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Newsweek:
Cheney vs. Rice: A Foreign-Policy Showdown — Condoleezza Rice has steered the administration back toward diplomacy, but she's still being harried by hard-liners. — Newsweek International — Condoleezza Rice seems in control of everything—except events.
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Iranian Flow Of Weapons Increasing, Officials Say
Iranian Flow Of Weapons Increasing, Officials Say
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The Fourth Rail
Beverly Keel / USA Today:
Gore: I'm not good at modern politics — NASHVILLE — Former vice president Al Gore said Friday that he still hasn't ruled out a presidential bid in 2008, but he doesn't expect to run and might not possess the skills necessary to be elected president now. — Gore spoke to The Tennessean today …
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
House keeps pet projects from scrutiny — WASHINGTON - After promising unprecedented openness regarding Congress' pork barrel practices, House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget year. — Democrats are sidestepping rules approved …
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Betsy's Page, Don Surber, TigerHawk, Blue Crab Boulevard, Scared Monkeys, Flopping Aces, Macsmind and Sister Toldjah
Peter Hitchens / Daily Mail:
Hitchens vs Hitchens — Am I my brother's reviewer? A word of explanation is needed here. Some of you may know that I have a brother, Christopher, who disagrees with me about almost everything. — Some of those who read his books and articles also know that I exist, though they often dislike me if so.
Ian Welsh / The Agonist:
Remembering Steve Gilliard — Steve Gilliard is dead. We never met. I have met a lot of other bloggers, but Steve decided not to go to Yearly Kos last year, because he liked to gamble too much, and YKos was in Las Vegas. But we did e-mail occasionally, mostly arguing about Iraq …
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Jon Swift, Orcinus, culturekitchen, State of the Day, The Newshoggers and the talking dog
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Washington Post:
After the Surge — THE BUSH administration's invocation of South Korea as a model for the future of the U.S. military mission in Iraq is misleading in some ways. Opponents of the war, such as Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), tend to jump to the conclusion that President Bush hopes …
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Ynetnews:
Countdown to Israel's destruction has begun, says Ahmadinejad — Iranian president says Israel's disappearance imminent, 'Zionist regime' will have to bow down to Palestinians. Iranian FM meets with Hamas, Jihad, leader in Damascus, urging them to continue struggle against Jewish state — Dudi Cohen
Michael Smith / Times of London:
British Iraq pull-out plan — BRITISH commanders in Iraq have drawn up plans to allow Gordon Brown to withdraw almost all UK troops by the end of the year. — The British commander in southern Iraq, Major-General Jonathan Shaw, produced a "commander's tactical advice" several weeks ago, senior defence sources said last night.
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Proclaiming Liberalism, and What It Now Means — The struggle among conservatives to define their movement in the post-Bush era may be getting more attention these days, but liberal intellectuals and writers are doing some soul-searching of their own. Not only are they trying to figure out what …
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Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
Zakaria: How to Restore America's Place in the World — What the world needs is an open, confident America. — Newsweek International — In the fall of 1982, I arrived in the United States as an 18-year-old student from India. The country was in rough shape.
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Roger L. Simon, The Impolitic, The Glittering Eye, The American Street and Grasping Reality …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
ABCNews.com: 'Murtha Ties Foiled JFK Plot to U.S. in Iraq' — On Saturday, a NewsBusters headline asked the following question: "JFK Terror Plot: How Soon Before Media Blame Bush For Timing of Arrests?" — Well, Sunday morning, ABCNews.com actually went one better by using a statement made by John Murtha …
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Hot Air
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
The curse it is cast — A number of British personalities, including journalist John Pilger wrote the Guardian to announce their support for Chavez's shutdown of opposition TV stations. "We believe that the decision of the Venezuelan government not to renew the broadcasting licence of RCTV …
Michael J. Totten:
Al Qaeda in Lebanon - CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED — It was bound to happen sooner or later. Al Qaeda has moved into Lebanon. — Fatah al-Islam terrorists in the Palestinian Nahr al-Bared refugee camp (which is an urban ghetto in Tripoli, not a tent city) are, reportedly, mostly not Palestinian.
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Washington Post:
Attacks on U.S. Troops in Iraq Grow in Lethality, Complexity — Bigger Bombs a Key Cause of May's High Death Toll — As U.S. troops push more deeply into Baghdad and its volatile outskirts, Iraqi insurgents are using increasingly sophisticated and lethal means of attack …
Lawrence Solomon / National Post:
They call this a consensus? — "Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled." — S o said Al Gore ... in 1992. Amazingly, he made his claims despite much evidence of their falsity.
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraq's Curse: A Thirst for Final, Crushing Victory — PERHAPS no fact is more revealing about Iraq's history than this: The Iraqis have a word that means to utterly defeat and humiliate someone by dragging his corpse through the streets. — The word is "sahel," and it helps explain …
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The Atlantic Online, TPMCafe blogs, Middle Earth Journal, Taylor Marsh, Booman Tribune and ParaPundit
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
Thompson Generates Buzz in Richmond — Speech at Virginia GOP Gala Comes the Day After He Filed Fundraising Papers — Actor and former senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee rallied a crowd of several hundred Republicans here last night, offering a bluntly conservative appeal …