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Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
McCain goes over to the dark side — John McCain goes over to the dark side — 'THIS IS NOT Luke Skywalker here," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), discussing his friend and Senate colleague John McCain's second run for the presidency. " This is a totally different campaign.
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Matthew Yglesias, Pandagon, Angry Bear, Economist's View, The Moderate Voice, The Democratic Daily and Liberal Values
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David Stout / New York Times:
F.B.I. Head Admits Mistakes in Use of Security Act — Bipartisan outrage erupted on Friday on Capitol Hill as Robert S. Mueller III, the F.B.I. director, conceded that the bureau had improperly used the USA Patriot Act to obtain information about people and businesses.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Meltdown over Fox — Network co-sponsors state Democratic debate — oh my! — Hard-core liberals can't stand the Fox News Channel. Passing a television that's tuned to the conservative favorite forces many of them to close their eyes, cover their ears and scream, "La la la la la la la la la!"
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Middle Earth Journal, Say Anything, Wizbang, Neocon Express, Hot Air and The Political Pit Bull
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John Edwards '08 Blog:
Fox Attacks — Deputy Campaign Manager Jonathan Prince sent the following email to supporters this evening. — You may have heard by now that John Edwards was the first candidate to officially say no to the Fox News debate in Nevada — and because of the hard work of so many grassroots …
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Taylor Marsh, Booman Tribune, Ezra Klein, The Strata-Sphere, Daily Kos and PoliPundit.com
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
General Eaton: "Republican Congress worst thing that's happened to US Army and Marine Corps" — Friday night on Real Time, Bill Maher interviewed retired Army Major General Paul D. Eaton who was the original Commander in charge of training Iraqi troops. Maher tries to get a laugh …
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Nico / Think Progress:
General: Conservatives Are 'Absolutely The Worst Thing That's Happened' To The U.S. Military — Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who was in charge of training the Iraqi military from 2003 to 2004, appeared last night on HBO's Bill Maher Show. — "We are in the midst of recovering right …
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Democrats link pet causes to troop plan — WASHINGTON - Democrats seeking votes for their Iraq-withdrawal plan have stuffed the bill it's in with billions of dollars for farms, flu preparedness, New Orleans levees, home heating and other causes. — Some critics say the Democrats are simply …
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The Impolitic
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Washington Post:
Privatized Walter Reed Workforce Gets Scrutiny — Army Facility Lost Dozens Of Maintenance Workers — The scandal over treatment of outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center has focused attention on the Army's decision to privatize the facilities support workforce at the hospital …
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Washington Post:
Dangerous Ruling — IN OVERTURNING the District of Columbia's long-standing ban on handguns yesterday, a federal appeals court turned its back on nearly 70 years of Supreme Court precedent to give a new and dangerous meaning to the Second Amendment. If allowed to stand …
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QandO, Blue Crab Boulevard, Gene Healy, Don Surber, The Strata-Sphere, PostWatch, The Agitator and Clayton Cramer's BLOG
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Rocky Mountain News:
Kopel: Coulter and Campos: Two sides of the same coin — One's right, one's left, but both often too shrill — They seem like opposites: she's tall, blond and right-wing; he's short, balding and left-wing. Yet both are extremely intelligent weekly columnists with a gift for turning a clever phrase.
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
In Romney's Bid, His Wallet Opens to the Right — In the months before announcing his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts contributed tens of thousands of dollars of his personal fortune to several conservative groups in a position to influence his image on the right.
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Save The GOP
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Kasparov, Building Opposition to Putin — GARRY KASPAROV, the former world chess champion, took a pen and notebook and diagramed the protesters' march through St. Petersburg on March 3. Like a general reliving a battle or a player analyzing a winning combination, he sketched Uprising Square …
Ariel Leve / Times of London:
Europe agrees to embrace nuclear option in battle to save the planet — David Charter and Rory Watson, Brussels — The role of nuclear power in Europe received an unexpected boost yesterday as EU leaders hailed a landmark climate change deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and switch to renewable fuels.
New York Times:
Bush and Chávez Spar at Distance Over Latin Visit — SÃO PAULO, Brazil, March 9 — President Bush began the first full day of his weeklong trip to Latin America here on Friday promising job-creating aid but ended up competing for attention with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela …
J.M. Guardia / Barcepundit:
AGAIN, MADRID has taken to the streets in protest against Zapatero's anti-terror policies: — The rally is organized by the conservative Popular Party, now in opposition, and follow 65 smaller demonstrations across the country's cities yesterday evening. They're all against Zapatero's decision …