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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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Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Obama Says Congress Will Fund Iraq War
Obama Says Congress Will Fund Iraq War
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TIME, Political Radar, The Caucus, Betsy's Page, Don Surber, Daily Kos, The BRAD BLOG and Michael P.F. van der Galiën
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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Agence France Presse:
Government must deal with greenhouse gases: US Supreme Court — The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency must consider greenhouse gases as pollutants, in a blow to the White House. — "Because greenhouse gases fit well within the Clean Air Act's capacious definition …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
EPA must consider global warming again — Ruling 5-4, the Supreme Court on Monday found that the federal government had the authority to regulate greenhouse gases that may contribute to global warming, and must examine anew the scientific evidence of a link between those gases contained …
Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
GOP '08 fundraising totals mark new high — BOSTON - Republican Mitt Romney reported raising $23 million for his presidential campaign during the first three months of the year, shaking up the GOP field and rivaling the total reported a day earlier by Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Thompson Is for Real — In just three weeks, Fred Thompson …
Thompson Is for Real — In just three weeks, Fred Thompson …
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Hot Air, Michael P.F. van der Galiën, Middle Earth Journal, Blue Crab Boulevard, Bluey Blog and TVNewser
Washington Post:
Presidential Contenders Set New Fundraising Records
Presidential Contenders Set New Fundraising Records
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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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Hullabaloo, Matthew Yglesias, Captain's Quarters, Right Voices, Ace of Spades HQ and First Read
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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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protein wisdom, Debbie Schlussel, La Shawn Barber's Corner, The Sundries Shack, QandO, Hot Air and Secular Blasphemy
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.
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skippy the bush kangaroo, First Read, washingtonpost.com, CorrenteWire, DownWithTyranny! and Wonkette
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Kissinger says military victory not possible in Iraq — TOKYO: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, said Sunday the problems in Iraq are more complex than that conflict, and military victory is no longer possible.
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QandO, The Democratic Daily, Michael P.F. van der Galiën, Riehl World View and Liberal Values
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 …
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DownWithTyranny!, Shakesville, Balloon Juice, Political Animal and The Carpetbagger Report
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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Don Surber, At-Largely, The Swamp, The Moderate Voice, AMERICAblog, Prairie Weather, Think Progress, 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.
Linton Weeks / Washington Post:
Stand-Up Comity, One Night Only — At the Gridiron Dinner, a Splitting And Joining of Sides — Once again there was the usual air of palsy-walsyness between politicians and journalists at the annual Gridiron Club dinner Saturday night. These anachronistic affairs are like fairy tales told at bedtime …
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 …