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Israel Insider:
Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims — Posted on Photobucket and in comments attached to the Daily Kos blog post where the purported Obama birth certificate appears — Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist …
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Poll: Bill Clinton's popularity down from last year — WASHINGTON (CNN) — One week after Sen. Hillary Clinton made a public show of unity with Sen. Barack Obama, a new survey suggests supporters of the New York senator are increasingly less likely to follow her lead.
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David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Wesley Clark ‘moving on’ — Four days after his controversial “Face the Nation” appearance, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark is taking a break from the presidential campaign — but many Democratic insiders think he has already been crossed off the list of Barack Obama's potential running mates.
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Mike Tackett / The Swamp:
‘Patriot Games’ of the wrong kind — The Republican consultant had it all figured out. — His candidate: The hero. Wounded in war, stand-up guy, the real face of a generation. His opponent: No military service. Suspicious activity in his past. — He had an unofficial slogan in mind: The patriot vs. the punk.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Tiptoeing on Bush and Convention — WASHINGTON — What if your family was planning a big end-of-summer bash (a Grand Old Party, you might call it) but preferred that you not be seen — or heard? — That is the question hanging over President Bush, with eight weeks to go until Republicans gather …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The political establishment and telecom immunity — why it matters — Nancy Soderberg was deputy national security advisor and an ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration. Today, she has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times defending the FISA bill and telecom amnesty.
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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Inside Mugabe's Violent Crackdown — Notes, Witnesses Detail How Campaign Was Conceived and Executed by Leader, Aides — HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe summoned his top security officials to a government training center near his rural home in central Zimbabwe on the afternoon of March 30.
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Matthew Yglesias:
The Helms Legacy — One fascinating thing about the death of Jesse Helms is the conservative reaction. One might expect that Helms' death would prompt from conservatives the sorts of things that I might say if, say, Al Sharpton died — that he and I had some overlapping beliefs and I don't regard …
Faiz / Think Progress:
FLASHBACK: Ten Years Ago, Bin Laden Demanded Barrel Of Oil Should Cost $144 — FLASHBACK: Ten Years Ago, Bin Laden Demanded Barrel Of Oil Should Cost $144 — In a 1998 interview, Osama bin Laden — the terrorist organizer of 9/11 who still roams free — listed as one of his many grievances …
Allan Hall / Daily Mail:
Man rips head off Hitler waxwork at Berlin's Madame Tussauds — A man has torn the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum today. — A police spokesman said that the man, 41, had ripped off the head in protest at the exhibit.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
McCain to get air cover from vets — For the first time, the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is about to get a substantial hand from advertisements by an outside group. — Conservative and Republican groups have been largely quiet, leaving McCain heavily outmatched …
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Damozel / The Moderate Voice:
Iran's Position Unchanged Despite Offered Incentives Package — The other day I posted a piece about the most recent set of negotiations (by the EU and others) with Iran. Lots of incentives were promised....if only Iran would stop its uranium enrichment program (BN-Politics).
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Johanna Neuman / Los Angeles Times:
Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86 — President Bush calls the uncompromising Republican from North Carolina a ‘great patriot.’ He infuriated liberals with his race-baiting tactics and presidents of both parties with his use of senatorial — WASHINGTON — Jesse Helms …
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