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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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National Review:
Sam I Am — Here is Sam Brownback talking about evolutionary biology. That's a bit like saying: "Here's Paris Hilton talking about partial differential equations"... from which you can deduce that I don't feel much inclined to offer a detailed critique of Brownback's position.
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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NPR:
NASA Chief Questions Urgency of Global Warming — · NASA administrator Michael Griffin defends the space agency's programs, including plans for a permanent moon base and manned missions to Mars. He also says that while NASA studies climate change, the agency has no authorization to …
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?
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Donklephant, Booman Tribune, Taylor Marsh, Michael P.F. van der Galiën, The Newshoggers and The Populist
Associated Press:
White House envisions "Korean model" in Iraq — WASHINGTON — President Bush would like to see the U.S. military provide long-term stability in Iraq as it has in South Korea, where thousands of American troops have been based for more than half a century, the White House said Wednesday.
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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.
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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Firedoglake, Betsy's Page, Booman Tribune, The Atlantic Online and Michael P.F. van der Galiën
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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Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE HOUR IS LATE … We have noted a number of similar stories …
THE HOUR IS LATE … We have noted a number of similar stories …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Oral Dissents Give Ginsburg a New Voice on Court — Whatever else may be said about the Supreme Court's current term, which ends in about a month, it will be remembered as the time when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg found her voice, and used it. — Both in the abortion case the court decided …
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Philip G. Schrag / SSRN:
Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication — The James E. Beasley School of Law, Temple University … Abstract: — This study analyzes databases of merits decisions from all four levels of the asylum adjudication process: 133,000 decisions by 884 asylum officers over a seven year period …
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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.
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.
David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Ex-Clinton FBI chief pushing Prez Rudy — Louis Freeh, Democrat Bill Clinton's FBI director, is going over to the other side in a big way today - endorsing Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, the Daily News has learned. — The high-profile endorsement is a boon to the former mayor …
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Lou Dobbs / CNN:
An answer for my critics — Editor's note: Lou Dobbs' commentary appears weekly on CNN.com. This commentary is a transcript of a commentary Lou delivered on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" — NEW YORK — I've been — over the years, because of our reporting on controversial issues and my strongly held beliefs …
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Reason Magazine, The Populist, Connecting.the.Dots, Daniel W. Drezner, ImmigrationProf Blog and New York Times
Gateway Pundit:
Human Shields in Iraq — Looking for safety. — A young Iraqi seeks shelter behind a U.S. soldier following a suicide blast. (RofP) — These human shields are not exactly your Code Pink variety. — ** I am thinking that I have seen this photo before- But I don't really care.
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.
Vladimir Isachenkov / Associated Press:
Putin: U.S. has triggered new arms race — MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that tests of new Russian missiles were a response to the planned deployment of U.S. missile defense installations and other forces in Europe, suggesting Washington has triggered a new arms race.
DefenseLINK:
Air Force Academy Commencement — On the Web: — Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131/697-5132 — Public contact: or +1 (703) 428-0711 +1 — Air Force Academy Commencement — Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
With Spear And Magic Helmet? — Via Crooks and Liars, this McClatchy article on Sen. Joe Liberman (I-CT) and his recent trip to Baghdad caught my eye. Seems Joe and I have a lot in common, since I, too, always go shopping with a large armed retinue at taxpayer expense …