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3:15 PM ET, May 31, 2007

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Sam Brownback / New York Times:
What I Think About Evolution  —  IN our sound-bite political culture, it is unrealistic to expect that every complicated issue will be addressed with the nuance or subtlety it deserves.  So I suppose I should not have been surprised earlier this month when, during the first Republican presidential debate …
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National Review:
Sam I Am  —  Here is Sam Brownback talking about evolutionary biology.
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
ABCNEWS:
NASA's Top Official Questions Global Warming  —  NASA Administrator Michael Griffin Questions Need to Combat Warming  —  NASA administrator Michael Griffin is drawing the ire of his agency's preeminent climate scientists after apparently downplaying the need to combat global warming.
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NPR:
NASA Chief Questions Urgency of Global Warming  —  · NASA administrator Michael Griffin defends the space agency's programs, including plans for a permanent moon base and manned missions to Mars.  He also says that while NASA studies climate change, the agency has no authorization to …
Dallas Morning News:
A spreading terror  —  Iraq now set up as a school for insurgents ready to be exported, says GEORGIE ANNE GEYER  —  Anyone who knows anything about cancer knows that the danger point comes when the cancer suddenly and unexpectedly appears in another supposedly "clean" part of the body.
Associated Press:
White House envisions "Korean model" in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush would like to see the U.S. military provide long-term stability in Iraq as it has in South Korea, where thousands of American troops have been based for more than half a century, the White House said Wednesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Can the Iraq 'Surge' Be Salvaged?
Associated Press:
U.S. Commanders Talking to Iraqi Militants About Cease-Fires  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. military commanders are talking with Iraqi militants about cease-fires and other arrangements to try to stop the violence, the No. 2 American commander said Thursday.  —  Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno …
Discussion: Tammy Bruce and The Newshoggers
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE HOUR IS LATE  —  From Baghdad comes news of a popular uprising against al Qaeda:
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Case for Conservatism  —  Conservatism's recovery of its intellectual equilibrium requires a confident explanation of why America has two parties and why the conservative one is preferable.  Today's political argument involves perennial themes that give it more seriousness than many participants understand.
Philip G. Schrag / SSRN:
Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication  —  The James E. Beasley School of Law, Temple University … Abstract:  —  This study analyzes databases of merits decisions from all four levels of the asylum adjudication process: 133,000 decisions by 884 asylum officers over a seven year period …
Discussion: Reason Magazine
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White House:
President Bush Discusses United States International Development Agenda  —  Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center  —  Washington, D.C.  —  MRS. BUSH: Thank you, George, for that kind introduction.  Thanks to the United States Global Leadership Council for hosting us this morning.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Time for 'Plan B-H' in Iraq?  —  President Bush said publicly last Thursday what his top aides have been discussing privately for weeks.  He talked about a transition to "a different configuration" in Iraq after the surge of U.S. troops is completed this summer.
Washington Post:
Bush Reaches to Putin as Relations Continue to Slide  —  President Bush yesterday launched a high-stakes effort to repair the dramatically deteriorating U.S. relationship with Russia by inviting President Vladimir Putin to visit the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, after weeks of rhetoric reminiscent of the Cold War.
Lou Dobbs / CNN:
An answer for my critics  —  Editor's note: Lou Dobbs' commentary appears weekly on CNN.com.  This commentary is a transcript of a commentary Lou delivered on "Lou Dobbs Tonight"  —  NEW YORK — I've been — over the years, because of our reporting on controversial issues and my strongly held beliefs …
David Saltonstall / NY Daily News:
Ex-Clinton FBI chief pushing Prez Rudy  —  Louis Freeh, Democrat Bill Clinton's FBI director, is going over to the other side in a big way today - endorsing Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, the Daily News has learned.  —  The high-profile endorsement is a boon to the former mayor …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Fred Thompson, "tough guy" and "folksy cultural conservative"  —  Newsweek's Howard Fineman — last seen expressing admiration for the "reassuring" "male" qualities exuded by the GOP presidential field — was on Hardball last night heaping praise on Fred Thompson.
Gateway Pundit:
Human Shields in Iraq  —  Looking for safety.  —  A young Iraqi seeks shelter behind a U.S. soldier following a suicide blast.  (RofP)  —  These human shields are not exactly your Code Pink variety.  —  ** I am thinking that I have seen this photo before- But I don't really care.
 
 
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