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Faiz / Think Progress:
CNN Pins Blame On Democrats For Right-Wing Smear Of 12-Year Old Boy — This morning, CNN aired its first report on the right-wing smear campaign against 12-year old SCHIP recipient Graeme Frost. CNN pinned the blame on Democrats for assault on the Frost family.
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Michelle Malkin:
My reply to Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his fellow travelers; Plus: Hillary threatens S-CHIP critics — Update 9:25am Eastern. Your S-CHIP editorial cartoon of the morning comes from Nate Beeler of the Examiner... Meanwhile, Time magazine recycles Democrat talking points and passes it off as reporting.
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Time:
The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost — A 12-year-old causes an Internet storm for speaking out in favor of the Children's Health Insurance Program. Says his father: "My family does not deserve this retribution"
Sadly, No!:
Stalkin' Malkin Is Losing It — It's getting funnier and funnier. She's plunged straight off the deep end with this one: … Gad, it's like watching one of the Heathers write in her personal pity diary. All that's missing is angry complaints about Confederate Yankee and Ace turning into Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads.
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Ezra Klein:
An Answer! — Michelle Malkin replies to my challenge for a debate about S-CHIP. Her answer? Of course not. She's afraid to debate policy on the merits. She has no interest in "a good-faith argument." She's here to swing the hatchet, and lacks either the interest or the aptitude to rise above that station.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE FEVER SWAMP....A plainly disgusted Karen Tumulty recaps …
THE FEVER SWAMP....A plainly disgusted Karen Tumulty recaps …
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Brian Beutler
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
CNN blames Dems for Frost family smear
CNN blames Dems for Frost family smear
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Another Voice in the Choir — Fred Thompson did not disgrace himself in his first formal debate as a Republican presidential candidate, but he also did not dominate the stage full of White House hopefuls in Dearborn, Mich., on Tuesday. — At least three others — John McCain …
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Boston Globe, The Garlic, The Moderate Voice, MSNBC, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Politico, Redstate, PrairiePundit and Middle Earth Journal
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Al Gore may have shot at Nobel Peace Prize — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Will Al Gore add a Nobel Peace Prize to his Oscar and Emmy honors? — "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary featuring the former vice president captured two Academy Awards in February. The film focuses on Gore …
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Editor and Publisher:
Ann Coulter on CNBC Show: Jews Need 'Perfecting' — NEW YORK Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they had "perfected" themselves into — Christians.
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WorldNetDaily:
Giuliani 'doesn't deserve to live' — Terrorists threaten presidential candidate, cite Rudy's war stance, Arafat treatment — Saying Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani "doesn't deserve to live," Palestinian terror leaders are threatening to harm the former New York mayor …
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The Newshoggers, Comments from Left Field, Israel Matzav, PrairiePundit and The Van Der Galiën Gazette
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Army Offers Big Cash To Keep Key Officers — The Army is offering cash bonuses of up to $35,000 to retain young officers serving in key specialties — including military intelligence, infantry and aviation — in an unprecedented bid to forestall a critical shortage of officer ranks …
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Marines Press to Remove Their Forces From Iraq
Marines Press to Remove Their Forces From Iraq
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Michelle Malkin:
Why did Google ban anti-MoveOn.org ads? — Update 10:45am Eastern. Want to see the banned ads? Here's the scoop from the guy who tried to place them. — Over the past few weeks, I've been driving home the little-noticed story about MoveOn.org bullying mom-and-pop Internet shop owners who criticized the General Petraeus ads.
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Alex Berenson / New York Times:
Boom Times for Dentists, but Not for Teeth — For American dentists, times have never been better. — The same cannot be said for Americans' teeth. — With dentists' fees rising far faster than inflation and more than 100 million people lacking dental insurance, the percentage of Americans …
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Alberto Gonzales hires defense attorney — WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has hired a high-powered Washington lawyer to represent him in investigations of mismanagement of the Justice Department. George Terwilliger, a white-collar crime defense attorney …
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D-Day, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Shakespeare's Sister, CNN Political Ticker and The Newshoggers
Marcella Bombardieri / Boston Globe:
Clinton vows to check executive power — Would curb use of signing statements — Senator Hillary Clinton said yesterday that if she is elected president, she intends to roll back President Bush's expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put …
New York Times:
Turkey Angry Over House Armenian Genocide Vote — Turkey reacted angrily today to a House committee vote in Washington on Wednesday to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in World War I as an act of genocide, calling the decision "unacceptable."
Agence France Presse:
Empire State Building to go green for Muslim holiday — New York's iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said. — "This is the first time that …
Hugh Naylor / New York Times:
Syria Tells Journalists Israeli Raid Did Not Occur — Foreign journalists perused the rows of corn and the groves of date palms pregnant with low-hanging fruit here this week, while agents of Syria's ever-present security services stood in the background, watching closely, almost nervously.
Christopher Demuth / Opinion Journal:
Think-Tank Confidential — What I learned during two decades as head of America's most influential policy shop. — I have been presiding at the American Enterprise Institute for 21 years. Today I am announcing that I will step down before the end of 2008.
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Not Ready To Make Nice — Well this gets a big, fat "hell, no" from me. Via e-mail from Liz Rose of the ACLU on the draft Senate version of the FISA bill, which is not yet publicly available and not being widely shared for review either: … If they didn't do anything wrong, why should they get retroactive immunity?
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Taylor Marsh