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John F. Burns / New York Times:
Uncovering Iraq's Horrors in Desert Graves — ON THE EDGE OF THE ASH SHAM DESERT, Iraq, June 3 — Among experts on the American-led team investigating Iraq's mass graves, the skeletal remains lying face-up at the rear of the tangled grave here have been given a name — the Blue Man …
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NEWS.com.au:
Students gunned down — GUNMEN have dragged 24 people, mostly teenage students, from their vehicles and shot them dead in the latest wave of violence in Iraq. — As Iraqi leaders appeared deadlocked overnight on naming new interior and defence ministers seen as critical to restoring stability, the relentless killings continued.
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Page 53 — Twenty four people have been killed without provocation in Iraq. And it's all America's fault. … Actually, there was provocation. American provocation. If the government weren't US-backed or Shiite-led it wouldn't have happened. The Shi'ites make up the majority of the population in Iraq.
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Debra Rosenberg / Newsweek:
Politics of the Altar — GOP leaders are putting gay marriage back on the agenda. Will voters respond? — June 12, 2006 issue - Back in 2004, suburban Seattle pastor Alec Rowlands watched with dismay as gay couples in Massachusetts flocked to courthouses and churches, exchanged vows and walked away legally wed.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush expected to jump-start debate over same-sex marriage — Amendment bid to limit unions to men, women — WASHINGTON — For the first time in his second term, President Bush will revisit the emotional debate over same-sex marriage. In two speeches, he will press the Senate to approve …
Thomas Lipscomb / Real Clear Politics:
The Truth, John Kerry, and The New York Times — Kate Zernike's story on the front page of the Memorial Day Sunday New York Times, "Kerry Pressing Swift Boat Case Long After Loss," is an unfortunate reminder of the Times's embarrassingly poor coverage of Kerry in the face of the Swift Boat Veterans …
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Hartford Courant:
Paul Bass — Seasonal Memory Lapses — Medical researchers have identified a host of causes for amnesia, from encephalitis to traumatic brain injury. — I've discovered another cause: political campaigns. — Exhibit A: The current campaign in Connecticut for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination.
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New York Times:
Details Emerge About Suspects in Canada Bomb Plot — MISSISSAUGA, Canada, June 4 — Several of the people arrested by Canadian authorities in a huge counterterrorism sweep over the weekend regularly attended the same storefront mosque in a middle-class neighborhood of modest brick rental townhouses and well-kept lawns.
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BBC:
Tehran warns of fuel disruptions — Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that fuel shipments from the Gulf region could be disrupted if the US makes a "wrong move". — In a speech on state TV, Ayatollah Khamenei also said accusations that Iran intended to make a nuclear bomb amounted to a "sheer lie".
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Ahmadinejad: I've Got A Secret
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Washington Post:
For Deals, Jefferson Built Web Of Firms — On May 12, 2005, over dinner with business partner and FBI informant Lori Mody, Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) furtively scrawled the letter "c" on a sheet of paper, and next to it wrote some numbers indicating that he was demanding …
Wayne Slater / Dallas Morning News:
GOP buttons on their shirts and faith on their sleeves — Republican convention draws religious conservatives — SAN ANTONIO - Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell offered a greeting to delegates to the Republican convention. "It's great to be back in the holy land," the Fort Worth native …
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Jere Longman / New York Times:
The Americans, Seriously — In his polo shirt, pleated pants and loafers, Bruce Arena might have been an executive exhorting the troops on a corporate retreat. Instead, he was pacing the tiny locker room at the SAS Soccer Park in Cary, N.C. On this April night, the United States men's national team …
Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Medical Privacy Law Nets No Fines — Lax Enforcement Puts Patients' Files At Risk, Critics Say — In the three years since Americans gained federal protection for their private medical information, the Bush administration has received thousands of complaints alleging violations …
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Mike McGarry / Rocky Mountain News:
State, U.S. would be far better off without flood of illegal immigrants — "To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub" — Fact: America is the most generous legal-immigrant-receiving country on Earth, admitting more immigrants each year than are admitted by all the countries of the world combined.
Michael Pollan / New York Times:
Mass Natural — "Elitist" is just about the nastiest name you can call someone, or something, in America these days, a finely-honed term of derision in the culture wars, and "elitist" has stuck to organic food in this country like balsamic vinegar to mâche.
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
GEORGE BUSH MADE ME HAVE SEX — Well, not literally. — Bush has been blamed for most of the world's ills over the past five years. He has been blamed for tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, obesity, a rise in global temperatures, and the pimple on Duncan Black's posterior.
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Cassandra / Villainous Company:The DimWittery Chronicles, Part I
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