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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Lieberman Falls Short on Recruits — Guest contributor Kevin Rennie is a columnist for the Hartford Courant. — Lieberman Falls Short on Recruits — Sen. Joseph Lieberman's (D-CT) Tour for Tomorrow continues to be punctuated with today's struggles to save his troubled campaign.
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Hail Mary Attempt #1: Lieberman's New Thug Strategy — So I just tracked this down with several sources, and something really strange is going on. Lieberman's campaign seems to arming his supporters with aggressive talking points in order to pick fights at Lamont events.
Michelle Malkin:
Blackface diaries: Lamont and the nutroots — US Senate candidate Ned Lamont of Connecticut, darling of the left-wing blogosphere, is now running as fast as he can from the nutball bloggers who have zealously promoted his campaign against Sen. Joe Lieberman from its inception. (Today's Vent gives the overview.)
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Associated Press:
Court rules DeLay's name stays on ballot — NEW ORLEANS - A federal appeals court panel on Thursday refused to let Texas Republicans replace Tom DeLay's name on the November congressional ballot. — A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling …
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R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Court rules GOP can't replace DeLay on ballot — AUSTIN - A federal appeals court panel today in a bipartisan order ruled that former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay cannot be replaced on the November ballot for the congressional seat he vacated in June. — The Republican Party said it will quickly file …
BBC:
Iraq civil war warning for Blair — Civil war is a more likely outcome in Iraq than democracy, Britain's outgoing ambassador in Baghdad has warned Tony Blair in a confidential memo. — William Patey, who left the Iraqi capital last week, also predicted the break-up of Iraq along ethnic lines.
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Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:
Generals raise fears of Iraq civil war — WASHINGTON - Two of the Pentagon's most senior generals conceded to Congress on Thursday that the surge in sectarian violence in Baghdad in recent weeks means Iraq may descend into civil war. — "Iraq could move toward civil war" …
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Think Progress:
Rumsfeld: 'I Have Never Painted A Rosy Picture' About Iraq — Testifying before the Senate today, Donald Rumsfeld told Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) that he has "never painted a rosy picture" about Iraq. Rumsfeld insisted that he has been "very measured" and told Clinton …
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Nico / Think Progress:
Rumsfeld Claims Insurgent Violence Increases 'In the Spring, Summer and Fall Months' — Last month, Lt. Gen. David Richards, head of NATO's Afghan security force, said the country was "close to anarchy." — Asked about the situation today, Rumsfeld admitted there was a resurgence of the Taliban …
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Victor Davis Hanson / Real Clear Politics:
It's Not Just About Land — Despite the claims of terrorist organizations, Israel's current two-front war is not just about land. After all, Hezbollah and Hamas fired rockets from Lebanon and Gaza well after Israel had withdrawn from both places. — Indeed, if sacred Arab ground …
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Was 9/11 an 'inside job'? — More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.
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Hot Air, PunditGuy, Blue Crab Boulevard, Vox Popoli, The Bullwinkle Blog, Shakespeare's Sister and Alternate Brain
Reuters:
Iran frees bin Laden son -German newspaper —Text+BERLIN (Reuters) - 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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Counterterrorism Blog, Security Watchtower, Hot Air, Vital Perspective and The Strata-Sphere
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Washington Times:
Senate votes to fund the fence — The Senate did an abrupt about-face yesterday, voting overwhelmingly to begin paying for 370 miles of fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border, just three weeks after voting against the same spending.
Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:
A Message to the MSM — I'd like to take this opportunity to send a message to certain members of the MSM like The New York Times, The Washington Post, LA Times, etal. and especially to their editorial boards who continue in their attempts at shaping public opinion vis-a-vis the Cuba issue …
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Associated Press:
Seven people killed in rocket strikes in northern Israel — A barrage of Hezbollah rockets slammed into northern Israel on Thursday, killing at least seven Israelis. Three people were killed when a rocket crashed directly into a house near the northern town of Ma'alot …
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Harry Reid May Ask Senator Clinton to Preempt Presidential Ambitions to Succeed Him as Senate Majority/Minority Leader — Some high level Democratic Party political insiders have shared with TWN details of a potential shift in vectors for several of the major political stars in that party.
Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
What's the real federal deficit? — How many billions (or trillions) of dollars depends on how you do the accounting — The federal government keeps two sets of books. — The set the government promotes to the public has a healthier bottom line: a $318 billion deficit in 2005.
CNN:
Bombs pound Beirut for second night — Hezbollah threatens to attack Tel Aviv as payback for airstrikes — BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — Israel launched a second straight night of airstrikes on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Friday, targeting an area known as a stronghold of Hezbollah militants.
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
A Reform That Worked — President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, better known as "welfare reform," on Aug. 22 of that year. A decade later it stands as a rarity: a Washington success story.
nbc10.com:
Ohio Man Claims Right To Have Sex With Boys — Admitted Pedophile Says Children Can Consent — CLEVELAND — It was probably not a defense the court had heard before. — A suburban Cleveland man accused of sexually assaulting nine disabled boys told a judge Wednesday that his apartment …
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