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Gen. Wesley Clark / The Huffington Post:
Take Rush Limbaugh Off Armed Forces Radio — Click here to email Congress to take Rush Limbaugh off Armed Forces Radio. — Last week, Rush Limbaugh labeled any American soldier who supports an end to the war in Iraq as "phony." We challenged Limbaugh through an email campaign …
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Phillip Anderson / the albany project:
VIDEO: Massa to Comedian Rush Limbaugh: "You are a pompous coward." — I love Eric Massa. In this video he calls out noted draft dodger and drug addict Rush Limbaugh for his history of demeaning soldiers who with the temerity to publicly differ with his warped worldview.
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:Are Media Wisely Running Away From Bogus Rush 'Phony Soldiers' Story?
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
House Dems push new tax to fund war — Three senior House Democrats are proposing a new tax to pay for the Iraq war, as well as vowing to oppose any funding bill for Iraq that does not include a policy for ending the conflict. — House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) …
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Pelosi nixes idea of 'war tax' — All told, the Democratic proposal for an "Iraq tax" lasted about four hours. That's roughly the amount of time from when House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) gave life to the idea with his endorsement to when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) strangled it.
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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Democrats Seize on Limbaugh to Distract from their Iraq Surrender — The Senate yesterday passed the annual defense authorization bill with little fanfare. Although it was intended to be the vehicle for any Iraq restrictions Democrats could come up with, it passed by an eye-popping 92-3.
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:Obey: No Iraq supplemental until course change
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Monday Morning Clacker / GreenMountainPolitics1:
We're No Senior Political Strategist, But We're Calling Bullsh*t On This — Jon Martin has gotten his hands on color-coded maps that Team Giuliani is using to show "what they believe to be Giuliani's anticipated general election strength versus Hillary Clinton compared to how other GOP candidates might fare against her".
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
ISSA: WATCH OUT, WAXMAN — Rep. Darrell Issa went on CSPAN's Washington Journal this morning and had this to say about the House oversight committee's investigation of Blackwater (via Atrios): … Here's the video:
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Horses Mouth:
A lot of people are talking about the big speech Barack Obama gave today calling for multilateral nuclear disarmament. But I wanted to focus in on what I think is a significant aspect of the speech that has little to do with the actual policy questions addressed here.
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Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Is Losing Grip On Core Business Vote — Deficit Hawks Defect — As Social Issues Prevail; — 'The Party Left Me' — \*country-region\*country-regionWASHING TON\*\* — The Republican Party, known since the late 19th century as the party of business, is losing its lock on that title.
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Clarence Thomas Takes the Low Road, and Should Recuse Himself from Key Cases — The new term has begun for a bitterly divided court in a dangerously divided nation, and the most visible event was a Supreme Court justice using the court's return as a book promotion to remind the world of his enemies, demons, biases and vendettas.
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Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
The unspeakable American culture — Journalism's elite don't dare speak of the patriotism that holds this country together. — In a recent speech at the National Press Club, Katie Couric expressed somber disapproval of the jingoistic excesses after 9/11.
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown: Worst Person In The World — Download (1770) | Play (2457) Download (678) | Play (1243) (h/t Heather) — Yesterday's Worst Person in the World honors should have come as no surprise to anyone reading the site yesterday. The gold went to movie review-cum-slavery apologist Michael Medved …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Angry, hateful liberal bloggers — On Protein Wisdom — the right-wing blog of Pajamas Media's Jeff Goldstein — there is a "response" to a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago concerning the exaggerations of the Muslim threat from Marty Peretz's assistant, Jamie Kirchick of The New Republic and Commentary.
Alyssa Milano / The Huffington Post:
The Threat of Neglected Tropical Diseases — You've probably never heard of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), even though they are the most common afflictions of the world's poorest people — more than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. In all my travels to developing nations during 10 years …
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