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The Star-Ledger / NJ.com:
6 arrested in plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix — Federal investigators last night arrested six Islamic radicals who were planning a heavily armed attack against soldiers at Fort Dix as part of a jihad against America, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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Michelle Malkin:Terrorist plot in Cherry Hill, NJ; illegal aliens among alleged …
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The Smoking Gun:Fort Dix Terror Plot Foiled
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:THE MODERN FACE OF TERRORISM....Federal authorities have arrested six men …
Michelle Malkin:The Jersey Jihadists—and more on the John Doe hero; another John …
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:Fort Dix Terrorist Plot
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Republican quotes KKK founder on House floor — Roll Call reports today that a House Republican delivered a foreign policy speech yesterday in which he quoted Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the KKK. … "Controversial figure" doesn't quite cut it. Most lists of the worst Americans …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Glass Houses, Sheet-Covered Stones, Etc — The Carpetbagger Report linked to me earlier today and has sent a fair amount of traffic to an old post I wrote about the Ten Worst Americans in history. I enjoyed that challenge and spent quite a bit of time on it, but found it curious that someone would link to it today.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Clinton Solidifies Lead Among Democrats, Giuliani Still Tops GOP Field — Clinton favorable rating back to 50% — PRINCETON, NJ — A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds Hillary Clinton solidifying her lead over Barack Obama and the rest of the field for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination …
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Mara Liasson / NPR:
Poll: Voters Down on GOP, Impatient with Congress — · As the Democratic Congress and the Republican president struggle to come to some kind of compromise on Iraq and other issues, the political environment outside the Beltway continues to be as polarized as ever.
New York Times:
Chevron Seen Settling Case on Iraq Oil — Chevron, the second-largest American oil company, is preparing to acknowledge that it should have known kickbacks were being paid to Saddam Hussein on oil it bought from Iraq as part of a defunct United Nations program, according to investigators.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Rice: 'Iraqis Need To Know That We Are Not Looking To Leave Iraq' — In an interview last night on the Charlie Rose Show, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointedly said, "[O]ur friends in the [Middle East] need to know and the Iraqis need to know that we are not looking to leave Iraq." "Ever?"
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN THE SUPREME COURT: The D.C. Circuit refused to rehear the Parker case en banc. A few thoughts on this case in the Supreme Court: — 1. Timing: I assume that the District of Columbia will petition for certiorari; it has 90 days to do this, so the petition will likely be filed in mid-August.
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Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
I Ask Your Forgiveness — We don't expect the men and women we support to necessarily support the same position we do on every single vote. But even in the short time Chris Carney has been in Congress, he has moved further and further away from all the other Blue America endorsees who won seats.
Alexander Mooney / CNN Political Ticker:
Poll: Americans disapprove of Bush's Iraq veto — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A majority of the U.S. public disapproves of President Bush's decision to veto a war spending bill that called for U.S. troops to leave Iraq in 2008, according to a CNN poll released Tuesday.
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Habeas Restoration: Move Quick — I'm told there's an outside shot that House Democrats on the Armed Services Committee will put a restoration of habeas corpus into the Defense Department Authorization Bill being marked up tomorrow and Thursday. Apparently Chairman Skelton has the votes …
Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:
Oh, man. The GOP has a new hit out on Nancy Pelosi that's even more absurd than the bogus plane story or the "controversy" over the trip to Syria. And predictably, the Associated Press is already running with the story. The AP has already gotten its reward for doing this …
Will / Attytood:
Journalists are not a royal class in America — Regular readers know I'm on a three-week hiatus — I've only been showing up here for about two minutes a day to quickly give folks a new discussion topic. I'm still super-pressed for time, so I'm going to make it real short.
Amanda / Think Progress:
Morris: It's 'Convenient' To Keep U.S. Troops In Iraq So Terrorists Can Kill Them 'Around The Corner' — President Bush has repeatedly argued that the United States needs to "eliminate terrorist threats abroad, so we do not have to face them here at home." — Last night on Hannity and Colmes …
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Edward / Heading Right:
Why Is Prostitution Illegal? — Cathy Young of Reason Magazine asks what might be the ultimate libertarian question: why is prostitution illegal? At least in theory, it is a transaction between consenting adults involving no criminal act, except for the giving of monetary compensation for sex.
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