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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Why the Democrats Caved — Shortly before noon last Saturday, about 20 House Democrats huddled in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office to decide what to do about a surveillance bill that had been dumped on them by the Senate before it left town. — Many of the Democrats were furious.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Thanks, Cindy — Nancy Pelosi has a challenger for her seat in Congress.
Thanks, Cindy — Nancy Pelosi has a challenger for her seat in Congress.
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Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Giuliani Says He is Equal to 9/11 Recovery Workers — ABC News' Jan Simmonds Reports: In Ohio on Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani R-NY handed his critics new ammunition regarding his role surrounding 9/11. — Speaking to reporters in Cincinnati, Giuliani said …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Cheney urging military strikes on Iran — WASHINGTON — President Bush charged Thursday that Iran continues to arm and train insurgents who are killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and he threatened action if that continues. — At a news conference Thursday, Bush said Iran had been warned …
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Pew Research Center:
Internet News Audience Highly Critical of News Organizations — Views of Press Values and Performance: 1985-2007 — Summary of Findings — The American public continues to fault news organizations for a number of perceived failures, with solid majorities criticizing them for political bias …
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Agence France Presse:
US public sees news media as biased, inaccurate, uncaring: poll — More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed. — And poll respondents who use the Internet …
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CNN:
Poll: Giuliani leads for GOP nomination — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is leading the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls, supported by 29 percent of respondents in a poll released Friday. — Unannounced candidate former Sen. Fred Thompson is close behind with 22 percent …
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Washington Post:
Romney's Cash Beckons Iowans To Straw Poll
Romney's Cash Beckons Iowans To Straw Poll
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Mary Jacoby / Wall Street Journal:
Romney Bets Big on Ames Poll
Romney Bets Big on Ames Poll
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Joel Rubin / Los Angeles Times:
Democrats quizzed at LA gay-rights forum — Six candidates, including the front-runners, come to Hollywood to voice support for an influential voting bloc in cable event. — Underscoring the importance of gays and lesbians in Democratic politics, most of the party's presidential hopefuls gathered …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Baghdad Fabulist — For weeks, the veracity of the New Republic's Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the Army private who has been sending dispatches from the front in Iraq, has been in dispute. His latest "Baghdad Diarist" (July 13) recounted three incidents of American soldiers engaged in acts of unusual callousness.
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Ellen Goodman / Boston Globe:
E-male — IT'S WORTH remembering that the blogosphere is still so new it baffles spell check. For that matter, if I type "blogger" on my screen, my retro software offers alternatives like "loggers," "floggers," and "boggler." — It "boggles" my mind to realize how quickly a piece of Internet terrain has gained power in politics.
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Federal Effort on Web Obscenity Shows Few Results — Tom Rogers, a retired Indianapolis detective, toils away most days in his suburban home office reviewing sexual Web sites and other Internet traffic to see whether they qualify as obscene material whose purveyors should be prosecuted by the Justice Department.
Bill / INDCJournal:
Programming Note: Back to Fallujah — I'm headed back to Iraq on August 30th, to gauge and report on the situation in Fallujah prior to Gen. Petraeus's September report. I'm accredited with Bill Roggio's Public Multimedia, Inc., and would sincerely appreciate (tax deductible) donations through his shop.
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Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
U.S. Backs Free Elections, Only to See Allies Lose — Lebanon's political spin masters have been trying in recent days to explain the results of last Sunday's pivotal by-election, which saw a relatively unknown candidate from the opposition narrowly beat a former president, Amin Gemayel.
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
Deported Canadian Was No Threat, Report Shows — Canadian intelligence officials anticipated that the United States would ship Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian who was detained in New York in 2002 on suspicion of terrorism, to a third country to be tortured, declassified information released on Thursday shows.
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
RNC Voter "Audit" Letter Raises Questions — What 83 year-old William Sidwell of Queen City, Missouri found in his mailbox last week scared him. It was a letter from the Republican National Committee, but it seemed to bear grave news: "Our records show that you registered as a member …
ABCNEWS:
A Case of She Said vs. She Said — Did Clinton Contradict ... Clinton? — Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has been critical of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for recent foreign policy pronouncements. But some Obama allies say Clinton is guilty of having made remarks quite similar …
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