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12:55 PM ET, July 9, 2006

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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Contender Alleges Mexico Vote Was Rigged  —  Populist's Plan for Legal Challenge Ignites Boisterous Crowd at Massive Rally in Capital  —  MEXICO CITY, July 8 — Downtown Mexico City swelled Saturday with the accumulated frustration and rage of the poor, who were stoked into a sign-waving …
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Ronald Klain / Washington Post:
Don't Take the High Road
Mark Lavie / Associated Press:
UN blames Israel for humanitarian crisis, hard to children in Gaza  —  JERUSALEM (AP) - The United Nations blamed Israel for a burgeoning humanitarian crisis, including deaths, injuries and harm to children, from its offensive in Gaza in a strong statement released Saturday.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Bush Is Pressed on Reporting Domestic Surveillance  —  In a sharply worded letter, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee has told President Bush that the administration is angering lawmakers, and possibly violating the law, by giving Congress too little information about domestic surveillance programs.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Hoekstra - CIA Group "Intentionally Undermined" Administration
Discussion: War and Piece
Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Hoekstra's Threat
Matt / The Great Society:
CopyCoulter: Plagiarism Scandal Heating Up  —  Since the New York Post article featuring John Barrie, a plagiarism expert, and his work on looking into online allegations of plagiarism by Ann Coulter, the scandal is now off and rolling.  —  Justin Rood of TPMmuckraker wrote that Barrie …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Adam Carolla hangs up on Coulter
Discussion: WTF Is It Now??
Newsday:
Coulter copying charge probed
Discussion: Roger Ailes
Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
Kiss of Death?  —  On July 6, the commuters stopping by O'Neill's pub on North Main Street here for a beer and a ballgame on their way home from work found themselves in the middle of a political rebellion.  While the after-work crowd stood along the bar, drinking Stella Artois and carousing …
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Associated Press:
GOP senator helped hip-hop producer dodge coke sentence  —  Orrin Hatch: Dallas Austin 'will learn from this experience'  —  SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, a musician in his own right, helped secure the release of Atlanta R&B producer Dallas Austin …
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New York Times:
That's What Friends in High Places Are For
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Solomon Moore / Los Angeles Times:
Police Abuses in Iraq Detailed  —  Confidential documents cover more than 400 investigations.  Brutality, bribery and cooperation with militia fighters are common, a report says.  —  BAGHDAD — Brutality and corruption are rampant in Iraq's police force, with abuses including the rape of female prisoners …
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Times of London:
Joking Muslim cleric mocks victims of London blasts  —  A SPEECH by an extremist Muslim cleric praising the London bombers and mocking victims of suicide attacks has been broadcast on the internet to coincide with the anniversary of the July 7 attacks.  —  The audience laughs as Omar Brooks …
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Investors Lead Home Sale Boom in New Orleans  —  NEW ORLEANS, July 8 — In a market spurred by speculators and bargain hunters, an extraordinarily large number of houses in the flood-ravaged metropolitan area here are being sold, according to real estate analysts, who say volume and sales prices exceed levels before Hurricane Katrina.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Powerful GOP Activist Sees His Influence Slip Over Abramoff Dealings  —  For more than a decade, Grover G. Norquist has been at the nexus of conservative activism in Washington, becoming a Bush administration insider whose weekly strategy sessions at his Americans for Tax Reform …
Michael Sheridan / New York Post:
SECRET WAR VS. EVIL KIM  —  TARGETING NUKES  —  July 9, 2006 — SEOUL, South Korea - A program of covert action against nuclear and missile traffic to North Korea and Iran is to be intensified after last week's missile tests by the North Korean regime.  —  Intelligence agencies …
Discussion: Cold Fury
Cenk Uygur / The Huffington Post:
Note to Dense Mainstream Media — Why We Hate Lieberman  —  I am constantly amazed by how uninformed people are when their job is to inform others.  Every press article or editorial I've seen on the Lieberman issue completely misses the point.  We are not against Joe Lieberman because we are leftists who require ideological purity.
Discussion: The Mahablog and The Raw Story
CNN.com International:
Children among 40 'massacre' dead  —  DEVELOPING STORY  —  A mother with her young boy wounded in crossfire.  —  At least 40 people, including women and children, were killed Sunday in a rampage of violence against Sunnis in a Baghdad neighborhood, emergency police told CNN.
Discussion: Liberty and Justice
Ben Stein / New York Times:
A City on a Hill, or a Looting Opportunity  —  JUST for my own bad self, I love living in the United States of America.  —  Every night before I go to sleep, I lie in bed next to my wonderful German short-haired pointer, Brigid, and my Dalmatian, Susie, and I look out at the palm trees …
Discussion: PrestoPundit and Economist's View
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Maxine Waters to Campaign for Lamont  —  I swear if it wasn't for the Congressional Black Caucus during the Clinton impeachment hearings my faith in democracy would have crumbled right then and there.  You want a fight?  They know how to fight, which is why the right hates them and spends …
Patrick Cockburn / Independent:
American attacks on Mehdi Army cause uproar among Shia  —  US forces in Iraq have launched a series of bloody attacks on Shia militia forces in and around Baghdad, killing or wounding 30 fighters and provoking widespread anger in the Shia community.  —  Iraqi government security forces …
Discussion: The Heretik
 
 
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Sister Toldjah:
Hollyweirdo of the week - and a salute to old-style masculinity (SUN AM UPDATE)
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CNN:
Al Qaeda suspect held in Germany
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Recent Arrests in Terror Plots Yield Debate on Pre-emptive Action by Government
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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
U.S. Military Braces for Flurry of Criminal Cases in Iraq
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Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
Hoping for Plan B  —  In The Two O'Clock War: The 1973 Yom …
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The future's in the past
Jesse Noyes / Boston Herald:
Gays at Globe told to marry or lose benefits
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Navy data again found on public web site
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Playboy's life: Girls & booze
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Arab News:
Govt Doing Little to Protect Us From Abusive Maids, Employers Say
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Two Dozen Injured as Car Strikes Pedestrians at Sailfest
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
WHY SO FEW WOMEN SUPREME COURT CLERKS?  Amber (Prettier than Napoleon) …
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