Fars News Agency, in an article claiming to have discovered US weapons in Iran: Terrorists Use US-Gifted Arsenals. (Beware. The Fars News site resizes your browser window without asking, and may attempt other more sneaky things.)
New York Times:
Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power — Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border …
Washington Post:
The Hotel Aftermath — Inside Mologne House, the Survivors of War Wrestle With Military Bureaucracy and Personal Demons — The guests of Mologne House have been blown up, shot, crushed and shaken, and now their convalescence takes place among the chandeliers and wingback chairs …
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Mahmoud Habboush / NY Daily News:
Killer's daughter admits it was political — GAZA CITY - Ali Abu Kamal's relatives say they are tired of lying about why the Palestinian opened fire on the observation deck of Empire State Building, killing a tourist and injuring six other people before committing suicide.
Faiz / Think Progress:
True 'Fair And Balanced' Coverage: Wallace Calls Out Feith For Lying On Fox News — Last week on Fox News Sunday, former Rumsfeld aide Douglas Feith told Chris Wallace, "Nobody in my office ever said there was an operational relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It's just not correct.
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Tom Bevan / TIME: Real Clear Politics:
Sullivan's Rewrite — Andrew Sullivan has been slinging the word "Christianist" about with sanctimonious ease for some time now. He never misses a chance to point out a news story and filter it through the "Christianist" lens. He's written a book on the subject.
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Harry / Crooked Timber:
You Can be The Ethicist — I was posed this problem by someone in a very highly ranked research department in one of the social sciences (not Philosophy, not Madison), and post with permission. — Graduate Admissions Committee for the department in question is deciding whom to admit.
Martin Peretz / Opinion Journal:
House Call — Political expediency and the nonbinding resolution. — Our political imagination of evil is impoverished, and nowhere is it more impoverished than in Iraq. Even today, when the blood of innocents flows so richly and regularly, we do not seem to grasp its origins, or its power.
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Irreconcilable positions: support troops, oppose war — WHAT DOES IT mean to support the troops but oppose the cause they fight for? — No loyal Colts fan rooted for Indianapolis to lose the Super Bowl. No investor buys 100 shares of Google in the hope that Google's stock will tank.
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