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Charles Hurt / New York Post:
EDWARDS IN A BIZ HATE & $WITCH — John Edwards, who yesterday demanded Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., himself earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one of the media mogul's companies. — The Edwards campaign …
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Washington Post:
Three Top Democrats Share Lead In Iowa Poll — Less than six months before Iowa voters open the 2008 presidential nomination battles, the Democratic contest in the Hawkeye State is a deadlock, with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards in a virtual tie for first place, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
'Net Roots' Event Becomes Democrats' Other National Convention — Last month, in a straw poll on the popular liberal blog Daily Kos, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), the front-runner for her party's presidential nomination, won only 9 percent of the vote, lagging far behind former senator John Edwards …
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
House erupts in chaos — In a massive flare-up of partisan tensions, Republicans walked out on a House vote late Thursday night to protest what they believed to be Democratic maneuvers to reverse an unfavorable outcome for them. — The flap represents a complete breakdown in parliamentary procedure …
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
What Happened in the House Last Night? — I just heard Pete Hoekstra, outraged, on the Bennett show about this, which a House aide explains via e-mail: … Here's what it looked like: — Here's Cantor: … From Politico: … That's the last time I fall to sleep early.
Matthew Sanchez / Matt Sanchez:
BEACHAMP INVESTIGATION CONCLUDED — After a thorough investigation that lasted nearly a week the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division has concluded that the allegation made by Private Thomas Scott Beauchamp, the "Baghdad Diarist", have been
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Confederate Yankee:
Breaking: Kuwait-Based Army PAO Calls Beauchamp/New Republic Claim an "Urban Legend or Myth" — I've been silent on the New Republic's latest attempt to explain their editorial dereliction of editorial duties in the Scott Thomas Beauchamp collection of stories know as "Shock Troops" …
Agence France Presse:
Critics take aim at Bin Laden musical — A satirical musical about Islamist terrorism and Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has sparked protests in Britain, with critics blasting it as tasteless. — "Jihad: The Musical," which features songs including "I wanna be like Osama" and is described as …
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Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
ACID FLASHBACK — Last night the whole YearlyKos aggregation finally gathered in one place, a sort of cozy airplane hangar somewhere within McCormick Place. The room was so spacious that the audience—something like fourteen hundred people—could be comfortably seated at big round tables rather than rows of seats.
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Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
Romney: Hezbollah role model for U.S. — Urges emulating welfare projects used by terror group against Israel — JERUSALEM - Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney has cited the social welfare network of the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group as a role model the U.S. should copy to help promote …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Doesn't Sound Like A Funding Issue — MnDOT officials had concerns about the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River last winter, focusing on the same fatigue and potential cracking that has grabbed the focus of the post-collapse coverage. Engineers debated whether to apply patches …
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David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Gates Offers Blunt Review of Progress in Iraq — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that he was discouraged by the resignation of the Sunnis from Iraq's cabinet and that the Bush administration might have misjudged the difficulty of achieving reconciliation between Iraq's sectarian factions.
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New York Times:
Stampeding Congress, Again — Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration has repeatedly demonstrated that it does not feel bound by the law or the Constitution when it comes to the war on terror. It cannot even be trusted to properly use the enhanced powers it was legally granted after the attacks.
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Pajamas Media:
KOS: "WE ARE THE CENTER!" — Is left-wing blog entrepreneur Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, AKA "Kos," the new liberal king maker of the Democratic Party? At his opening day press conference for the annual YearlyKos Convention in Chicago, Kos told the assemblage: "There is no Jesse Jackson wing of the Democratic Party anymore.
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Yahoo! News, NewsBusters.org, The Jawa Report, Villainous Company, Silent Running and Right Wing Nut House
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Judge Backs C.I.A. in Suit on Memoir — Valerie Wilson may be the best known former intelligence operative in recent history, but a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that she was not allowed to say how long she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency in the memoir she plans to publish this fall.
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JustOneMinute, The Huffington Post, Outside The Beltway, JammieWearingFool and Taegan Goddard's …
Sky News:
Flying Saucers Go Into Production — A "flying saucer" that glides three metres above the ground and carries two people has gone into commerical production. — US company Moller International has begun to manufacture parts for its Jetsons-like personal flying pod, the M200G Volantor.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
DNC shares oppo game plan with netroots — CHICAGO — It is not true that Democrats don't listen to Republicans. They do. — The Democrats are listening to every word the Republican presidential candidates say, writing it down and even videotaping them whenever possible.
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