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The Myth of Biden v. Bork

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Jeffrey Rosen - Aug. 27 (Opinion) - Senator Biden, who had built a national reputation by attacking the excesses of liberal interest groups, made clear that he would not tolerate these ad hominem attacks. He promised to focus the questioning on Judge Bork's substantive views about the right to privacy, rather than demonize him by conflating his personal and judicial views or trolling for private indiscretions.

Submitted by: Kaizar Campwala

NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 from source rating - Review It

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Après Musharraf, patience

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

International Herald Tribune - By Hassan Abbas - Aug. 27 (Opinion) - Western governments clearly have mixed feelings about the legacy of Pervez Musharraf and are trying to grasp what is in store for a nuclear-armed state whose writ is diminishing within its territories. The concern is legitimate, but it underestimates Pakistan's potential. The notion that somehow developing countries, and especially Muslim-majority states, cannot adjust to democratic model is a flawed assessment...

Last reviewed by: Andrew Boggeri

NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 from source rating - Review It

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Russia's Aggression Is a Challenge to World Order

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Wall Street Journal - By Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman - Aug. 27 (Opinion) - Russia's aggression is not just a threat to a tiny democracy on the edge of Europe. It is a challenge to the political order and values at the heart of the continent.

Last reviewed by: Andrew Boggeri

NewsTrust Rating: 3.4 from source rating - Review It

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Is Ukraine's Crimea the Next Flash Point With Russia?

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

U.S. News & World Report - By Alastair Gee - Aug. 27 (Special Report) - Moscow's relations with Ukraine have been strained since the 2004 Orange Revolution, in which pro-western Viktor Yushchenko won an election runoff after hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians protested the allegedly fraudulent victory of his Kremlin-backed rival. Like Georgia's western-oriented leader, Yushchenko has been pressing hard and very publicly for his country to join NATO, a move that infuriates the Kremlin...

Last reviewed by: Andrew Boggeri

NewsTrust Rating: 3.1 from source rating - Review It

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Obama's Response Ad Reflects Lessons of 2004

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Washington Post - By Jonathan Weisman - Aug. 26 (News Report) - Sen. Barack Obama's campaign and its allies, mindful of the lessons of the Swift boat attacks of 2004, have begun an aggressive, multi-pronged attack on an advertisement running in swing states that seeks to link the Democratic presidential candidate to former domestic terrorist William Ayers.

Submitted by: Kaizar Campwala

NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It

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Kennedy, Obama rally Dems

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

USA Today - By Rick Hampson, Martha T. Moore, Jill Lawrence, Susan Page, Richard Wolf, Kathy Kiely, Bill Welch, Alan Gomez, Randy Lilleston - Aug. 26 (News Report) - "Their stories are very different, but they share a commitment to the timeless American ideals of justice and fairness, service and sacrifice, faith and family," she said. "Leaders like them come along rarely. But once or twice in a lifetime, they come along just when we need them the most."

Last reviewed by: Derek Hawkins

NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 from source rating - Review It

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Carville: Dems wasting first night

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

CNN - Aug. 26 (Blog Post) - "You haven't heard about Iraq or John McCain or George W. Bush -- I haven't heard any of this. We are a country that is in a borderline recession, we are an 80 percent wrong-track country. Health care, energy -- I haven't heard anything about gas prices," Carville also says. "Maybe we are going to look better Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. But right now, we're playing hide the message."

Last reviewed by: Derek Hawkins

NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 from source rating - Review It

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Obama's To-Do List In Denver

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

National Journal - Aug. 26 (Interview) - To win the presidency, you got to do two things. One, you got to convince people that they shouldn't -- particularly when you have an incumbent like we have and an incumbent party that is so in such bad shape -- you have to convince them, and it doesn't take much, that they don't want to continue that kind of rule.

Submitted by: Kaizar Campwala

NewsTrust Rating: 3.2 from source rating - Review It

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Dazed Iraqi teen suicide bomber says she didn't want to die

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

McClatchy - By Leila Fadel - Aug. 25 (News Report) - The 15-year-old girl had the chubby cheeks of a child who hadn't lost her baby fat when she was arrested Sunday by an alert policeman. Around her chest was a vest packed with explosives. The policeman chained her to the bars of a window, stripped off her dress, found the vest and deactivated the bomb. Had he not intervened, Rania would have been this year's 31st suicide bomber in Iraq.

Last reviewed by: Michael Bugeja

NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 from source rating - Review It

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Uninsured pay $30 billion for health care: study

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Reuters - Aug. 25 (News Report) - "From society's perspective, covering the uninsured is still a good investment. Failure to act in the near term will only make it more expensive to cover the uninsured in the future, while adding to the amount of lost productivity from not insuring all Americans," Hadley said in a statement.

Last reviewed by: Vincent Caminiti

NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 from source rating - Review It

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Unique investigative agency tackles NYC corruption

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Associated Press - By Adam Goldman - Aug. 25 (News Report) - Many of DOI's cases have made international headlines, including the Kerik probe, the investigation of two deadly crane collapses this year, and the blaze at the former Deutsche Bank tower near ground zero that killed two firefighters. Others are more mundane, such as recent arrests for submitting fake doctor's notes to get sick pay to using a fraudulent city parking placard. "It's real sea change," said Mary Jo White, former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan...

Last reviewed by: Nick Cummings

NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 from source rating - Review It

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Netroots push back against MSM 'bias'

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Politico - By Michael Calderone - Aug. 25 (Special Report) - Gone are the days when only the right howled about bias and malice from network anchors and star political reporters. What began roughly a decade ago as frustration from Democrats over coverage of President Bill Clinton's impeachment and adulterous escapades has morphed into an informally organized rapid response network, ready to pounce on any and all perceived media slights against Barack Obama.

Last reviewed by: Randy Morrow

NewsTrust Rating: 3.2 from source rating - Review It

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The Code Of The West

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New Yorker - By Ryan Lizza - Aug. 24 (Special Report) - One day in early August, Bill Ritter, Jr., the governor of Colorado, met with Steve Feld, a professional filmmaker, to work on the video that will welcome delegates to the Democratic National Convention--and present Colorado to the rest of the country. Feld, whose television credits include "The New Lassie" and "America's Funniest People," steered the Governor toward a conference room on the seventeenth floor of a downtown building and clipped a microphone to his lapel...

Last reviewed by: Jeanne Roberts

NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 from source rating - Review It

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Joe Biden quick to enter the fray

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Los Angeles Times - By Michael Finnegan, Bob Drogin - Aug. 24 (News Report) - Sleeves rolled up, Joseph R. Biden Jr. bounded onto an outdoor stage here Saturday and kicked off his campaign as Barack Obama's running mate with an emotional appeal to blue-collar voters and a blistering attack on John McCain. Moments after Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, introduced Biden to a roaring crowd of supporters, the six-term senator from Delaware ripped into their opponent, tying McCain again and again to the unpopular President Bush.

Submitted by: Leo Romero

NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It

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Barack Obama opts for 'bare-knuckle fighter' Joe Biden

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Times - By Sarah Baxter - Aug. 24 (News Report) - The race for the White House entered a new, decisive phase yesterday as Barack Obama introduced Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, a seasoned Washington veteran, as his running mate, describing him as ready to "step in and be president". In the same historic setting at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, where he put on the mantle of President Abraham Lincoln to launch his campaign last year, Obama described Biden as a "statesman with sound judgment who doesn't have to...

Submitted by: Leo Romero

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