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8:05 AM ET, May 16, 2007

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Rudy blasts Ron Paul's apology for 9/11  —  Ahem.  —  The smartass reply would have been to ask Paul whether, if in fact conditions in Iraq precipitated 9/11, it wasn't perfectly appropriate then to take extreme measures to try to remedy those conditions afterwards.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Palmetto Punditry  —  The debate took a while to gain any traction, but there were some clarifying moments for me.  The questions were often excellent - especially the tough ones at the beginning about the war.  The Republicans, we learned, have absolutely no idea what to do about Iraq.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Giuliani Wins, But Paul Threw The Game  —  Team Rudy should send a hundred roses to Ron Paul — yellow roses, of course — after the Congressman essentially tossed the debate to Giuliani.  Rudy had a pretty good night going anyway, but when Paul as much as said that the terrorists had a point …
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Pre-Spin Room Thoughts: McCain, Rudy, Romney  —  Invoking the Roger Simon rule: in my judgment, John McCain convincingly and incontrovertibly won tonight's debate.  He was strong, confident, answered tough questions with ease and dispatch, and seemed the most presidential.
Discussion: eyeon08.com and Latest Politics
Roger Simon / The Politico:   Gloves come off at second GOP debate
New York Times:
Republican Presidential Debate in South Carolina
Discussion: alicublog and The RBC
National Review:   The Debate  —  For what it's worth, Romney looks stronger and stronger to me.
ABCNEWS:
Bush Taps New 'War Czar'  —  ABC News Learns Pentagon Official Selected to Oversee Iraq, Afghanistan Wars  —  After a frustrating search for a new "war czar" to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, ABC News has learned that President Bush has chosen the Pentagon's director of operations, Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, for the role.
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Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Pentagon General to Be 'War Czar'  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush has chosen Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the Pentagon's director of operations, to oversee the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as a "war czar" after a long search for new leadership, administration officials said Tuesday.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:   Bush Picks Army General to Coordinate War Policy
David Johnston / New York Times:
President Intervened in Dispute Over Eavesdropping  —  President Bush intervened in March 2004 to avert a crisis over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program after Attorney General John Ashcroft, Director Robert S. Mueller III of the F.B.I. and other senior Justice Department aides …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA....The Commonwealth Fund has released its latest comparison of healthcare performance among various countries, and you can read all about it here.  However, since I know you're all busy people, I'll just cut to the chase: we suck.  Despite the fact that we see doctors less often …
Discussion: Angry Bear
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commonwealthfund.org:
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care  —  Authors: … Overview  —  Despite having the most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms on most dimensions of performance, relative to other countries.
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
GOP Debate II: Romney - "Double Guantanamo"  —  During the second GOP debate, Fox News' Brit Hume sets up a hypothetical situation where three terrorist attacks occur at shopping malls in major cities.  A fourth attack is thwarted and that would-be attacker, who we know has information about an impending …
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Nico / Think Progress:
Romney: 'We Ought To Double Guantanamo'
Discussion: World Public Opinion
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
News Analysis: Reality Overtakes the Illusion of Unity in Gaza  —  A third day of deadly clashes between Hamas and Fatah fighters suggests that the Palestinian unity government, put together under Saudi auspices at the end of March, is something of a fiction.
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Aussie Dave / Israellycool:
Qassam Attack: May 15th, 2007
Discussion: Israpundit and snapped shot
Bernard Lewis / Opinion Journal:
Was Osama Right?  —  Islamists always believed the U.S. was weak.  Recent political trends won't change their view.  —  During the Cold War, two things came to be known and generally recognized in the Middle East concerning the two rival superpowers.  If you did anything to annoy the Russians, punishment would be swift and dire.
Discussion: Publius Pundit and Betsy's Page
One Jerusalem:
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE::  Semi-protected Schools, Damaged Homes and Kassam Rockets: A Day in the Life of Sderot  —  Yesterday I had the privilege of visiting the city of Sderot.  Sdert is a city of 20,000 people located directly east of Northern Gaza.  In the last seven years …
Brandon Keim / Wired News:
New Phytoplankton Model May Revise Warming Estimates  —  Global climate models are missing a good chunk of plant information that could significantly alter long-term climate change predictions.  A new technique for modeling phytoplankton — microscopic plants in the upper layers of the Earth's waters …
 
 
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Tristero / Hullabaloo:
Falwell Is Dead  —  I'm sure many members, if not all, of his family will weep for him.
Peter S. Goodman / Washington Post:
White House Support for Wolfowitz Wavers
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Press Briefing by Tony Snow
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Jan Crawford / Legalities:
The Roberts Court  —  After the partial-birth abortion decision …
The Hill:
Dems revive '06 ethics bill
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Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
House Dems indicate they are more united on Iran legislation
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Senate leader sets quick votes on Iraq funding
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Yossi Melman / Haaretz:
Experts: IAEA chief exaggerated Iranian nuclear progress
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Giuliani, Tancredo Endorse Waterboarding Torture
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Matthew Burden on Military Blogging
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: MSNBC quotes WhiteHouse.org on Falwell's political influence
 

 
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