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Bruce Landis / Providence Journal:
Chafee quietly quits the GOP … PROVIDENCE — Lincoln D. Chafee, who lost his Senate seat in the wave of anti-Republican sentiment in last November's election, said yesterday that he has left the party. — Chafee said he disaffiliated with the party he had helped lead …
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Philip Shenon / New York Times:
Bush Expected to Name Judge as Gonzales's Successor — President Bush appeared to back away from a possible confirmation battle with the Senate and is close to announcing the nomination of a retired federal judge from New York who is widely respected by Democrats to replace Alberto R. Gonzales …
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David Johnston / New York Times:
Bush May Name Ex-Judge to Succeed Gonzales — A former federal judge from New York has emerged as a contender to succeed Alberto R. Gonzales as attorney general, as the White House moved closer to announcing President Bush's choice to lead the Justice Department, according to associates of several prospective candidates.
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:Sen. Hagel on Real Time: Petraeus Dog and Pony Show "Dishonest …
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Macsmind
Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Bush vs. Greenspan: White House Fires Back — ABC News' John Cochran Reports: Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's memoirs, 'The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World' doesn't go on sale officially until Monday, but already the White House has fired back at two charges he levels.
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Ian Welsh / Firedoglake:
No, Greenspan Doesn't Get To Rehabilitate His Reputation — So Alan Greenspan has a new book coming out on Monday. And it says nasty things about the Bush administration. Welcome to the club Alan - the club of Bush enablers who write books once they aren't in power …
CNN:
O.J. Simpson faces robbery, assault charges — LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) — O.J. Simpson will be charged with a total of six counts of robbery, assault, burglary and conspiracy, Las Vegas police announced Sunday. — Simpson was arrested at his hotel room at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas …
Damien Cave / New York Times:
U.S. Seizes Suspect in Killing of Sunni Sheik — American military officials said Sunday that they captured a suspected militant linked to last week's assassination of a Sunni Arab tribal leader in Anbar Province, in western Iraq, who had collaborated with the American military to fight insurgents.
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Bruce Smith / Associated Press:
McCain: I'm a Baptist — HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has long identified himself as an Episcopalian, said this weekend that he is a Baptist and has been for years. — Campaigning in this conservative, predominantly Baptist state …
Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Gates Sees a 'Protracted' Stay for Troops — Two days after saying he hoped American forces in Iraq might be reduced to 100,000 by the end of next year, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today that American troops were likely to remain in that country for a "protracted period."
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The Economics Of Bling — It's a real phenomenon: … Sorry but can't resist:
Richard Klass / The Huffington Post:
The Selling of the President's War — The presentation to Congress by general David H. Petraeus was not an analytical military situation report it was a sales pitch for the president's policy. I trust Gen. Petraeus when he insists that his opening statement was not vetted by the White House.
TigerHawk:
Osirak redux, and the idiom of military action — The Times of London reported this morning that the Israeli "incursion" into Syrian airspace a few days back destroyed, or was intended to destroy, nuclear material probably supplied by the North Koreans. Iran is probably involved as well …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:The Axis Threw A Spoke
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Wake up America, Corrente, Newsweek, American Footprints, Taylor Marsh, Israel Matzav, The Van Der Galiën Gazette and The Newshoggers
Allison Kaplan Sommer / Pajamas Media:WHAT DID ISRAEL REALLY ATTACK IN SYRIA?
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Haaretz, Times of London, The Strata-Sphere, Neptunus Lex, Israel Matzav and JammieWearingFool
Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
More Than 190 Arrested at D.C. Protest — WASHINGTON (AP) - Several thousand anti-war demonstrators marched through downtown Washington on Saturday, clashing with police at the foot of the Capitol steps where more than 190 protesters were arrested. — The group marched from the White House …
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham's Realism — Now that the president has endorsed the Petraeus-Crocker plan for Iraq, it is worth noting one exchange from their Senate hearings. — Some senators, such as Barbara Boxer of California, were so self-absorbed they could not manage to ask a single question …
Telegraph:
Bush setting America up for war with Iran — By Philip Sherwell in New York and Tim Shipman in Washington — Senior American intelligence and defence officials believe that President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
US Gets Sattar Assassin — The US has captured the al-Qaeda terrorist who masterminded the assassination of the leader of Anbar Awakening. Intelligence following the murder pinned it on Fallah Khalifa Hiyas Fayyas al-Jumayli, who got captured outide of a town north of Baghdad:
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