thewashingtonnote.com - 6/12/2009
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I am here in London where I'm participating in an interesting forum sponsored by the Princeton Project on National Security and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Transatlantic Program , I've received not just one email -- but three -- from prominent insider journalists and policy ...
mudvillegazette.com - 6/18/2009
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... for so long it's not true ...
Ahhh, the Led Zep connection - wish I'd thought
of that. And I can't take credit for this either, because a friend pointed it out in an email: Note the charge against the recently-removed IG : WASHINGTON -- Responding to criticism from a Senate ...
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Been Dazed and Confused...
usatoday.com - 6/7/2009
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usatoday.com —
Cleve Jones , whose character in last year's
award-winning movie Milk was played by Emile Hirsch ,
said the march planned for Oct. 11 will coincide with National Coming Out Day and launch a new chapter in the gay rights movement. He made the ...
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Gay rights activist calls for march on Washington
journal-news.com - 6/19/2009
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By Josh Sweigart Staff Writer Updated 7:31 AM
Friday, June 19, 2009 HAMILTON Butler County Sheriff Richard
K. Jones says he will not challenge U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner for the West Chester Twp. Republican s congressional seat. After ...
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Sheriff Jones not running for Congress
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More Jones agita
Ben Smith's Blog —
Steve Clemons and Fox News take another crack at the question of what Jim Jones does, and Clemons seems to me to have focused on the real story:
Friends at the National Security Council respect a great deal the way in which NSC Deputy Tom Donilon is managing his brief. Many see him picking up the load that Jones seems unable or unwilling to carry. Donilon is deeply engaged in the broad Middle East and Iran portfolio, the non-proliferation/WMD/arms control portfolio, the China economic and security portfolio, and he has -- according to reports -- supported and ...
No More Mister Nice Blog —
... Bailey cites Steve Clemons of the Washington Note (who quotes an e-mail about Jones that says, "Knives getting longer") as well as a recent ...
Jim Jones Doesn't Play Politics? Really?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... for Jones, who avoiding alienating "left base of the Democrat party." Fast forward two years and Jones is in the White House. He didn't support the surge and the left-wing of the Democratic party had no reason to try and kill his appointment as national security adviser. Still, Jones has no real constituency and his support for additional troops in Afghanistan -- anathema to progressives -- might earn him a whole bunch of new enemies at a time when he's emerged as one of the most vulnerable members of Obama's team. ...
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