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GOP Candidates Face Off in Iowa — Iowa Caucus-Goers Turn Hawk Eyes on the Republican Hopefuls — So much for a quiet Sunday morning in Iowa. — The Republican presidential contenders didn't waste a minute during their first network television debate, each aggressive …
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Washington Post:
Iowa Republicans Are Not Thrilled With Presidential Field — As the Republican presidential candidates gather this morning in Des Moines for their fourth debate, Iowa GOP voters are expressing limited enthusiasm for the field of current and potential aspirants, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Analysis: GOP rivals walk delicate line
Analysis: GOP rivals walk delicate line
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Happy Furry Puppy Story …
Sharon Begley / Newsweek:
Truth about global-warming deniers — Sen. Barbara Boxer had been chair of the Senate's Environment Committee for less than a month when the verdict landed last February. "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," concluded a report by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and businesses in 40 countries.
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Newsweek Disgrace: 'Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine' — Manmade global warming alarmism took a disgraceful turn for the worse this weekend when Newsweek published a lengthy cover-story repeatedly calling skeptics "deniers" that are funded by oil companies and other industries …
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
Is California GOP Trying to Steal the 2008 Election? — Our way of electing presidents has always been fer-tile ground for mischief. But there's sensible mischief—toying with existing laws and the Constitution to reflect popular will—and then there's the other kind …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
ELECTORAL COLLEGE FOLLIES....I see that the latest crackpot initiative from the Golden State has now gotten national attention. Jon Alter writes in the current issue of Newsweek about a plan to carve up California's electoral votes between multiple candidates instead of awarding them all to a single winner in November:
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Ynetnews:
'Establish Islamic state' — Radical UK Islamist group holds London conference. 'Why is Palestine still occupied?' asks speaker — Yaakov Lappin — The British branch of a world-wide radical Islamist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, held a conference London on Saturday, in which speakers called …
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Lydia Hislop / Times of London:
Schools are run by Islamic group Blair pledged to ban
Schools are run by Islamic group Blair pledged to ban
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Melanie Phillips's Diary
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Government hunts for warrantless wiretap leaker — Priorities: The Attorney General apologized for 'creating confusion' — The controversy over President Bush's warrantless surveillance program took another surprise turn last week when a team of FBI agents, armed with a classified search warrant …
Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com:
Lead Pipes vs. Leaky Pipes — The netroots is reveling in Chicago, and the natural reaction is to ask, "Where's our YearlyKos?" — It's a good question, but ultimately a short-sighted one from an historical perspective. Go back and re-read the TNR piece on the netroots from May. Especially this part:
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CNN:
Al Qaeda member: U.S. embassies prime targets — (CNN) — U.S. Embassies and American interests "at home and abroad" are prime targets for terrorist attacks, American al Qaeda member Adam Yahiye Gadahn said in a newly released al Qaeda-produced video. — "We shall continue to target …
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Michael Yon / NY Daily News:
I have seen the horror — Al Qaeda is guilty of monstrosities in Iraq - no matter what anyone says — Amid all this talk of timetables for the War in Iraq, blurred as they are by a strange lemming-like compulsion to declare the "surge" strategy a failure almost before it actually began …
Editor and Publisher:
Murdoch Says He Just Wants More 'Urgency' in 'WSJ' — NEW YORK His Saturday business column for The New York Times (available online only via TimesSelect) mainly explores how the Bancroft family blew the deal with the News Corp. But Joseph Nocera closes it with a brief sit-down interview …
Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
Republicans hardening stance on immigration — (08-04) 04:00 PDT Washington — An anti-immigration backlash has taken hold among Republicans in the Capitol, led in some cases by the staunchest supporters - Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina …
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
THE BLACK SITES — A rare look inside the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program. — In March, Mariane Pearl, the widow of the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, received a phone call from Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General. At the time, Gonzales's role …
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
The vanishing jihad exposés — Mark Steyn column — How will we lose the war against "radical Islam"? — Well, it won't be in a tank battle. Or in the Sunni Triangle or the caves of Bora Bora. It won't be because terrorists fly three jets into the Oval Office …
Rick Moran / Pajamas Media:
"THIS IS PART OF THE BATTLEFIELD" — Sergeant David D. Aguina returned to the YearlyKos gathering on Saturday, a day after he had been unceremoniously thrown out of a panel on the military and progressives. This time he may have been out of uniform, but he told PJM's Rick Moran, that he would never give up his fight.
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