Top Items:
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Bush Paradox — Let's go back and consider how the world looked in the winter of 2006-2007. Iraq was in free fall, with horrific massacres and ethnic cleansing that sent a steady stream of bad news across the world media. The American public delivered a stunning electoral judgment …
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
A new Imus controversy? — On “Imus in the Morning” Monday, the controversial radio host Don Imus — who was fired last year for making racist and sexist remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team — made a racially freighted comment about another African-American athlete.
RELATED:
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Roosting Chickens — Don Imus has now got himself in hot water again …
Roosting Chickens — Don Imus has now got himself in hot water again …
Discussion:
alicublog
Haaretz:
IDF soldier dies from self-inflicted gunshot at Sarkozy farewell — An Israeli soldier on the perimeter of a farewell airport ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy apparently shot himself on Tuesday in a incident that did not endanger the visiting leader, Israel Radio said.
Discussion:
On Deadline
RELATED:
Jerusalem Post:
'Soldier dies at Sarkozy's ceremony' — An IDF soldier was reportedly killed Tuesday in the middle of a farewell ceremony at Ben-Gurion airport held in honor of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in attendance of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Shimon Peres and other state dignitaries, Israel Radio reported.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Hoyer hails FISA bill as “a significant victory for the Democratic Party” — Just as Nancy Pelosi ran to Time to justify her support for the FISA bill, Steny Hoyer yesterday spuoted his justifications to The Politico and said this: … In other words, Democrats achieved a “significant victory” …
Discussion:
Daily Kos
RELATED:
James Glanz / New York Times:
Government Study Criticizes Bush Administration's Measures of Progress in Iraq — Beyond the declines in overall violence in Iraq, several crucial measures the Bush administration uses to demonstrate economic, political and security progress are either incorrect or far more mixed …
RELATED:
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
McCain's Core Advantage — In politics, we're having a Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr kind of year. It was Karr, a French writer, who coined the phrase plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, which means, as Barack Obama has shown, that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Eric Gorski / Associated Press:
James Dobson accuses Obama of ‘distorting’ Bible — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Constitution.
Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
Report Says Partisanship Reigned in Justice Department Hiring Program — High-ranking political appointees at the Justice Department labored to stock a prestigious hiring program with young conservatives in a five-year-long attempt to reshape the department's ranks, according to an inspector general's report to be released today.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Terror Strike Would Help McCain, Top Adviser Says — A top adviser to Sen. John McCain said that a terrorist attack in the United States would be a political benefit to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a comment that was immediately disputed by the candidate and denounced by his Democratic rival.
Discussion:
Balloon Juice, The American Mind, Political Radar, Associated Press, AMERICAblog News, Political Punch, The Reaction and Fortune
RELATED:
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Ad showing men kissing pulled — Heinz has withdrawn its Deli Mayo TV ad that featured two men sharing a kiss and apologised to viewers after the advertising regulator received about 200 complaints that it was offensive and inappropriate. — The Heinz Deli Mayo ad has been pulled after less …
Discussion:
Towleroad.com
Fox News:
Obama Apology to Muslim Women Orchestrated by Muslim U.S. House Rep. — An apology issued by Barack Obama to two Muslim women booted from the front lines of a public appearance by the Democratic presidential candidate last week was orchestrated by Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim ever elected to Congress.
RELATED:
Andrea Elliott / New York Times:
Muslim Voters Detect a Snub From Obama
Muslim Voters Detect a Snub From Obama
Discussion:
Political Punch, Media Blog, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, The Confluence, Shakesville, The Political Animal, Truthdig and TIME.com
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
What's Wrong With the Kansas City Star? — A disgraceful contribution from their house cartoonist:
Discussion:
Hot Air
Ted Johnson / Wilshire & Washington:
Obama's Hollywood Night — Sugar Ray Leonard and Jennifer Beals are the latest boldfaced names expected on Tuesday afternoon for Barack Obama's fund-raiser at the Los Angeles Music Center. — Also on the guest list are Dennis Quaid, Heidi Klum, Sidney Poitier, Cedric the Entertainer …
Washington Post:
Clinton to Join Obama As He Courts Female Vote — As Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared to return to life in the Senate and announced that she will campaign with Sen. Barack Obama in New Hampshire on Friday, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee began reaching out to female voters …
Washington Post:
Appeals Court Invalidates Detainee's ‘Enemy’ Status — Challenge Is First of Its Kind to Succeed — A federal appeals court in Washington has invalidated the Bush administration's finding that a detainee held for more than six years in the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba is an …
Discussion:
Bang the Drum
Bonnie Erbe / US News:
Barack Obama, Serial Flip-Flopper — Both presidential candidates spent the weekend trying to explain away recent policy reversals. The predominant question for voters this November may well become: Whose list of flip-flops is longer and more egregious? — From CNN.com:
Discussion:
American Power
Neela Banerjee / New York Times:
Survey Shows U.S. Religious Tolerance — Although a majority of Americans say religion is very important to them, nearly three-quarters of them say they believe that many faiths besides their own can lead to salvation, according to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.