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feingold.senate.gov:
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER COSPONSORS FEINGOLD BILL TO REDEPLOY TROOPS FROM IRAQ — Washington D.C. - U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that they are introducing legislation that will effectively end the current military mission …
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Bob Geiger:
Democrats Move To Cut Bush's War Funding If Iraq Withdrawal Vetoed — The White House and Republican leaders may think that they will have dodged the majority of the American people when George W. Bush vetoes the recently-passed war-funding bill containing a provision mandating withdrawal from Iraq but …
Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Obama Says Congress Will Fund Iraq War
Obama Says Congress Will Fund Iraq War
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Political Radar, The Caucus, Don Surber, Daily Kos, The BRAD BLOG, Captain's Quarters and Michael P.F. van der Galiën
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Clinton Shatters Record for Fundraising — Edwards Also Passes 1st-Quarter Benchmark — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) raised $26 million in the first quarter of the year, almost three times as much as any politician has previously raised at this point in a presidential election …
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Washington Post:
Presidential Contenders Set New Fundraising Records — The 2008 presidential contenders continued to shatter fundraising records today, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) joining Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in breaking the $20 million barrier for first quarter.
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Laura Clark / Daily Mail:
Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims — Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed. — It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
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The Raw Story:
CNN reporter slams Drudge's charge that he 'heckled' McCain; Exclusive video confirms his claim — CNN reporter Michael Ware this morning hit back at news aggregator Matt Drudge who accused him on Sunday of 'heckling' Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham in a Baghdad press conference.
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Court Denies Appeal From Gitmo Detainees — WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Guantanamo detainees who want challenge their five-year-long confinement in court, a victory for the Bush administration's legal strategy in its fight against terrorism.
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Beltway Journamalism and the Public — I don't know why, but when Jonathan Weisman's reporting at the Washington Post is bad, it's really irritating. I think it's because he more than most 'straight' journalists is obvious about what he wants to say and fishing for quotes and sources to help him say it.
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Okay, welcome to our first installment of The Public's Always Ahead of the Press and the Pundits — or "PAP" for short. — Remember how during the 2006 elections literally every political development of any kind was interpreted by pundits and the press as good for the GOP — that is …
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
New Generation of Qaeda Chiefs Is Seen on Rise — As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan's tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to cement control over the network's operations, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.
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At-Largely, The Moderate Voice, Think Progress, The Swamp, Don Surber, AMERICAblog, Prairie Weather, Shakesville and TIME: Swampland
Paul Duggan / Washington Post:
Balking at the First Pitch — Bush's Skipping of Opening Day May Perpetuate a Ritual's Slow Decline — This is a baseball story, so let's get right to the stats. — Today is Washington's 65th Opening Day since 1910, when William H. Taft gave us a tradition: the ceremonial first pitch by the president.
Dan Mangan / New York Post:
JUDI'S JOB WITH PUP-KILLER FIRM — Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs - which were later killed - in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to doctors, The Post has learned.
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Rightist Indignation — GOP Insider Vic Gold Launches a Broadside at the State of the Party — Vic Gold heard from Lynne Cheney a few weeks before George W. Bush was sworn in as president in January 2001. Cheney had an assignment for her old friend: She wanted Gold to write the profiles …
Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
The Decoy Effect, or How to Win an Election — If Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ever took a break from fundraising to bone up on psychology, they might realize the need to talk up . . . John Edwards. — The same goes for front-runners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in the race …