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The New Republic:
A STATEMENT ON SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP: — We've talked to military personnel directly involved in the events that Scott Thomas Beauchamp described, and they corroborated his account as detailed in our statement. When we called Army spokesman Major Steven F. Lamb and asked …
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
BLOGS MISSING THE REAL STORY AS USUAL — Getting caught up in a blog swarm on a particular topic can be hazardous. The very fact that so many are writing about the same thing can generate its own momentum, its own "narrative." Each succeeding blogger who writes about the subject feels compelled …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: TNR challenges Weekly Standard's claim that Beauchamp has recanted; Update: Weekly Standard stands by its source — Hot off the pixel presses: … Note that Lamb isn't denying it, just saying that if it's true, no one's told him yet. Goldfarb should offer TNR a deal: you burn your sources and we'll burn ours.
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Holly M. Sanders / New York Post:
TIMESSELECT CONTENT FREED — The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned. — After much internal debate, Times executives - including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - made the decision to end …
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Ion Mihai Pacepa / Opinion Journal:
Propaganda Redux — Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies with its intemperate attacks on President Bush. — During last week's two-day summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown thanked President Bush for leading the global war on terror.
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Washington Post:
Our Chance to Capture the Center — With President Bush and the Republican Party on the rocks, many Democrats think the 2008 election will be, to borrow a favorite GOP phrase, a cakewalk. Some liberals are so confident about Democratic prospects that they contend the centrism that vaulted Democrats …
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Clinton's Foreign Policy Balancing Act — In Her Stances, Senator Has One Eye on Primary, One on General Election — While preparing to give a major critique of the war in Iraq last month, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton read a draft of the speech and added a few lines of her own.
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Washington Post:
As British Leave, Basra Deteriorates — Violence Rises in Shiite City Once Called a Success Story — As British forces pull back from Basra in southern Iraq, Shiite militias there have escalated a violent battle against each other for political supremacy and control over oil resources …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
It's a Female Dog, or Worse. Or Endearing. And Illegal? — The New York City Council, which drew national headlines when it passed a symbolic citywide ban earlier this year on the use of the so-called n-word, has turned its linguistic (and legislative) lance toward a different slur: bitch.
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
Rudy Giuliani: Only I can beat Hillary Clinton — Lambasting Democrats for having "embraced defeat" in Iraq, Rudy Giuliani is declaring himself the only Republican who will keep America on the offensive against Islamism and stop Hillary Clinton capturing the White House in 2008.
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Michael Theodoulou / Scotsman:
Man jailed for taking woman to hospital — A NIGERIAN convert to Islam who took his sick neighbour to hospital has been jailed in Saudi Arabia because he was not related to the elderly woman. — Ibrahim Mohammad Lawal was convicted of immoral behaviour by religious police who enforce …
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Bret Stephens / Opinion Journal:
Kernel of Evil — Selling weapons to the Saudis is logical.
Kernel of Evil — Selling weapons to the Saudis is logical.
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Eric Black / Minnesota Monitor:
Fred Phelps Is Coming — The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., plans to stage protests at funerals of victims of the 35W bridge collapse to state that God made the bridge fall because he hates America, and especially Minnesota, because of its tolerance of homosexuality.
Wall Street Journal:
How Credit Got So Easy And Why It's Tightening — An extraordinary credit boom that created many first-time homeowners and financed a wave of corporate takeovers seems to be waning. Home buyers with poor credit are having trouble borrowing. Institutional investors from Milwaukee to Düsseldorf to Sydney are reporting losses.
Michael J. Totten:
An Iraqi Interpreter's Story — "Please, sir, can you help me? I must work with Americans, because my psychology is demolished by Saddam Hussein. Not just me. All Iraqis. Psychological demolition." - Iraqi woman to New Yorker reporter George Packer. — "The Hammer," Titan Company Badge # S-10296
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Misreporting Obama? — When Obama's big terrorism speech last week made headlines for its threat of military action in Pakistan, and won plaudits for its meatiness and detail, I wondered whether the main impression America would get from it would be that he's a fresh voice on foreign policy; or that he wants to invade Pakistan.
Peter Carlson / Washington Post:
All the News That Seemed Unfit to Print — Somewhere in Kalamazoo, Elvis weeps: The Weekly World News is folding. — The Weekly World News was not one of those sleazy tabloids that cover tawdry celebrity scandals. It was a sleazy tabloid that covered events that seemed to occur in a parallel universe …