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Fred Thompson running for president — Fred Dalton Thompson is planning to enter the presidential race over the Fourth of July holiday, announcing that week that he has already raised several million dollars and is being backed by insiders from the past three Republican administrations, Thompson advisers told The Politico.
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Testing the Waters — Fred Thompson, candidate-in-waiting. — FRED THOMPSON IS RUNNING for the Republican presidential nomination. In a conference call Monday, Thompson addressed a group of more than 100 supporters and fundraisers whom the campaign has dubbed First Day Founders.
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Thompson To Dip His Toes — Speculation over whether Fred Thompson is serious about running for president just went toes-up. Mr. Thompson's not-yet-a campaign has confirmed: He's dipping his toes in. — Specifically, a Thompson adviser told The New York Sun yesterday …
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Noise machine on Plame's status — NBC News, yesterday: … The right-wing noise machine spent the last two years repeatedly, continuously and emphatically telling their followers the exact opposite: — Fred Barnes, Fox News Special Report, November 3, 2005 (via Lexis):
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Plame was 'covert' agent at time of name leak
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Another Reason To Question The Tenet Regime At Langley
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Media Embarrassment Over Socialist Rhetoric? — Hillary Clinton announced that she would campaign on a platform that would emphasize the need for collective economics and move away from individual performance and success. It could be called an extension of "It Takes A Village," …
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Blue Crab Boulevard
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Clinton outlines broad economic vision
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The Moderate Voice, Flopping Aces, This ain't Hell …, QandO, bRight & Early, The Caucus and The Sundries Shack
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SAS team ready for Iraq hostage hunt — Michael Evans, Defence Editor of The Times — A British hostage-crisis team of up to 20 specialists, including SAS and police experts, is on standby in London ready to leave for Baghdad and help find the five Britons kidnapped by insurgents …
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Michael P.F. van der Galiën
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Some Hitherto Staunch G.O.P. Voters Souring on Iraq — Through four elections, Debbie Thompson has supported Representative Mark Steven Kirk, a Republican and staunch backer of the Bush administration's policies in Iraq. — But Ms. Thompson, a mother of two from this affluent suburb of Chicago …
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Advisers Fault Harsh Methods in Interrogation — As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies argue that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable.
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Economix: Truth, Fiction and Lou Dobbs — The whole controversy involving Lou Dobbs and leprosy started with a "60 Minutes" segment a few weeks ago. — The segment was a profile of Mr. Dobbs, and while doing background research for it, a "60 Minutes" producer came across a 2005 news report …
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Lieberman in Iraq sees "progress," says so-called surge "would start to break the insurgency" — What a coincidence. Two years after Cheney said the insurgency was in its last throes, Joe Lieberman made essentially the same prediction. — CNN reports that Lieberman is on an unannounced "surprise" visit to Baghdad.
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Dry Run Confirmed — A declassified report confirms that Annie Jacobsen accurately recounted suspicious activities on a Northwest flight from Detroit to Los Angeles in the summer of 2004, and that a number of Syrians attempted a dry run for a terror attack.
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A Special Blogger Poll On The Senate Immigration Bill — Right Wing News emailed more than 240 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to answer 8 questions. The following 51 blogs responded, — Aaron's CC, Absinthe & Cookies, The Absurd Report, Argghhhh!, Baldilocks, The Baseball Crank …
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Justices' Ruling Limits Suits on Pay Disparity — The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for many workers to sue their employers for discrimination in pay, insisting in a 5-to-4 decision on a tight time frame to file such cases. The dissenters said the ruling ignored workplace realities.
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Dying for an Iraq That Isn't — Of all the absurdities attending our unending war in Iraq, the greatest is this: We are fighting to defend that which is not there. — We are fighting for a national government that is not national but sectarian, and has shown no capacity to govern.
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CHAVENEZUELA — How the Man Who Would Be Castro marked a new milestone on the path towards totalitarianism by shutting down the nation's most popular television station. He will keep at it until there is no free press left and no one to report the fact that it disappeared.