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Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
Israel seeks to reassure Syria: No summer attack — Israel's political and military leadership has been preparing in recent weeks for the possibility of a Syrian attack on the Golan Heights that will start as a result of a "miscalculation" on the part of the Syrians, who may assume that Israel intends to attack them.
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Gregory / The Belgravia Dispatch:
DAMASCENE COMEDY — Bush, today: … Haaretz: … So let me get this straight. Bush remonstrates dastardly Nancy for her passage through Damascus, at the very time the Israelis are reportedly using her to pass a message to Bashar Assad to help avoid a possible conflagration with the Syrians.
Maha / The Mahablog:
Pelosi Wears Scarf; Righties Bark at Moon — Of all the dumb things to get worked up into a snit about, this one is almost as dumb as Ann Althouse's boob post. — The jolly folks at Little Green Footballs have gone bats**t bleeping crazy because Nancy Pelosi wore a headscarf to visit a mosque in Syria.
Little Green Footballs:
Pelosi in a Hijab — The modern Democratic leadership.
Pelosi in a Hijab — The modern Democratic leadership.
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Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
Pelosi, Warmly Greeted in Syria, Is Criticized by White House
Pelosi, Warmly Greeted in Syria, Is Criticized by White House
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The Carpetbagger Report
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Chastened McCain Relaunches Campaign — Amid growing internal concern about poor fundraising and the direction of his presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain's top advisers bluntly told backers on Tuesday of plans to overhaul the campaign and delay its formal announcement until after a major speech on Iraq.
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
McCain Revamps His Fund-Raising — Lagging in fund-raising and under fire for his support of the Iraq war, Senator John McCain is overhauling his campaign finance operation and delaying the official announcement of his candidacy, his aides said Tuesday. — They said he would adopt the kind …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
McCain Denies Secret Overture to Kerry
McCain Denies Secret Overture to Kerry
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Blames Democrats for Impasse Over Iraq Bills — The political brinkmanship over Iraq war spending intensified Tuesday, as President Bush said Congressional Democrats had "undercut the troops" by passing legislation that ties continued war financing to mandated timelines for the withdrawal of American combat units.
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Washington Post:
Students Lie in Front of Car, Delay Rove After Speech — Heckling protesters briefly delayed the car carrying top White House aide Karl Rove last night as he left the American University campus, where he had just given a speech. No arrests or injuries were reported after Rove's invitation-only talk.
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NBC4:
Students Pelt Karl Rove In Protest — WASHINGTON — White House Advisor Karl Rove was the target of a protest on the American University campus Tuesday night, NBC 4 reported. — Rove was on the campus to talk to the College Republicans, but when he got outside more than a dozen students …
CNN:
Iran president to free UK sailors … TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has pardoned 15 British military personnel being held in Iranian custody and vowed to set them free shortly. — "I declare that the people of Iran and the government of Iran …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer defies Justice — Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) last week ignored a plea from the Bush administration by demanding that Kyle Sampson name other U.S. attorneys the Justice Department had been planning to fire. — Schumer's query to the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales …
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Rick Maze / Military Times HOME:
No more GWOT, House committee decrees — The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget. — This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee's Democratic leadership doesn't like the phrase.
Kurt Loder / MTV:
Did Keith Richards Really Snort His Dad's Ashes? No — It Was A Joke! — Comments made in magazine interview were only 'said in jest,' manager tells MTV News. — Maybe you saw that Keith Richards item that started popping up all over the place on Tuesday (April 3) …
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
Mormon Base a Mixed Blessing for Romney — It is the rare presidential candidate who comes to Idaho to raise money, but there was Mitt Romney last month, packing more than 100 people, at up to $2,300 a head, into the Crystal Ballroom in Boise. — "Nearly every seat was filled.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
CNN Replaces Anchors on Its Flagging Morning Show — John Roberts, Kiran Chetry To Succeed the Two O'Briens — CNN is replacing both of its morning show anchors with recent recruits from other networks, sources familiar with the shake-up confirmed last night.
Seattle Times:
Too much hot air on global warming — We have spent the past decade debating a scientific consensus on global warming instead of taking action to fix it. The time is now to move from talk to action. — For too long, we have allowed our national dialogue on this looming crisis to be distorted …
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William F. Buckley / Real Clear Politics:
Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition
Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition
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Armavirumque
philly.com:
This Cat's old hat — Unless you live in Whoville, which is tucked in the mountains and doesn't get much news, you know that Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is a best-selling classic. 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the book's publication. By now, it's an icon as much as a funny story and one of the most-loved titles of all time.
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The Moderate Voice
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Unrelated Items Part of Iraq Bills Since War Began — To President Bush, they are "pork-barrel projects completely unrelated to the war," items in the House and Senate war-spending bills such as peanut storage facilities and aid to spinach farmers that insult the seriousness of the conflict and exist only to buy votes.