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Cheney:
'A Different Understanding With the President' … Just past the Oval Office, in the private dining room overlooking the South Lawn, Vice President Cheney joined President Bush at a round parquet table they shared once a week. Cheney brought a four-page text, written in strict secrecy by his lawyer.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Washington Post Profile Reveals Stealthy Cheney Spies On White House Staffers — Today, the Washington Post unveiled the first in its lengthy four-part series on the unprecedented influence and power of the vice president. — Shortly after Bush was elected, "Cheney preferred, and Bush approved …
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Old girlfriends cast their vote for Thompson — IN the battle for the women's vote, Fred Thompson has a secret weapon against Hillary Clinton - the legions of former girlfriends who still adore him and who want him to be president. — The Hollywood actor and former Tennessee senator racked …
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Associated Press:
'We Will Try to Form an Islamic Society' — Mahmoud Zahar — a founder of Hamas, and one of its most militant hardliners — has called for an Islamic state in the Gaza Strip. After the Hamas takeover of the territory last week, he's also threatened Fatah with more violence in the West Bank.
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Charles Levinson / Telegraph:
Fatah vows to wipe Hamas from West Bank — Just two weeks ago, they were on the same uneasy side of the Palestinian fence: a butcher's son, who had spent nine years in an Israeli jail, and a mother of five children who, as deputy mayor of Nablus, supported the unity government formed in April.
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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
We've replaced Rushdie in hiding — A year or so after the Ayatollah Khomeini took out an Islamist mob contract on Salman Rushdie in 1989, the novelist appeared, after elaborate security arrangements, on a television arts show in London. His host was Melvyn Bragg, a longtime British telly grandee …
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Louie Gilot / El Paso Times:
Suit shines spotlight on immigration judgeships — Guadalupe Gonzalez is the chief counsel for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso, a lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in immigration law and a stellar record. In 2002, she made the next logical career move, applying to become an immigration judge.
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Thomas W. Krause / TBO.com:
Ethics Survey Finds Lawyers Lower The Bar — TAMPA - Can your lawyer collect 12 hours' pay after working an eight-hour day? — A recent survey shows that about a third of U.S. lawyers have done it. Nearly half of all lawyers don't see an ethical problem with it.
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Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Matt Taibbi Answers Your Questions — We asked for emails, and you responded: Rolling Stone political writer Matt Taibbi responds to two dozen reader questions below. Note: Questions have been edited for length and/or clarity. … As a child I wanted to be a zoologist.
New York Times:
General's Iraq Progress Report Has Competition — Last month, Congress set a deadline for the American commander in Iraq, declaring that by Sept. 15 he would have to assess progress there before billions more dollars are approved to finance the military effort to stabilize the country.
Nick Denton / Valleywag:
Microsoft pays star writers to recite slogan — The stodgy old media industry has a rule that newspaper reporters, and TV news hosts, shouldn't trade on their public trust to endorse products. It's become redundant: the reading public typically wants journalists to drop the pretense of objectivity …
John Quiggin / Crooked Timber:
The myth of "The Myth of the Paperless Office" — The "paperless office" is one of those catchphrases that gets bandied about for a while, only to disappoint and eventually be used in a purely derisive way. As Wikipedia says, it has become 'a metaphor for the touting of new technology …
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
Lawmaker urges condoms for border control — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressman is pushing a not-so-quick fix in the debate over illegal immigrants from Mexico: free contraceptives. — "A slower rate of growth of Mexico's population would improve the economy of Mexico.
Robynn Tysver / Omaha World-Herald:
Kerrey not hushing talk on possible Senate bid — Bob Kerrey is once again playing the political flirt. — The former Nebraska governor and senator is showing just enough skin, and making all the right moves, to give supporters hope that he will return to the state and run for U.S. Senate.
Tom Hilton / If I Ran the Zoo:
More on the Anti-Abortion Concern Troll — Yesterday's Wanker of the Day, Melinda Henneberger, has already been well and suitably chastised by other bloggers for being hopelessly wrong about Democrats and abortion. I won't repeat what they said. Instead, I'll focus on a passage that raised a red flag for me:
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