The lion will roar again!

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It was REPORTED today that Ted Kennedy’s cancer is in remission and that he’ll soon be back at work in the Senate.

 UPDATE: A spokesperson for Kennedy’s office is DENYING this report.

GOP mainstream embraces paranoid world view

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 It says HERE that the Republican Party has hurt itself by abandoning its mulilateralist foreign-policy views of yore.

 Michael Freedman warns:

The GOP is in danger of losing its reputation, firm since the Richard Nixon era, as the party of national security. A few weeks ago, members of the Republicans’ more internationalist wing, including Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, began a campaign to temper the party’s image, but their one-page national-security plan said so little, it was hard to tell where they stood. Unless the GOP gets a grip on America’s place in the world, its place in American politics will continue to slip.

Another Dem says CIA is fudging the facts on its torture briefings

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 U.S. Rep. David Obey (above), a Wisconsin Democrat, has joined the growing chorus of lawmakers TAKING ISSUE with the CIA’s account of its briefing of members of Congress on the interrogation of suspected terrorists.

Time for a tour of the right-wing blogosphere

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 It’s been a while since we’ve gone slumming with our friend Roy Edroso, so let’s get on with it.

  THIS TIME, the focus is on the controversy surrounding Barack Obama’s commencement address at the University of Notre Dame.

Steele threatens to quit as RNC chair

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Is this the missing link in the evolutionary cycle?

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 The Drudge Report, which ordinarily preoccupies itself with contrived crapola intended to reflect badly on liberals, is instead giving prominent play today to THIS STORY about the fossilized skeleton of a monkey. 

 Mike Huckabee, among others, isn’t going to like this stuff.

 UPDATE: The hyperlink in the first paragraph has been restored. Sorry for the error.

Obama has continued, not abandoned, most of Bush’s anti-terror policies

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THIS GUY says Dick Cheney is wrong when he claims that the Obama administration has reversed most of the Bush-era policies regarding terrorism.

The Red House Furniture Store is where black people and white people buy furniture

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This TV spot for a furniture store in Raleigh, N.C., has become an Internet sensation:

Gallup says 8-year decline of GOP covers virtually every demographic group

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 Young and old, rich and poor, black and white, male and female, well-educated and not — virtually every demographic group in every geographic region of the country has shown a decline in identification with the Republican Party in the past eight years, according to THIS REPORT from the Gallup organization.

 The only group to buck this trend are those people who say they’re regular churchgoers.  And even at that, folks in this category are no more and no less likely to favor the GOP today than was the case in 2001.

 Interestingly, the Gallup narrative says Republican fortunes took a perceptible downward turn when the names Katrina and Harriet made headlines.

 UPDATE: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele SAYS the GOP is done apologizing for its past mistakes — which, of course, raises the question of just when any such apologies were issued.