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New York Times:
McChrystal Is Removed From Afghan Command — WASHINGTON — President Obama removed Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander of American forces in Afghanistan on Wednesday, and tapped as his replacement the general's boss and the architect of the 2007 surge in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus.
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Gen. Petraeus Will Replace Embattled Gen. McChrystal in Afghanistan — The Embattled General Will No Longer Be Leading U.S. Counterinsurgency Efforts — President Obama today relieved embattled Gen. Stanley McChrystal from his position as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan …
msnbc.com:
Obama relieves McChrystal of command — Gen. David Petraeus replaces him as top Afghan commander — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying that his scathing published remarks about administration …
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
McChrystal to Administration Official: 'I've Compromised the Mission' — During his round of phone calls to top officials of the Obama administration whom he and his team disparaged to a Rolling Stone reporter, Gen. Stanley McChrystal said, “I've compromised the mission,” a senior administration source tells ABC News.
Rose Garden / The White House:
Statement by the President in the Rose Garden — THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Today I accepted General Stanley McChrystal's resignation as commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. I did so with considerable regret, but also with certainty …
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
McCain, Graham, Lieberman call for changes to civilian Afghanistan team
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Eliot A. Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
Why McChrystal Has to Go — It is intolerable for military officers …
David Jackson / USA Today:
Obama relieves McChrystal, replaces him with Petraeus: AP
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Associated Press:
AP Source: Obama ousts Afghan commander McChrystal
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David Weigel / Right Now:
‘Joe Barton was right,’ Joe Barton tweets — Hours after getting a respite from House Republicans, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) has cheekily responded to criticism over his “apology to BP” by tweeting a link to an American Spectator article titled “Joe Barton was right.”
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Peter Hannaford / American Spectator:
Joe Barton Was Right — Rep. Joe Barton of Texas broke an iron law of Washington last week. He described the elephant in the room that no one was supposed to see. In this case, it was the strong-arming Obama & Co. applied to BP to get it to “voluntarily” set up a $20 billion fund …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Texans Down on Barton — Texans think that Barack Obama's right and Joe Barton's wrong when it comes to BP's responsibility for cleaning up the oil spill, and a plurality of voters in the state think Barton should lose his leadership post on the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
House GOP moves to keep Barton
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WDSU-TV:
Federal Gov't Halts Sand Berm Dredging — Nungesser Pleads With President To Allow Work To Continue — NEW ORLEANS — The federal government is shutting down the dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico. — The berms are meant to protect the Louisiana coastline from oil.
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Nikki Fever — In the end, it wasn't even close. Nikki Haley trounced her opponent by 30 points in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. She overcame smears about infidelity — which were never proven and seemed to make her all the more sympathetic. She weathered nasty attacks on her religion.
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Nikki Haley, Tim Scott win Republican primaries in South Carolina
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John Fritze / ABCNEWS:
First Female Governor Possible in Eight States
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Associated Press:
More Oil Gushing Into Gulf After Problem With Cap — NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard says BP has been forced to remove a cap that was containing some of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. — Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says an underwater robot bumped into the venting system.
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Ezra Klein:
Health-care reform getting more, not less, popular — I got an e-mail from the House minority leader's office this morning linking me to their new report, “Obamacare: Three Months of Broken Promises.” “Three things are abundantly clear about President Obama's new health care law three months …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April suggests that the economic recovery is proceeding and that the labor market is improving gradually. Household spending is increasing but remains constrained by high unemployment …
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Graphic Sex Ed Class Under Fire — Parents are outraged after young teenagers were instructed on graphic sexual acts during a Planned Parenthood sex education class at the local high school in Shenandoah, Iowa. — “It was horribly inappropriate,” Colleen Dostal told Fox News Radio.
National Enquirer:
EXCLUSIVE: GORE SEX SCANDAL — ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE: AL GORE has been accused of sexually attacking a masseuse in Portland, Oregon - and is named in the official police report about the alleged assault, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively! — The bombshell story will appear …
CNN:
Spitzer, Parker to host primetime CNN show — CNN announced Wednesday that Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer will host its new 8 p.m. program. — Washington (CNN) - Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Kathleen Parker will co-host …
ABCNews.com:
Vitter Aide Resigns After ABC News Disclosures About Past — Drunk Driving, Attack on Girlfriend, Open Warrant Detailed in ABC News Report — A trusted aide to Louisiana Sen. David Vitter resigned Wednesday morning after ABC News reported that he had been arrested for attacking his ex-girlfriend …
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John / Power Line:
Sharia Comes to Michigan — Under Sharia law, it is forbidden to proselytize to Muslims, and no Muslim can leave the faith. Dearborn, Michigan, is home to a substantial Muslim population, and there is strong evidence that local authorities now enforce sharia in preference to the Constitution of the United States.
ZIP / Weasel Zippers:
MoveOn Scrubs “General Betray Us” Page From Website . . . Update: Flashback to 2007, Obama Skipped Senate Vote to Condemn MoveOn . . . Update 2: Rationale Page Also Flushed. . . It was there the last time Google cache took a screen shot of it (June 18th), so it was scrubbed sometime between then and today.
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Guardian:
Nurse being kissed in iconic wartime picture dies, aged 91 — Edith Shain was photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt in Times Square in 1945 being kissed by a sailor — Edith Shain is kissed by an American sailor while thousands jam Times Square, New York, to celebrate victory over Japan in 1945.
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Pelosi asks for donations to fend off potential GOP investigations — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is asking supporters for contributions to help prevent the “subpoenas and investigations” that would result from a GOP majority. — In a fundraising letter for the Democratic Congressional …
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