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Think Progress (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
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On Wednesday, the House took up the seemingly uncontroversial H. Res. 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day.” The resolution initially passed 412 to 0, until Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) rose in protest: Mr. Speaker, I ask for a recorded vote because I’m [...]
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
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Jack Kelly looks at the same passage in Obama's North Carolina victory speech that we touched on in "Obama's improbable history." Obama said: I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did. Kelly provides a refresher course: Our enemies in World War II were Nazi Germany,...
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
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Few topics have been more thoroughly misreported than our government's planning for post-Saddam Iraq. In the MSM narrative, a project called the Future of Iraq developed a plan for rebuilding Iraq, but neo-conservatives in the Defense Department dismissed it and offered nothing in its place. Thus, the conventional wisdom is that we didn't have a plan for dealing with Iraq in the aftermath of the...
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On Deadline (Free subscription) | yesterday
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A 37-year-old man is charged with raping a 10-year-old girl who gave birth last month in Idaho. "St. Anthony Police said they were notified of the young girl's pregnancy by medical personnel after she went in for treatment at a...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
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Two weeks ago, the New York Times revealed that the "military analysts" parading through network and cable newscasts for the past six years have been largely willing members of a Pentagon psy-ops program, used as "message force multipliers" to carry good-news messaging about the war to viewers. Today, the Politico runs a story about the deafening response from those networks, usually so eager to hop...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | yesterday
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The idea of a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton "unity ticket" has been floated quite a bit the last few days. But, seriously, is the idea any good? We asked a few friends of the magazine to weigh in. Here's Ed Kilgore, managing editor of The Democratic Strategist , an online magazine . There are a lot of obstacles to an Obama-Clinton "unity ticket." Maybe she doesn't want to be vice president. Maybe they...
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The Politicker (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Frank Morano, an executive committee member of the New York State Independence Party and Staten Island activist (and, by his description, a friend of Vito Fossella), thinks Fossella's recent personal problems run the risk of overshadowing his political work if he seeks reelection. "I think this would become much more of an issue than the war in Iraq, or the economy, or gas prices, or traffic and transportation...
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Wake Up America (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
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Opinion It always amuses me how politicians accuse others of "smearing" them when the simple truth is stated. Barack obama is whining and saying that John McCain is smearing him because McCain said, "a spokesperson from Hamas said they wanted Sen. Obama. ... It's indicative of how some of our enemies view America. I guarantee you they're not going to endorse me." News for Obama and Obama supporters...when...
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House of Eratosthenes (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Found this article via Boortz that says conservatives are much happier in life than liberals, and tries to find an explanation for this differential. Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a...
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The Blog (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
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Unconfirmed reports from Iraq indicate the Iraqi Army may have captured Abu Ayyub al Masri , the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq who was hand picked by Ayman al Zawahiri to succeed Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Al Masri has reportedly been captured in the northern city of Mosul, where al Qaeda is attempting to regroup after taking a beating from U.S. and Iraqi forces during the height of the surge in 2007. Reports...
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MyDD (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
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Sam Stein at HuffPo breaks a big story - Obama is considering a campaign-imposed private donation maximum below the $2300 legal limit per individual in the general election. This is a huge signal away from public financing: During a private fundraiser last month, Sen. Barack Obama said he was "considering" voluntarily restricting the amount of money he could raise in a general election from campaign...
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Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | yesterday
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According to the Huffington Post's Tom Edsall and a number of others, one of the possibilities in the offing if Hillary Clinton quickly ends her presidential campaign is that the Obama campaign will not only retire the $10 to $15...
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Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Media Matters: Following the publication of the April 20 New York Times front-page article on the hidden ties between media military analysts and the Pentagon, the Department of Defense has released to the public numerous documents regarding the analyst program. One of the documents released is an audio recording of an April 18, 2006, meeting [...]
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Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Two weeks ago, controversial Pastor John Hagee reiterated his prior belief that Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans because it was “planning a sinful” “homosexual rally.” Asked about the comments, McCain — who sought Hagee’s endorsement for more than a year — was forced to distance himself, calling them “nonsense” nine times. After McCain was put on [...]
