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Faiz / Think Progress:
Rove On Whether He'll Answer Questions About His Potentially Illegal Acts: 'Nice Try' — On the Sunday shows this morning, Karl Rove was treated largely with kid gloves by the hosts and was not forced to confront many difficult questions about his ethical improprieties while serving in the White House.
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Jurassicpork / Pottersville:
FRANK RICH: He Got Out While the Getting Was Good — BACK in those heady days of late summer 2002, Andrew Card, then the president's chief of staff, told The New York Times why the much-anticipated push for war in Iraq hadn't yet arrived. "You don't introduce new products in August," …
Washington Post:
How Rove Directed Federal Assets for GOP Gains — Bush Adviser's Effort to Promote the President and His Allies Was Unprecedented in Its Reach — Thirteen months before President Bush was reelected, chief strategist Karl Rove summoned political appointees from around the government to the Old Executive Office Building.
New York Times:
The War as We Saw It — VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
There Aren't — Of course there are smart people, those we could call "experts," in any field and yes of course they're generally happier and more interested in talking to each other than to the rabble. But AEI and EPI aren't two parts of an "economic policy clerisy."
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Observer:
The day reality hit home — The writer Andrew Anthony was a committed member of the liberal left - until the attacks of 11 September, 2001. A veteran of CND and Nicaraguan solidarity campaigns, he was astonished at the liberal left's anti-American reaction.
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Speaking of sanctuary, where's ours? — At the funeral of Iofemi Hightower, her classmate Mecca Ali wore a T-shirt with the slogan: "Tell Me Why They Had To Die." — "They" are Miss Hightower, Dashon Harvey and Terrance Aeriel, three young citizens of Newark, New Jersey …
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
British forces useless in Basra, say officials — When America's top commanders in Iraq held a conference with their British counterparts recently, Major General Jonathan Shaw - Britain's senior officer in Basra - was quick to share his views on how best to conduct counter-insurgency operations.
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Michael Skube / Los Angeles Times:
Blogs: All the noise that fits — The hard-line opinions on weblogs are no substitute for the patient fact-finding of reporters. — The late Christopher Lasch once wrote that public affairs generally and journalism in particular suffered not from too little information but from entirely too much.
ABCNEWS:
Dems Come out Swinging on Experience vs. New Vision — Senior Dems Put Obama's Resume in the Spotlight — The eight Democratic contenders for the White House meet for a debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on a special edition of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos". (ABC NEWS)
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
More Duplicity in the FISA Stampede — James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, the New York Times reporters who originally broke the warrantless domestic spying story, report further on the recent legislation gutting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Atrios / Eschaton:
Is Tom Friedman a Bad Person? — All signs point to "pretty hideous human being, one which all good people should shun."
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Jason Lewis / Daily Mail:
BBC forced to removed 'bastard' slur about Jesus from its website — The BBC has been forced to remove statements from its website referring to Jesus as a 'bastard'. — It is the latest in a string of offensive comments that BBC editors have allowed members of the public to post.
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
A Deadly Clash at Donkey Island — On a Routine Night Patrol Near Ramadi, U.S. Troops Stumble Upon a Camp of Heavily Armed Insurgents Poised to Retake the City — Staff Sgt. Norman Stark had never seen combat. Nor did the 32-year-old soldier from Baltimore expect it …
Washington Post:
Local Arrests in Newark Slayings — Man, Found in Md., Is Called Ringleader — A key suspect in the brutal killings of three college students in Newark was arrested early yesterday in Oxon Hill, where authorities found the 24-year-old Nicaraguan man among a group drinking beer …
Diana Muir / Washington Post:
Risks in a Muslim Reformation — Salman Rushdie, Thomas Friedman, Nicholas Kristof and Mansour al-Nogaidan are among the well-intentioned people who have called for an Islamic Reformation. They should be careful what they wish for. — The Protestant Reformation did precede the things …
Gail Martineau / The Columbus Dispatch:
Anti-gay activists crash worship services — Minutemen take 'word of God' to 2 congregations — A conservative Christian values group has been interrupting services at two central Ohio churches to protest their support for homosexuality. — Minutemen United vowed to attend services every Sunday.
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Alex Blaze / The Bilerico Project:Just in case you thought the Religious Right was all about freedom of religion....
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