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Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
10 Reported Killed as Israel Attacks Boats Headed to Gaza — JERUSALEM — The Israeli Navy attacked a flotilla carrying thousands of tons of supplies for Gaza on Monday morning, killing at least 10 people, according to the Israeli military and activists traveling with the flotilla.
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Richard Fernandez / Pajamas Media:
Where the Old Flotilla Lay — The ‘aid flotilla’ bound for Gaza met the immovable object and the resulting clash, under circumstances yet only sketchily described, may have resulted in 16 protester deaths and 6 IDF personnel injured. The LA Times reported that “Israel had vowed to intercept the boats …
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Ynetnews:
Report: 14 killed, 50 injured in Gaza sail — Israeli Navy attacks six vessels carrying pro-Palestinian activists and aid to blockaded Strips. According to unofficial reports, at least two people killed, dozens injured. Four IDF soldiers hurt, one sustaining severe wounds.
Aljazeera:
Israel attacks Gaza aid fleet — Al Jazeera's report on board the Mavi Marmara before communications were cut — Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country's siege on Gaza. — More than 10 people were killed and dozens injured when troops stormed …
New York Times:
U.S. Plans ‘for Worst’ in Gulf, Seeing Risk in Leak Strategy — After the failure of an effort to seal off a well spewing oil one mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico, a top Obama administration environmental official said the government is “prepared for the worst” in case oil keeps gushing until relief wells …
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Blazing Cat Fur:
Ali Mallah CUPE Union Thug Assaults Blazingcatfur at Islamofascist Anti-Netanyahu Rally! — Shocking video! Ripped from today's headlines! Ali Mallah a notorious Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Union Thug Assaults intrepid blogger Blazingcatfur!
BREITBART.COM:
Israel recoils as US backs nuclear move — Washington's unprecedented backing for a UN resolution for a nuclear-free Middle East that singles out Israel has both angered and deeply worried the Jewish state although officials are cagey about openly criticising their biggest ally.
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Donald Douglas / American Power:
Immigrants and Socialists March Against SB 1070 in Phoenix — This is why I covered it. Reading the morning newspapers on yesterday's illegal immigrant march in Phoenix, you'd think it was just a nice outing for families to stand up against Arizona's SB 1070. But this was no weekend picnic.
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Honolulu Advertiser:
Case withdraws from Congressional race — Former congressman Ed Case said today that he will withdraw from the Democratic primary for Congress, explaining that too much is at stake to divide the party as it attempts to win back urban Honolulu's 1st Congressional District from U.S. Rep. Charles Djou, (R-Hawaii).
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Dowd: President Present strikes again — After Barack Obama finally held an open press conference 309 days after his previous one and more than five weeks after the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf, I fully expected his defenders in the media to rush back to his side and declare him The Most Caring …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Once More, With Feeling — President Spock's behavior is illogical.
Once More, With Feeling — President Spock's behavior is illogical.
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Andrew Roberts / The Daily Beast:
Nick Kristof's Unhinged Attack on Ayaan Hirsi Ali — Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World — Blogs and Stories — Historian Andrew Roberts blasts Nick Kristof's condescending New York Times review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and her new book, Nomad. — The bravest woman I know …
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
O Canada — Looking north for economic inspiration. — Canada was called an “honorary member of the Third World” by the Wall Street Journal in 1995, and for good reason. Out-of-control spending, soaring debt, and the government's bite of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) …
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Ironman / The Next Right:
BP's strange Democrat bedfellows … in - BP - Connecticut - Nancy Pelosi - oil spill - Rahm Emanuel - Rosa DeLauro - Stan Greenberg — Here's something you probably don;t know about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. — One of the top media consultants for British Petroleum gave free rent …