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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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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 Week, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Huffington Post
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 …
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TheBlaze.com, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, The Huffington Post, The Daily Caller, Politico, Lawfare, Daily Kos, Slate, Hot Air and Los Angeles 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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Associated Press, RedState, Washington Post and The Hill
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 and Politico
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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Lawfare, Guardian, National Review, KUSI-TV and PoliticusUSA, more at Mediagazer »
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 and New York Times
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Are Weary in Wake of Bergdahl Case
Democrats Are Weary in Wake of Bergdahl Case
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Hot Air, JustOneMinute, Politico, TIME and VodkaPundit
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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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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National Review and Wall Street Journal
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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Washington Post, American Spectator and RedState
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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Taylor Marsh, The Huffington Post, Hullabaloo and Politico
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Scarborough, Todd Erupt over Bergdahl's Dad: 'Don't Criticize the Parents in Here'
Scarborough, Todd Erupt over Bergdahl's Dad: 'Don't Criticize the Parents in Here'
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PJ Media
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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Daily Kos
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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 — 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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Taegan Goddard's …
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.
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.
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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Outside the Beltway, protein wisdom and AMERICAN DIGEST
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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The PJ Tatler