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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Giuliani Inspires Threat of a Third-Party Run — Alarmed at the possibility that the Republican Party might pick Rudolph W. Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Christian Conservatives For Hillary — When parties fall out of power, they tend to go through a battle between Puritans and Big Tenters. Inevitably, when Puritans control the debate, they tend to ensure a longer term in the wilderness, and when they don't, they threaten to leave.
Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
The religious right's political power ebbs — WASHINGTON — Palm Sunday two years ago was a glorious day for Christian conservatives. — A president who'd proclaimed Jesus his favorite philosopher was racing back from vacation to sign a bill rushed through a compliant Congress at their bidding …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:Who Are The Radicals Again?
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Firedoglake, Salon, Right Wing News, The Sideshow, WorldNetDaily, Outside The Beltway and RealClearPolitics
New York Post:
HILLARY'S $30,000 FANS ARE HER 'CULT' FOLLOWING — A purported pyramid-scheme operator who was run out of Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor has reinvented himself as the head of an upstate group accused of being a "cult" - and his devotees have pumped thousands into Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential run.
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Washington Post:
Sen. Clinton's Empty Table — "THERE ARE basically only three options: We can raise taxes again, which no one wants to do because the payroll tax is regressive. . . We can cut benefits. . . Or we can work together to try to find some way to increase the rate of return."
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Ezra Klein
The Politico:
Clinton hits turbulence — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) last week flew into a sudden burst of media wind shear. After months of mostly rosy portrayals of her campaign's political skill, discipline and inevitability, the storyline shifted abruptly to evasive answers …
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The Carpetbagger Report, MSNBC, TIME, PrairiePundit, Oliver Willis, New York Times and TIME: Swampland
MySanAntonio.com:
Roddy Stinson: Passenger sitting behind soldier reports 'a very moving moment' — THE GOOD — Last Wednesday, while flying from Phoenix to the Alamo City on U.S. Airways Flight 207, a San Antonio man, Gil Anderson, witnessed something memorable. — Shortly before takeoff …
NY Daily News:
Gotbaum kin's plea before dying: I'm not a terrorist! — BY SOO YOUN in Phoenix and ETHAN ROUEN and ADAM LISBERG in New York — The daughter-in-law of one of New York's top officials screamed, "I'm not a terrorist!" and fought with security officials in the Phoenix airport before being wrestled …
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CNN:
Mom cuffed, found dead after missing flight — (CNN) — An autopsy was planned Monday for a 45-year-old mother of three who died in police custody at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport. — Carol Ann Gotbaum was arrested at the airport Friday for alleged disorderly conduct …
Daily Mail:
Burma: Thousands dead in the massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle — Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed. — The most senior official to defect so far …
Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog:
Qualifications: Setting the Record Straight — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in a new autobiography, labels Anita Hill his "most traitorous adversary," once again denying the sexual harassment claims she made against him at his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, and calling her a mediocre but ambitious lawyer.
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The Huffington Post
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Jan Crawford Greenburg / ABCNEWS:Clarence Thomas: A Silent Justice Speaks Out
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Michigan Goes Smoot-Hawley In The Early Morning — The economic woes of Michigan appear ready to worsen, thanks to a budget agreement reached this morning as the state government began shutting down. Michigan residents will see their taxes increase by over a billion dollars …
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Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Hints of Strong Fundraising Emerge — Stronger-Running Candidates May Have Dodged Summer Blues — New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson announced last night he raised about $5.2 million over the past three months for his Democratic presidential bid, an amount his campaign said would keep …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
High Court won't hear birth control case — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to enter a church-state dispute over whether some religious organizations can be forced to pay for workers' birth-control health insurance benefits, a growing trend in the states.
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Macsmind
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
What We Owe the Burmese — An upheaval like the pro-democracy uprising taking place in Burma over the past month tends to shake up certainties that had seemed self-evident. Certainties such as the primacy of justice. Or the sanctity of the Olympic Games.
Forkum / Cox & Forkum:
Final Bow — With mixed emotions I announce: John and I will no longer be producing editorial cartoons. John will continue posting his work at his blog, John Cox Art, and he and I will continue working together on various projects, but there will be no more regularly scheduled editorial cartoons.
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Scared Monkeys, UrbanGrounds, Fausta's blog, NewsBusters.org, Little Green Footballs, Israel Matzav and TBogg
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select Their Favorite People On The Right (2007 Edition) — Right Wing News emailed more than 225 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be their "Favorite People On The Right." Representatives from the following 50 blogs responded...
Kevin Peraino / Newsweek:
Death From All Sides — An extensive evidence file assembled by the Iraqi National Police after the controversial Blackwater shooting suggests that the private contractors opened fire unprovoked from the ground and the sky. — Since the fatal Sept. 16 Blackwater USA shooting in Baghdad's Nasoor Square …
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Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
U.S. Embassy rips Senate plan on Iraq — BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 60 insurgent and militia fighters in intense battles over the weekend, with most of the casualties believed to have been al-Qaida fighters, officials said Sunday. — The U.S. Embassy, meanwhile …
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