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THE END OF MILITARY BLOGGING — The most excellent Noah Shachtman of Wired's Danger Room has a great article with lots of milblogger reaction to the new OPSEC regulations that will end military blogging as we know it. Yes, that's right - the end of soldier blogging from the war zones.
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Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death — The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction …
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Bush's veto survives House challenge — WASHINGTON - Congress failed to override President Bush's veto of legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq on Wednesday, a defeat for anti-war Democrats that triggered immediate talks on a new measure to fund the conflict.
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Parsing the Polls: No Room For Compromise on Iraq
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Matthew Yglesias
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Lawful incest may be on its way — WHEN THE BBC invited me onto one of its talk shows recently to talk about the day's hot topic — legalizing adult incest — I thought of Rick Santorum. — Back in 2003, as the Supreme Court was preparing to rule in Lawrence v. Texas …
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Captain's Quarters, The Reaction, Matthew Yglesias, Clayton Cramer's BLOG and Ross Douthat
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"LAWFUL INCEST MAY BE ON THE WAY" — BUT IT'S ALREADY HERE!
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The Debate Link
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Dodd Throws a Punch — Following the flap over David Geffen's comments, all of the Democrats running for president resorted to playing nice publicly. — Until now. — Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) just released a statement taking former Sen. John Edwards to task for his new ads …
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After the Veto — The ink on the President's veto is barely dry …
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President Bush Discusses War on Terror, Economy with Associated General Contractors of America — Washington, D.C. — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all; please be seated. Steve, unlike you, I have trouble finding the front end of a front-end loader. (Laughter.) Thanks for having me.
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First Draft, The Carpetbagger Report, AMERICAblog, All Spin Zone, Bring it On! and Fact-esque
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WFNR considers pulling Boortz — Scott Stevens knew Neal Boortz was a "hate monger." But he had only received a single, generic complaint about Boortz's remarks regarding the shootings at Virginia Tech. Now, Stevens says WFNR AM 710 in Pulaski will strongly consider pulling Boortz …
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Leahy issues subpoena for Rove e-mails — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) issued a subpoena Wednesday for all e-mails from White House adviser Karl Rove that relate to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. — "Attached please find a subpoena compelling the Department …
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Rep. Shimkus: Iraq War Is Like 'My Beloved St. Louis Cardinals' Facing 'The Cubbies' — Today on the House floor, Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) compared the war in Iraq to a Major League Baseball feud, asking fellow members of Congress to "Imagine my beloved St. Louis Cardinals are playing the much despised Chicago Cubs."
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The Carpetbagger Report
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U.S. Seeks Closing of Visa Loophole for Britons — Omar Khyam, the ringleader of the thwarted London bomb plot who was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday, showed the potential for disaffected young men to be lured as terrorists, a threat that British officials said they would have to contend with for a generation.
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Administration Pulls Back on Surveillance Agreement — Senior Bush administration officials told Congress on Tuesday that they could not pledge that the administration would continue to seek warrants from a secret court for a domestic wiretapping program, as it agreed to do in January.
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Washington Post, Balkinization, Amygdala, White House Watch, Discourse.net, Hullabaloo, AMERICAblog and State of the Day
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24 For Kids — Ann Coulter: set your Tivo. Money quote: … That's a strong "enhanced" message. Just like Mr Tenet says.
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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Millions Of Chickens Fed Tainted Pet Food — At least 2.5 million broiler chickens from an Indiana producer were fed pet food scraps contaminated with the chemical melamine and subsequently sold for human consumption, federal health officials reported yesterday.
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Study of N.B.A. Sees Racial Bias in Calling Fouls — An academic study of the National Basketball Association, whose playoffs continue tonight, suggests that a racial bias found in other parts of American society has existed on the basketball court as well.
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Fred Thompson: MoveOn, Reid Are Taking 'Extremist Positions And Doing Extremist Things' — Last night on Hannity & Colmes, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) claimed that congressional leaders are "adhering, to the extent they can, to the most left-wing element of their base.
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Feds Accuse Alabama Militia of Planning Machine-Gun Attack on Mexicans — BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Five members of a self-styled Alabama militia were denied bond Tuesday after a federal agent testified they planned a machine-gun attack on Mexicans. A sixth man accused of having weapons …
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Study: 1 In 4 Kids Go Without Health Care — CBS News Has Learned Researchers Found Bigger Health Care Gap Than Thought For Children — (CBS) Some uninsured children of the working poor don't go to the doctor's office; it comes to them. — They make too much for Medicaid but not enough to have their own insurance.
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NewsBusters.org
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Imus won't go quietly — The talk show host has hired a top First Amendment lawyer, and an unusual clause in his contract could give him a $40 million payday, writes Fortune's Tim Arango. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Don Imus, the tousled and acerbic radio host whose racial remarks engendered …