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Michelle Malkin:
How not to honor a fallen soldier — Welcome to Memorial Day 2007. Here's a lesson in How Not To Honor a Fallen Soldier 101. Don't do what Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson did to fallen Marine Lance Corporal Aaron Austin: — Get his name wrong. — Exploit his death on the campaign trail.
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Gov. Bill Richardson / MSNBC:
'Meet the Press' transcript for May 27, 2007 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Our Meet the Candidates 2008 series continues. An exclusive interview with Democrat Bill Richardson. He is now in his fifth year as governor of New Mexico. He was United States congressman …
Tim Montgomerie / Britain and America:
British media could swing the next US election — By Tim Montgomerie, Editor of BritainAndAmerica.com. — Paul Wolfowitz gave what I think was his first interview this morning since giving up his battle to stay World Bank President. He chose to give it to the BBC World Service.
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BBC:
Wolfowitz blames media for exit — The outgoing president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, has told the BBC an "overheated" atmosphere at the bank and in the media forced him to resign. — Mr Wolfowitz stood down after a scandal over his role in winning a new pay and promotion package for his girlfriend.
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Michael P.F. van der Galiën
John / Argghhh!:
MEMORIAL DAY 2007. — Today, we honor those who have gone before. In November, we honor the living. — I don't mind the sales. Commerce built this country. I don't mind "Going to the Lake" - having fun with family and friends makes life worth living. And this day is about having a life worth living.
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Outside The Beltway
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Jules Crittenden:
Memorial Day on the Ground — A quick glance around: — Acute Politics with Promotion Party and Gator. Not exactly Memorial Day pieces, but they are, when you live where every day is Memorial Day. For the occasion, here's a reprise of the Devil's Windchimes, which Don calls The Road to Hell.
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Mudville Gazette
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Trust and Betrayal — Future historians will shake their heads over how easily America was misled into war.
Michael Kamber / New York Times:
Doubts Grow as G.I.'s in Iraq Find Allies in Enemy Ranks — BAGHDAD — Staff Sgt. David Safstrom does not regret his previous tours in Iraq, not even a difficult second stint when two comrades were killed while trying to capture insurgents. — "In Mosul, in 2003, it felt like we were making the city a better place," he said.
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The Carpetbagger Report, The Atlantic Online, Obsidian Wings, Middle Earth Journal and Michelle Malkin
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Alison Leigh Cowan / New York Times:
Wealthy Enclave Offers Windfall for Candidates — Senator John McCain made his pitch to this gilded shoreline suburb back in April. Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts came on May 7, followed one night later by former President Bill Clinton on behalf of his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: Not to See the Fallen Is No Favor — On this Memorial Day, thousands of United States men and women are engaged in untold acts of bravery and drudgery on behalf of what our leaders have defined as vital American interests in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Impolitic
Scott Bronstein / CNN:
Group: Terrorism not focus of Homeland Security … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Claims of terrorism represented less than 0.01 percent of charges filed in recent years in immigration courts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group.
Weekly Standard:
Congress Gives In On War Funding — Now can we fight the enemy? — The war over the war in Washington is quiet for the moment. Congress has finally appropriated funds for America's warriors without setting a deadline for their defeat. Now the president can turn his undivided attention …
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Salon
Des Moines Register:
Norman: Grassley won't say how he'll vote on Gonzales — POTOMAC FEVER — A vote of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is brewing in the U.S. Senate, and Sen. Charles Grassley will not commit yet on how he would vote. — That lack of enthusiasm might be an answer in itself.
TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes — Tonight, I'm down at my Mom's house in Columbus, Georgia for a bit of preliminary birthday celebration (hooray!). I walked outside my apartment in Athens this morning and the air smelled of burning, which means that the smoke from the massive …
Little Green Footballs:
Video: Death Cult Children's Theater — Uploaded to YouTube by a Hamas supporter last April, this is one of the most unbelievably evil videos I've ever seen. — It's a home movie from hell, featuring a group of young girls dressed as suicide bombers and terrorists, waving knives and guns …
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Michael P.F. van der Galiën
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