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Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican who became an icon to conservatives, died Friday at the age of 86, a senior congressional source said. — The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank …
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Steven A. Holmes / New York Times:
Jesse Helms, Conservative Force in the Senate, Dies at 86 — Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday. He was 86.
Pam Spaulding / Pam's House Blend:
Bye, Jesse, you left quite a legacy — Jesse Helms has died. As a native and current resident of North Carolina, even today many people I run into outside of this state who know little about it — recognize the name Jesse Helms. He leaves a long, dark trail of professional racial bigotry …
Bart Barnes / Washington Post:
Former Senator Jesse Helms Dies at 86 — Jesse A. Helms, the hard-line conservative North Carolina Republican who served three decades in the U.S. Senate and became one of America's leading crusaders against communism, liberalism, tax increases, abortion, homosexuality …
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Faiz / Think Progress:Former Sen. Jesse Helms passes away.
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Bush heckled at new citizen ceremony — President heckled during event at Thomas Jefferson's former home — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Monticello, saying “I'll be proud to call you a fellow American.”
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Nice... Loons Disrupt Bush at July 4th Naturalization Ceremony (Video) — Here's another reminder that nothing is sacred to the Left. — Nothing... Code Pink disrupted President Bush at 46th Annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony:
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
PLEASE, PLEASE, REPORTERS WITH BRAINS — I spent most of today in bed with some kind of nasty cold. So I only caught up on any news this evening. And I must confess to being little short of astounded by the avalanche of press BS I'm reading on Barack Obama's position on Iraq.
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Redstate:
In Praise of Barack Obama — Via the AP comes this news that Barack Obama has changed his mind, and is rejecting at least some of the extremism of NARAL, Emily's List, and other radical abortion organizations. The money graf: … Read on... Of course, Obama's position here is only confined …
Matthew Yglesias:
The Difference — If conservatives want to argue that Barack Obama's been flip-flopping on Iraq, I'll disagree but I could see what they mean. Charles Krauthammer, however, can't seriously believe that Obama's been “assiduously obliterat[ing] all differences with McCain on national security …
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Daily Mail:
Schoolboys punished with detention for refusing to kneel in class and pray to Allah — Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and ‘pray to Allah’ during a religious education lesson. — Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to 12-year-olds) …
Robert J. McCarthy / Buffalo News:
Edwards, Rove to face off in UB debate — Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain might not burn up the campaign trail around Western New York this election year, but the University at Buffalo may have scheduled the next best thing. — GOP strategist Karl Rove and former Democratic vice …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Rove's Third Term — Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn't scream. Hillary Clinton didn't say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didn't impugn John McCain's military service.
White House:
Press Briefing by Dana Perino — MS. PERINO: Hello, everybody. Hello to my mom in the back, my mom and my sister — friends. (Applause.) I don't usually get that reception in here. (Laughter.) — Q Mom gets it. — MS. PERINO: Yes, I know. (Laughter.)
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:White House says ruling could free detainees in US
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Condoleezza Rice: ‘I Am Proud Of The Decision’ To Invade Iraq — In an interview last March with Bloomberg's Judy Woodruff, the late conservative scholar William F. Buckley said President Bush's legacy would be judged purely on Iraq. He stressed, “It's important that we acknowledge …
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CNN:
Why Europe loves Barack Obama — By Bill Schneider, CNN senior political analyst — (CNN) — When Barack Obama comes to London, I am certain that 50,000 people will turn out to cheer him on," a British executive assured me when I visited the British capital recently. — “Americans?” I asked.
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