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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.
Little Green Footballs:
Pelosi in a Hijab — The modern Democratic leadership. … UPDATE at 4/3/07 12:07:53 pm: … How ... quaint.
Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Pelosi visits market, mosque in Syria — DAMASCUS, Syria - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) mingled with Syrians in a market and made the sign of the cross at a Christian tomb Tuesday during a visit to pursue dialogue with the country's leader.
Dave Pidgeon / local.lancasteronline.com:
Pitts in Syria before Pelosi — But county's U.S. rep. draws less criticism — Intelligencer Journal — LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - While U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming visit to Syria has caused the White House to bristle, a little-publicized rendezvous took place Sunday between …
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President Bush Makes Remarks on the Emergency Supplemental — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I've just had a good meeting with Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, and General Pete Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Secretary Gates and General Pace updated me on the deployment of American reinforcements to Iraq.
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Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Let's see if all the big news outlets who lavished so much coverage on the White House's attack on Nancy Pelosi for her trip to Syria have any time for this. — It's well known by now that even as the White House was slamming Pelosi for her Syria trip GOP House members were making their own trip to Syria.
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 …
Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:
McCain Camp Recruits Nixon's Jew-Counter As Finance Co-Chair
McCain Camp Recruits Nixon's Jew-Counter As Finance Co-Chair
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Matt Lewis / Townhall.com:
"Kerry Approached McCain" …
"Kerry Approached McCain" …
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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 …
The Blotter:
ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against Iran — Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report: — A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / Human Events:
The Mullahs Scoff at Geneva ... Again — For what seems like the millionth time since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has perpetrated an act of war against the West, reaffirmed its hostile, revolutionary intentions, and demonstrated that it is a rogue state which scoffs at the civilizing impulses …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: The Right and Geneva — Andy McCarthy cites the Geneva Conventions.
William F. Buckley / Real Clear Politics:
Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition — The heavy condemnatory breathing on the subject of global warming outdoes anything since high moments of the Inquisition. A respectable columnist (Thomas Friedman of The New York Times) opened his essay last week by writing …
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Daily Intelligencer:
'Out' Ranks the Top 50 Gays; Anderson Is No. 2 — When New York did a "Gay Life Now" issue in 2001, only seven of the forty prominent New York gays asked to pose for the cover were willing. Those big shots may have been gay, and they may have been out, but it just wouldn't do for them to be gay and out on the cover of a magazine.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Rudy Won't Commit To Playing In Ames Straw Poll — CEDAR RAPIDS, IA, — Making his campaign debut in this first-in-the-nation state, Rudy Giuliani sounded a note of uncertainty when he was asked about his plans for the important Ames Straw Poll. — "We'll have to take a look at that," …
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