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Washington Post:
3 in 10 Americans Admit to Race Bias — Survey Shows Age, Too, May Affect Election Views — As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three …
Washington Post:
McCain Driving Debate, But Some Fear Swerving — GOP Insiders Want More Consistent Theme — In the two weeks since Barack Obama became the presumptive Democratic nominee, John McCain has demonstrated a knack for driving the daily political debate, forcing his opponent to respond to a challenge …
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The Carpetbagger Report
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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
Hate Groups' Newest Target — White Supremacists Report an Increase in Visits to Their Web Sites — Sen. Barack Obama's historic victory in the Democratic primaries, celebrated in America and across much of the world as a symbol of racial progress and cultural unity …
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The Political Carnival
Martyn McLaughlin / Scotsman:
Falling exam passes blamed on Wikipedia ‘littered with inaccuracies’ — WIKIPEDIA and other online research sources were yesterday blamed for Scotland's falling exam pass rates. — The Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC) said pupils are turning to websites and internet resources …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Time Magazine uncritically prints Nancy Pelosi's “justifications” for the FISA “compromise” — (updated below) — It's hardly news that Time Magazine's principal function is uncritically to amplify false claims from government officials, but this article by Massimo Calabresi — entitled …
Mark Krikorian / The Corner:
Told You So — I'm at the beach, so following the news is not at the top of my to-do list. but Mickey Kaus has taunted us Corner-niks about our lack of comment on the most recent indication that McCain's change of heart on immigration is entirely fictitious.
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PrestoPundit
Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
Pantsuits and the Presidency — SOME supporters of Hillary Clinton believe that sexism colored news coverage of her presidential campaign. The Times reported in a front-page article on June 13 that many are proposing boycotts of cable news networks and that a “Media Hall of Shame” …
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
A MODERN MAIMONIDES — Moses Maimonides is the great medieval Jewish sage. “From Moses to Moses, there was none like Moses” is the epitaph on his tomb. He was a physician, a philosopher and a profound religious scholar. — Maimonides had an abiding concern for the survival of the Jewish people.
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Jihad Watch
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Inside a 9/11 Mastermind's Interrogation — WASHINGTON — In a makeshift prison in the north of Poland, Al Qaeda's engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator. It was 18 months after the 9/11 attacks, and the invasion of Iraq was giving Muslim extremists new motives for havoc.
Leila Fadel / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Haditha victims' kin outraged as Marines go free — HADITHA, Iraq — Khadija Hassan still shrouds her body in black, nearly three years after the deaths of her four sons. They were killed on Nov. 19, 2005, along with 20 other people in the deadliest documented case of U.S. troops killing civilians since the Vietnam War.
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RADAMISTO
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Carla Effect — The French are different from you and me. — Yes, they have Sarkozy. — And they have Carla. — And they have “the Carla effect,” as it's known in Paris. — If an American first lady, or would-be first lady, described herself as a “tamer of men” and had a …
Matt Spence / US Elections:
June Polls Don't Hold Up — This week's polls showing Barack Obama with small, but significant, single-digit leads among likely voters are certainly welcomed by Democrats, but recent history hasn't been kind to early frontrunners. — In fact, only one of the last five June election-year polling averages …
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Below The Beltway
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Regret — As I've written before, Democrats will regret embracing the expansion of executive power because a President Obama will find his administration undone by an “abuse of power” scandal. All of those powers which were necessary to prevent the instant destruction of the country will instantly become impeachable offenses.
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The Sideshow