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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
McCain Tops Obama in Commander-in-Chief Test; Stays Competitive on Iraq — Poll Finds 72 Percent of Americans Say McCain Would be Good Commander-in-Chief — Americans divide evenly between Barack Obama and John McCain's approaches to the war in Iraq, and rate McCain much more highly …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
OBAMA'S DISHONEST OP-ED — In this morning's New York Times, Barack Obama published an op-ed on Iraq that presumably previews his “major speech” on the subject tomorrow. Even by Obama's standards, the piece is breathtakingly dishonest. — Obama admits that he opposed the surge …
Washington Post:
Poll Finds Voters Split on Candidates' Iraq-Pullout Positions — A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds the country split down the middle between those backing Sen. Barack Obama's 16-month timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and those agreeing with Sen. John McCain's position that events …
CNN:
Ventura: I'm not running for Senate — (CNN) — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura has decided not to run for U.S. Senate in that state, he told CNN's “Larry King Live” Monday night. — Ventura, a former professional wrestler, had said last week he was weighing whether to run.
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Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Ventura won't run for Senate — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura (I) announced Monday night that he would not launch a third-party bid for Senate. — The former professional wrestler, who served one term as governor beginning a decade ago, said on CNN's “Larry King Live” that he …
Associated Press:
Franken gets Democratic challenger in Senate race — ST. PAUL (AP) — An attorney from well-known family in Minnesota legal circles says she will challenge Senate candidate Al Franken in a Democratic primary. — Priscilla Lord Faris says she will file the paperwork to run in the September primary.
Jim Lindgren / The Volokh Conspiracy:
JAMIE GORELICK'S TIES TO FANNIE MAE AND WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW— In reading this article about Crony Capitalism at Fannie Mae (tip to Instapundit), I noticed that Jamie Gorelick was one of the Fannie executives who benefited from inflated bonuses based on Enron-style accounting.
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Want Obama in a Punch Line? First, Find a Joke — What's so funny about Barack Obama? Apparently not very much, at least not yet. — On Monday, The New Yorker magazine tried dipping its toe into broad satire involving Senator Obama with a cover image depicting the presumptive Democratic …
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Rose Garden / White House:
President Bush Discusses Outer Continental Shelf Exploration — Fact Sheet: Allowing Offshore Exploration to Help Address Rising Fuel Costs — THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Across the country, Americans are concerned about the high price of gasoline. Every one of our citizens who drives to work …
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Kate Klonick / TPMMuckraker:
Fournier to Rove: “Keep Up the Fight” — Buried in the 50-page report on Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch released today by the House Oversight Committee, is a priceless quote from none other than the new head of the AP's Washington Bureau, Ron Fournier. — Straight from page 21 of the report:
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John R. Bolton / Wall Street Journal:
Israel, Iran and the Bomb — Iran's test salvo of ballistic missiles last week together with recent threatening rhetoric by commanders of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards emphasizes how close the Middle East is to a fundamental, in fact an irreversible, turning point.
Shawn Zeller / CQ Politics:
Clinton Diehards Want Convention Vote — She may have given up, but a few of Hillary Rodham Clinton 's people haven't. — The senator from New York is said to be negotiating a respectful presence followed by a graceful exit from next month's Democratic convention, and last week …
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Geoffrey Dickens / NewsBusters.org:
Matthews Worries ‘Right’ Will Turn New Yorker Cover into T-Shirt — On Monday's “Hardball” Chris Matthews was so upset about the New Yorker's cover, depicting Barack Obama in a turban and Michelle Obama toting an AK-47, because he feared “the right will be using that as t-shirt material within the next couple of weeks.”
Ken Salazar / Washington Post:
Heedless Rush to Oil Shale — To hear Bush touting Western oil shale as the answer to $4 per gallon gasoline, as he did again yesterday in the Rose Garden, you would think it was 1908 . . . or 1920 . . . or 1945 . . . or 1974. Every couple of decades over the past century …
Scott Horton / Harper's:
Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side — In a series of gripping articles, Jane Mayer has chronicled the Bush Administration's grim and furtive dealings with torture and has exposed both the individuals within the administration who “made it happen” (a group that starts …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Accountability Now and Strange Bedfellows: The strategy and rationale — In the 2006 mid-term elections, Americans handed The Democratic Party a sweeping, staggering, and historic victory — as the GOP was removed from power and Democrats given control over both the House and Senate.
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