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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.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Gore's Energy Oomph — On the issue of gasoline prices, Republicans think they have a winner in their call for new drilling, and Democrats are playing defense. Democrats need — this is a technical term — a lot more oomph. Al Gore wants to help them. — In a speech here yesterday …
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Michelle Malkin:Limousine liberal video of the day: Gore and his gas-guzzling fans exposed!
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Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:The (Annotated) Gore Energy Speech
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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.
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:The secret hidden within John McCain's campaign schedule
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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.
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Terrorism Funds May Let Brass Fly in Style — The Air Force's top leadership sought for three years to spend counterterrorism funds on “comfort capsules” to be installed on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders around the world, with at least four top generals involved …
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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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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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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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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Poll: Obama backers are more excited than McCain's — WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain is facing an excitement deficit. — While overall interest in the presidential campaign has swelled since last fall, backers of Barack Obama are more fired up and express more loyalty to their candidate than McCain's do …
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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Marisa Lagos / San Francisco Chronicle:
George W. Bush Sewage Plant plan is on ballot — (07-17) 14:57 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco voters will be asked to decide whether to name a city sewage plant in honor of President Bush, after a satiric measure qualified for the November ballot Thursday.
Avida Landau / Reuters:
Israel makes arrests in alleged plot against Bush — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel accused six Arabs on Friday of trying to set up an al Qaeda cell in Israel and said one of them had proposed attacking helicopters used during a visit by President George W. Bush.
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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New York Times:
Rulings Clear Military Trial of a Detainee — WASHINGTON — Court rulings on Thursday cleared the way for the first trial at the American detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, opened in 2002 to hold suspects captured in the campaign against terrorism.
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