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David Brooks / New York Times:
President Obama Was Right — Americans don't have a common ancestry. Therefore, we have to work hard to build national solidarity. We go in for more overt displays of patriotism than in most other countries: politicians wearing flag lapel pins, everybody singing the national anthem before games …
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The Rush to Demonize Sgt. Bergdahl — Four months ago, Senator John McCain said he would support the exchange of five hard-core Taliban leaders for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. “I would support,” he told CNN. “Obviously I'd have to know the details, but I would support ways of bringing …
Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Bergdahl declared jihad in 2010, secret documents show — U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at one point during his captivity converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a “mujahid,” or warrior for Islam, according to secret documents prepared on the basis …
Jeff Bell / Wall Street Journal:
43 beats 44, 48% to 42%. — This has to hurt: A plurality of respondents in a new Fox News poll “believe the administration of former President George W. Bush was more competent [than] the Obama administration,” the Hill reports. “Forty-eight percent say the Obama administration is less competent …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Free him, then try him — (Uncredited/AP) - In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, stands with a Taliban fighter in eastern Afghanistan.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Did John McCain flip-flop on the Bergdahl deal?
Did John McCain flip-flop on the Bergdahl deal?
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David Conti / Greensburg Tribune-Review:
In Pittsburgh, Leon Panetta questions prisoner swap with Taliban
In Pittsburgh, Leon Panetta questions prisoner swap with Taliban
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Spies Worry Qatar Will ‘Magically Lose Track’ of Released Taliban
U.S. Spies Worry Qatar Will ‘Magically Lose Track’ of Released Taliban
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Bowe Bergdahl handover shown in Taliban video
Bowe Bergdahl handover shown in Taliban video
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep. Who Defended Bergdahl Now Calls Him Deserter
GOP Rep. Who Defended Bergdahl Now Calls Him Deserter
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Unraveling — How the Obama administration's story on Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban fell apart — Late in the afternoon of Saturday, May 31, Barack Obama strode confidently to a lectern in the White House Rose Garden flanked by the parents of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl …
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Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
An Anatomy of the Right's Bergdahl Overreach
An Anatomy of the Right's Bergdahl Overreach
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Scarborough And Todd Get Into On-Air Shouting Match Over Bergdahl's Dad
Scarborough And Todd Get Into On-Air Shouting Match Over Bergdahl's Dad
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KIRO-TV:
Seattle Pacific University shooting: Multiple victims, 2 shooters — Quick Facts: — At least six people shot at Seattle Pacific University. — At least one suspect in custody. Police initially said two. — School is about 10 min. from downtown Seattle with about 4,000 students.
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The Seattle Times:
1 dead, others hurt in shooting at Seattle Pacific University before student tackles gunman — One student is dead and at least two others were wounded in a shooting Thursday afternoon at Seattle Pacific University. — A Seattle Pacific University (SPU) student tackled a gunman who was reloading …
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New York Times:
Memories From Normandy — Beginning on June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 Allied troops landed on a broad stretch of beaches on the coast of Normandy, in German-held France. Entrenched behind concrete walls and bunkers were more than 50,000 German soldiers. Seventy years later …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Honors Moment of Liberation in Normandy
Obama Honors Moment of Liberation in Normandy
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New York Times:
It's Not Too Soon to Pay Attention to Senate Polling — Just five months until November's midterm elections and already early polling results have countered some expectations. In Arkansas, the Democrat Mark Pryor is showing surprising strength in a red state, and in North Carolina …
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Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Primary Winner: Poll Averages Prove More Accurate
Primary Winner: Poll Averages Prove More Accurate
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CNN:
70 years later, D-Day vet Jim ‘Pee Wee’ Martin jumps again — Normandy, France (CNN) — Jim “Pee Wee” Martin acted like he'd been here before, like jumping from a plane is as easy as falling off a log. — Maybe that's because he had — 70 years ago. — “I'm feeling fine,” …
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Kerry Picket / BREITBART.COM:
SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATING 37 CASES OF VA RETALIATION AGAINST WHISTLEBLOWERS — The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) announced on Thursday that it is presently investigating allegations from 37 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee whistleblowers at VA facilities in 19 states …
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Dialing It In — One evening in March, during a visit to Italy, President Obama asked the U.S. ambassador to round up a bunch of—and I quote—"interesting Italians" for a dinner at the ambassadorial residence. The history of the property, the Villa Taverna, goes as far back as the tenth century.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Climate Domino — Maybe it's me, but the predictable right-wing cries of outrage over the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules on carbon seem oddly muted and unfocused. I mean, these are the people who managed to create national outrage over nonexistent death panels.