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David Neiwert / Firedoglake:
Manly men — People who talk about masculinity — especially conservatives, who seem to obsess about it, but in a peculiarly juvenile way — have always seemed a little weird to me. It's like the cliche retort the wealthy like to use: "If you have to ask how much it is, you can't afford it."
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Dan Collins / protein wisdom:
Taciturn — There is something self-deconstructing about this post by David Neiwert. Can you spot it? … David: Can you possibly have suffered the same quantity of mockery for your laudable decision to be a stay-at-home dad as Jeff has, or does he have it coming because he's, you know . . . conservative?
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
ANNALS OF REPORTING — For a variety of reasons I try to stay out of the debates over blogs as such, what they're good or bad at and the rest. But this morning I was alerted to an opinion column in the Los Angeles Times by Michael Skube, a journalism professor at Elon University.
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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.
Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Sunday Sampler Platter: Rove Farewell Tour — (Photos: Courtesy of Fox News Sunday, Meet the Press, Face the Nation) — Karl Rove undertook a three-stop farewell tour of the talk shows on Sunday - not his own decision, he said he was just doing "what I was instructed to do."
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Matt / Think Progress:
Cooper Contradicts Rove: He's 'Dissembling' With 'Nonsense' About The Plame Leak
Cooper Contradicts Rove: He's 'Dissembling' With 'Nonsense' About The Plame Leak
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Matt Cooper Says Rove DID Leak Valerie Plame's Identity To Him: UPDATED!
Matt Cooper Says Rove DID Leak Valerie Plame's Identity To Him: UPDATED!
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ABCNEWS:
TRANSCRIPT: The Democratic Debate — George Stephanopoulos Moderates Democratic Debate on a Special Edition of "This Week" — STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this special edition of "This Week." We're back here at Drake University in Iowa for the first Democratic presidential debate in Iowa.
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Open Left, The Politico, NewsBusters.org, The Blue State, Liberal Values, The Fix and Dick Polman's American Debate
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KCBS-TV:
Elvira Arellano Arrested Outside Downtown Church — Chicago Immigration Activist Taken Into Custody Sunday Afternoon — CBS News Interactive: Immigration and Naturalization — (CBS) LOS ANGELES Elvira Arrellano, a Mexican woman who sought sanctuary from deportation in a Chicago church was arrested Sunday in Los Angeles.
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Antonio Olivo / Chicago Tribune:
Immigration activist Arellano arrested — LOS ANGELES - An illegal Mexican immigrant who sought refuge inside a Chicago church for a year was arrested in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon after taking her campaign on the road. — Elvira Arellano was arrested about 4:15 p.m. Chicago …
Misha Glenny / Washington Post:
The Lost War — We've Spent 36 Years and Billions of Dollars Fighting It, but the Drug Trade Keeps Growing — Poppies were the first thing that British army Capt. Leo Docherty noticed when he arrived in Afghanistan's turbulent Helmand province in April 2006.
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The Reaction, Outside The Beltway, Daniel W. Drezner, Right Side of the Rainbow, SWJ Blog and digg
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
As Democracy Push Falters, Bush Feels Like a 'Dissident' — By the time he arrived in Prague in June for a democracy conference, President Bush was frustrated. He had committed his presidency to working toward the goal of "ending tyranny in our world," yet the march of freedom seemed stalled.
Bill Roggio / Daily Iraq Report:
Iraq Report: Qods in Iraq — As US and Iraqi security forces have stepped up operations against Sunni and Shia extremist groups in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch stated there are about 50 members of Iran's elite Qods Force operating inside Iraq to arm and train groups such as the "rogue" Mahdi Army and the Special Groups terror cells.
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Captain's Quarters, Multi-National Force, Associated Press, Flopping Aces, Gateway Pundit and NonParty Politics
Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Rudy plays the security card: ID for all tourists — EVERY foreigner in America, including British visitors, would be required to carry an ID card bearing photograph and fingerprints under plans drawn up by Rudolph Giuliani, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.
The Independent:
Military commanders tell Brown to withdraw from Iraq without delay — Senior military commanders have told the Government that Britain can achieve "nothing more" in south-east Iraq, and that the 5,500 British troops still deployed there should move towards withdrawal without further delay.
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Times of London, DownWithTyranny!, All Spin Zone, RADAMISTO, Hot Air, Blue Collar Heresy and Middle Earth Journal
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Tom Matzzie / The Huffington Post:
TV Ads: Bush-Petraeus 10-Year Plan Means a Draft — Americans have seen some news reports over the last few days suggesting that the White House "might-maybe-could-possibly" bring some troops home from Iraq next year. If this happens, that's great. But don't break out the confetti just yet.
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
The Founders Had an Idea for Handling Alberto Gonzales — William Belknap, Ulysses S. Grant's disgraced secretary of war, is experiencing a revival. Impeached in 1876 for taking bribes, he has become the inspiration for a movement to remove Attorney General Alberto Gonzales from office.
Robert Tait / Guardian:
Khomeini 'sought to drop Death to US chant' — One of Iran's most powerful politicians has provoked controversy by suggesting that the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the country's Islamic revolution, wanted to drop its signature chant, Death to America.