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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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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
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: ‘No evidence’ Bergdahl fraternized with Taliban
White House: ‘No evidence’ Bergdahl fraternized with Taliban
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The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Hot Air
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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The PJ Tatler, National Review, Washington Post and Human Events
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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ThinkProgress:
Did Sergeant Bergdahl Desert The Army Or Did The Army Desert Him? — Vikram J. Singh is Vice President for National Security and International Affairs at the Center for American Progress. — The mental health issues of soldiers during our longest period of war are often overlooked.
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Unraveling — How the Obama administration's story …
The Unraveling — How the Obama administration's story …
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The Daily Beast
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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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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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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Laura Smith-Spark / CNN:
Obama: D-Day veterans' stories should remain ‘seared into memory’
Obama: D-Day veterans' stories should remain ‘seared into memory’
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Blogcritics, Hit & Run and PoliticusUSA
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
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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George R.R. Martin / Prizeo:
WIN A WOLF SANCTUARY TOUR AND HELICOPTER RIDE WITH — SUPPORT WILD SPIRIT AND FOOD DEPOT … 59 DAYS TO GO — $173,635 — GEORGE R.R. MARTIN — THE PRIZE — It's George R.R. Martin, and I'm here to raise money for the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary and The Food Depot of Santa Fe.
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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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Washington Monthly, alicublog and The PJ Tatler
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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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Tea Party Group Flips To Attacking ‘Liberal’ MS Dem Before Runoff — The U.S. Senate runoff election between Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS) is still weeks away but the pro-McDaniel tea party-aligned Club for Growth is already directing some fire at Democratic nominee Travis Childers.
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Washington Monthly
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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WTVC-TV:
Man Killed in Accidental Shooting While Driving — A family is grieving after a man, who was only a mile away from his home, accidentally shoots himself while driving Wednesday afternoon. — 49-year-old James McKenzie died from his injuries. — NewsChannel 9 has learned that the victim …
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Mushtaq Yusufzai / NBC News:
Freed Taliban Commander Tells Relative He'll Fight Americans Again — “Noorullah Noori kept insisting he would go to Afghanistan and fight American forces there,” a Taliban commander told NBC News.
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