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Nico / Think Progress:
Kristol Defends Cheney, Williams Says He's Creating A 'Secured Undisclosed Bunker Of His Mind' — This morning on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol defended Vice President Cheney's decision to exempt himself from an executive order designed to safeguard classified national security information.
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
A New Dick Cheney-Alberto Gonzales Mystery — Tricky Dick: Cheney is refusing a government review of his office — A new battle has erupted over Vice President Dick Cheney's refusal to submit to an executive order requiring a government review of his handling of classified documents.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE PANOPTICON WHITE HOUSE....There's nothing wrong with the fact …
THE PANOPTICON WHITE HOUSE....There's nothing wrong with the fact …
Rozius Unbound:
Maureen Dowd: A Vice President Without Borders, Bordering on Lunacy
Maureen Dowd: A Vice President Without Borders, Bordering on Lunacy
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Michelle Malkin:
The human rights outrage in Iran...and a challenge to Rosie O'Donnell and her ilk — Today I am joining blogs Gateway Pundit, Ali Eteraz, and Iran Focus in reprinting the latest batch of Iranian repression photos being distributed by the regime's state-run FARS News agency and ISNA.
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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Malkin, The Human Rights Concern Troll — Let's get something straight first. The picture above, of masked Iranian police beating a yound man for the crime of non-Islamic clothing and behaviour (he's wearing a soccer shirt) is of a reprehensible and horrid act of mindless repression.
Larisa Alexandrovna / at-Largely:
Michelle Malkin builds a human rights straw-man and feels no shame... Okay, I have to post about this. Michelle Malkin is busy building a moral straw man for some reason in order to declare something about the lack of Abu Ghraib type of outrage by the US media and US citizens over repression in Iran.
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Done With Mirrors
Rozius Unbound:
Frank Rich: They'll Break the Bad News on 9/11 — Frank Rich looks at how the Bush Administration will try to play the American public yet again as the September deadline for the Iraq fiasco approaches. — Frank Rich, The New York Times, June 24, 2007 — By this late date we should know the fix …
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Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Immigration bill awaiting key test vote — WASHINGTON - Senators pushing a new immigration policy appealed Sunday to wavering supporters ahead of renewed debate on securing the borders and dealing with 12 million undocumented immigrants. — A fragile compromise was pulled from the Senate in early June …
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Nicole Gaouette / Los Angeles Times:
Immigration bill ignites grass-roots fire
Immigration bill ignites grass-roots fire
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Associated Press:
'Most severely wounded' soldier endures: blind, quadriplegic, struggling to breathe — TAMPA, Florida: He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry.
Gateway Pundit:
Chemical Ali Will Hang For Murder of 180,000 Kurds — Chemical Ali will hang for his lead role in the death of 180,000 Kurds murdered during the "Anfal" campaign, mounted between February and September 1988 by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. — (photos de halabja)
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Prosecutor Becomes Prosecuted — THE misconduct that cost the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case his career certainly seemed to call for a severe penalty: he withheld evidence from the defense, misled the court and inflamed the public. — Yet other prosecutors found by the courts …
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 …
Tom Elia / theneweditor.com:
George Bush: 'Worse than Fascist Dictators' — Former Washington Post sportswriter, Seinfeld writer and executive co-producer, and television comedy writer Peter Mehlman has written something for The Huffington Post that might qualify as the most hyperbolic nonsense written by a member of the Hollywood Left …
Rep. Luis Guiterrez / MSNBC:
'Meet the Press' transcript for June 24, 2007 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Immigration, what should happen to the 12 million undocumented immigrants now living in the U.S. ? How much does our economy rely on their work? Are we serious about border security?
Ross Douthat / The Atlantic Online:
Crises of Faith — America is becoming more secular; Europe is becoming more religious. Both trends could mean trouble. — N othing divides the United States from Europe like religion. America has its public piety and its multitude of thriving sects, Europe has its official secularism and its empty, museum-piece churches.
Matt / Think Progress:
Russert: ISG Commissioners Say Giuliani's Excuse For Leaving Is Untrue — Earlier this week, Newsday reported that former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani quit the Iraq Study Group after co-chairman James Baker offered "him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit."