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The New Republic:
A Statement on Scott Thomas Beauchamp — Scott Thomas Beauchamp is a U.S. Army private serving in Iraq. He came to THE NEW REPUBLIC's attention through Elspeth Reeve, a TNR reporter-researcher, whom he later married. Over the course of the war, we have tried to provide our readers with a sense of Iraq as it is seen by the troops.
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
TNR Claims (Partial) Vindication — Read it all. — I'll start with this: … Error? Mistake? He was off by an entire country and something like nine months? — This is what TNR terms an "error," a "mistake"? And when they "fact-checked" this beforehand, how did their …
Dean Barnett / Townhall.com:
Franklin Foer and Co. Keep Digging — At long last, The New Republic's editors have released a statement regarding the Beauchamp affair. It is a maddening piece of work - evasive, misleading, self-pitying and deliberately distortive. By all means, read the whole thing. But do so critically and carefully.
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:TNR's "Investigation" Reveals Beauchamp Was Always a Monster
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Shakespeare's Sister
Associated Press:
Minn. bridge problems uncovered in 1990 — MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 that the bridge that plummeted into the Mississippi River was "structurally deficient," yet they relied on a strategy of patchwork fixes and stepped-up inspections.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Recovery suspended; Pawlenty calls for statewide bridge inspections — Divers were pulled from the murky and fast-moving waters of the Mississippi River Thursday afternoon before any bodies could be recovered from the wreckage of Wednesday's I-35W bridge collapse.
Rose Garden / White House:
President Bush Offers Sympathies and Assistance to Minneapolis and Calls on Congress to Act Before Recess — THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I just finished a Cabinet meeting. One of the things we discussed was the terrible situation there in Minneapolis. We talked about the fact …
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:Blame-Game Begins on Infrastructure Spending
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The Sundries Shack
Associated Press:
Obama says use of nuclear weapons to fight al-Qaida 'not on the table,' — WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday he would not use nuclear weapons «in any circumstance. — «I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons …
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The Politico:
Obama on nukes: policy or character? (Updated) — The latest Obama story, from an interview with The Associated Press, isn't online yet, but get ready: It's an interview* in which Obama initially rules out the use of nuclear weapons entirely, then seems to take it back:
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ABCNEWS:
Presidential Race Goes Nuclear — Clinton Implies Obama's Comments Were Careless — Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., sparred over foreign policy as the former first lady implied that the first term senator's comments on the use of nuclear weapons were careless and unpresidential.
Agence France Presse:
Pakistan slams 'ignorant' Obama attack warning — ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan accused Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama of "sheer ignorance" for threatening to launch US military strikes against Al-Qaeda on Pakistani soil. — Obama warned Wednesday that if he is elected president …
Nick Coleman / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Public anger will follow our sorrow — The cloud of dust above the Mississippi that rose after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed Wednesday evening has dissipated. But there are other dark clouds still hanging over Minneapolis and Minnesota. — The cloud of dust above the Mississippi …
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David Stout / New York Times:
With Rove Absent, Aide Is Grilled by Senate Panel — The Senate Judiciary Committee grilled a young political aide from the White House today about the firings of nine United States attorneys and voiced disdain for a man who was not there: the aide's boss, Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser.
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Byron York / National Review Online:
The Vast Left-Wing Establishment — Today more than a thousand Kossacks — adherents of the left-wing website DailyKos — are gathering for their annual convention in Chicago. It's the second YearlyKos, in circumstances far different from the first, held in June 2006 in Las Vegas.
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Out of the Theater, Into the Courtroom — Jhannet Sejas and her boyfriend were celebrating her 19th birthday by taking in a matinee showing of the hit movie "Transformers" at the theater at Ballston Common mall. — Sejas was enjoying the movie so much that she decided to film a short clip …
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KNTV-TV:
Police: Masked Gunman Kills Veteran Oakland Reporter — OAKLAND, Calif. — Veteran journalist Chauncey Bailey, who recently was promoted to be editor of the Oakland Post, was fatally shot in downtown Oakland just before 7:30 a.m. Thursday in what appears to be a targeted shooting, according to an Oakland police spokesman.
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