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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 …
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Muneeza Naqvi / Associated Press:
66 die in India-Pakistan train attack — DEWANA, India - A pair of explosions on a train headed for Pakistan set off a fire that killed at least 66 people, some of whom became trapped when a train door was fused shut by the heat of the flames. Officials said the attack was aimed at disrupting improving relations between the rivals.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
NYT: Everything comin' up roses for Al Qaeda in Waziristan — The stories about AQ taking over the Pakistani border areas are the Sunni jihadist equivalent of the Iranian nuclear saga: it's a slow-motion train wreck, it gets worse with each passing moment, and there's seemingly nothing …
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross / Counterterrorism Blog:
N.Y. Times: Al-Qaeda Gaining Strength in Pakistan, Waziristan Accord Has Failed — A report in today's New York Times discusses American intelligence and counterterrorism officials' view that al-Qaeda's senior leadership has "re-established significant control" over the worldwide terror network.
Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
McCain: Roe v. Wade should be overturned — SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain (news, bio, voting record), looking to improve his standing with the party's conservative voters, said Sunday the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
McCain Runs a Different Race — DAVENPORT, Iowa — The jokes were familiar. So was the casual banter with voters who showed up at town hall meetings to meet the candidate. But the contrast this weekend was unmistakable: Sen. John McCain is a different man running in a vastly different moment …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
As Clinton Runs, Some Old Foes Stay on Sideline — Back when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was first lady, no one better embodied what she once called the "vast right-wing conspiracy" than Richard Mellon Scaife. — Mr. Scaife, reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune …
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Bill Sammon / Examiner:
Some mull idea of Sen. Bill Clinton — WASHINGTON - If Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the presidency, some top Democrats would like to see her husband, former President Bill Clinton, appointed to serve out Hillary's unexpired Senate term. — "As a senator, he'd be a knockout," said Harold Ickes …
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Bushra Juhi / Associated Press:
Two Soldiers Killed in Iraq Base Attack — BAGHDAD, Iraq — Insurgents launched a brazen coordinated attack on a U.S. combat post Monday, sending in a suicide bomber and clashing with American troops. Two U.S. soldiers were killed and 17 wounded, the military said.
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James Glanz / New York Times:
Iraqi Sunni Lands Show New Oil and Gas Promise — In a remote patch of the Anbar desert just 20 miles from the Syrian border, a single blue pillar of flanges and valves sits atop an enormous deposit of oil and natural gas that would be routine in this petroleum-rich country except for one fact: this is Sunni territory.
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Murtha in Command — After 16 undistinguished terms in Congress, Rep. John P. Murtha at long last felt his moment had arrived. He could not keep quiet the secret Democratic strategy that he had forged for the promised "second step" against President Bush's Iraq policy (after the "first step" …
William Wan / Washington Post:
Maryland to Unveil the Page That Began a New Chapter — George Washington's Resignation Speech Left the U.S. Military in Civilians' Hands — It was a speech so moving the crowd wept. It was a speech so personally important George Washington's hand shook as he read it until he had to hold the paper still with both hands.
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Betsy's Page
Alessandra Stanley / New York Times:
It's Reported, They Mock, You Decide — Making fun of the president is not ideological. Not making fun of the president, on the other hand, is. — And that's what distinguishes "The ½ Hour News Hour," a Fox News version of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," from most other satirical shows.
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Tom Shales / Washington Post:Fox News Channel's '1/2 Hour News Hour': Right Funny, in Spots
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Hot Air
CNN:
Reid: Iraq war 'worst foreign policy mistake' in U.S. history … WASHINGTON (CNN) — After months of heated rhetoric slamming President Bush's Iraq policy, the Senate's top Democrat moved into new terrain by declaring the Iraq war a worse blunder than Vietnam. — "This war is a serious situation.
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.
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Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
In Full Gear — The stab-in-the-back narrative is now in full gear. What Kaus merely abets, Glenn Reynolds, Mark Steyn, and the editors of Investors Business Daily push full throttle; America will lose because of the perfidy of liberals. The Surge is providing the proximate excuse.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:THE DEMOCRATS' DILEMMA — Investors Business Daily …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Rashofitz - Where We Are In The Scooter Libby Trial — "Rashomon" is the cinematic classic in which a story of rape and murder is told from the perspective of four of the people involved. But what is "the truth", and in what ways are the four people shading their versions of events?
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Larry C. Johnson / The Huffington Post:Washington Post Enables Toensing's Delusions
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