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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Hmmm ... It hasn't gotten much attention outside of the Boston suburbs and truly hardcore political junkies. But there was a congressional election today. The topline is that the Democrat, Nikki Tsongas, wife of the late Massachusetts senator and presidential candidate Paul Tsongas, won.
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John Whitesides / Reuters:
Voters unhappy with Bush and Congress — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deepening unhappiness with President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress soured the mood of Americans and sent Bush's approval rating to another record low this month, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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Washington Post:
Many GOP Donors Yet to Open Wallets — More than a third of the top fundraisers who helped elect George W. Bush president remain on the sidelines in 2008, contributing to a gaping financial disparity between the GOP candidates and their Democratic counterparts.
Kieran Crowley / New York Post:
TERROR LAWYER SAYS SHE'D 'DO IT AGAIN' — Disbarred terror lawyer Lynne Stewart held court at Hofstra yesterday - unrepentant about the help she gave to a World Trade Center bombing conspirator. — Stewart was convicted in 2005 of smuggling secret messages out of prison for Islamic terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman.
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Paul Vitello / New York Times:
Hofstra Polite as Lawyer Guilty in Terror Case Talks on Ethics
Hofstra Polite as Lawyer Guilty in Terror Case Talks on Ethics
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote — Worried about antagonizing Turkish leaders, House members from both parties have begun to withdraw their support from a resolution supported by the Democratic leadership that would condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians nearly a century ago.
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Washington Post:
Birth-Control Foe To Run Office on Family Planning — The Bush administration again has appointed a chief of family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who has been critical of contraception. — Susan Orr, most recently an associate commissioner in the Administration …
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USA Today:
Timing of gifts stirs 'earmark' debate — WASHINGTON — Days after a Senate committee approved $1 million for a Woodstock concert museum, the project's Republican billionaire backer and his family contributed $29,200 to help the Democrats who requested the money, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer.
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Sarah Maria Santorum's tears inspire song — This is the story of a defeated senator, his crying daughter, a Nashville songwriter and Martina McBride, the country music star. — It begins in Pittsburgh on election night 2006. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), losing to Democrat Robert P. Casey Jr …
Reuters:
Gore rules out presidential bid — Ex-VP says he is now running 'a different kind of campaign' for environment — OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore has ruled out joining the U.S. presidential race after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his work fighting climate change.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Rudy Roughs Up Arabs — Now comes "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week." — David Horowitz's conservative Freedom Center has designated next week the time to "break through the barrier of politically correct doublespeak that prevails on American campuses, if you want to help our brave troops, who are fighting the Islamo-Fascists abroad."
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Unintended Consequences — These are the switches once used to wiretap terrorists living in the Middle East who called into America. — These are the politicians that stopped international terrorist wiretaps in a play for political power. — This is the terrorist who received the call in Newark …
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Cahal Milmo / The Independent:
Africans are less intelligent than Westerners, says DNA pioneer — Fury at James Watson's theory: "All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really" — One of the world's most eminent scientists was embroiled …
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George Will / Real Clear Politics:
Democratic Pandering to the Middle Class — Explaining a simple proposal to help people squirrel away gold for their golden years, Hillary Clinton said that a person "should not require a Ph.D. to save for retirement." But can even Ph.D.s understand liberalism's arithmetic and logic?
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Specter: No Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms — As the ACLU worries that Senate Democrats in the intelligence committee will give retroactive immunity to telephone companies for collaborating with the administration's warrantless surveillance program, the two senior members of the judiciary committee …