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Don't Mention the War — Why does the Obama administration find it so hard to utter the words ‘terrorism’ and ‘jihad’ and ‘Islamic extremism’? — On Saturday, May 1, a crude car bomb composed of gasoline canisters, propane tanks, fertilizer, and fireworks failed to detonate in Times Square.
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Mark Steyn / National Review:
Faisal Shahzad, Subprime Terrorist? — The story of the Times Square bomber reads like some Urdu dinner-theater production of Mel Brooks's The Producers that got lost in translation between here and Peshawar: A man sets out to produce the biggest bomb on Broadway since Dance a Little Closer closed on its opening night in 1983.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. officials: No credible evidence that terrorists trained Shahzad — WASHINGTON — No credible evidence has been found so far that the Pakistani-American man accused in the Times Square bombing plot received any serious terrorist training from the Pakistani Taliban or another radical Islamic group, six U.S. officials said Thursday.
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Oh the Irony: “America is Back!,” Baby, But The Magazine Proclaiming This Just Might Go Out of Business — Remember this? Of course you do. It was like three weeks ago. You're morons, not retards. — Well, Newsweek's on the auction block, and the Washington Post Company's sales brochure …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: The Tea Party Tries to Outrun Race — Racist. Tea Party. — Are those separate concepts or a single one? Depends on whom you ask. — According to an article accompanying a Washington Post/ABC News poll released on Wednesday: “About 61 percent of tea party opponents …
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Illegal Status of Army Spouses Often Leads to Snags — Lt. Kenneth Tenebro enlisted in the armed forces after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, signing up even before he became an American citizen. — He served one tour of duty in Iraq, dodging roadside bombs, and he would like to do another.
Gail Collins / New York Times:
What Every Girl Should Know — A thousand years ago, popular birth control methods in the Western world included spitting into the mouth of a frog, eating bees and wearing the testicles of a weasel. In Córdoba, Spain, which was supposed to be on the scientific cutting edge …
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Prairie Weather
The New Republic:
The Crisis Comes Ashore — Why the oil spill could change everything. — The continuing undersea gusher of oil 50 miles off the shores of Louisiana is not the only source of dangerous uncontrolled pollution spewing into the environment. Worldwide, the amount of man-made CO2 …
Charlie Savage / The Caucus:
White House Deputy Counsel Resigns — Daniel J. Meltzer, a top White House lawyer who has played a critical behind-the-scenes role in the administration legal team, is resigning next month and will return to his tenured position as a Harvard law school professor, the White House said on Friday.
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
The BP Oil Spill's Toll On Gulf Coast Wildlife: ‘All Bets Are Off’ — Orange-colored oil from the April 22 BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reached Louisiana's fragile Chandeleur Islands, which are part of the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, an area that officials have now closed …
Yahoo! News:
Palin backs Fiorina, faces tea party Facebook backlash — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has made her Facebook page into a bully pulpit, issuing policy statements on such issues as nuclear proliferation and oil drilling. Now she's learning that social media can be more than a one-way system …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Shelby: GOP really standing with small businesses in financial bill opposition — Republicans are the party to stand with Main Street when it comes to financial reform, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said Saturday. — Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Reasons to be anxious about Afghanistan — The Obama administration's strategy for Afghanistan is to gradually transfer responsibility to the Afghans, starting in July 2011. But on the eve of President Hamid Karzai's visit to Washington, there's little evidence so far to demonstrate that this transfer process will actually work.
ConstantineXIII / CBS News:
Sec. Clinton on Pakistan and The War on Terror — Says Pakistan More Helpful in War on Terror; Warns of “Severe Consequences” If Successful Terror Attack Originated There — (CBS) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the Pakistani government has been warned that if a terror operation …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Arizona Was Right to Take Action on Immigration — Most American voters think Arizona was right to pass its own immigration law, and think the Obama administration should wait and see how the new law works rather than try to stop it, according to a Fox News poll released Friday.
Washington Post:
GOP takes jab at Democrats' ‘luck’ in fighting terrorism — Two days after the dramatic arrest of Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad, Republicans were engaged in a full-bore effort to rewrite the good-news narrative. — “Yes, we have been lucky,” House Minority Leader John A. Boehner …
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Ynetnews:
Judge Goldstone's dark past — Yedioth Ahronoth investigation reveals man preaching human rights, who authored scathing report against Israel's operation in Gaza, sent at least 28 black defendants to gallows as South African judge under Apartheid regime — Tehiya Barak — Latest Update:
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Leading With Two Minds — They say that intellectual history travels slowly, and by hearse. The old generation has to die off before a new set of convictions can rise and replace entrenched ways of thinking. People also say that a large organization is like an aircraft carrier.
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General David H. Petraeus / American Enterprise …:
The Surge of Ideas — COINdinistas and Change in the U.S. Army in 2006
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