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After beers, professor, officer plan to meet again - CNN.com I realize the United States has a long way to go to improve race relations. However, I don’t believe it’s the responsibility of the President of the United States to sit down for a ” teachable ” experience over beers on the White House [...]

If you are happy with your current coverage by “villains” you are in trouble.
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“Our message is simple. It is now being echoed by the White House,” said the memo sent to all Democratic members. “And it counters the Republican ‘government takeover’ message.”
The message in the memo, though, won’t fit on a bumper sticker:
“Remove the insurance [...]

CNN:
The United States successfully tested a sea-based component of its missile defense shield Thursday evening, intercepting a ballistic missile with a dummy warhead over the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said.
The exercise was the 19th successful test in 23 attempts of the system — known as the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Program [...]

CNN:
An American who says he went to fight U.S. forces in Afghanistan told interrogators that about the time he became an al Qaeda member he came across several Belgian and French militants.
Belgian counter-terrorism sources said the group traveled to Pakistan’s tribal areas at the beginning of 2008, also intent on fighting in Afghanistan.
The [...]

Politico:
Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress.
On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by [...]

Maichael Ramirez looks at another program running on empty.

Noah Pollak:
Over the past two weeks, Human Rights Watch has been embroiled in a controversy over a fund raiser it held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. At that gathering, Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson pledged the group would use donations to “battle . . . pro-Israel pressure groups.”
As criticism of her remark poured [...]

Charles Krauthammer:
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Conventional wisdom always makes straight-line projections. They are always wrong. Yes, Obama’s aura has diminished, in part because of overweening overexposure. But by year’s end he will emerge with something he can call health care reform. The Democrats in Congress will pass it because they must. Otherwise, they’ll have slain their own savior in [...]

Washington Times Editorial:

The Justice Department’s decision to drop an already-won voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party merits multiple, independent investigations.
On Tuesday, Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican, officially asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to refile the case. Mr. Holder should comply.
So far, the Justice Department has [...]

NY Times Editorial:
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Under pressure from Washington, Mr. Netanyahu’s government has dangled a possible compromise: a temporary freeze in new construction, as long as 2,500 units now in process can be completed and Arab East Jerusalem is exempt. It is a weak offer.
While they press the Israelis, Mr. Obama and Mr. Mitchell are also asking [...]