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Nico / Think Progress:
Elizabeth Edwards Confronts Coulter During Live Television Appearance — Elizabeth Edwards confronted right-wing pundit Ann Coulter during a live interview on MSNBC this afternoon, charging that Coulter's "personal attacks" on former senator John Edwards and others were based on "the language of hate."
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Elizabeth Edwards confronts Ann Coulter — During Hardball's love in with Ann Coulter—Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of John Edwards called in and asked her to stop lowering the bar with personal attacks in our country's political debate. Coulter was not ready for this one... Download (4961) |
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Ann Coulter wishes John Edwards were assassinated
Ann Coulter wishes John Edwards were assassinated
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Psychopathic Freakshow — Coulter is on Hardball today saying …
Psychopathic Freakshow — Coulter is on Hardball today saying …
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Bill Schneider / CNN:
Poll: War support at new low … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Public support for the war in Iraq has fallen to a new low. Not only that, but Republican support is beginning to waver. — President Bush's troop buildup, or "surge," meant to quell the sectarian violence is now in place.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Lugar Urges Quick Shift in Iraq War Strategy — After offering a bleak assessment of the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq, Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, said today that he was urging lawmakers and President Bush …
CNN Political Ticker:
Poll: Support for Iraq war reaches new low — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new low of 30 percent of Americans say they support the U.S. war in Iraq and, for the first time, most Americans say they don't believe it is morally justified, a poll released Tuesday said.
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ABCNEWS:
Another GOP Senator Urges Pullout — Republican Voinovich Joins Lugar in Calling for a Shift in Strategy in Iraq — Sen. George Voinovich said Tuesday the U.S. should begin pulling troops out of Iraq, joining Richard Lugar as the second Republican lawmaker in as many days to suggest President Bush's war strategy is failing.
New York Times:
New Poll Finds That Young Americans Are Leaning Left — Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll.
Michelle Malkin:
Shamnesty document drop: The "Clay Pigeon" amendment Update: Pounding Reid...and getting your RNC refund Update: House GOP passes anti-amnesty resolution — 10:43pm Eastern. Here's an easy-to-use, interactive video phone guide to the shamnesty senators who voted YEA on cloture today.
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blog.washingtonpost.com:
Leaving No Tracks — Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the 19th-ranking Interior Department official, arrived at her desk in Room 6140 a few months after Inauguration Day 2001. A phone message awaited her. — "This is Dick Cheney," said the man on her voice mail, Wooldridge recalled in an interview.
James V. Grimaldi / Washington Post:
Judge Orders Prison Time for Ex-Interior Deputy — A federal judge rejected the tearful pleas of the former second-ranking official in the Interior Department yesterday and sentenced him to 10 months in prison for a felony conviction of obstructing a Senate investigation into corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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John Leo / City Journal:
Bowling With Our Own — Robert Putnam's sobering new diversity research scares its author. — Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, is very nervous about releasing his new research, and understandably so. His five-year study shows that immigration …
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Chris Good / The Hill:
Cheney's office dismisses Dems' outrage on documents — Vice President Cheney's office Tuesday dismissed Democratic claims that Cheney is putting himself above the law because his office refused to grant access to an oversight agency that is tasked with reviewing how classified information is handled.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Aspartame linked to cancer: study — The US Food and Drug Administration says there is no need for an urgent review of the safety of aspartame, despite a new study showing the sweetener may cause cancer. — A US consumer group has called for the review after Italian researchers published …