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Michael Asher / DailyTech:
Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate — “Considerable presence” of skeptics — The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming.
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David Evans / The Australian:
No smoking hot spot — I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector.
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Bush ‘a total failure,’ Pelosi says — (CNN) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Bush “a total failure” on Thursday, among the California Democrat's harshest assessments to date of the president. — “God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States — a total failure …
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
DNC sets up independent operation to help Obama — WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee plans to target Republican John McCain and help Democrat Barack Obama with an independent ad campaign run by veteran Democratic strategist Jonathan Prince, Democrats familiar with the decision said Thursday.
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
A Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy — WASHINGTON — Every day around 8 a.m., foreign policy aides at Senator Barack Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters send him two e-mails: a briefing on major world developments over the previous 24 hours and a set of questions …
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Sara Kugler / Associated Press:Clinton says he's ready to campaign for Obama
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Buck Naked Politics
Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Hearing-Gate Exposed! McCain Has Worse Afghanistan Hearing Record Than Obama — ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports from Capitol Hill: The McCain campaign criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's hearing record on Capitol Hill led us to put the shoe on the other foot.
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Newsweek:
An unusual new privilege claim shields Cheney in Plame probe. — The Bush administration today unveiled a set of novel and controversial legal arguments in refusing to disclose key details about Vice President Dick Cheney's role in the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:Mukasey the Obstructionist — Michael Mukasey has President Bush's back.
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Buck Naked Politics
Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:
The (Annotated) Gore Energy Speech — Former Vice President Al Gore gave a speech in Washington laying out his new approach to the entwined challenges of limiting risks from global warming and instability from rising energy prices and declining supplies of fossil fuels.
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Roxanne Roberts / Washington Post:
Tony Snow: Farewell To the Light Heart — ‘He Looked at the World in a Joyful Way’ — Yesterday's funeral for Tony Snow was a grand send-off: a Mass, a tribute by President Bush, and more than 1,000 mourners, including an all-star lineup of Washington's political and media elite.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama's Greatest Admirer — Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast — a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins — would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials.
David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
McCain gets Social Security but criticizes system — KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Although Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called Social Security “a disgrace,” he still cashes his own retirement check every month. — “I'm receiving the benefits, the system is broken and …
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Sen Larry Craig: Don't let foreigners “jerk us around by the gas nozzle” — Presented without comment. — Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Bill W)
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:MY NOZZLE OR YOURS? — Sen. Larry Craig throws innuendo to the wind ...
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Wonkette
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
As Price of Grain Rises, Catfish Farms Dry Up — LELAND, Miss. — Catfish farmers across the South, unable to cope with the soaring cost of corn and soybean feed, are draining their ponds. — “It's a dead business,” said John Dillard, who pioneered the commercial farming of catfish in the late 1960s.
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Ryan / Think Progress:
Ashcroft: Waterboarding ‘Consistently’ Seen As Legal, Refuses To Say Use On U.S. Troops Is ‘Unacceptable’ — During a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee today, former Attorney General John Ashcroft falsely claimed that waterboarding has “consistently” been defined as “not torture” …
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Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
The Glamour Magazine Interview — Ipse dixit: — “It's infuriating, but it's not surprising, because let's face it: What happened was that the conservative press—Fox News and the National Review and columnists of every ilk—went fairly deliberately at her in a pretty systematic way …
Eileen Sullivan / Associated Press:
Chertoff: European terrorists trying to enter US — WASHINGTON - European terrorists are trying to enter the United States with European Union passports, and there is no guarantee officials will catch them every time, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday.
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Jihad Watch
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: North Carolina Presidential Election — North Carolina: McCain Still Struggling in Historically Red State — The race is still close between John McCain and Barack Obama in the traditionally red state of North Carolina. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds McCain ahead 45% …
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James Risen / New York Times:
Electrical Risks at Bases in Iraq Worse Than Previously Said — WASHINGTON — Shoddy electrical work by private contractors on United States military bases in Iraq is widespread and dangerous, causing more deaths and injuries from fires and shocks than the Pentagon has acknowledged, according to internal Army documents.
Tim Cavanaugh / Opinion L.A.:
Nation of whiners watch: Dickey Flatt speaks, biffs Baffler — Genocidal tyrant Rubert Murdoch made a smart move by putting Thomas Frank, labor's post-ironic champion, on his roster of columnists — though I don't know what Frank's column title means. (Is the tilting yard where knights joust and ladies swoon to see them?
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