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Oliver Willis:
Bill O'Reilly Loses His Damn Mind — In the entire, dark, black history of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, this is probably the craziest clip ever. A young girl was tragically killed by a drunk driver. But this was not enough for O'Reilly. Instead, because the criminal was an illegal alien …
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News conference held in response to Bill O'Reilly's criticism — Thursday night the city of Virginia Beach responded to criticism from a national talk show host. — Bill O'Reilly took aim at the city of Virginia Beadch on his show Wednesday night. City officials held a news conference Thursday evening and responded to O'Reilly.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Bill O'Reilly's head practically explodes as he screams at Geraldo... We've seen Bill lose it before, but I think this one is the wildest segments I've ever seen. I really thought Bill was going to haul off an upper cut to Geraldo's jaw. Geraldo yelled at O'Reilly that the way he used this case was " A SIN!"
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Hussein's Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted — Pentagon Report Says Contacts Were Limited — Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq …
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White House:
Interview of the Vice President by Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show — Q It's always a great privilege to have the Vice President, Dick Cheney, with us. Mr. Vice President, welcome once again to our program. — THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you, Rush. It's good to be back on.
Joe Klein / Time:
An Administration's Epic Collapse — The first three months of the new Democratic Congress have been neither terrible nor transcendent. A Pew poll had it about right: a substantial majority of the public remains happy the Democrats won in 2006, but neither Nancy Pelosi nor Harry Reid …
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Claudia Rosett / philly.com:
Pelosi was nuts to visit with Assad — In visiting Syria this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi no doubt meant well. She wants dialogue. As a woman, mother, and now the third-highest-ranking elected official in American politics, she has achieved a great deal in life by talking with people.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Make Some Noise — Tell CNN to get the facts right on Pelosi trip
Make Some Noise — Tell CNN to get the facts right on Pelosi trip
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Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
Speaker's Role In Foreign Policy Is a Recent, and Sensitive, Issue
Speaker's Role In Foreign Policy Is a Recent, and Sensitive, Issue
myfoxtwincities.com:
Exclusive: Shake Up at the U.S. Attorney's Office — MINNEAPOLIS — It's a major shakeup at the offices of new U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose. — Four of her top staff voluntarily demoted themselves Thursday, fed up with Paulose, who, after just months on the job, has earned a reputation …
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MSNBC:
12,000 more Guard troops may be going to Iraq — Deployment order planned to lessen 'surge's' strain on stretched-thin Army — WASHINGTON - Coming on the heels of a controversial "surge" of 21,000 U.S. troops that has stretched the Army thin, the Defense Department is preparing to send …
Steve Hargreaves / CNNMoney.com:
And Iraq's big oil contracts go to ... Companies from China, India and other Asian nations are seen getting the first contracts. But don't write off Big Oil just yet. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Despite claims by some critics that the Bush administration invaded Iraq to take control of its oil …
C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
Dutch Soldiers Stress Restraint in Afghanistan — QALA-E-SURKH, Afghanistan — The Dutch infantrymen stood on a ridge near the Baluchi Valley, an area in south-central Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban and tribes opposed to the central government. — Whenever they push farther …
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Sky News:
'We Gathered Intelligence' — The captain in charge of the 15 marines detained in Iran has said they were gathering intelligence on the Iranians. — Sky News went on patrol with Captain Chris Air and his team in Iraqi waters close to the area where they were arrested - just five days before the crisis began.
Gateway Pundit:
Harry Reid Gets Clobbered By Veterans For Not Supporting Troops (Video) — Harry Reid Gets Lambasted By Veterans... In a question and answer session at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Reno, Nev., on Thursday, April 5, 2007, Harry Reid got clobbered by a room full of veterans for not supporting the troops.
Jim Gransbery / Billings Gazette:
Baucus calls health system near collapse — The U.S. health care system is on the "verge of collapse," Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Wednesday. — Trying to prevent that is a focus of his chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee, he said. "That is not pretentious or grandiose," he added.
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