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Matt / Think Progress:
Cooper Contradicts Rove: He's 'Dissembling' With 'Non-Sense' About The Plame Leak — During his tour of the Sunday shows this morning, Karl Rove attempted to downplay and dismiss his role in the CIA leak scandal, telling Fox News' Chris Wallace that he acted benignly in his conversations with reporters about Valerie Plame's identity:
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Marty Kaplan / The Huffington Post:
The Truths Rove Told — While it's tempting to truth-squad the lies and smears that Karl Rove's been spreading during his infamy lap, let's focus instead on the truths. — Sure, it's natural to want to focus on the disinformation he's still retailing (like, Joe Wilson lied in his New York Times op-ed) …
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Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Essay: "I'm the proud owner of Karl Rove's father's solid gold cock ring."
Essay: "I'm the proud owner of Karl Rove's father's solid gold cock ring."
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Karl Rove Spins His Way Out Of Town On Meet The Press
Karl Rove Spins His Way Out Of Town On Meet The Press
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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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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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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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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 …
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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.
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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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David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Giuliani's Fox-y pal cash flap — It's no secret that Sean Hannity, the conservative Fox News commentator, has helped to raise Rudy Giuliani's profile - but now he's helped the former mayor raise money, too. — In a little noticed event this month, Hannity - co-host of Fox News' …
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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.
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.
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.
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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Mark Lilla / New York Times:
The Politics of God — I. "The Will of God Will Prevail" — The twilight of the idols has been postponed. For more than two centuries, from the American and French Revolutions to the collapse of Soviet Communism, world politics revolved around eminently political problems.
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.
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 …
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