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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 …
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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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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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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TODAY:
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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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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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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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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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama, Putin share ‘informal’ talk — President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin shared what the White House called “an informal conversation” Friday on the sidelines of a Normandy lunch marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day. — The brief talk, which lasted 10 to 15 minutes …
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Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Primary Winner: Poll Averages Prove More Accurate — For all the focus on Republican infighting this primary season, one quiet winner has emerged from these intraparty contests: public-opinion polls. — Individual survey results have been all over the map in primary after primary …
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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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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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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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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.