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WASHINGTON – A top al-Qaida suspect held at Guantanamo Bay will be sent to New York for trial, an Obama administration official said Wednesday, a major step in President Barack Obama’s plan to close the detention center by early next year. Ahmed Ghailani would be the first Guantanamo detainee brought to the U.S. and the [...]

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http://Powerline Blog:/ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is back in Israel after meeting with President Obama. The Jerusalem Post reports that the sense is growing that Obama has given up on preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power: There are growing indications that the US has come to terms with a nuclear-armed Teheran, two analysts told [...]

Fox News: Some in the media believe the Republican Party is washed up and dying. Leslie Savan wrote in The Nation earlier this month: “What sort of psychological bent would lead people to want to be part of a dead-end political party like the GOP has become?” But, a new Gallup poll from May 7 [...]

Jerusalem Post: Israel knows it needs to coordinate its strategy on Iran with other nations and that attacking Teheran’s nuclear facilities would mean “big trouble,” CIA director Leon Panetta said on Wednesday. Acknowledging that he had recently traveled to Israel to meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and warn him against a strike on Iran, the [...]

Jerusalem Post: The Arrow missile defense system successfully tracked the Iranian long-range missile that was test-fired on Wednesday, just days after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with US President Barack Obama to discuss the Iranian nuclear threat. Iran said the solid-fuel Sajjil-2 surface-to-surface missile – also called the Ashura – had a range of about [...]

Haaretz: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s enemies have gotten together to promote a few sacred causes: to bring Israel to its knees, to force a Pax Americana on Israel (the “Obama plan”) and to grind the prime minister’s status to dust. If the media in his own country is trying to grind Netanyahu down, why shouldn’t [...]

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President Obama supports an international treaty creating sweeping gun control efforts. . Commie Rahm Emanuel to Disarm America:”#1 Issue”, Gun Owners are Terrorists .

Front Page Magazine: In news given very little media attention, Russia has again tried to destabilize the U.S. Ally and former Soviet republic of Georgia. Motivated by their success in ripping Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia with little penalty, the Russians are now being accused of orchestrating an anti-government coup. As Russia becomes more [...]

• Co-founder Larry Page says search engine has been losing out to micro-blogging site in battle to provide real-time information • Chief executive hints that Google could go into partnership with Twitter Guardian: Google’s co-founder, Larry Page, admitted today that the company has been losing out to Twitter in the race to meet web user’s [...]

CNS News: The Obama administration’s proposed mileage standards that will be announced today may kill more Americans at a faster rate than the Iraq War — his signature issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Obama’s standards will require automakers to meet a 35 miles-per-gallon standard by 2016 — four years earlier than the same standard [...]

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Wall Street Journal: At the end of his Rose Garden explanation yesterday of the new U.S. fuel-efficiency standards, President Obama remarked on the good that can be accomplished when we are “working together.” The President may be getting ahead of himself. Watching the unlikely coalition arrayed behind him as Mr. Obama committed the U.S. to [...]

The Hill: Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) took the opportunity Wednesday to defend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has come under fire in recent weeks over a controversy surrounding when she was told of the use of enhanced interrogation techniques being used by the CIA. “The CIA has a very bad record when it comes [...]

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