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Pilot of Stolen Cessna Wanted U.S. Fighter Jets to Shoot Him Down — Trooper Said Yavuz Berke, Now in Custody, Wanted U.S. Military to Kill Him — The Canadian man wholed fighter jets on a chase across six states yesterday flew his stolen plane into the U.S. in hopes the military would shoot …
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Stolen Cessna Pursued by Jet Fighters Lands on Highway — Pilot Took Off Running After Landing Plane, Officials Say — A Cessna stolen from a Canadian flight school landed on a Missouri highway late today, after being pursued for hours across the Midwest by fighter jets ready to shoot it down if it was determined to be a threat.
Robert Imrie / Associated Press:
Man nabbed after plane taken from Canada to Mo. — WAUSAU, Wis. - A single-engine airplane flown away from an airport in Canada by a student pilot Monday was intercepted by jet fighters over Wisconsin but kept flying south through two more states. It finally landed on a road in southeastern Missouri and the pilot was apprehended.
Washington Post:
Report Calls CIA Detainee Treatment ‘Inhuman’ — Medical officers who oversaw interrogations of terrorism suspects in CIA secret prisons committed gross violations of medical ethics and in some cases essentially participated in torture, the International Committee of the Red Cross concluded …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Report Outlines Medical Workers' Role in Torture — WASHINGTON — Medical personnel were deeply involved in the abusive interrogation of terrorist suspects held overseas by the Central Intelligence Agency, including torture, and their participation was a “gross breach of medical ethics,” …
CBS News:
Poll: Obama Approval Hits New High - 66% — CBS/NY Times Survey Finds Most Believe World Leaders Respect President, Though They Maintain U.S. Is Not Respected Overall — (CBS) As President Obama concludes his well-publicized trip to Europe, Americans are more positive about the respect accorded …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama, the ICRC Report and ongoing suppression — Following up on the latest extremist Cheney/Addington/Yoo arguments advanced by the Obama DOJ in order to shield Bush lawbreaking from disclosure and judicial review — an episode I wrote about in detail yesterday, here …
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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:Administration defends Bush wire-taps
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Associated Press:
Official: Man freed amid Obama murder ‘hoax’ — Anonymous e-mail sparked arrest of ‘mentally disturbed’ suspect in Turkey — ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish police detained a man after receiving a hoax tip that he was plotting to kill President Barack Obama but quickly released him without charge, a government official said Tuesday.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Reality hits Obama Express — President Barack Obama, after a lightning-quick start for his agenda on Capitol Hill, is bracing for a much slower pace and big changes in his proposals as early urgency and excitement give way to the more languid rhythms that are the norm for Congress.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Lieberman-Obama honeymoon stops at missile defense — Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) has tried to mend his relationship with President Obama in recent months but their reconciliation hit a snag Monday over ballistic missile defense. — Lieberman, the self-described independent Democrat …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
BEAT SWEETENERS. — Matt Yglesias pulls the curtain back a bit on the “beat sweeteners:” … I'm not sure this is quite as calculated as Matt implies. New administrations tend to spark a lot of positive profiles because new administrations usher in new players whose power merits attention …
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Frank 'I'm A Member Of Dick Cheney's Fan Club' Gaffney: Obama's ‘Respect’ For Muslims Is Code For Submission — The right wing has been apoplectic over President Obama's words and actions while in Europe. A large amount of their outrage has been over the fact that Obama briefly bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
Ernest Luning / Colorado Independent:
Focus on the Family narrator arrested for luring teenage girl for sex on Net — A Colorado Springs man who narrates the Bible in Spanish on CDs and works in the Spanish broadcasting department of Focus on the Family appeared in court Monday in Golden on two felony counts of using the Internet …
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Right Wing News, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Pam's House Blend, Pharyngula and pandagon.net
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Kevin Drum / MoJo Blog Posts:
Fun With Phosphates — The blogosphere had a few laughs last week at the expense of RedState head honcho Eric Erickson, who warned that revolution was coming and told residents of Washington state, “I'd be cleaning my gun right about now waiting to protect my property from the coming riots …
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Megan McArdle, Outside The Beltway, Felix Salmon, Sadly, No!, TigerHawk, Dean's World and Los Angeles Times
Ezra Klein / Los Angeles Times:
When it comes to healthcare, the U.S., Britain and Canada are hurting — Healthcare in all three countries has the same problem. They just feel it in different places. — When asked by the New England Journal of Medicine to detail his healthcare vision during the campaign …
New York Times:
Poll Finds New Optimism on Economy Since Inauguration — Americans have grown more optimistic about the economy and the direction of the country in the 11 weeks since President Obama was inaugurated, suggesting that he is enjoying some success in his critical task of rebuilding the nation's confidence …
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The Swamp, Think Progress, CBS News, Greg's Opinion, MSNBC, Prairie Weather, Taegan Goddard's …, The Daily Dish, PoliticalBase.com Blog and Swampland
United States Senator James Inhofe:
Inhofe says Obama Defense Cuts will — Responds in a YouTube Video from Afghanistan — WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a You Tube video today from Afghanistan, U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, blasted an announcement by the Obama administration …
Agence France Presse:
Web campaign to save bankrupt Minneapolis paper — WASHINGTON (AFP) — Employees of the Minneapolis Star Tribune launched an online campaign on Monday in a bid to save the Minnesota newspaper, which declared bankruptcy nearly three months ago. — “With the Star Tribune in bankruptcy …
Rod Liddle / Times of London:
Taleban-style law for women in Afghanistan is dropped after outcry — A controversial law condoning marital rape and reintroducing Taleban-era rules for Afghan women has been shelved after an outcry in the West. — The Afghan Foreign Ministry said that the law had not been enacted …
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