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NewsMax.com:
Rep. Adam Putnam: Time for Gonzales to Go — A congressional Republican leader on Friday joined bipartisan calls for U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign but the White House reaffirmed its confidence in President George W. Bush's long-time friend.
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DownWithTyranny!, Michael P.F. van der Galiën, Right Voices, Central Sanity and Hullabaloo
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Washington Post:
Bush Rebuffs GOP Pressure For Gonzales to Step Down — After Testimony, Attorney General Loses Lawmakers' Support — President Bush yesterday stood by his embattled friend, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, defying the broad bipartisan consensus emerging in Washington …
Krishna Guha / Financial Times:
World Bank steps up pressure on Wolfowitz — The World Bank's executive board on Friday ratcheted up the pressure on Paul Wolfowitz to step down as president by simultaneously promising swift action on the Shaha Riza controversy and broadening the scope of its investigations to include other issues as well.
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Steve Clemons / The Huffington Post:
Hank Paulson "Needs More" to Knife Wolfowitz: How About Wolfowitz's Employment Contract that He Be Allowed to Take Speaker Fees? — Secretary of the Treasury "Hank Paulson can easily control his enthusiasm for Paul Wolfowitz," according to a source close to Paulson, "but he does not have enough yet to stick the final knife in."
New York Times:
Candidate Giuliani Shifts His Tone on Immigration — Rudolph W. Giuliani is a long way from Ellis Island. — A decade ago, as mayor of New York, Mr. Giuliani used that historic backdrop to champion the cause of immigrants, calling attacks on people who came here legally a blow to "the heart and soul of America."
Todd Pitman / Associated Press:
Iraqi insurgents now fighting each other — MUQDADIYAH, Iraq — At least two major insurgent groups are battling al-Qaida in provinces outside Baghdad, American military commanders said Friday, an indication of a deepening rift between Sunni guerrilla groups in Iraq.
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Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Deliver us from evil — According to the AP. Iraqi insurgents are now fighting each other, as "moderate" Sunni terrorists tangle with "extremist" al-Qaeda whose brand of Islam is so radical that it prohibits placing cucumbers beside tomatoes because these vegetables have different genders.
New York Times:
U.S. Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart — American military commanders in Baghdad are trying a radical new strategy to quell the widening sectarian violence by building a 12-foot-high, three-mile-long wall separating a historic Sunni enclave from Shiite neighborhoods.
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At-Largely, The Reaction, Thomas P.M. Barnett, Liberty Street, The Newshoggers and The Heretik
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
The New 5-to-4 Supreme Court — AFTER the 5-to-4 decision last week in which the Supreme Court reversed course on abortion, upholding the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, many court watchers were wondering what to expect next. — For guidance, law professors and Supreme Court specialists looked …
CNN:
Blue Angels jet crashes during air show, killing aviator … (CNN) — A jet flying in formation with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision flying team crashed into a Beaufort, South Carolina, neighborhood, causing an "enormous fireball" during an air show, authorities said.
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Matthew Yglesias rightly chastises the media for failing to ask whether Harry Reid is substantively right or wrong in his assertion that the war is "lost." But perhaps we should be careful what we wish for. — Here, for instance, is CNN's Kyra Phillips explaining in a surprisingly cutting way that Reid is in fact wrong.
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Townhall.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Townhall.com sits down with Gov. Romney — MKH: Thanks, Gov. Romney, for taking some time to hang out with us at Townhall today. I'm in D.C. Where are you today? — MR: I'm in Iowa City, IA, which is the home of the University of Iowa, and I just met with 3 or 400 people …
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David Weinberger / The Huffington Post:
Zero Tolerance for Humans — John McCain singing "Bomb bomb bomb, Iran" to the — tune of "Barbara Ann" wasn't even exactly a joke. He — was clarifying a question from the audience that — used euphemisms and circumlocutions to urge him to — bomb Iran. Being famously quirky and ready to blurt
Brad Wong / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Iraqi doctor who disputes official death tolls is denied visa to visit UW — An Iraqi doctor who made international headlines after stating that civilian deaths in the Iraq war far exceeded officially reported numbers is not being allowed to travel to North America to meet other academics.
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