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The 10 punches Dick Cheney landed on Barack Obama's jaw — The spectacle of two duelling speeches with a mile of each other in downtown Washington was extraordinary. I was at the Cheney event and watched Obama's address on a big screen beside the empty lectern that the former veep stepped behind barely …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama Adopts the Bush Approach to the War on Terrorism — “We were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning.” — Unnamed and dismayed human rights advocate, on legalizing indefinite detention of alleged terrorists,
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Michael James / The Note:
RNC Launches ‘Daisy’ Web Ad — ABC News' Rick Klein reports: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele this week promised an aggressive new approach to opposing President Obama. — That starts now. — The RNC is launching a Web ad on Friday highlighting Democrats' divisions …
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The Corner:
Cheney vs. Obama — Two speeches, two very different men. Former Vice President Cheney seeks no political future. He speaks from the vantage of one who witnessed the killing of our fellow citizens, who deliberated and defined the strategy that would successfully prevent further murders of our fellow Americans.
New York Times:Text: Obama's Speech on National Security
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Jeffrey Goldberg:
McCain: Cheney Endorses Spanish Inquisition Technique — I stopped by to see John McCain this afternoon in his Senate office. I haven't seen him for several months, and was glad to see that he seemed rested and ready, if not tan. He was in high spirits, and we talked …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Unbalanced — A simple note having now read the former vice-president's despicable and disgraceful speech. It confirms the very worst of him, and reveals just how callow, just how arrogant, and just how reckless and unrepentant this man is and has long been.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Speed Reading Clerk Reads Stalling Amendment To House Climate Change Legislation — Earlier today, we reported that Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have taken an extraordinary measure to combat nefarious Republican stall tactics. Faced with the possibility …
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Deirdre Walsh / CNN:
Speed reader makes Hill debut — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The congressional speed reader made his committee debut Thursday — but it looks like his brief taste of the limelight may mark his Capitol Hill swan song. — The top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce committee, Texas Rep. Joe Barton …
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Climate Bill Clears Hurdle, but Others Remain — WASHINGTON — The House Energy and Commerce Committee, splitting largely along party lines, approved on Thursday the most ambitious energy and global warming legislation ever debated in Congress. — The bill's passage, on a 33-to-25 vote …
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Washington Post:
U.S. to Steer GM Toward Bankruptcy — Filing Expected as Chrysler Set to Emerge — The Obama administration is preparing to send General Motors into bankruptcy as early as the end of next week under a plan that would give the automaker tens of billions of dollars more in public financing …
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Animatronic Obama Going to Disney World With High-Tech Style — LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama was standing on a riser inside a warehouse here, delivering an inspirational speech about the blessings of freedom, when his left index finger began to twitch uncontrollably, unnerving his aides.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
White House Reporter Protects Cheney, Accuses Gibbs Of Taking “Swipe” — One of the odder things we've seen from some members of the White House press corps this year is a kind of zealous over-protectiveness of the previous administration — Dick Cheney, in particular.
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Washington Post:
Creigh Deeds for Democratic Candidate for Va. Governor — WHO IS the best candidate for Northern Virginia? Judge by appearances and there are two obvious possibilities in the Democratic primary for governor: Brian Moran, the former Alexandria prosecutor who served a dozen years in the House of Delegates …
Caleb / Caleb's blog:
History Is (Re)Written By The Winners — ... or at least, by the ad agencies. — The History Channel is a generally well-respected brand in the United States. The shows routinely make “water-cooler” conversation at sites like Redstate. Indeed, the sister networks like The Military Channel …
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Neoliberalism is Alive, Alive! — The Chrysler Bailout is “capitalism at work,” writes private equity macher Scott Sperling in the WSJ. Here are some of the more questionable sentences in his essay: … The cuts current union members were forced to accept were not impressive.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Obama Curtails Bush Policy That Let Federal Rules Override State Laws — It Let Federal Rules Override State Laws — President Obama continued to reverse his predecessor's policies this week by undoing a controversial Bush administration rule known as “preemption” that used federal regulations …
Steve Kingstone / BBC:
Spain's celebrated ‘blogger granny’ dies at the age of 97 — A Spanish grandmother who billed herself as the “world's oldest internet blogger” has died at the age of 97. — Maria Amelia Lopez only began blogging from her seaside home in Galicia two years ago.
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Fausta's Blog
Associated Press:
Bush: It's ‘liberating’ to be out of office — He gets warm welcome from group of graduating N.M. high school students — ARTESIA, N.M. - It was a humbling moment for the former commander in chief: President George W. Bush was walking former first dog Barney in his new Dallas neighborhood …
Megan McArdle:
The Road to Bankruptcy — At the end of his book's harrowing account of mortgage mistakes and credit card crises, Edmund Andrews writes: “While our misadventure had certainly been more extreme than those of many other Americans, our situation was not all that unusual.”
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Some GOP-ers step away from Cheney — Dick Cheney's full-throated attack on the Obama administration has left congressional Republicans with a tricky decision: Do they embrace his critiques, even if it means aligning themselves with the most polarizing figure from the still-unpopular Bush administration?
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Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Santorum: ‘Conservatives believe in the stewardship of patrimony.’ — Last night on Fox News, former senator Rick Santorum told Greta Van Susteren that the Republican party “has to stand up for conservative principles.” They have to support the “patrimony” against “a guy named Barack Obama” who wants to upend “our social structure”:
New York Times:
Despite the Talk, Adopting the Bush Approach — Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor and author of “Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad,” is legal affairs editor at National Review. — President Obama's speech is the September 10th mindset trying to come to grips with September 11th reality.
Richard Mcenroe / Not One Red Cent:
A Florida Parable! — Talk about your perfect timing. — Two Big Pricks Thwarted by Thousands of Little Pricks Acting Together! — This story is ABSOLUTELY TRUE... with one or two small changes to protect the innocent and piss off people I don't approve of.
The U.S. Department of Labor:
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA — In the week ending May 16, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 631,000, a decrease of 12,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 643,000. The 4-week moving average was 628,500 …
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