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Drudge banners: "IOU" and links to this LA Times story on the budget crisis in California. And the U.S. says North Korea does not appear to be readying a missile launch in this Bloomberg story is also highlighed on Drudge. ... READ MORE

Huffington Post
The Huffington Post banners: "Obama's first major military operation underway in Afghanistan" and links to this AP story. Unemployment to hit a 9.6 percent, a 26 year high, according to this AP report, highlighted on the HuffPo. And Jesse Berney ... READ MORE

HotAir
The Obama administration doesn't see the contradiction between calling for free elections in Honduras and staying out of the election in Iran, writes Allahpundit. And veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas went "nuclear" on the White House for controlling the ... READ MORE

DailyKos
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) wants to president but "she couldn't even get her own campaign's scheduling staff to give her enough time to run," writes Jed Lewison. And South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's (R) recent confessions have set off ... READ MORE

Townhall
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's (R) Republican enemies hope he stays in office, writes Matt Lewis. And, drawing on examples from other countries, Carol Platt Liebau writes what ObamaCare "really means." READ MORE

OpenLeft
Advancing the debate over torture is always going to be difficult, writes Daniel de Groot. And Mike Lux takes a look at the fight over a new Pecora commission. READ MORE

RedState
The press is "finally" calling out the Obama administration for controlling the press, writes Paint it Red. And Moe Lane takes a detailed look at the 2010 election and the ages of several Democratic committee chair people. READ MORE

MyDD
Mitt Romney appears to be urging Republicans to stand up to President Obama, writes Charles Lemos. And Lemos also writes that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) must think the Associated Press is a "licensed therapist." READ MORE

Powerline
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) appeared to open the door to the Obama administration making more demands Israel in the peace process while in the country, writes Paul. And new polling shows that support for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is ... READ MORE

Matthew Yglesias
The entire committee system in Congress "leaves a lot to be desired," writes Matthew Yglesias. And Yglesias also points out a general thought among the punditry right now: Congress is asserting its dominance in setting and controlling the agenda, not ... READ MORE

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May 18, 2008

SUNDAY ROUNDUP

@ 7:01 pm by Chris Good

The resignation of another lobbyist from John McCain’s campaign has liberals celebrating the presumptive GOP nominee’s vulnerability on the topic, while conservatives view House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) recent admission of progress in Iraq as proof that she miscalculated the surge.

Former Rep. Thomas Loeffler’s (R-Texas) resignation from the McCain campaign shows how hypocritical the Arizona Republican is on lobbying, Matthew Yglesias writes. McCain’s campaign is swimming with controversial lobbyists, Firedoglake’s Cliff Schecter proclaims, and The Stump’s Noam Scheiber calls a new MoveOn.org ad about McCain adviser Charlie Black’s ties to dictators “devastating” to the campaign.

But conservatives are more interested in how funny McCain was on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, where RedState’s Moe Lane enjoyed watching him mock the ongoing Democratic primary during one skit.

Pelosi has made a politically dangerous move in congratulating Iraqi progress, Power Line’s Paul Mirengoff warns. Now that the surge has provided room for political reconciliation, Pelosi’s prior statements on the increased number of troops appear wrong, Mirengoff says. An acknowledgment that the strategy is working means checkmate for the GOP on Iraq, Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey celebrates.

And Rep. Leonard Boswell’s (D-Iowa) primary opponent has made a shrewd move in challenging Boswell to support Barack Obama instead of Hillary Clinton, Open Left’s desmoineddem says. The district voted for Obama in the primary, and the Illinois senator’s upcoming visit could swing voters toward challenger Ed Fallon, desmoinesdem thinks.

FROM THE BLOGS:
Food for Thought - James L., Swing State Project
Mission Accomplished, Postdated - Josh Marshall, TalkingPointsMemo
'McCain Has Been Very Eloquent' - Kathryn Jean Lopez, The Corner
What a WHINER!!! - Carol Platt Liebau, Townhall.com
Barack Obama's Running Mate - DHinMI, Daily Kos
Down the Memory Hole - Kevin Drum, Political Animal
Has Bush Learned Lessons of Annapolis? - Jeff Emanuel, RedState
Pelosi Gets Cold Shoulder - Michael Goldfard, The Weekly Standard
McCain and the Lobbyists, Part 1 - Marc Ambinder
John the Con Backstabs Wind Power - Phoenix Woman, Firedoglake

OTHER NEWS SOURCES:
Kennedy Awaiting Test Results at Boston Hospital - AP
Rival Camps Plan Inevitable Merger - Washington Post
McCain Pokes Fun at Himself on SNL - The Hill
U.S. Tries to Put Spotlight on Cuban Prisoners - AFP

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  1. I was a refugee in 1957 from a communist country, After 5 years of living in France, I finally received a permission to emigrate to the US. After becoming a citizen in 1967 I got to read our newspapers and listen to TV news. I was flabbergasted by the far-left slant in all major news outlets. So much so that, among friends, I rechristened the New York Times to the New York Pravda; the Washington Post to the Washington Izvyestya; the Los Angeles Times to the LA Rude Pravo; the Boston Herald to the Boston Borba; etc. The NBC, ABC, and CBS were all and still are indistinguishable from the TV "NEWS" from the old Soviet Block countries. To discover the far-left, marxist, bias in most major news outlets in the US today is nothing but the very old news indeed.
    Marc Jeric, Las Vegas

    Comment by Marc Jeric — May 19, 2008 @ 6:19 pm

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