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Zzaki / Political Punch:
McCain Camp Pounces on Obama Comments From ABC News Interview — The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tonight pounced on comments Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made in an interview today with ABC News. — This was the exchange in question. — TAPPER: Speaking of the Supreme Court …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Contempt Of Courts — The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas corpus hearings, John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.” Well. — Does it rank with Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) …
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John Yoo / Wall Street Journal:
The Supreme Court Goes to War — Last week's Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush has been painted as a stinging rebuke of the administration's antiterrorism policies. From the celebrations on most U.S. editorial pages, one might think that the court had stopped a dictator from trampling civil liberties.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
John Yoo's ongoing falsehoods in service of limitless government power — One of the most reliable methods for knowing that a position is unsustainable is that its advocates must employ outright falsehoods in order to support it. In a Wall St. Journal Op-Ed today, John Yoo defends the right …
The Hill:
McCain camp: ‘Naïve’ Obama has ‘Sept. 10 mindset’ — The campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday accused Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) of being “naïve” and “representing the perfect manifestation of a Sept. 10 mindset” in his approach …
Michael Goldfarb / John McCain Report blog:
Barack Obama, Esquire: The 9/10 Candidate — In an interview with ABC's Jake Tapper yesterday, Barack Obama offered a glimpse into how he views the threat posed by radical Islamic extremism: … It's hardly surprising that a lawyer would think that the war on terror would be fought …
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Rasmussen Reports:
67% Support Offshore Drilling, 64% Expect it Will Lower Prices — Most voters favor the resumption of offshore drilling in the United States and expect it to lower prices at the pump, even as John McCain has announced his support for states that want to explore for oil and gas off their coasts.
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Jeffrey Klein / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Secret, Questionable Record — “At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined the prospect of his first admiral's star …
Washington Post:
Reading Ahead — THE LATEST study on the impact of vouchers for D.C. students is sure to be read through a prism. Supporters of the scholarship program will see a glass half-full, opponents one half-empty. We prefer the characterization of the federal researcher who directed the exhaustive study …
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Plans Spending Boost, Possible Cut in Business Tax — FLINT, Mich. — Sen. Barack Obama shed new light on his economic plans for the country, saying he would rely on a heavy dose of government spending to spur growth, use the tax code to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers …
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Pin at the GOP state convention in Texas: “If Obama is Presisdent... will we still call it the White House?” — Expect the Republican party to do absolutely nothing about the racists in its own midst. The national Republican party in Washington has contacts all the time with its state parties.
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Report Questions Pentagon Accounts — Officials Looked Into Interrogation Methods Early On — A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
WHO PAYS? — Megan Cerpentier makes a good tax plan point over at Glamocracy. “In the end,” she says, “despite the stereotype that my taxes should go up under a Democratic tax plan and down under a Republican, it seems that Obama's tax plan is most likely to lower my tax bills and McCain's plan …
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Washington Post:
A Friend in Need — Angelo Mozilo's loans to the well-connected raise some questions. They should be answered. — SEEKING TO refinance his Delaware beach house in 2004, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) did what any ordinary property owner in his position would have done.
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New York Times:
R.I.P. to the S.U.V. — It's hard to convince most Americans that there is a silver lining to $4-a-gallon gasoline. But General Motors provided a nugget of good news when it announced that it would shutter much of its production of pickups and sport utility vehicles …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Are Dems talking about McCain's age in ‘code’? — In a campaign year marked by flare-ups surrounding comments that have offended one group or another, John McCain and Barack Obama have moved on to the next sensitive battleground: the question of McCain's advanced age.
Andrew Zajac / Chicago Tribune:
Group muddies McCain message — Non-profit bent rules while supporting his agenda, raising money — WASHINGTON — Allies of Sen. John McCain opened a Washington think tank in 2001 to promote transparency and accountability in government, a signature issue for the Arizona Republican …
New York Times:
Where They Mostly Agree — Abortion and judges — Both men oppose use of federal money for abortions, including aid to groups that help women obtain them. Both support the ban on Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2003 and parental notification for minors. Mr. McCain says Roe v. Wade …
Oliver Kamm / Guardian:
Bush made the world a safer place — We may jeer him and tell him to go home, but America's allies continue to benefit from some of George Bush's decisions — Jimmy Carter was cheered when he visited Newcastle with Jim Callaghan. Bill Clinton was lauded in Northern Ireland.