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10:10 AM ET, July 31, 2006

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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Crisis Could Undercut Bush's Long-Term Goals  —  The Israeli bombs that slammed into the Lebanese village of Qana yesterday did more than kill three dozen children and a score of adults.  They struck at the core of U.S. foreign policy in the region and illustrated in heart-breaking images …
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Guardian:
As the shells fall around them, Hizbullah men await the Israelis  —  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, south of Tyre  —  Inside a well-furnished apartment in a village on the outskirts of Tyre, with shelves of books piled from floor to ceiling, a black turbaned cleric and three men sit sipping bitter coffee.
Richard / EU Referendum:
Milking it?  —  Certainly, the photographs are distressing, and indeed they are meant to be.  As this piece tells us: … But the photographers, it seems, are not too fussy about how they go about "adding to the shock value".  These two sequences illustrate the extent to which photographers …
Michael J. Totten:
Hezbollah's Coup d'État  —  The fog of war makes it impossible for me or anyone else to determine whether or not Israel's war against Hezbollah is succeeding of failing militarily.  But it's painfully obvious that Israel's attempt to influence Lebanese politics in its favor is an absolute catastrophe right now.
Associated Press:
U.S.: Israel OKs 48-Hour Air Activity Halt
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Faiza Saleh Ambah / Washington Post:
Many Arabs Applaud Hezbollah
Tom Perry / Reuters:
Lebanese crowd breaks into U.N. HQ in Beirut
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
Officers slam suspension of airstrikes
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Child Victims Incite Anger in Lebanon and Beyond  —  The images of the dead children in southern Lebanon played across the television screens on Sunday over and over again — small and caked in dirt and as lifeless as rag dolls as rescuers hauled them from the wreckage of several residential …
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs and Truthdig
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
From Carnage in Lebanon, a Concession  —  Taken aback by the carnage from the Israeli bombing of Qana, Lebanon, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrung the first significant concession from Israel late on Sunday in its nearly three-week-old war against the Hezbollah militia: an immediate 48-hour suspension of aerial strikes.
Discussion: THE WAR IN CONTEXT
Associated Press:
Israeli air force continue Lebanon strikes  —  JERUSALEM - The Israeli air force carried out strikes Monday in southern Lebanon despite an agreement to halt raids for 48 hours after nearly 60 Lebanese civilians were killed in an Israeli bombing, the army said.
Discussion: BlondeSense and Truthdig
Craig Howie / Scotsman:
Jewish groups call for hate-crime probe on Mel Gibson  —  JEWISH groups have demanded Mel Gibson be investigated for hate crimes after the Hollywood star allegedly made anti-Semitic comments to US police officers when he was stopped on suspicion of drink-driving and speeding.
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Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Slips Imperil Senate Career  —  As Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman flew home from Iraq last November, his wife urged him to sleep.  But an energized Lieberman worked his Blackberry, typing an account of the progress he saw in Iraq.  —  His upbeat article would be published in the Wall Street Journal under …
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:   Connecticut Rallies for Lamont
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Qana Staged?  —  Folks on the internet (welcome to the brave new world) and fair and balanced news organizations have been working to understand the Qana quandry.  The attacks happened between 12 and 1 AM, and people evacuate.  Then some 'poor' people take shelter and the building collapses.
Discussion: Macsmind and Sweetness & Light
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David Abel / Boston Globe:
Romney apologizes for use of expression  —  To some, `tar baby' is racial pejorative  —  Governor Mitt Romney yesterday apologized for using the expression ``tar baby" — a phrase some consider a racial epithet — among comments he made at a political gathering in Iowa over the weekend.
Discussion: Silent Running and Hit and Run
New York Times:
Men Not Working, and Not Wanting Just Any Job  —  ROCK FALLS, Ill. — Alan Beggerow has stopped looking for work.  Laid off as a steelworker at 48, he taught math for a while at a community college.  But when that ended, he could not find a job that, in his view, was neither demeaning nor underpaid.
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
'The Putting of First Things First'  —  The revival of the romance of the antiwar left is a potential disaster for the Democrats.  It's what gave the world Richard Nixon in 1968.  —  To the consternation of my children, I once spent an afternoon with Monica Lewinsky.
Associated Press:
Youngest son of Sen. John McCain joins Marine Corps  —  18-year-old likely to  —  July 30.  —  he youngest son of Sen. John McCain has joined the Marine Corps and could be deployed to a war zone in a matter of months, according to a magazine report.  —  Jimmy McCain, 18, will begin basic training in September.
Juan / Informed Comment:
The Qana Massacre, Part II  —  Israeli war planes scored a direct hit on a building in the Shiite village of Qana where destitute farming folk, including old people, women and children, had taken refuge in the basement from Israeli bombing raids.  At least 60 are dead, as bodies are pulled …
Dan Savage / New York Times:
Same-Sex Marriage Wins by Losing  —  THERE were community meetings in Seattle on Wednesday.  Some of the couples who had sued to overturn Washington's ban on same-sex marriage, a case they lost before the state's Supreme Court earlier that day, were going to appear.
 
 
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Sistani Threatens US over Israeli War on Lebanon
Discussion: Needlenose and TigerHawk
Walter Dellinger / New York Times:
A Slip of the Pen  —  Chapel Hill, N.C.  —  "THIS is one of those historic moments.
Discussion: Balkinization
Julia Preston / New York Times:
U.S. Puts Onus on Employers of Immigrants
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Observer:
Cabinet in open revolt over Blair's Israel policy
New York Times:
Fooling the Voters  —  The two bills passed by the House …
Winter Patriot / The BRAD BLOG:
EXCLUSIVE: ELECTION CONTEST TO BE FILED IN BUSBY/BILBRAY RACE MONDAY MORNING!!
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Somalia Has 1st Commercial Flight in Years
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
The Wisdom Of Retreat  —  Three Lessons From Its Own Record …
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Andrew Buncombe / Independent:
New maximum-security jail to open at Guantanamo Bay
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Katie Pulls / New York Post:
STRINGS IN COCKPIT  —  KATIE Couric had fellow passengers aboard …
Associated Press:
Iran's Ahmadinejad meets 'brother' Chavez
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Bellevue woman killed in shooting identified
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Time:
Even Churchill Couldn't Figure Out Iraq
Damien Cave / New York Times:
As a Tactic, Starving Is Found Wanting
Discussion: Rantingprofs
White House:
President's Radio Address
Associated Press:
Rove: Reporters slam politicians to save selves