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Rowan Scarborough / Fox News:
Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist — Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Three Navy SEALs court-martialed after giving most-wanted Iraqi terrorist a fat lip — Looks awful, but I'm suspicious that it's as bad as it seems given Fox's misleading headline: “Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist.” That makes it sound like the act …
P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters.org:
Climategate: MSM Writers Try to Ignore Scandal in Global Warming Stories But Readers Bring Them Back to Reality — An hilariously bizarre situation is happening in the wake of the growing Climategate scandal. Many of the mainstream media stories about global warming are simply pretending it doesn't exist.
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Doug Ross, Canada Free Press, Pajamas Media, The Corner on National … and Gateway Pundit
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David Derbyshire / Daily Mail:
Scientist in climate change ‘cover-up’ storm told to quit
Scientist in climate change ‘cover-up’ storm told to quit
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Associated Press:
Police: Census worker staged death to conceal suicide — FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Authorities are saying a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with “fed” scrawled on his chest committed suicide and staged his death to look like a homicide. — A news release from Kentucky State Police …
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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Police: Sparkman Committed Suicide, Made It Look Like Murder For Insurance Scam
Police: Sparkman Committed Suicide, Made It Look Like Murder For Insurance Scam
Bill Estep / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Census worker killed himself, tried to make it look like homicide, officials say
Census worker killed himself, tried to make it look like homicide, officials say
Telegraph:
Bob Ainsworth criticises Barack Obama over Afghanistan — Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, has blamed Barack Obama and the United States for the decline in British public support for the war in Afghanistan. — Mr Ainsworth took the unprecedented step of publicly criticising …
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New York Times:
Obama May Add 30,000 Troops in Afghanistan — WASHINGTON — President Obama said Tuesday that he was determined to “finish the job” in Afghanistan, and his aides signaled to allies that he would send as many as 25,000 to 30,000 additional American troops there even as they cautioned that the final number remained in flux.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Strategy on Afghanistan Will Contain Many Messages — WASHINGTON—In declaring Tuesday that he would “finish the job” in Afghanistan, President Obama used a phrase clearly meant to imply that even as he deploys an additional 30,000 or so troops, he has finally figured out how to bring the eight-year-long conflict to an end.
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Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Hill, The Nation, Prairie Weather, Political Punch, Washington Post and The Politico
Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Key coordinator of detainee policy quits — A key official in the Obama administration's effort to remake detention policy and close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay has resigned. — Phillip Carter, who was appointed deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee policy in April …
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Carol Rosenberg / MiamiHerald.com:
Detainee policy appointee quits Pentagon post — The Pentagon's top detainee affairs policy appointee has quit the Defense Department just seven months into the job, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. — Phillip Carter, a former Army captain and Iraq War veteran, had been an outspoken critic …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How Bad Could Obama Screw Up and Still Beat Sarah Palin? — Although I'm fairly bullish on Sarah Palin's prospects of winning the Republican nomination, I also subscribe to the conventional wisdom that, were she to be the nominee, she would have an awfully tough time against Barack Obama in 2012.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Palin to Obama: Acknowledge troops
Palin to Obama: Acknowledge troops
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Washington Monthly, Bark Bark Woof Woof, CNN, VetVoice, The Swamp, The Huffington Post and The Daily Dish
Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie Not a Fan of Obama — Barack Obama does not have Angelina Jolie's seal of approval. — “She hates him,” a source close to the U.N. goodwill ambassador, 34, tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands now). — “She's into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts.
Editor and Publisher:
Have the Media ‘Falsely Framed’ ACORN? — (Commentary) A pimp and a prostitute walk into an office. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it wasn't for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. — Until recently, ACORN, the largest community organizing group in the country …
Wall Street Journal:
The Uncertainty Economy — Tim Geithner is not the Democrats' biggest problem. — Printer — Friendly — Preparing to write about yesterday's downward revision in third-quarter GDP, we were tempted to say the Obama Administration has hit a speed-bump on its promised exit out of the recession.
The Huffington Post:
Mark Halperin's Mary Landrieu Photoshop: Pure Class — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — As many of you know, Mark Halperin is this babbling idiot whom Time magazine hired to cobble together this insipid web product called “The Page,” which is designed to scam people looking for trenchant …
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Lou Dobbs Weighs Senate Run, as a Steppingstone — The Lou Dobbs-for-Senate rumor had barely crested when the Lou Dobbs-for-president rumor suddenly overtook it this week. — Mr. Dobbs, the former cable television anchor of the sonorous voice and tough-talking immigration politics …
PBS:
FRONTLINE CORRESPONDENT LOWELL BERGMAN INVESTIGATES THE MASSIVE CONSUMER LOAN INDUSTRY — As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and staggering new rates of default and bankruptcy, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman investigates the future …
Gautam Naik / Wall Street Journal:
Energy Push Spurs Shift in U.S. Science — OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — The Obama administration's push to solve the nation's energy problems, a massive federal program that rivals the Manhattan Project, is spurring a once-in-a-generation shift in U.S. science. — The government's multibillion-dollar push …
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Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
Give us fiscal austerity, but not quite yet — Financial crises have devastating impacts on the public finances. The impact is also most severe where the pre-crisis excesses were greatest. Among members of the Group of Seven leading high-income countries, this means the bubble-infected US and UK.
Ezra Klein:
Obama's liberal predecessor — Matt Yglesias and Kevin Drum are chewing over the hefty bipartisan support Bush got for his various domestic initiatives. The roll call is impressive: No Child Left Behind, the 2001 tax cut, the post-9/11 war resolution, Sarbanes-Oxley, McCain-Feingold …
Rachel Sklar / Mediaite:
“Hope Is Fading Fast”: A Devastating Take on The Iconic Obama Poster — A new offensive has been launched against President Obama, and if it catches on it may make as much noise as a Birther at a Town Hall. It's the new “Hope Is Fading Fast” t-shirt from LA streetwear company Freshjive …