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ABC 7 Eyewitness News:
Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero — Iranian mission says he'll go despite NYPD rejection — Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad requested to visit Ground Zero during an upcoming trip to New York. That request was rejected Wednesday. But a source tells Eyewitness News that the decision may not stop him.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
Columbia's disgrace — There is a suicidal mania that grips elite opinion in the United States. It is exemplified nowhere better than in our elite educational institutions. Today, for example, Columbia University has issued the following statement to its alumni:
Michelle Malkin:
Time to organize an Ahmadinejad welcoming party?
Time to organize an Ahmadinejad welcoming party?
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Thomas J. Lueck / New York Times:
Iranian Leader Was Denied Ground Zero Visit
Iranian Leader Was Denied Ground Zero Visit
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Washington Post:
Longer Leaves for Troops Blocked — Senate Republicans yesterday rejected a bipartisan proposal to lengthen the home leaves of U.S. troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, derailing a measure that war opponents viewed as one of the best chances to force President Bush to accelerate a redeployment of forces.
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New York Times:
Effort to Shift Course in Iraq Fails in Senate — A proposal that Democrats put forward as their best chance of changing the course of the Iraq war died on the Senate floor on Wednesday, as Republicans stood firmly with President Bush. — With other war initiatives seemingly headed for the same fate …
Wall Street Journal:
Donors Stir 'Bundling' Questions — Clinton Campaign Vows — To Check Contributions — Solicited by Supporter — BRISTOW, Va. — When Hillary Rodham Clinton held an intimate fund-raising event at her Washington home in late March, Pamela Layton donated $4,600, the maximum allowed by law …
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Associated Press:
New al-Qaida video released — CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said the United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts in a new video released Thursday, the latest in a series put out by the terror network. — The video came days …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
AQ Video: Crusaders Admit They're Losing — Ayman al-Zawahiri tells the mujaheddin that the US finds itself losing in Iraq and Afghanistan, all appearances to the contrary — and that our politicians admit our defeat. The new al-Qaeda video includes Mohammed Atta's last recorded words as well as the usual stream of AQ propaganda:
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Steve Fainaru / Washington Post:
Where Military Rules Don't Apply — Blackwater's Security Force in Iraq Given Wide Latitude by State Dept. — Blackwater USA, the private security company involved in a Baghdad shootout last weekend, operated under State Department authority that exempted the company from U.S. military …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / New York Times:
Taxing the Hand That Feeds Us — REPUBLICAN presidential candidates can't get elected without owning the tax issue. So far, the current crop is giving it away. — A huge reason for Ronald Reagan's popularity was his cutting of all income-tax rates and ending of "bracket creep," …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Darth Cheney — "You can always tell when the Republicans are getting restless, because the Vice President's motorcade pulls into the Capitol, and Darth Vader emerges," Clinton said just now at Town Hall in New York. — "I'm not invited to their meetings and I don't know what he says or does," she said.
Lurxst / Daily Kos:
I Don't Support the Troops..oops, there, I said it — This has been digging at me for, oh, about 4 years now. I have been hesitant to express this thought, in comments sections and in discussion with other people about the Iraq quagmire for fear of, I don't know, being called mean. Or, un-American.
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Newsweek:
Terror Watch: A Secret Lobbying Campaign — The secret lobbying campaign your phone company doesn't want you to know about — The nation's biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress to quickly approve …
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright — Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East.
Marc Fisher / Raw Fisher:
Pants Update: The Dry Cleaners Shuts Down — Roy Pearson, the D.C. administrative law judge whose $67 million lawsuit against his neighborhood dry cleaners turned into a worldwide lesson in how one obsessed person can hijack the American legal system, lost his case in court …
Jules Crittenden:
The Gallic War — Mon ami le Frogman has done me the tremendous honor of refering to me as Gaius Julius Crittenden ... apparently a mocking reference to my efforts to document the Gallic War ... this most recent lasted about five minutes, so documenting it really wasn't hard work.
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