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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
'I Don't Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier's Life' — BAGHDAD, Oct. 26 Their line of tan Humvees and Bradley Fighting Vehicles creeps through another Baghdad afternoon. At this pace, an excruciating slowness, they strain to see everything, hoping the next manhole cover, the next rusted barrel, does not hide another bomb.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
More 'phony soldiers' speak out against Iraq policy — A month ago, when Rush Limbaugh first blasted U.S. troops who disagree with the Bush administration's policy in Iraq as "phony soldiers," the far-right host and his eager caller also insisted that the "real" troops want to be there and support the mission.
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Gateway Pundit:
More Twisted Journalism- WaPo Misses the Facts in Their Report On Iraq — (This post was updated after reading this morning's Washington Post article.) — The Washington Post has their version of Iraq: — "I Don't Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier's Life"
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Wake up America
Military Times HOME:
Words spoken in funeral flag-folding draw flap — RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Flag-folding recitations by Memorial Honor Detail volunteers are now banned at the nation's 125 veterans graveyards because of a complaint about the ceremony at Riverside National Cemetery.
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Michelle Malkin:
Flag-folding recitations now banned at national cemeteries — I'm getting a lot of e-mail about this maddening story in the Military Times about flag-folding recitals being banned at military funerals in national cemeteries: … Here's the banned recital: — Flag folds
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
FEMA Official Apologizes for Staged Briefing With Fake Reporters — The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized yesterday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions.
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
State Dept. To Order Diplomats To Iraq — As Many as 50 Positions Are Expected to Be Open — The State Department will order as many as 50 U.S. diplomats to take posts in Iraq next year because of expected shortfalls in filling openings there, the first such large-scale forced assignment since the Vietnam War.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Malkin & Co. target Soros, hit Bush pioneers — The St. Petersburg Times reported this week that WellCare Health Plans, a Florida-based company that provides managed-care plans for millions of Medicare and Medicaid participants, has come under federal investigation.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Student Paper Upsets the Edwards Camp — In this rough-and-tumble campaign season, the major presidential campaigns have sought to leave no charge unanswered from wherever it may come. Even, it now seems, if the fight takes them into the realm of student journalism.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Hire Carla Babb! (Fire John Edwards) — Does the John Edwards campaign have a death wish? To the litany which includes the 28,000 square foot home, his job with a hedge fund (to learn about poverty!) and the $400 haircuts we can now add a story about the decision by the Edwards campaign …
Desmond Butler / Associated Press:
Dutch lawmakers offended by Rep. Lantos — WASHINGTON - Dutch lawmakers who visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison this week said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat. — The lawmakers said that Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif. …
Daily Mail:
Facebook reveals the BBC as a liberal hotbed — The BBC has frequently been accused of having a liberal bias. — But now the corporation's own staff appear to have confirmed this by revealing their political views on the networking website Facebook. — A survey of BBC employees …
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ConservativeHome com / ConservativeHome's ToryDiary:
There are eleven times more 'liberals' at the BBC than 'conservatives'
There are eleven times more 'liberals' at the BBC than 'conservatives'
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
D'Oh: House Panel Screw-Up Reveals Whistleblower Email Addresses — Here's a whoops with a capital W. — This summer the House Judiciary Committee launched an effort to collect tips from would-be whistleblowers in the Justice Department. The U.S. attorney firings scandal had shown …
The Brussels Journal:
Are We All Nazis Now? — One of the greatest injustices to the victims of racism, and in particular the holocaust, is the trivialization of it. One does not have to agree with the Dutch "Islamophobic" anti-immigration politicians Geert Wilders or Rita Verdonk, but what kind of person writes something like …