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Transcript: Third G.O.P. Debate — The following is a transcript of the 2008 Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN, WMUR-TV and The New Hampshire Union Leader. The participants were Senator Sam Brownback, the former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore, the former …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
NULL SET....I tuned in too late to hear Mitt Romney's "null set" answer last night, but apparently his algebraic illiteracy is nothing compared to his ignorance of actual events from four years ago. Here's his answer to a question about whether it was a mistake to invade Iraq: … WTF?
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National Review:
Mitt Romney Won — According to a Frank Luntz focus group, he reported on Fox and Friends this morning. His watchers said things like: "His answers, he is answering the questions right off the bat. He is not giving any bull." and "He is answering the questions the best he can honestly."
Selcan Hacaoglu / Associated Press:
Turkish officials: Troops enter Iraq — ANKARA, Turkey - Hundreds of Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq early Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas who attack Turkey from bases there, Turkish security officials said. One official said the troops had returned to their bases by the end of the day …
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Turkey denies Iraq incursion — The last major Turkish incursion into northern Iraq was in 1997, when about 50,000 troops were sent to the region. — The officials did not say where the Turkish force was operating in northern Iraq, nor did he say how long they would be there.
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Des Moines Register:
Giuliani will skip August straw poll — New Yorker plans "non-traditional" caucus run — Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani plans to skip the Ames straw poll in August, but compete to win the leadoff Iowa caucuses, a gamble by the former New York Mayor on a "non-traditional" caucus campaign and a first for Iowa.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Democrats Hope to Expand Rights at Guantánamo — A day after two military judges ruled against the Bush administration's system for trying terrorism detainees, Democrats seized on the rulings on Tuesday as evidence that Congress should restore the right of those held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their detentions.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Can He Unleash the Force? — Like all young superheroes, Barack Obama has to learn to harness his powers.
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Tom Bevan / TIME: Real Clear Politics:
Dowd on Obama — Maureen Dowd knocks Obama for being too soft: … It's ironic that Dowd is arguing, in essence, that Obama should dumb down his message into red-meat soundbytes to better attack his opponents and excite the base. — In addition to the challenges this might pose to a candidate trying to …
Michael Calderone / New York Observer:
Murdoch, Ailes, Weymouth Pump Bloomberg At Breindel Awards — "I'm sworn to secrecy," Rupert Murdoch told The Observer as he was leaving the New-York Historical Society's auditorium last night. But: "We're making progress," the News Corp. chief added. — Mr. Murdoch hosted …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Support for Senate Immigration Bill Falls, 49% Prefer No Bill At All — Public support for the Senate immigration reform bill has slipped a bit over the past week. A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Monday and Tuesday night found that just 23% of voters now support the bill while 50% are opposed.
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The Atlantic Online:
What is Rudy Giuliani talking about??? — This is what I am denied, or spared, by being trapped in Chinese factories or hospitals and getting only intermittent glimpses of real-time Campaign 2008 rhetoric: — Rudy Giuliani's answer to the first substantive question of the debate.
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Megan K. Stack / Los Angeles Times:
In Saudi Arabia, a view from behind the veil — As a woman in the male-dominated kingdom, Times reporter Megan Stack quietly fumed beneath her abaya. Even beyond its borders, her experience taints her perception of the sexes. — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — The hem of my heavy Islamic cloak trailed over floors that glistened like ice.
National Review:
Big Stem Cell News [Yuval Levin] — The coming week's issue of the scientific journal Nature, made available online today, includes several extraordinary new studies on an alternative avenue to embryonic-like stem cells that does not require the destruction of embryos.
New York Times:
Is U.S. Safer Since 9/11? Clinton and Rivals Spar — The Bush administration's efforts to thwart terrorism at home have created a fissure among the three leading Democratic presidential candidates, with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton coming under attack for saying that America is safer …
The Palmetto Scoop:
VIDEO: Scarborough spins "pole" controversy — MSNBC HOST DEFENDS COMMENTS BY LYING, REFUSING TO APOLOGIZE, TAKING CHEAP SHOTS AT BLOGGERS — By now, TPS readers are well aware that Joe Scarborough had an Imus moment on his MSNBC show this week when he wondered out loud whether Fred …
Robert Haddick / TCS Daily:
Journalists, You're in the Army Now — The days of the independent, neutral war correspondent, objectively reporting from a war's front lines, are quickly coming to an end. In the future, a war correspondent will either effectively be a soldier for one faction of a conflict, or he will literally not survive in the war zone.
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