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In Debate, Democrats Show More Unity Than Strife — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was professorial and emphatic as she spoke Thursday night about health care, Iraq and whether Wal-Mart was good for America (a "mixed blessing," she decided) . — Senator Barack Obama of Illinois …
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Democrats seek to seize initiative on Iraq — Eight candidates wrangle over who's the toughest on Bush policy — Democratic presidential candidates Dennis Kucinich, Joseph Biden, Bill Richardson and Hillary Rodham Clinton gather on stage before the first Democratic debate of the 2008 election …
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2008 Candidates Rely on Private Jets
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Hotline On Call, Scared Monkeys, POLITOPICS, NewsBusters.org, MSNBC, Associated Press, Macsmind, Don Surber and Tim Blair
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Ex-C.I.A. Chief, in Book, Assails Cheney on Iraq — George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new book, saying they pushed the country to war in Iraq without ever conducting a …
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David Corn, TPMmuckraker, The Gavel, The Carpetbagger Report, Brilliant at Breakfast, Taylor Marsh, Political Animal, The Mahablog, The Gun Toting Liberal™, DallasMorningViews, Reason Magazine, The Heretik, First Read, WorkingForChange, On Deadline, Rising Hegemon, Wonkette, AMERICAblog, Daily Kos, CBS News and DownWithTyranny!
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Pentagon: Al-Qaida operative captured — WASHINGTON - The Pentagon announced Friday the capture of one of al-Qaida's most senior and most experienced operatives, an Iraqi who was trying to return to his native country when he was captured. — Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said the captive is Abdul al-Hadi al-Iraqi.
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Riehl World View
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Big fish: Senior AQ commander Abdul Hadi al Iraqi captured — Biiiiig fish. Not only did he operate both in Iraq and Afghanistan, he's been in the crosshairs since the very beginning — or even before the beginning, actually. Click and scroll down towards the bottom and you'll find …
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New York Sun
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Note To The GOP: Al Qaida Leadership Is Not In Iraq
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Booman Tribune
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The terrorism that dare not speak its name — Why is it that the media and the government never calls the "pro-life" groups who plant bombs at women's clinics what they are: terrorists? — From the AP article, entitled "Explosive found at Austin women's clinic": … Actually, I shouldn't say "from" the AP article.
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Unfogged, The Sideshow, culturekitchen, The Carpetbagger Report, The Mahablog, TAPPED and Michael P.F. van der Galiën
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Explosive found at Austin women's clinic — AUSTIN — A package left at a women's clinic that performs abortions contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death, investigators said today. — "It was in fact an explosive device," said David Carter, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department.
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Silence is Complicity — They're at it again: A week since …
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Dohiyi Mir
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Straight Talking Again — Credit John McCain with one thing: When you're 70 years old, are running for president a second time and have been stumping through the country for many months, it's difficult to spring any surprises in your formal announcement speech.
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AP Interview: Romney says he's not the only one switching positions, rivals do it too — Republican Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his series of shifts on issues, arguing that his top rivals for the GOP presidential nomination also have histories of switching positions.
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The Newshoggers, The Carpetbagger Report, The Corner, Cliff Schecter, American Footprints, Oliver Willis and The RBC
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Senate Sends War Timetable To Bush's Desk — As Funding Bill Heads to Likely Veto, Talks on Revised Legislation Begin — The Senate approved a $124 billion Iraq war spending bill yesterday that would force troop withdrawals to begin as early as July 1, inviting President Bush's veto …
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The Great Wall of Segregation... ...Which is the wall the current Iraqi government is building (with the support and guidance of the Americans). It's a wall that is intended to separate and isolate what is now considered the largest 'Sunni' area in Baghdad- let no one say the Americans are not building anything.
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Dean at M.I.T. Resigns, Ending a 28-Year Lie — Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became well known for urging stressed-out students competing for elite colleges to calm down and stop trying to be perfect. Yesterday she admitted …
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Tag Clouds for the Democratic Debate — Janet Harris, a friend and Pollster reader, sends an interesting bit of analysis she did on last night's MSNBC Democratic debate. Using the free site TagCrowd, she created a set of "tag clouds" that provides a visual depiction of the words used most often last night by each of the candidates.
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The Documents Not Turned Over — Last night, DOJ provided Congress with a list of Kyle Sampson documents it wasn't going to turn over. They begin on December 19, not long after the firings, and continue until March 8, when Sampson resigned. The withheld emails suggest some of the key issues the WH is trying to hide, particularly:
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Video: Jon Voight talks about the war on O'Reilly — Actor Jon Voight appeared on The Factor tonight and just made sense. It's sad that that's news, but coming from a Hollywood actor it tends to be news when one makes sense and doesn't just traffic in leftwing talking points.