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William Kristol / New York Times:
The Mask Slips — I haven't read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s, when I taught political philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Still, it didn't take me long this weekend to find my copy of “The Marx-Engels Reader,” edited by Robert C. Tucker — a book that was assigned …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Now He's A Godless Commie — Bill Kristol, trained in the same politics as Hillary Clinton, now argues that Obama's remarks in a fundraiser q and a are the “real Obama” - and that his voluminous writing and speaking about the sincerity of his own religious faith, and of others, are presumably “masks.”
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Goes on Offense After Fumble — GRANTHAM, Pa. — Sen. Barack Obama sharply mocked his Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sunday night as he found himself defending his candidacy to white working-class voters for the second time in a month. — Sen. Obama accused Sen. Clinton …
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USA Today:
No ‘bitter’ aftertaste? How Obama gaffe plays — JACOBUS, Pa. — Phil Little seems like just the sort of Pennsylvanian voter who might have been offended by Sen. Barack Obama's comments that small-town residents “get bitter” and “cling to guns or religion.”
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Washington Post:Obama Reinforcing Stereotypes, Clinton Asserts
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John M. Broder / New York Times:Democrats Wrangle Over Words and Beliefs
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Rasmussen Reports:
56% Disagree with Obama's Comments on Small Town America — Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide disagree with Barack Obama's statement that people in small towns “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Megyn Kelly, Fox News's Fast-Rising Anchor — NEW YORK — It's just after 10:30 Monday morning on “America's Newsroom,” and Megyn Kelly has bounced from riots in Paris to storms in the Midwest, from a truck-and-train collision to a strange interview about the 1969 Manson family murders with the sister of slain actress Sharon Tate.
Andrea Billups / Washington Times:
McCain keeps his faith out of politics — Don't expect any public testimonies of faith from presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, who is not demonstrative about his religion but who embraces a Baptist faith that is based on salvation. — The religious intentions of Democratic candidate …
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George F. Will / Newsweek:
A Libertarian Surge? — Bob Barr will be dry-eyed if his candidacy is to John McCain what Ralph Nader's was to Al Gore in 2000. — Compact and Feisty Bob Barr, 59, probably will seek and get the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party, which convenes in Denver on Memorial Day weekend.
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New York Times:
Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending — Who said anything about a recession? Sometime between the government bailout of Bear Stearns and the Bureau of Labor Statistics report that America lost 80,000 jobs in March, Lee Tachman spent roughly $50,000 last month on a four-day jaunt to Miami for himself and three close friends.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Iraqis aren't stupid — and they're watching us — Last month, Vets for Freedom visited the Twin Cities to talk about their experience in Iraq — and got rewarded by being booted from a local high school. Michael Honeycutt and I, along with hundreds of people from our community …
Adam Entous / Reuters:
Israel snubs Carter and declines security help — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday.
CNN:
CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL — Democratic Candidates Compassion Forum — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — BROWN: Good evening, everybody, to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Welcome to Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.
CBS News:
Kidnapped CBS Journalist Freed In Iraq — Freelance Producer Working For 60 Minutes Rescued After 2 Months In Captivity — (CBS) A CBS journalist kidnapped in the southern Iraqi city of Basra two months ago has been freed. — Basra security commander Lt. Gen. Mohan al-Fireji told …
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Is John McCain Bob Dole? — Or is he Dwight Eisenhower? (Actually, that may depend on whether Barack Obama is Mike Dukakis or John Kennedy.) A handicapping. — By the time John McCain trundles into the ballroom of the Fairmont hotel in Dallas, he has already had what for most men his age would have been a very full day.
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Full Text of Obama's Speech to the Alliance for American Manufacturing — Being here in Pennsylvania with the primary coming up, I know that politics is what's on a lot of people's minds. But as I look out at this crowd, I also know that being here isn't just about politics for me. It's personal.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around Globe — DUBLIN — The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices swooning from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to Baltic seaports and even parts of northern India.
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