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Juan / Informed Comment:
Hitchens the Hacker; And, Hitchens the Orientalist — And, "We don't Want Your Stinking War! — Christopher Hitchens owes me a big apology. — I belong to a private email discussion group called Gulf2000. It has academics, journalists and policy makers on it.
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Iranian threats, "wiping Israel off the map," and the Hitchens v. Cole cage match — Iran yesterday repeated its threat to retaliate against Israel if the United States attacked it. There was no reaction from world leaders to this illegal and outrageous threat.
Michael Young / Hit and Run:Icarus Cole — One of those delightful spats between public …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
MAX BOOT: … Of course, if we seized the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and ran the pumps full speed, oil prices would plummet, dictators would be broke, and poor nations would benefit from cheap energy. But we'd be called imperialist oppressors, then. — UPDATE: Various people …
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Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Filling tanks, funding dictators — FREE-MARKET purists are getting a lot of mileage out of scoffing at all the hysteria about rising oil prices. From a strictly economic point of view, they've got a point. Even with crude selling at more than $71 a barrel and gasoline at about $3 a gallon, the U.S. economy continues to expand.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Man Who Won't Sell His Soul — BRUSSELS — Sen. John McCain likes the moral high ground, and he takes palpable pleasure in delivering zingers to errant Russians, Iranians and Europeans, as he did at a conference here last weekend. But as the apparent front-runner in the 2008 presidential race …
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Reuters:
Britons find media hard to trust — LONDON (Reuters) - Britain may have a sophisticated media industry but it also has some of the most sceptical consumers, with nearly two-thirds (64 percent) believing the media does not report all sides of the story. — A 10-country opinion poll for Reuters …
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Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
Federal Study Finds Accord on Warming — A scientific study commissioned by the Bush administration concluded yesterday that the lower atmosphere was indeed growing warmer and that there was "clear evidence of human influences on the climate system." — The finding eliminates a significant area …
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Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
Hearing vowed on Bush's powers — Senator questions bypassing of laws — WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing the White House of a ''very blatant encroachment" on congressional authority, said yesterday he will hold an oversight hearing into President Bush's assertion …
cis.org:
Approach on Immigration — Poll is First to Offer the Public a Choice — Between House and Senate Plan — WASHINGTON (May 3, 2006) - A new Zogby poll of likely voters, using neutral language (see wording on following pages), finds that Americans prefer the House of Representatives' enforcement …
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CNN:
Tsunami warnings lifted after massive quake off Tonga — (CNN) — All tsunami warnings issued after a major quake in the southern Pacific Ocean have been canceled, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. — The alerts for the southwestern Pacific Islands were issued early Thursday …
Sports Illustrated:
Keeping perspective on draft week — Readers e-mails on draft, the truth about New Orleans … I sense that we in this country have Katrina fatigue. The New York Times reported as much recently, saying that people in some of the areas that welcomed Katrina evacuees last September are sick …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Administration Is Singing More Than One Tune on Spanish Version of Anthem — President Bush declared last week that the national anthem should be sung in English not Spanish, but he evidently never told his own government or campaign organizations. — The State Department posts four Spanish versions of …
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Susan_Spencer-Wendel / Palm Beach Post:
Limbaugh denies arrest, charge on radio show — WEST PALM BEACH — Conservative king Rush Limbaugh opened his talk show Monday with an account of the agreement he struck with prosecutors and his quick trip to the Palm Beach County Jail Friday. — "There was no arrest. There were no handcuffs.
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
After Press Dinner, the Blogosphere Is Alive With the Sound of Colbert Chatter — Mark Smith, a reporter for The Associated Press who is president of the White House Correspondents' Association, acknowledges that he had not seen much of Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central before he booked …
kpho.com:
Sheriff to Start Posse Patrols to Curb Illegal Immigration Flow — (CBS 5 NEWS) - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced that approximately 100 volunteer posse and Sheriff's Deputies will soon begin randomly patrolling the desert areas and main roadways in southwest Maricopa County …
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Acrimony Over Bush Judicial Nominations Resurfaces — Senate Democrats Threaten To Filibuster Conservative Duo — After months of relative quiet, senators raised the prospect yesterday of a return to bitter battles and a possible filibuster over judicial nominations …
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