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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 (3719) |
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Ann Coulter, Dem fundraising superstar — Is Ann Coulter good for anything other than Democratic fundraising any more? It's the only context in which I ever see her name. — In this video — which I got from the Edwards campaign's fundraising pitch — she's expressing the hope that Edwards is killed in a terrorist attack.
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Reason Magazine
Think Progress:
Obama Smeared As Terrorist Again On Fox News — This past weekend, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) delivered a speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of his Protestant denomination, the United Church of Christ. In the speech, Obama argued that faith in the United States has been "hijacked" …
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Ann Coulter wishes John Edwards were assassinated
Ann Coulter wishes John Edwards were assassinated
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The Huffington Post
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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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 …
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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.
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.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Lugar gets a meeting with White House aides on Iraq
Lugar gets a meeting with White House aides on Iraq
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New York Times:
Poll Shows Liberal Ideas Gaining With Young People — 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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Erik Schelzig / Associated Press:
Fred Thompson defends his lobbying past — NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Fred Thompson, a likely Republican presidential candidate, on Tuesday defended his work as a Washington lobbyist, telling The Associated Press that lobbying is an important part of life because "government's got their hands in everything."
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
PUTTING A FACE TO A NAME
PUTTING A FACE TO A NAME
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protein wisdom, Snarking Dawg, TIME: Swampland, National Review, The American Mind and Betsy's Page
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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r blog:
a picture is worth a thousand posts — That is a horrible picture of VIvi!! — KARLA — RO, I AGREE WITH U ON MOSTLY EVERYTHING. BUT SOMEHOW I FOUND THE PICTURE OF VIVI DISTURBING. I DON'T EVEN LET MY CHILDREN PLAY WITH ANYTHING SIMILAR TO THAT. IT'S JUST A COMMENT. BUT OH WELL!!!!!!
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NewsBusters.org, UrbanGrounds, Atlas Shrugs, Confederate Yankee, Hot Air and Roger L. Simon
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Shticko — Reason has a good review of the latest Michael Moore movie. Moore is both a practiced liar and not-too-smart. The implication that "free healthcare" run by the government is somehow immune to the laws of economics is classic Moore boilerplate:
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Reason Magazine, The Terrorist's Dictionary, Outside The Beltway, The Mahablog, Daimnation! and Cato-at-liberty
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
AMERICA'S DRUG HABIT....No healthcare system is perfect …
AMERICA'S DRUG HABIT....No healthcare system is perfect …
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The RBC
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.
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Dave Kilcullen / SWJ Blog:
Understanding Current Operations in Iraq — I've spent much of the last six weeks out on the ground, working with Iraqi and U.S. combat units, civilian reconstruction teams, Iraqi administrators and tribal and community leaders. I've been away from e-mail a lot, so unable to post here at SWJ …