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Faiz / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: E-mail Reveals That McConnell Staffer Propagated Smear Campaign Against Graeme Frost  —  Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that there was mounting evidence that a staffer for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may have been involved in the right-wing campaign to smear Graeme Frost and his family.
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.
Discussion: RADAMISTO
Michelle Malkin:
My reply to Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his fellow travelers; Plus: Hillary threatens S-CHIP critics  —  Update 1:35pm Eastern.  WHY DO YOU HATE CHILDREN SO MUCH?!  —  Update 1:00pm Eastern.  Snort-worthy blue-on-blue spat of the day: ThinkProgress vs. CNN.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE FEVER SWAMP....A plainly disgusted Karen Tumulty recaps Graeme Frost's introduction to the modern conservative fever swamp in Time magazine and concludes with this: … But of course, that's the whole point.  The slavering hordes of Malkin-land might or might not have made a difference …
Discussion: Brian Beutler
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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and D-Day
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:   CNN blames Dems for Frost family smear
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Gore to learn whether he'll win 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.
Discussion: Times of London and Balloon Juice
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:   Movement From the Gore-acle?  —  As regular Fix readers know …
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Al Gore for President
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?
Discussion: Corrente and Taylor Marsh
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD: Warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty
Discussion: TalkLeft
Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Candidate Statements on FISA (updated)
Discussion: Firedoglake and WorkingForChange
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.
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.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Daily Pundit
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Lance / Maine blog:
The anti-MoveOn ads Google won't let you see
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Rocky Mountain News:
Documents: Qwest was targeted  —  'Classified info' was not allowed at ex-CEO's trial  —  The National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program, documents released Wednesday suggest.
Michael J. Totten:
On Patrol in Ramadi  —  Join me and Army Captain Phil Messer on a walking tour of Ramadi, Iraq, in a 20 minute video shot during a dismounted foot patrol in early August, 2007.  —  If you enjoy this movie, please consider a donation through Blog Patron or Pay Pal.
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
 
 
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