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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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New York Times:
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 …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Did John McCain flip-flop on the Bergdahl deal? — “Now this idea is for an exchange of prisoners for our American fighting man. I would be inclined to support such a thing depending on a lot of the details.” — “We were never told that there would be an exchange of Sergeant Bergdahl for five Taliban.”
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Susan Rice defends Bergdahl comments, calls his service ‘honorable’ — Colleville-sur-Mer, FRANCE (CNN) — President Barack Obama's national security adviser said Friday that her full-throated praise of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was appropriate given the former Taliban prisoner's willingness …
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Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
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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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New York Times
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 …
Free him, then try him — (Uncredited/AP) - In this image taken …
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Wall Street Journal, The Dish and National Review
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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National Review, Human Events and New York Times
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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American Spectator, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Taylor Marsh, Hullabaloo and Little Green Footballs
TODAY:
Bowe Bergdahl handover shown in Taliban video
Bowe Bergdahl handover shown in Taliban video
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The Federalist, RedState, Slate, The Gateway Pundit, TIME and Politico
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Obama And Putin Have Totally Awkward D-Day Encounter — Things got awkward when President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin found themselves in close quarters Friday. — The leaders were attending a luncheon hosted by French President Francois Hollande after the morning's D-Day ceremonies.
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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:
Hero's quick thinking likely saved lives at SPU — He's described as quiet, gentle, outdoorsy; a young man of deep Christian faith and dedicated student on the cusp of a promising life beyond college. But by several accounts Thursday, a single word prevailed when describing Seattle Pacific University student Jon Meis: hero.
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NPR, Religion News Service and Clayton Cramer
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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The Hugh Hewitt Show
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 …
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Bill McBride / Calculated Risk:
May Employment Report: 217,000 Jobs, 6.3% Unemployment Rate — From the BLS: … Click on graph for larger image. — The headline number was at expectations of 213,000 payroll jobs added. — The first graph shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession …
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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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protein wisdom, Outside the Beltway, AMERICAN DIGEST and Gawker
Wall Street Journal:
Schumer Drops by Graduations to Tell Same ‘Loser’ Story — New York Senator Often Arrives Unadvertised but Colleges Aren't Complaining; 'It's a Tradition' — New York Sen. Chuck Schumer likes to show up unannounced at college commencements in the state, and he often tells this story about the summer after he graduated from Harvard.
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Business Insider and Capital New York
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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alicublog and The PJ Tatler
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Republican senators push Obama to repeal EPA proposal — Forty-one Republican senators sent a letter to President Obama Wednesday urging him to withdraw the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed regulations to limit carbon emissions from power plants.
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Talking Points Memo
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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Hot Air
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.