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Jason Allardyce / Times of London:
Lockerbie bomber ‘set free for oil’ — The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal.
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Va. Candidate McDonnell Says Views Changed Since He Wrote Thesis — Va. GOP Candidate Wrote on Women, Marriage and Gays — At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
It's come to this: Dems task Teddy's grandson with leading funeral prayer for ObamaCare — The boss has been writing about the left's use of kids as sympathetic “human shields” for their policies for years and years, but even so, I'm amazed. I thought the moral authority of the religious setting …
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Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
All The Senator's Women … From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009 — The city editor at a small daily in Iowa sent a reporter out last week to gather reminiscences of Senator Kennedy. “Be sure to ask about Chappaquiddick,” he said, a request that drew a blank look.
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
SHERMAN FREDERICK: Enough is enough, Harry — Stop the childish bullying — This newspaper traces its roots to before Las Vegas was Las Vegas. — We've seen cattle ranches give way to railroads. We chronicled the construction of Hoover Dam. We reported on the first day of legalized gambling.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BEATS ME.... Kevin Drum recommends we take a moment to get “back to basics.” … Reading this, it reminded me just how challenging the right's sales pitch was going into the debate over reform. In some ways, conservatives couldn't possibly win the argument — the status quo is ridiculous.
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Students Get New Assignment: Pick Books You Like — JONESBORO, Ga. — For years Lorrie McNeill loved teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Harper Lee classic that many Americans regard as a literary rite of passage. — But last fall, for the first time in 15 years, Ms. McNeill, 42, did not assign “Mockingbird” — or any novel.
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com Pro-Life Headlines:
Terri Schiavo's Father Robert Schindler Dies, Pro-Life Group Mourns His Death — St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) — Robert Schindler, the father of Terri Schiavo, whose former husband subjected her to a painful 13-day starvation and dehydration death, died overnight.
Now! Hampshire:
Shea-Porter Instructs Security to Remove a Former Peace Officer from Town Hall — In four short years Carol Shea-Porter has evolved from a rabble-rousing, town hall disrupting anti-war activist who once had to be forcibly removed from a President George Bush event in Portsmouth to a Member …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents for Truth — WASHINGTON — In the spring of 2003, long before Abu Ghraib or secret prisons became part of the American vocabulary, a pair of recently hired lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union noticed a handful of news reports about allegations of abuse of prisoners in American custody.
Washington Post:
How a Detainee Became An Asset — Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding — By Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate, Page A01 — After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood …
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Acknowledging the Obvious — Is the mainstream media coming around?
Acknowledging the Obvious — Is the mainstream media coming around?
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Russ Feingold / Wall Street Journal:
The Road Home From Afghanistan — Why a flexible timetable to withdraw U.S. troops will best advance our national security interests. — Printer — Friendly — After nearly eight long years, we seem to be no closer to the end of the war in Afghanistan.
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Robbie Brown / New York Times:
South Carolina Republican Lawmakers Consider Asking Sanford to Resign, or Else — ATLANTA — Republican lawmakers in South Carolina are considering asking Gov. Mark Sanford to resign or face likely impeachment as a state investigation continues into his travel records after an extramarital affair.
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