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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Gore's Oscar Fuels Call for Late Run — Former Vice President Al Gore's triumph at the Oscars is already stoking activists' pleas for him to make a dramatic late entry into the fractious presidential race, and some key strategists insist he could announce as late as September or October and still win the nomination.
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CNN:
Gore uses Oscar speech to plug environmental cause … LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Sure, the White House slipped from former Vice President Al Gore's grasp, but how many politicians end up on stage at Oscar night? — "An Inconvenient Truth," which turned Gore's lectures on the threat …
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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Al Gore Takes Home the Statue!
Al Gore Takes Home the Statue!
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New York Times:
Cheney Warns Pakistan to Act on Terror — Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced trip to Pakistan on Monday to deliver what officials in Washington described as an unusually tough message to Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, warning him that the newly Democratic Congress could cut aid …
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Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
More Americans Trust Congress Over Bush on Iraq, Poll Finds — Congressional Democrats still hold a sizeable advantage over President Bush in who the public trusts to handle the Iraq war, though the gap has narrowed somewhat since Bush's State of the Union speech, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Meanwhile, Back at the Courthouse... I'm at the courthouse, and as Christy said in her update, one of the jurors was exposed to media coverage of the trial. Nobody really expected anything early this morning, so everyone is scrambling into the media room to try and figure out what's going on.
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Growing A Third Party — Somewhere in America, there are 35,000 people looking at the preliminaries to the 2008 presidential race from a different perspective than that of millions of their fellow citizens. — They are the people who have signed up so far to participate in Unity08 …
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USA Today:
War critic speaks from heart of Bush country — KEARNEY, Neb. — Jeff Strong, a recently retired National Guardsman and "rock-ribbed Republican," churned with conflicting emotions as he sat in an auditorium at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, waiting for Sen. Chuck Hagel.
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Joseph Lieberman / Opinion Journal:
The Choice on Iraq — "I appeal to my colleagues in Congress to step back and think carefully about what to do next." — Two months into the 110th Congress, Washington has never been more bitterly divided over our mission in Iraq. The Senate and House of Representatives are bracing …
Jennifer Viegas / Discovery News:
Jesus Family Tomb Believed Found — New scientific evidence, including DNA analysis conducted at one of the world's foremost molecular genetics laboratories, as well as studies by leading scholars, suggests a 2,000-year-old Jerusalem tomb could have once held the remains of Jesus of Nazareth and his family.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Dan Rather warns Hillary not to come off as a "chickenhawk" — Portrait of a man using a term he's clearly heard used before and just as clearly never quite grasped the definition of. But watch how quick Matthews is to ask him to clarify. You'd better believe he knows what it means.
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Panel: Military Health System Needs Help — WASHINGTON — Many Iraq war soldiers, veterans and their families are not getting needed psychological help because a stressed military's mental health system is overwhelmed and understaffed, a task force of psychologists found.
Andrew Pierce / Telegraph:
Al-Qa'eda 'plotted to kill Blair in front of Queen' — Tony Blair defied an assassination threat from al-Qa'eda to take part in the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations in central London, it can be revealed for the first time. — The risk to the Prime Minister was disclosed to a new BBC documentary …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup Poll:
Giuliani Has Uniquely Broad Based Political Appeal — Clinton's popularity concentrated with Democrats — PRINCETON, NJ — Recent USA Today/Gallup presidential heats measures indicate the 2008 election is not going to be easy for either party. Various pairings of the leading Republican …
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Tom Bevan / Real Clear Politics:
Interview With Mitt Romney — (Editor's note: I sat down with Governor Romney at this headquarters in Boston on Friday. I asked to record the interview and Governor Romney agreed without hesitation, and as I turn the recorder on Romney is in the middle of commenting on the fact …
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New York Times:
U.S. Says Raid in Iraq Supports Claim on Iran — A raid on a Shiite weapons cache in the southern city of Hilla one week ago is providing what American officials call the best evidence yet that the deadliest roadside bombs in Iraq are manufactured in Iran, but critics contend …