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John O'Connor / The State:
Exclusive: E-mails between Sanford, woman — Woman in affair declines interview — Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov. Mark Sanford's personal e-mail account and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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John Dickerson / Slate:
The disturbing glee at Mark Sanford's downfall. — Mark Sanford is no longer missing, but he's obviously lost. The South Carolina governor's press conference was excruciating: apology, followed by self-flagellation, followed by apology. It was like watching a man light himself on fire.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Sanford Case a New Dose of Bad News for Republicans — WASHINGTON — Republicans were just starting to breathe a little easier. — The news that Senator John Ensign had had an affair with a former aide who was married to another former aide was fading. Polls showed some voter impatience …
S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
Social conservatives fall from moral high ground — Republicans retreat from values claims — Social conservatives, the once-powerful force that focused the Republican agenda on moral virtue and family values, have suffered a diminished brand on the national political landscape …
New York Times:
For Press, Rumors but No Evidence of Straying — About six months ago, an anonymous tipster sent The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., copies of e-mail messages supposedly exchanged between Gov. Mark Sanford and a woman named Maria in Argentina. — Reporters sent e-mail …
Washington Wire:Inglis to GOP: ‘Lose Stinking Rot of Self-Righteousness’
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Peter Hamby / CNN:Sanford took taxpayer-funded trip to Argentina last June
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John O'Connor / The State:E-mails detail intimate affair
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Roger L Simon / Pajamas Media:What Mark Sanford did (wrecked our priorities)
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama's Michael Dukakis moment — Barack Obama got ABC to move their news division into the White House in order to make the big pitch for his egalitarian, everyone-gets-treated-equally ObamaCare push. Instead, Obama fumbled into a Michael Dukakis moment that exposed him as a hypocrite.
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ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: President Obama Defends Right to Choose Best Care — In ABC News Health Care Forum, President Answers Questions About Reform — President Obama struggled to explain today whether his health care reform proposals would force normal Americans to make sacrifices that wealthier …
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Obama discusses deathbed measures — At a healthcare town hall, he says stopping futile procedures for the terminally ill can lower costs. — Reporting from Washington — President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive …
ABCNEWS:
Fact Check: The Truth Behind Obama's Health Care Plan — Fact or Fiction? Decoding the President's Prescription for American Health Care — President Obama took his health care reform plan to the American people in a forum at the White House Wednesday night broadcast live on ABC.
Jeff Poor / The Business & Media Institute:
ABC ObamaCare Special Turns Into Presidential Filibuster — President Obama uses network primetime special and overtime ‘Nightline’ coverage to talk for more than 45 minutes of combined 75-minute programs, revealing nothing new. — Business & Media Institute
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BBC:
MPs ‘snub’ Ahmadinejad party — More than 100 MPs appear to have snubbed an invitation to celebrate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election win, local press reports say. — All 290 MPs were invited to the victory party on Wednesday night but 105 did not turn up, the reports say.
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New York Times:
Ahmadinejad Assails Obama as Opposition Urges Defiance — TEHRAN — As Iran's embattled opposition leader renewed a call for protests against the disputed presidential elections, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assailed President Obama on Thursday, telling him to stop interfering in Iran's affairs …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:No Rally Reported — Despite the tweets below, so far there's …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Cap and Tax Fiction — Democrats off-loading economics to pass climate change bill. — Printer — Friendly — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put cap-and-trade legislation on a forced march through the House, and the bill may get a full vote as early as Friday.
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Elliott Abrams / Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Is Wrong About the Settlements — The U.S. and Israel reached a clear understanding about natural growth. — Printer — Friendly — Despite fervent denials by Obama administration officials, there were indeed agreements between Israel and the United States regarding the growth of Israeli settlements on the West Bank.
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Eddie Wrenn / Daily Mail:
Stunning pictures of the volcano that blew a hole in the sky as astronauts witness eruption from International Space Station — Framed by a circle of clouds, this is a stunning illustration of Nature's powerful force. — A plume of smoke, ash and steam soars five miles into the sky from an erupting volcano.
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Murray Waas / The Hill:
Bush administration leaks bolstered Rick Renzi's reelection bid — In the fall of 2006, one day after the Justice Department granted permission to a U.S. attorney to place a wiretap on a Republican congressman suspected of corruption, existence of the investigation was leaked to the press …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
NY Times Bashes Obama's HuffPo Question As “Staged,” But Hailed Bush's “Mission Accomplished” Moment — The New York Times has now weighed in on the battle over President Obama's question from a Huffington Post reporter, and Times writer Kate Phillips, like other reporters …
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Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Iran opposition leader blasts rulers; 70 professors arrested — Mousavi says the supreme leader's actions are not ‘in the interests of the country,’ and the crackdown imperils the Islamic Republic. — Reporting from Tehran — Iran's leading opposition figurehead, Mir-Hossein Mousavi …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin blasts Alaska blogger over Trig photo — Sarah Palin is again responding forcefully to a perceived attack on one of her children, this time attacking an Alaska blogger who edited a picture of her and her baby son, Trig, to replace Trig's face with the image of a conservative Alaska talk show host, Eddie Burke.
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Frank J. Fleming / Pajamas Media:
Beware the Christians! — Comparing the Christian right with the brutal ayatollahs in Iran is childish nonsense. — As we watch the horrors in Iran, it makes us wonder if anything like that could happen in America. In Iran, the mullahs control everything and feel justified in any injustice …
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James Hibberd / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News set for best year yet — Viewership solid as rivals take post-election hits — Fox News is on track to have its most-watched year ever, showing significant ratings growth despite having just come off a highflying election year. — With the second quarter coming to a close …
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ABCNEWS:
Court: School Strip Search Violated Teen's Rights — Supreme Court Finds Search of Savana Redding Unconstitutional, But Determines That School Officials are Protected from Liability — The Supreme Court ruled today that school officials' strip search of a then-13-year-old Arizona teen suspected …
Telegraph:
Canterbury is sufficiently gay council inspectors rule — One of Britain's most historic cities, Canterbury, has been told it is sufficiently gay - after a complaint sparked a two-month investigation costing thousands of pounds. — A government watchdog decided that Canterbury in Kent does enough …
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