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Fafnir / Fafblog:
The Audacity Of Hope — So now everybody's all “oh, Hillary Clinton can't win the nomination” and “oh, Hillary Clinton can't be president” and “oh, Hillary Clinton, haven't they sedated her yet.” Well that's just talking crazy talk! There's tons a stuff that can happen between …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:A STRATEGIC RETREAT? — We wrote here about Barack Obama's Iraq dilemma.
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SusanUnPC / NO QUARTER:
[VIDEO UPDATE] BREAKING NEWS on “Whitey” Tape from Fox News: A TV Network HAS the Tape — Here's the text version at TVEyes.com: — FNC 06/01/2008 14:43:30: ...>>> welcome back to our special coverage live coverage from puerto rico. just before the break, roger stone the republican strategist …
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The Michelle Tape — My old friend, Larry Johnson, knows about manipulating elections from his training with the Central Intelligence Agency. He doesn't want Obama to win the nomination for whatever reason, and he's in full propaganda mode to do everything he can to frighten the superdelegates.
Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:BREAKING NEWS: Michelle's Whitey Problem (Thread #2)
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Clinton camp converging on New York Tuesday, and shedding staff — Members of Hillary Clinton's advance staff received calls and emails this evening from headquarters summoning them to New York City Tuesday night, and telling them their roles on the campaign are ending, two Clinton staffers tell my colleague Amie Parnes.
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CNN:
Kennedy to have brain surgery Monday — BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) — Sen. Edward Kennedy announced Monday he will undergo surgery to treat a malignant brain tumor. — “Over the past several days, Vicki and I, along with my outstanding team of doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital …
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Boston Globe:
Senator Kennedy to have brain surgery this morning — Senator Edward M. Kennedy is undergoing surgery for his malignant brain tumor at Duke University this morning, his office announced today. — The surgery is to begin about 9 a.m. and will last approximately six hours.
William Kristol / New York Times:
What Obama Left Out — Commencement speeches are hard. — I gave one at a college about seven years ago. I labored over it, consulting orations from years past, writing and rewriting drafts. I ended up with remarks that struck me — even while I delivered them — as banal and platitudinous.
Guardian:
US accused of holding suspects on prison ships — The United States is operating “floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees.
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Oliver Burkeman / Guardian:
Hillary: my part in her downfall — As Hillary Clinton's doomed presidential bid draws to a painful close, one man has been cast as the scapegoat. In his first interview, Mark Penn, the candidate's former chief strategist, talks to Oliver Burkeman about what went wrong
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New York Times:
Mr. Rove Talks, but Doesn't Answer — In a recent appearance on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” Karl Rove was asked if he had a role in the Justice Department's decision to prosecute Don Siegelman. The former Democratic governor of Alabama was convicted and sentenced to more than seven years …
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
In Louisiana, Inklings of a New (True) Champion of the Right — BATON ROUGE, La. — Religion and fiscal stringency have a friendly home at the state Capitol here, with a conservative, Bobby Jindal, in the governor's office, a host of straight-arrow novice legislators eager to please …
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TIME.com
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Favor President Meeting With U.S. Enemies — Public thinks it's a good idea to meet with leaders of enemy countries — PRINCETON, NJ — Large majorities of Democrats and independents, and even half of Republicans, believe the president of the United States should meet with the leaders …
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Andrew Buncombe / The Independent:
Muslim seminary issues fatwa against terrorism — A Muslim Indian seminary which is said to have inspired the Taliban has issued a fatwa against terrorism, insisting that Islam is a religion of peace. — Senior clerics from the 150-year-old Darul Uloom Deoband issued the edict saying they wished to wipe out terrorism.
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