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Bob Geiger:
The Politico Fails Journalism 100 — When I was studying journalism way back in the early 1980s, they hammered on us pretty hard about fact checking, verifying sources and not accepting things as fact based on hearsay. I don't think we covered conference calls specifically …
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Fox News:
Reid Calls Joint Chiefs Chairman 'Incompetent' — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Thursday that he told liberal bloggers last week that he thinks outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace is "incompetent." — Reid acknowledged similarly disparaging Army …
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Politico Story Saying Reid Called Generals "Incompetent" Is Denied — One of the big stories of the day is this front-page piece in The Politico that claims that Harry Reid blasted General Peter Pace as "incompetent" and described General David Petraeus in similar terms on a recent conference call with liberal bloggers.
Fox News:
Majority Leader Reid Close to Reviving Senate Immigration Bill — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will approve a new deal on immigration on Thursday and move to bring the once-dead legislation back to the Senate floor next week, Democratic sources told FOX News.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Reid labels military leader 'incompetent' — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "incompetent" during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported.
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BarbinMD / Daily Kos:
Politico Continues To Make Up News: Updated — Since its inception a few short months ago, Politico, the online soul-mate to the Drudge Report, has gotten into the habit of creating news stories through innuendo, omission, outright error, and now today, out of thin air.
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Taylor Marsh, AMERICAblog, Confederate Yankee, The Iconic Midwest, First Draft and Washington Monthly
Greg Sargent / Election Central:Obtained: A Tape Of Reid's Conference Call With Bloggers — Reid Did Blast Pace
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Chris Matthews on Fred Thompson's sexiness and smells — I've written a fair amount recently about the media's obsession with the faux-masculinity of GOP candidates in general, and the tough-guy military persona of Fred Thompson in particular, and don't have all that much to add about that specific topic at the moment.
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CNN:
Street battles leave Gaza in chaos … GAZA CITY (CNN) — Fighters from the Islamic party Hamas claimed full control of Palestinian Authority security agencies in Gaza late Thursday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved his unity government and declared a state of emergency.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Doing the jobs Americans aren't willing to do — Given the recent rhetoric in Republican circles about immigration policy, I found this story spectacularly amusing. … Wait, it gets funnier. Matthews was hired by Michael Kamburowski, the state GOP's chief operations officer, who is ... wait for it ... an Australian citizen.
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
State GOP goes outside the U.S. to hire top aide — The California Republican Party has decided no American is qualified to take one of its most crucial positions — state deputy political director — and has hired a Canadian for the job through a coveted H-1B visa, a program favored …
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Gonzales Meeting With Aide Scrutinized — Justice Dept. Checking For Possible Wrongdoing — The Justice Department is investigating whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales sought to improperly influence the testimony of a departing senior aide, two of its senior officials said yesterday …
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The Raw Story:
Gonzales re-uses authority that Congress banned — In a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting Thursday morning, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) revealed that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales once again used an interim appointment authority at the heart of the US Attorneys controversy …
Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
Libby Loses Liberty — Walton: As a prelude to my ruling, the fact that I've written lengthy decisions does not suggest I think an issue is close. We are expected to give significant consideration to what we do. My effort is to try to get it right, so this is why I tke my time so length does …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE WAR OVER EARMARKS, CONT. — As we noted a few days ago, the House of Representatives has been embroiled in a battle over the Democrats' effort to roll back the earmark reforms that were initiated in the last Congress by the Republicans. The Democrats are trying to adopt a program …
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:Republicans claim victory on earmarks deal
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New York Times:
Senators Agree to Revive Immigration Bill — Senate Democratic and Republican leaders announced on Thursday that they had agreed on a way to revive a comprehensive immigration bill that was pulled off the Senate floor seven days ago. — The majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada …
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Frank Phillips / Boston Globe:
Legislators vote to defeat same-sex marriage ban — A proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was defeated today by a joint session of the Legislature by a vote of 45 to 151, eliminating any chance of getting it on the ballot in November 2008. At least 50 votes were needed to advance the measure.
John Solomon / Washington Post:
Clintons Dissolve Blind Financial Trust — Millions in Stock Converted to Cash to Avoid Campaign Conflicts — Bill and Hillary Clinton have dissolved the blind trust that has managed their investments since they entered the White House in 1993, converting all stocks to cash …
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:To Avoid Conflicts, Clintons Liquidate Holdings
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TalkLeft
Inside Higher Ed:
Students and Faith — Whether the source is God and Man at Yale or any number of more recent studies, the conflict between a college education and the faith that students bring to campus (secular campuses at least) is well accepted. The more you pursue a higher education …
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