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Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Bush: No Deal On Children's Health Plan — President Says He Objects On Philosophical Grounds — President Bush yesterday rejected entreaties by his Republican allies that he compromise with Democrats on legislation to renew a popular program that provides health coverage to poor children …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
McCain's comeback plan — Sen. John McCain is circulating talking points to supporters making the case for why he can still win despite his precarious money situation and loss of key staff. In two documents obtained from a Republican source outside McCain's circle, the campaign compares …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Author of His Own Undoing — At noon on April 25, in Prescott Park in Portsmouth, N.H., John McCain announced his presidential candidacy. Less than two hours earlier, in the U.S. Supreme Court, a lawyer who had been solicitor general in the Clinton administration spoke in the name of McCain.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
McCain on the Mend? — After enduring a week of staff departures …
McCain on the Mend? — After enduring a week of staff departures …
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Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
Activity Guide — Democrats want 'John Doe' provision cut — Democrats are trying to pull a provision from a homeland security bill that will protect the public from being sued for reporting suspicious behavior that may lead to a terrorist attack, according to House Republican leadership aides.
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Flying Imams — Are Democrats Trying to Sink Pete King's Amendment? — In November 2006, six Islamic leaders were removed from a U.S. Airways flight in Minneapolis after they were observed acting suspiciously-including not sitting in their assigned seats, asking for seatbelt extenders although …
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
An Epic Showdown as Harry Potter Is Initiated Into Adulthood — So, here it is at last: The final confrontation between Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the "symbol of hope" for both the Wizard and Muggle worlds, and Lord Voldemort, He Who Must Not Be Named …
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Tony Snow / USA Today:
Victory in Iraq is vital — President has weakened al-Qaeda, made USA safer from attack. — Politics sometimes manages to muddle the obvious. The war in Iraq, authorized by three-quarters of the Senate, was launched in response to Saddam Hussein's refusal to abide by 17 United Nations resolutions …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Simple — The conclusion of this op-ed in the LA Times:
Simple — The conclusion of this op-ed in the LA Times:
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Associated Press:
Mysterious insurgent a sham, U.S. says — BAGHDAD — Over the past year, Iraqis heard several audio recordings by a mysterious terrorist leader named Omar al-Baghdadi singing the praises of al-Qaida and urging his followers to attack U.S. troops. — The whole thing was a sham, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
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Jo Becker / New York Times:
Records Show Ex-Senator's Work for Family Planning Unit — Billing records show that former Senator Fred Thompson spent nearly 20 hours working as a lobbyist on behalf of a group seeking to ease restrictive federal rules on abortion counseling in the 1990s, even though he recently …
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hughhewitt.townhall.com:
General David Petraeus on the conditions on the ground in Iraq — The Hugh Hewitt Show — HH: Welcome, General. You took over command of the multinational forces in February of this year, February 10. In the past five months, how have conditions in Iraq changed?
Andrew Grice / The Independent:
How Murdoch had a hotline to the PM in the run-up to Iraq war — Tony Blair had three conversations with the media magnate Rupert Murdoch in the nine days before the start of the Iraq war, the Government has disclosed. — Details of the former prime minister's contacts with Mr Murdoch …
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
'Brandeis Boys' come to D.C. Madam's rescue with website of phone listings — As the phone records of the "D.C. Madam," Deborah Jeane Palfrey, became public last week, curious Washingtonians started searching a mysterious database at dcphonelist.com that had organized mountains of her documents.
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Murdoch's Arrival Worries Journal Employees — On May 14, more than 100 reporters, editors and executives clustered in The Wall Street Journal's main newsroom to mark the retirement of Peter R. Kann, the longtime leader of their corporate parent, Dow Jones & Company.
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
FEMA Suppressed Health Warnings for Workers, Katrina Victims — Agency Rejected Environmental Testing on Formaldehyde Gas Levels — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has suppressed warnings from its own Gulf coast field workers since the middle of 2006 about suspected health problems …
Think Progress:
Bush's Agencies Of Mass Politicization — This week's report that officials in the Office of National Drug Control Policy made politically motivated appearances in the months leading up to the 2006 elections are only the latest example of the Bush administration's misuse of federal employees.
Andrew Ryan / Boston Globe:
None of the above — Bill offers voters a way to put action in dissatisfaction: force a new election — Massachusetts voters sick of holding their noses on Election Day could get another option: none of the above. — The proposal would let voters reject all candidates and demand a new election.
ABCNEWS:
Clinton: No Military Victory in Iraq — The Former President Believes President Bush's Iraq Strategy Must Change — In South Africa battling the AIDS crisis, former President Bill Clinton weighed in on the battle that's consumed the Senate this week: whether President Bush should pull U.S. troops out of Iraq.