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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 …
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Awakening in Babil — The provinces of Iraq. Click map to view. — A pro government tribal leader is targeted in Babil; the four provinces around Baghdad have established an Awakening movement — The formation of the regional Awakening movements—the groupings of anti-al Qaeda tribes …
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ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Diane Sawyer Speaks to TB Patient — Sawyer Interviews Andrew Speaker, TB Patient in Isolation — Andrew Speaker has asked for forgiveness from the airline passengers he exposed to a rare strain of tuberculosis, and told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview …
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CBS News:
Inspector Ignored Warning On TB Patient — Man Quarantined With Dangerous Strain Of Tuberculosis ID'd As Lawyer And Son-In-Law Of CDC Microbiologist — (CBS/AP) A U.S. border inspector who allowed an Atlanta lawyer infected with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis back into the country …
David Roberts / Gristmill:
Bush's 'new climate strategy' — Today's headlines are full of the news that President Bush is &; quot;unveiling a new climate strategy.&; quot; If your immediate reaction is cynicism, well ... looks like you learned something over the last seven years. Let's look a little closer.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
NPR Continues Kyoto Dishonesty — Two days ago, I pointed out that the layers of editors and fact-checkers at the AP managed to miss the fact that the Kyoto treaty got rejected almost four years before Bush took office. Apparently, the fact-checkers and editors at NPR are no better than those at the AP.
Michael Yon:
The Final Option — Left to Right: Lieutenant Colonel Doug Crissman; General Hamid; Sayed the interpreter. Seconds after this photo, LTC Doug Crissman grabbed General Hamid's pistol. (Note: the pistol was already unsnapped.) — Hit, Anbar Province, Iraq
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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William H. McMichael / Army Times:
Odierno: U.S. reaching out to insurgents — U.S. commanders in Iraq are beginning to take a seemingly giant step in the effort to defeat extremist insurgents: negotiations with the enemy. — Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, said he has told other U.S. commanders …
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Al Pessin / Voice of America:
US General Says He May Need More Time to Assess Iraq Surge
US General Says He May Need More Time to Assess Iraq Surge
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Robert Shrum / Time:
Kerry's Regrets About John Edwards — After a day of filming at Edwards's summer home on Figure Eight Island in the Outer Banks, we went out to dinner. Afterward, while Elizabeth drove the car home, John and I headed back on his boat; as the darkness closed in, we got lost in the tall grasses of the shallow waterways.
Media Research Center:
NINE DAYS AFTER PHOTOS RELEASED, NETS AND TOP PAPERS SILENT OVER AL-QAEDA TORTURE HOUSE — Yet Top Media Ran More Than 6,000 Stories on Abu Ghraib Abuses — "The elite media's liberal bias is abundantly clear in this case. U.S. soldiers raided several al-Qaeda safe houses in Iraq …
National Review:
Rudy Blasts Hillary [Larry Kudlow] — Rudy blasted Hillary's tax hike plan yesterday calling it an "astounding, staggering tax increase." Good for him. — Hillary's been out proclaiming her government redistributionist message of "shared prosperity." Her growth-paralyzing solution?
Atrios / Eschaton:
Why Do We Stay In Iraq? — Josh Marshall heads down the path to madness in order — to try to answer that question. — The answer is unknowable because there isn't one. There are a variety of powerful actors who have different motives. It's as true, if not more true …
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.
Ben McConville / Associated Press:
Man says he's got a new Loch Ness video — EDINBURGH, Scotland - The Loch Ness monster is back — and there's video. A man has captured what Nessie watchers say is possible footage of the supposed mythical creature beneath Scotland's most mysterious lake.
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?
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?