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Sean Lengell / Washington Times:
Cheney: Obama endangers the nation — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday continued his verbal attack against President Obama, saying that the country is more vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack since the Obama administration took power. — Mr. Cheney said that administration's …
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Cheney: As a Republican, I choose Rush Limbaugh over Colin Powell. — Last week, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that the Republican Party is in “deep trouble” because it is “getting smaller” and being led by far right polarizing figures. Specifically, he said that Rush Limbaugh …
John / Power Line:
Cheney on Face the Nation — Former Vice President Dick Cheney continued to take his case to the people this morning on CBS' Face the Nation, with Bob Schieffer. As usual, he was an effective advocate. He explained why he is pushing back against the Obama administration's attacks …
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Nikki Finke / Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily:
SHE SAID WHAT?! Wanda Sykes Gives Extremely Partisan Performance At White House Correspondents Dinner Tonight — 2nd UPDATE: Here is video of Wanda Sykes' performance in its entirety. — Part One... Part Two... UPDATE: I've been to the White House Correspondents Dinner.
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Jennifer Parker / George's Bottom Line:
Edwards Staff Had Affair ‘Doomsday’ Strategy — During our Roundtable discussion on “This Week” we discussed Elizabeth Edwards' candid interview with Oprah about her husband's affair. — ABC columnist George Will suggested former Sen. John Edwards was irresponsible to campaign for the Democratic Party nomination.
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Malcom_X / The Politico:
Obama: ‘Boehner ... is person of color’ — President Barack Obama's top quips from his after-dinner speech at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner: — “Good evening. You know, I had an entire speech prepared for this occasion. But now that I'm here, I think I want to try something a little different.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The Air Force 1 flight over NYC can't possibly have been made for the purpose of taking that photograph. — Perhaps others are already saying this, and I'm just pointing out the obvious. But here goes. — The official story is: Botched photo op, now fully compensated for by the resignation …
Richard Beeston / Times of London:
King Abdullah: ‘This is not a two-state solution, it is a 57-state solution’ — How has the Pope's visit gone? — I think it's gone extremely well. I said to His Holiness that this is the right time. You're coming here on a spiritual pilgrimage with a message of peace …
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Martina Stewart / CNN:
I don't think Palin is the future of the GOP, Republican says — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Prominent Republican Bill Bennett took issue Sunday with what he called the “media's focus” on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. — Asked about the Republican Party's increasingly public struggle to define itself …
Benedict Mander / Financial Times:
Chávez seizures fuel Venezuela oil fears — A fresh round of expropriations in Venezuela has raised fears that the Opec producer's already declining oil output could sink to its lowest level in the past 20 years. — Troops were mobilised over the weekend to assist Venezuela's state …
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The Huffington Post:
Newt Gingrich: “McCarthyist” Obama Wants To “Put Terrorists On Welfare” (VIDEO) — HuffPost coverage of the Sunday show appearances of Sen. John McCain and former Vice President Dick Cheney coming soon... In an interview that was fiery even by his standards, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accused …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Be the Party of No — It's the route to Republican landslides. — Republican leaders in Congress have created something called the National Council for a New America (NCNA). It describes itself as “not a Republican-only forum” but one that seeks to “engage people in a discussion …
Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Friendship With Conservative Thomas Complicates Supreme Court Chances for Georgia's Sears — Friendship With Thomas May Complicate Chances for Left-Leaning Georgia Judge — One day in the early 1990s, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas telephoned Leah Ward Sears to introduce himself.
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Pelosi makes surprise visit to Iraq — In a brief, unannounced trip to Iraq, Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for better intelligence gathering there before the U.S. withdraws most of its combat troops from the country, according to news reports. — Pelosi, a longtime critic of the war …
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