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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Karl Rove, Insider With an Outsize Reputation — From the moment he leaked word of his departure to the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Karl Rove has been lionized and vilified by the media hordes. — He is either a political giant, shrewdly plotting a series of victories during the Bush presidency …
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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."
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
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."
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.
Discussion:
New York Times, The Politico, Open Left, NewsBusters.org, The Blue State, Dick Polman's American Debate and Taylor Marsh
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Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Clinton may be a target of Rove's reverse psychology — In a tactic from the '04 Bush-Kerry match-up, the strategist could be trying to divert attention away from a more formidable Democrat. — Day after day last week, outgoing White House political strategist Karl Rove delivered slashing attacks …
ABCNEWS:
Dems Come out Swinging on Experience vs. New Vision
Dems Come out Swinging on Experience vs. New Vision
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M.E. Sprengelmeyer, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, New York Times, Liberal Values and The Fix
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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Daily Kos, PressThink, Left in the West, Making Light, The Atlantic Online and Lawyers, Guns and Money
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Associated Press:
Immigration Activist Arrested Outside L.A. Church — Elvira Arellano Taken Into Custody Sunday Afternoon — CBS News Interactive: Immigration and Naturalization — (AP) LOS ANGELES An illegal immigrant who stayed in a Chicago church for a year to avoid separation from her 8-year-old son …
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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 …
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.
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The Democratic Daily
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Tim Shipman / Sydney Morning Herald:
British military sparks US fears of losing Basra
British military sparks US fears of losing Basra
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Informed Comment
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.
Taciturn — There is something self-deconstructing about this post by David Neiwert.
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Big Brass Blog
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.
Discussion:
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.
Stuart Barnes / Times of London:
Scientists hail 'frozen smoke' as material that will change world — A MIRACLE material for the 21st century could protect your home against bomb blasts, mop up oil spillages and even help man to fly to Mars. — Aerogel, one of the world's lightest solids, can withstand a direct blast …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Next Huckabee Surprise? — Buoyed by his surprise second-place finish in the Iowa Republican straw poll, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is plotting an even bigger coup against Mitt Romney in the first presidential primary, in New Hampshire. — His inspiration for the audacious plot comes …
David Charter / Times of London:
Blair's deal on new EU treaty 'largely revives the rejected constitution' — A group of Europe's "wise men" has pronounced that the European Union treaty agreed by Tony Blair in June is substantially the same as the constitution rejected two years ago. — The elder statesmen's verdict …