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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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Troutfishyman / Bloomberg:
Congress May Probe Leaked Global Warming E-Mails — Posted by Declan McCullagh A few days after leaked e-mail messages appeared on the Internet, the U.S. Congress may probe whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories misrepresented the truth about climate change.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:Poll: More Americans growing skeptical of global warming
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Boston Globe, Hot Air, The Washington Independent, NewsBusters.org and Real Clear Politics
David Derbyshire / Daily Mail: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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Bill Estep / Lexington Herald-Leader:Census worker killed himself, tried to make it look like homicide, officials say
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:Police: Sparkman Committed Suicide, Made It Look Like Murder For Insurance Scam
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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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama's Approval Slide Finds Whites Down to 39% — Support has declined much more among whites than among nonwhites — PRINCETON, NJ — Since the start of his presidency, U.S. President Barack Obama's approval rating has declined more among non-Hispanic whites than among nonwhites …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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Robert MacMillan / Reuters:
Washington Post closing remaining U.S. bureaus — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Washington Post is closing its last U.S. bureaus outside the nation's capital as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news. — “At a time of limited resources and increased competitive pressure …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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