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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.
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Bill Schneider / CNN:
Poll: GOP support for Iraq war wavering … 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.
Washington Post:
GOP Skepticism On Iraq Growing — Key Republican senators, signaling increasing GOP skepticism about President Bush's strategy in Iraq, have called for a reduction in U.S. forces and launched preemptive efforts to counter a much-awaited administration progress report due in September.
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Manu Raju / The Hill:
Lugar's words reverberate — A senior Republican's sharp criticism of President Bush's handling of the Iraq war has emboldened anti-war activists, who are planning to ratchet up pressure on the Senate to take a more hard-line approach during the debate next month over defense authorization legislation.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:Lugar Urges Quick Shift in Iraq War Strategy
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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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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.
Ben Quinn / Telegraph:
Protests rage over petrol rationing in Iran — Angry Iranians have torched petrol stations in protests against the sudden imposition of fuel rationing in one of the world's most oil rich nations. — The rationing was announced on Tuesday only three hours before it was due to begin at midnight …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP preps for talk radio confrontation — House Republican lawmakers are preparing to fight anticipated Democratic efforts to regulate talk radio by reviving rules requiring stations to balance conservative hosts such as Rush Limbaugh with liberals such as Al Franken.
John L. Mitchell / Los Angeles Times:
Richardson leads Oropeza in race for Congress — The candidates seek to represent the 37th Congressional District. — Assemblywoman Laura Richardson pulled ahead of her closest Democratic rival, state Sen. Jenny Oropeza, and was leading a field crowded with 16 other candidates in early returns …
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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 …
Bob Lewis / Associated Press:
Giuliani Slams Bill Clinton on Terrorism — VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday accused former President Clinton of not responding forcefully enough to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or later terrorist attacks.
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Cheney Aide Explains Stance on Classified Material — Vice President Cheney's office offered its first public written explanation yesterday for its refusal to comply with an executive order regulating the handling of classified material, arguing that the order makes clear that the vice president …
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Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:
Clinton and Obama, Romney and Giuliani Seek Bragging Rights — Presidential candidates in both parties are scrambling to swell their bank accounts before June 30, the end of the second quarter for reporting campaign donations. — Contenders including Democratic Senators Barack Obama …
Andrew Sullivan / Times of London:
Weeds and wasted lives on the farm run by UN's rural kingpin — The Environment Minister and world authority on sustainable development has let his once-thriving land go to rack and ruin — It looks as if no one has lived here for years. Tall, dense elephant grass grows everywhere.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Senate Takes Up a Revised Immigration Bill, but Obstacles Remain — By a vote of 64 to 35, the Senate decided on Tuesday to take up a revised version of a comprehensive immigration bill that was pulled from the Senate floor nearly three weeks ago. — The vote did not guarantee passage of the bill …
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