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Nico / Think Progress:
Tony Snow 'Defensive' On Iraq Anniversary, Tells CNN's Ed Henry To 'Zip It' — President Bush will address the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion in a speech today at the White House. — During this morning's press gaggle, Tony Snow told reporters that Bush will use the speech to attack …
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts — Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United States short of the training, personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight …
Associated Press:
Bush Pleads for Patience in Iraq War — WASHINGTON (AP) - With Democrats pushing for an end to the Iraq war now entering its fifth year, President Bush pleaded for more patience Monday, saying success is possible but "will take months, not days or weeks." — The war has stretched longer …
White House:
President Bush Discusses Fourth Anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Four years ago today, coalition forces launched Operation Iraqi Freedom to remove Saddam Hussein from power. They did so to eliminate the threat his regime posed to the Middle East and to the world.
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Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
The Blame-America-First Crowd — "They always blame America first." That was Jeane Kirkpatrick, describing the "San Francisco Democrats" in 1984. But it could be said about a lot of Americans, especially highly educated Americans, today. — In their assessment of what is going on in the world …
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Cathy's World:
In hospital — As earlier mentioned in the comments section, my mother is in the hospital. The doctor says that right now they're just making her comfortable. She's sedated, with painkillers among other things. Lungs collapsed so right now we just want to make sure she has dignity and is not in pain.
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Get Out of DOJ — Should Gonzales resign? Plus KSM's confession and more. — Paul Gigot: This week on "The Journal Editorial Report," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is under fire for what Democrats are calling a political purge. But how unprecedented was the dismissal of those eight U.S. attorneys?
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David Simpson / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Soldier: Taunts lead to shooting of student — Spc. Craig Perkins' uniform made him a target in Baghdad — and, he believes, again in an apartment complex near Clarkston. — Perkins, who returned last summer after almost a year's duty in Iraq, shot a man outside his apartment March 9 …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
'The Age of Individual Jihad' in Suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia?
'The Age of Individual Jihad' in Suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia?
Beth Reinhard / MiamiHerald.com:
Presidential candidate bungles speech in Miami — People chuckled when presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon raised in Michigan and elected in Massachusetts, bungled the names of Cuban-American politicians during a recent speech in Miami. — But when he mistakenly associated Fidel …
Jill Zuckman / Chicago Tribune:
Pelosi calls for new attorney general — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) added her voice to the growing chorus of discontent over the Justice Department's firing of eight federal prosecutors, saying today, "I believe we need a new attorney general.'' — In a meeting with The Chicago …
David Ehrenstein / Los Angeles Times:
Obama the 'Magic Negro' — The Illinois senator lends himself to white America's idealized, less-than-real black man. — AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president.
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Tantor / Conservative Propaganda:
Vietnam Vets Face Down The Moonbats — Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) mounted the March on the Pentagon yesterday, Saturday, March 17, a demonstration against the war in Iraq, hoping to appeal to the hippie nostalgia for the the march on the Pentagon forty years ago against the war in Vietnam.
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Jack Langer / Human Events:
Power to the People — I could tell right away this wasn't …
Power to the People — I could tell right away this wasn't …
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Michael J. Totten:
A New Power Rises in Iraq — ERBIL, IRAQ - What a difference a year makes. — Fourteen months ago I flew to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, from Beirut, Lebanon, on the dubiously named Flying Carpet Airlines. Flying Carpet's entire fleet is one small noisy plane with propellers, cramped seats, and thin cabin pressure.
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CBN.com:
John McCain Rips the Club For Growth — John McCain has taken some hits for not attending certain conservative events. With CPAC, he says it was a simple schedueling conflict. But he will not be speaking at the upcoming conservative Club For Growth meeting either. Why not?
Mark Follman / Salon:
Smearing the U.S. attorneys — New details show the Bush administration's "document dump" gives a misleading rationale for the firing of two U.S. attorneys. — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in Washington Friday, March 9, 2007. Inset: Kyle Sampson — Evidence continues to mount …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Case For Fred Thompson — It's been only a week since former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) acknowledged that he is considering a run for president in 2008. — But in that short time he has managed to generate considerable interest among grassroots activists and the national media alike.
Associated Press:
Study finds one-third in D.C. illiterate — WASHINGTON - About one-third of the people living in the national's capital are functionally illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a report on the District of Columbia. — Adults are considered functionally illiterate …
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