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Chris Stephen / Scotsman:
It's Obama, stupid: Carter and Gore to end Clinton bid — DEMOCRAT grandees Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are being lined-up to deliver the coup de grâce to Hillary Clinton and end her campaign to become president. — Falling poll numbers and a string of high-profile blunders …
Washington Post:
‘Bitter’ Is a Hard Pill For Obama to Swallow — He Stands by Sentiment as Clinton Pounces — Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday expressed regret about the way he phrased a remark describing the plight of Americans who live in small towns, as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign continued …
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Clinton Team Lunges at Obama, Hunts for Opening Over Small-Town America Remarks
Clinton Team Lunges at Obama, Hunts for Opening Over Small-Town America Remarks
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Megan McArdle:
Dancing fools — I was very sorry to be missing this, as I'm out of DC for the weekend, but not as sorry as I am now—someone just got arrested. — The background: twenty people were at the Jefferson Memorial, dancing to the private groove of their own iPods so as not to disturb anyone.
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Julian Sanchez:
Hijinks Ensue — Twitter informs me that a friend—whose name I'll omit for the moment—just got arrested at a little dance party some libertarians were holding at the Jefferson Memorial (which, apparently, is open to the public 24/7). I'm not entirely clear on what the charge could have been …
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Radley Balko / The Agitator:
So About That Tree of Liberty... Tonight, a group of about 20 D.C.-area libertarians headed down to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial for some flash mob fun. The prank was harmless revelry: To ring in Jefferson's birthday, we would meet on the steps of the memorial at 11:55pm, wearing iPods …
Big Lizards:
Forget It. It's Chinatown... Big Lizards Breaking Bombshell News! — The most iconic photograph from the riots attending the torch-bearing ceremony, the one that has every tongue wagging, is surely this one: A Tibetan supporter violently assaulting a wheelchair-bound woman carrying the torch through Paris.
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Jenel Stelton-Holtmeier / Denver Post:
Joking students called on the carpet — The pair at Colorado College are rebuked over a feminist-newsletter parody seen as threatening. — A satirical response to a feminist publication at Colorado College has landed the college and two of its students in the middle of a fierce debate over freedom of speech.
Booman Tribune:
Serious Question — The ACLU wants a special prosecutor to investigate Bush's admission that he authorized torture. I think that is a swell idea that is likely to go nowhere. — I hear John Conyers asked an assembled crowd today in Philadelphia whether any of them would object to impeaching the president.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Will Clinton Over-Reach? — The “bitter” spat is gold for Morris-Rove politics, which is why Clinton is exploiting it so baldly. It is exactly the kind of debate that has constructed American politics since Vietnam; it is exactly the kind of politics that Obama has been trying to transcend.
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Stephen Braun / Los Angeles Times:
Bill Clinton, China linked via his foundation — A firm that has donated to the president's charity is accused of collaborating with the government in its crackdown on Tibetan activists. Hillary Clinton has spoken out against China's actions. — NEW YORK — As Chinese authorities …
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Marie Woolf / Times of London:
Pirates can claim UK asylum — THE Royal Navy, once the scourge of brigands on the high seas, has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates because doing so may breach their human rights. — Warships patrolling pirate-infested waters, such as those off Somalia …
Stephen Khan / The Independent:
Furore over Hitchens's sapphic slip — When is a lesbian not a lesbian? When the person in question is a gay, Catholic, conservative blogger by the name of Andrew Sullivan, it would seem. — For when Sullivan was stuck for words on an American news discussion programme last week …
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Solomon Moore / New York Times:
Secret Iraqi Deal Shows Problems in Arms Orders — BAGHDAD — An $833 million Iraqi arms deal secretly negotiated with Serbia has underscored Iraq's continuing problems equipping its armed forces, a process that has long been plagued by corruption and inefficiency.