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Bill Richardson / Washington Post:
Diplomacy, Not War, With Iran — The recent tentative agreement with North Korea over its nuclear program illustrates how diplomacy can work even with the most unsavory of regimes. Unfortunately, it took the Bush administration more than six years to commit to diplomacy.
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Jeremy Clarkson / Times of London:
US generals 'will quit' if Bush orders Iran attack — Michael Smith and Sarah Baxter, Washington — SOME of America's most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources.
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Hot Air
Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
Israel seeks all clear for Iran air strike — Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. — To conduct surgical air strikes against Iran's nuclear programme, Israeli war planes would need to fly across Iraq.
Jonathan Saul / Reuters:
Israel denies report it is planning an Iran attack
Israel denies report it is planning an Iran attack
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The Impolitic
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Christian Right Labors to Find '08 Candidate — A group of influential Christian conservatives and their allies emerged from a private meeting at a Florida resort this month dissatisfied with the Republican presidential field and uncertain where to turn. — The event was a meeting …
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The Next Hurrah, Roger Ailes, Prairie Weather, Daily Kos, Middle Earth Journal, toohotfortnr, AMERICAblog and race42008.com
Associated Press:
Americans unaware of Iraqi death toll — Poll shows knowledge of U.S. dead, but huge underestimation of Iraqis — WASHINGTON - One person can tell you precisely how many Americans have been killed in Iraq. Another pays close attention to the names and hometowns of those who die each week.
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icwales.icnetwork.co.uk:
800 civilian contractors killed in Iraq
800 civilian contractors killed in Iraq
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skippy the bush kangaroo
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
The Numbers Game — Since the beginning of the occupation …
The Numbers Game — Since the beginning of the occupation …
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Brendan Nyhan
Washington Post:
Democrats Offer Up Chairmen For Donors — Party's Campaigns Had Faulted GOP For 'Selling Access' — Eager to shore up their fragile House and Senate majorities, congressional Democrats have enlisted their committee chairmen in an early blitz to bring millions of dollars into the party's coffers …
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Washington Post:
General Plays Down Value Of Capturing Bin Laden — The Army's highest-ranking officer said Friday that he was unsure whether the U.S. military would capture or kill Osama bin Laden, adding, "I don't know that it's all that important, frankly." — "So we get him, and then what?" …
Associated Press:
Romney family tree has polygamy branch — SALT LAKE CITY - While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate's great-grandfather had five wives and at least one of his great-great grandfathers had 12.
Telegraph:
Secret report: Terror threat worst since 9/11 — The terrorist threat facing Britain from home-grown al-Qaeda agents is higher than at any time since the September 11 attacks in 2001, secret intelligence documents reveal. — The number of British-based Islamic terrorists plotting suicide attacks against …
Discussion:
Hot Air
Tim McGirk / time-blog.com:
Jesus: Tales from the Crypt — Brace yourself. James Cameron, the man who brought you 'The Titanic' is back with another blockbuster. This time, the ship he's sinking is Christianity. — In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the starting claim …
Cass R. Sunstein / Washington Post:
A Brave New Wikiworld — In the past year, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that "anyone can edit," has been cited four times as often as the Encyclopedia Britannica in judicial opinions, and the number is rapidly growing. In just two years, YouTube has become a household word and one of the world's most successful Web sites.
Little Green Footballs:
Mob Rule at Digg — Somehow, I don't think the "social bookmarking" model is supposed to operate like this. The idea behind an ostensibly non-partisan site like Digg.com is that people submit links to interesting things, and other people rate the links, so that interesting stuff gets more votes and rises to the top.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
On Dr Andrew ("Thersites") Haggerty, Community College Professor — I would have objected over at firedoglake, but just after this comment by Broome Community College's Dr Andrew Haggerty, the site administrators closed the thread. That way you see, I can't respond.
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Whiskey Fire
Christopher Drew / New York Times:
Panel Cites Voter Error, Not Software, in Loss of Votes — Florida election officials announced yesterday that an examination of voting software did not find any malfunctions that could have caused up to 18,000 votes to be lost in a disputed Congressional race in Sarasota County …
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Anita Kumar / St. Petersburg Times:
Jennings has another loss at voting machines
Jennings has another loss at voting machines
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Wake up America
Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
'Terrorist' Remark Puts Outdoorsman's Career in Jeopardy — Zumbo's Criticism of Hunters Who Use Assault Rifles Brings Unforgiving Response From U.S. Gun Culture — SEATTLE — Modern hunters rarely become more famous than Jim Zumbo. A mustachioed, barrel-chested outdoors entrepreneur …
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Lean Left, The Impolitic, Political Animal, Booman Tribune, JunkYardBlog, The War on Guns, SayUncle and Seeing the Forest
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
PATENT ABUSE....You may or may not be aware of this, but pretty much everything in the high-tech world is patented. If you watch a movie on cable TV, for example, it's delivered in a format called MPEG-2, a standard that's composed of over 600 different patented technologies from 20 different companies.
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Matthew Yglesias
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
McConnell Threatens to Block Bid to Repeal War Resolution — Republican Wants to Force Vote on Guaranteeing Funding for Troops — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned yesterday that a new Democratic effort to repeal the 2002 Iraq war resolution would meet the same fate …
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Nico / Think Progress:
Defense Trust Hails Libby As 'Loyal Soldier In The War On Terror' — National Journal's Hotline reports that a recent fundraising letter issued by Scooter Libby's Legal Defense Trust includes the following quote from former Cheney aide Mary Matalin: … Scooter Libby knowingly exposed the cover of a CIA operative.