memeorandum: Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self (theonion.com)

1:05 AM ET, August 3, 2006

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On the Ground with Lamont/Lieberman — E.J. Dionne repeats a piece of conventional wisdom that irks the hell out of me every time I hear it - if Lieberman loses the primary and runs as an independent it will distract everyone from the true villain, the GOP, and therefore we should just give him a pass.

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wtnh.com:

Endorsements for Lamont; Picture puts 'blackface' on Lieberman — _ Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton visited Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport to announced their endorsement of challenger Ned Lamont in his campaign against Sen. Joseph Lieberman.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Connecticut Local Politics

Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:

About That Graphic... I sincerely apologize to anyone who was genuinely offended by the choice of images accompanying my blog post today on the Huffington Post. It's also important to note that I do not, nor have I ever worked for Ned Lamont's campaign. However, at their request, I removed the image earlier today.

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Little Green Footballs:
Lieberman in Blackface at Huffington Post

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Michelle Malkin:
Netroots vs. Rightroots; left-wingers love blackface

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Jeff Horrigan / Boston Herald:

Sox standout Lowell: Castro killed my kin — Charging Fidel Castro with the deaths of his relatives, Cuban-American Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell declared last night: "I hope he does die." — Castro's health: — "Castro killed members of my family," Lowell told the Herald …

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Colleen O'Boyle / Media Research Center:

Decades of Cheering Castro's Communism — As news organizations update their obituaries of ailing Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, it's worth recalling how many liberal journalists have fallen under Castro's spell over the years, sounding like paid Cuban government propagandists as they touted the …

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James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times:
Castro Is 'Stable,' but His Illness Presents Puzzle

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CNN:

Israel arrests 5, kills 10 in hospital raid — Israeli military: Video proves hospital was Hezbollah HQ — JERUSALEM (CNN) — Israel's military released video Wednesday that it said proved a hospital it raided overnight in Lebanon was a Hezbollah headquarters. Hezbollah disputed the account.

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Aron Heller / Associated Press:
Hezbollah fires record number of rockets

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Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:

Court Hands New York Times a Setback in Miller Case — The New York Times suffered a legal setback yesterday in its battle to keep a federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, from obtaining the phone records of its former reporter, Judith Miller. — A federal appeals court yesterday granted …

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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
N.Y. Times Must Surrender Reporters' Phone Data

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Jerusalem Post:

Bloggers raise questions about Kana — The IDF is looking into allegations raised over the past few days by several pro-Israel, Jewish and conservative Weblogs that Hizbullah may have staged aspects of the Kana tragedy on Sunday, in which some 60 Lebanese bodies were removed from a building …

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Haaretz:
Settler reservists: Won't go to Lebanon if aim is to advance pullout

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theonion.com:

Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self — WASHINGTON, DC—In a decisive 1-0 decision Monday, President Bush voted to grant the president the constitutional power to grant himself additional powers. — "As president, I strongly believe that my first duty as president …

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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:

Lieberman Plans for Loss Next Week — Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) will shake up his campaign staff if he loses Tuesday's Democratic primary to challenger Ned Lamont. Lieberman supporters have watched with growing dismay since the spring as the three term senator's campaign has gone from oblivious to defensive.

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Reuters:

Iran frees bin Laden son: newspaper — Iran has freed a son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from house arrest, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday. — Die Welt said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released Saad bin Laden on July 28 with the aim of sending him to the Syria-Lebanon border.

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Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:

Evolution Opponents Lose Kansas Board Majority — Kansas voters on Tuesday handed power back to moderates on the State Board of Education, setting the stage for a return of science teaching that broadly accepts the theory of evolution, according to preliminary election results.

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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:

GOP Donors Funded Entire PA Green Party Drive — OK, we've done it. We've nailed it down: Every single contributor to the Pennsylvania Green Party Senate candidate is actually a conservative — except for the candidate himself. — The Luzerne County Green Party raised $66,000 in the month …

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Associated Press:

Rome: Jewish shops defaced with swastikas — About 20 shops owned by Jews vandalized in apparent neo-fascist attack linked to fighting in Middle East. Flyers signed by group calling itself Armed Revolutionary Fascists left at the shops denouncing 'Zionist economy,' including pro-Hizbullah slogans

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Christina Bellantoni / Washington Times:

Hill fries free to be French again — The fries on Capitol Hill are French again. — So is the breakfast toast in the congressional cafeterias, with both fries and toast having been liberated from the appellation "freedom." — Three years after House Republicans trumpeted the new names …