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Sam Brownback / New York Times:
What I Think About Evolution — IN our sound-bite political culture, it is unrealistic to expect that every complicated issue will be addressed with the nuance or subtlety it deserves. So I suppose I should not have been surprised earlier this month when, during the first Republican presidential debate …
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Associated Press:
U.S. Commanders Talking to Iraqi Militants About Cease-Fires — WASHINGTON — U.S. military commanders are talking with Iraqi militants about cease-fires and other arrangements to try to stop the violence, the No. 2 American commander said Thursday. — Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno …
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Michael Link / Democratic National Committee:
McCain Agrees We Need a Cap To Maintain "White, Christian, Male Power Structure" — John McCain's campaign posted this YouTube clip of the Senator on the O'Reilly Factor: — Near the end of the video, there was this exchange: — Bill O'Reilly: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want?
Dallas Morning News:
A spreading terror — Iraq now set up as a school for insurgents ready to be exported, says GEORGIE ANNE GEYER — Anyone who knows anything about cancer knows that the danger point comes when the cancer suddenly and unexpectedly appears in another supposedly "clean" part of the body.
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ABCNEWS:
NASA's Top Official Questions Global Warming — NASA Administrator Michael Griffin Questions Need to Combat Warming — NASA administrator Michael Griffin is drawing the ire of his agency's preeminent climate scientists after apparently downplaying the need to combat global warming.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Case for Conservatism — Conservatism's recovery of its intellectual equilibrium requires a confident explanation of why America has two parties and why the conservative one is preferable. Today's political argument involves perennial themes that give it more seriousness than many participants understand.
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Washington Times:
RNC fires phone solicitors — The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors' rebellion over President Bush's immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Friday in The Washington Times. — Faced with an estimated 40 percent fall-off …
CNN:
TB patient's relative works on TB research … ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — The man infected with potentially fatal tuberculosis is receiving treatment at a Denver, Colorado, hospital as federal health officials continue to track down airline passengers who may have been exposed to the illness.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Fred Thompson, "tough guy" and "folksy cultural conservative" — Newsweek's Howard Fineman — last seen expressing admiration for the "reassuring" "male" qualities exuded by the GOP presidential field — was on Hardball last night heaping praise on Fred Thompson.
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Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Reggie's Got Mail—But We'll Have Mail, Too, on June 5 — First the bad news: we're not getting the letters sent in support of sentencing until the hearing. I had hoped to send a letter urging for their earlier release. The media and the blogosphere, after all, are going to be in a much better position …
White House:
President Bush Discusses United States International Development Agenda — Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center — Washington, D.C. — MRS. BUSH: Thank you, George, for that kind introduction. Thanks to the United States Global Leadership Council for hosting us this morning.
Foreign Affairs:
Renewing American Leadership — Summary: After Iraq, we may be tempted to turn inward. That would be a mistake. The American moment is not over, but it must be seized anew. We must bring the war to a responsible end and then renew our leadership — military, diplomatic, moral …
Bryan / Hot Air:
Arizona: The national GOP in microcosm — The illegal immigration fight is tearing the Arizona Republican Party apart, to the point that its members and staff wonder if it can even compete. — And this is Arizona we're talking about. A red state with two GOP senators. The state that gave us Barry Goldwater.
Fred Thompson / Townhall.com:
Living in Terror — Let me ask you a hypothetical question. What do you think America would do if Canadian soldiers were firing dozens of missiles every day into Buffalo, N.Y.? What do you think our response would be if Mexican troops for two years had launched daily rocket attacks on San Diego — and bragged about it?
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Time for 'Plan B-H' in Iraq? — President Bush said publicly last Thursday what his top aides have been discussing privately for weeks. He talked about a transition to "a different configuration" in Iraq after the surge of U.S. troops is completed this summer.
Joe Klein / Time:
Mitt Romney's Disappointing Campaign — Mitt Romney is the fastest-talking presidential candidate I have ever seen. He dashes through his stump speech like a racehorse in full gallop — he even looks a bit equine — his feet barely touching the ground as he skims the surface of issues.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
John Edwards: 'I read Iraq report' — John Edwards told a Google "town hall" yesterday that he had read the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, the summary of the evidence that led to war in Iraq. — "There was this National Intelligence Estimate, that was confidential, that only …
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