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Terror Attack Scenario Exposes Deep Differences Among G.O.P. Hopefuls — The scenario presented to the 10 Republican presidential candidates was chilling: Three American shopping malls had been bombed, producing huge casualties. Terrorists with detailed knowledge of another imminent …
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Republican Presidential Debate in South Carolina — The following is a transcript of the Republican presidential primary debate at the University of South Carolina on May 15, 2007, as recorded by the Federal News Service: — Participants: Senator Sam Brownback; former Virginia Governor James Gilmore …
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Michelle Malkin:
Liveblogging: The South Carolina debate is on - Video links adds, post-mortem reax — The stage will still be crowded. Elephants soon to be in the room. — Hot buttons: Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. Immigration, immigration, immigration. — What do you want to see asked tonight?
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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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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 …
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Palmetto Punditry — The debate took a while to gain any traction …
Palmetto Punditry — The debate took a while to gain any traction …
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John Dickerson / Slate: Fox and Frienemies — REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTICAL CANDIDATES FINALLY JAB EACH OTHER.
Stephen Green / VodkaPundit:
Debate Drunkblogging - LIVE!
Debate Drunkblogging - LIVE!
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Washington Post:
Mr. Comey's Tale — JAMES B. COMEY, the straight-as-an-arrow former No. 2 official at the Justice Department, yesterday offered the Senate Judiciary Committee an account of Bush administration lawlessness so shocking it would have been unbelievable coming from a less reputable source.
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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 …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Comey's testimony raises new and vital questions about the NSA scandal — The testimony yesterday from James Comey re-focuses attention on one of the long unresolved mysteries of the NSA scandal. And the new information Comey revealed, though not answering that question decisively, suggests some deeply troubling answers.
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 …
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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.
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Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Bush Opens Door to Wolfowitz's Resigning Voluntarily — The Bush administration, shifting strategy in the face of mounting opposition to Paul D. Wolfowitz, opened the door Tuesday to his resigning voluntarily as World Bank president if the bank board dropped its drive to declare him unfit to remain in office.
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Bush Pick Gets Extra Payment From Old Job — A senior lobbyist at the National Association of Manufacturers nominated by President Bush to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission will receive a $150,000 departing payment from the association when he takes his new government job …
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
We must attack Iran before it gets the bomb — Iran should be attacked before it develops nuclear weapons, America's former ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday. — John Bolton, who still has close links to the Bush administration, told The Daily Telegraph that the European Union had to …
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.