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Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals — Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive assessment …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
INTERVIEW: Tauscher Returns From Iraq, Warns Of 'Green Zone Fog' — Shortly after returning from Iraq, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) conducted an interview with ThinkProgress. She said she conveyed three things to Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker: 1) "the American people …
Tony Batt / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Porter ties U.S. withdrawal from Iraq to $9 gasoline
Porter ties U.S. withdrawal from Iraq to $9 gasoline
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Talking Points Memo
Michael Asher / DailyTech:
Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory — Comprehensive survey of published climate research reveals changing viewpoints — In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Terrorism Policies Split Democrats — Anger Mounts Within Party Over Inaction on Bush Tactics — A growing clamor among rank-and-file Democrats to halt President Bush's most controversial tactics in the fight against terrorism has exposed deep divisions within the party …
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New York Times:
Clinton Donor Under a Cloud in Fraud Case — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said yesterday that it would give to charity $23,000 it had received from a prominent Democratic donor, and review thousands of dollars more that he had raised, after learning that the authorities in California …
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Time:
Edwards On Track in Iowa — John Edwards is betting that a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses will catapult him into national contention, and so far his strategy in the state is on track. A new TIME poll of likely Iowa caucus goers, taken a week after Edwards' seven-day …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Bush's Lost Iraqi Election — Ayad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq, hinted in a television interview last weekend at one of the war's least understood turning points: America's decision not to challenge Iranian intervention in Iraq's January 2005 elections.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
When Exactly Did Art Die? — At least the latest travesty in the art world comes Down Under rather than the US, but that only shows how global the collapse of art from a meaningful form to an anti-Christian realm of bigots has become. The latest examples are entrants in the Blake Prize competition …
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Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Pentagon won't make surge recommendation to Bush — WASHINGTON — In a sign that top commanders are divided over what course to pursue in Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday that it won't make a single, unified recommendation to President Bush during next month's strategy assessment …
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Washington Post:
Tapping Into The Secrets Of the Stall — Experts Say Anonymous Sex In Public Places Is A Compulsive Behavior — Consider the bathroom stall, that utilitarian public enclosure of cold steel and drab hue. — It can be a world of untold secrets, codes and signals as invitations to partake.
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The Atlantic Online
Elaine Silvestrini / TBO.com:
Jury Wants DNA, Hair Samples In USF Case — TAMPA - A federal grand jury in Tampa is asking for DNA and hair samples from a University of South Florida student jailed four weeks ago in South Carolina on explosives charges, his attorney said. — Andrew Savage said in a phone interview Wednesday night …
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Jihad Watch
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Michael Yon:
Ghosts of Anbar, Part III of IV — A Model for Success — While some Iraqi Army and Police officers searched for the suspected bomber, we searched for the bomb supposedly planted along this stretch. A culvert under a 4-lane road is a likely place. — SSG Rakene Lee set out to clear the tunnel.
Marc / The Van Der Galiën Gazette:
A Study in Cowardice — EDITOR's NOTE: This post has been pulled up. For newer posts, scroll down. — The Center for America Progress' (CAP) recent study entitled "How to Redeploy: Implementing a Responsible Drawdown of U.S. Forces from Iraq" (PDF alert) features a quote from Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War:
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Open Left
Tim Craig / Washington Post:
Va. Republican Bill Would Bar Illegal Immigrants From College — Virginia Republicans announced legislation Wednesday that would prohibit public colleges and universities from accepting illegal immigrants even if they attended a public high school and were brought to the United States at an early age by their parents.
Tova Andrea Wang / Washington Post:
A Rigged Report on U.S. Voting? — After the 2000 Florida election debacle, Congress established a body called the Election Assistance Commission to improve voting and democracy in this country. Two years ago, the commission approached me about doing a project that would take a preliminary look …
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The Next Hurrah
Stephen Farrell / New York Times:
Sadr Suspends His Militia's Military Operations — The radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr said Wednesday that he was suspending for six months his Mahdi Army militia's operations, including attacks on American troops, only hours after his fighters waged running street battles …