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11:10 AM ET, August 5, 2006

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Hartford Courant:
Lieberman Remains Committed, Plays It Calm  —  The Joe Lieberman political revival tour continued on its way Friday, at times feeling more like a family reunion than a last-ditch attempt to catch Democratic challenger Ned Lamont.  —  It wrapped up a week of quick stops in shopping centers …
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Editor and Publisher:
Gallup: Lieberman Now More Popular With Republicans Than Democrats  —  NEW YORK The much-watched Democratic primary election in Connecticut is just four days away, and today Gallup has come out with a poll that finds incumbent Sen. Joseph Lieberman with his lowest ratings ever.
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Senator pins Lieberman hope on primary
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Susan Haigh / Associated Press:
Lieberman still in the fight
Daniel Levy / Haaretz:
Ending the neoconservative nightmare  —  Witnessing the near-perfect symmetry of Israeli and American policy has been one of the more noteworthy aspects of the latest Lebanon war.  A true friend in the White House.  No deescalate and stabilize, honest-broker, diplomatic jaw-jaw from this president.
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
GOP Candidates Claim Degrees Of Separation From President  —  On Capitol Hill, Rep. Mark Kennedy (Minn.) and Sen. James M. Talent (Mo.) are known as loyal Republican soldiers, reliable votes for President Bush on tax cuts and the Iraq war.  In elections past, they have aired advertisements featuring …
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Bill Salisbury / TwinCities.com:
GOP says it's about choice  —  National committee's strategy keeps Bush at arm's length, focuses on local candidates  —  Republican national leaders want Minnesota voters in the state's U.S. Senate race to focus on the candidates, Republican Mark Kennedy and Democrat Amy Klobuchar, not on President Bush.
Discussion: Liberty and Justice and MyDD
Stephen Farrell / Times of London:
'Hezbollah aren't suckers, they know how to fight.  You're scared all the time'  —  Israeli soldiers recount stories of a terrifying week facing the snipers and missiles of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon  —  AT FIRST light they filtered from the undergrowth, camouflaged …
Discussion: Don Surber
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
The Last Honest Man  —  Twenty-nine Democratic senators voted in the fall of 2002 to authorize the invasion of Iraq.  There isn't enough room on this page to list the Democratic foreign policy experts and former officials, including those from the top ranks of the Clinton administration …
Discussion: Sirotablog
MSNBC:
Slacker Friday  —  I've got a new Think Again here, "Remember Iraq?"  —  Jim Fallows says we won.  You'll have to read why.  — Generals Give Grim Report on Iraqi Strife," the Los Angeles Times.  [Link]  — "Generals warn of civil war in Iraq," Washington Times.  [Link]
Tim Funk / Knight Ridder:
Former White House advisor pleads guilty to misdemeanor theft  —  ROCKVILLE, Md. — Former White House adviser Claude Allen tearfully pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor theft charge Friday, telling a Montgomery County judge that he lost his bearings after working 14-hour days and getting little sleep in the …
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Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Thieving White House Adviser: Katrina Made Me Do It
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Ambassador: Bush Didn't Know There Were Two Sects of Islam  —  Raw Story Christian Avard reports that a former ambassador has a new book out about the incompetence of the Bush administration which makes the claim that President Bush did not know, two months before the invasion of Iraq …
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
UW-Madison official warns Barrett to stop seeking publicity  —  MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin's provost warned an instructor who believes the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks to stop seeking publicity for his views, days after he defended the teacher's right to free speech.
Tom Lasseter / Knight Ridder:
Iraqi civil war has already begun, U.S. troops say  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - While American politicians and generals in Washington debate the possibility of civil war in Iraq, many U.S. officers and enlisted men who patrol Baghdad say it has already begun.  —  Army troops in and around …
Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
The Brink of Madness  —  A familiar place.  —  National Review Online  —  When I used to read about the 1930s — the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the rise of fascism in Italy, Spain, and Germany, the appeasement in France and Britain, the murderous duplicity of the Soviet Union …
Grace Wong / CNNMoney.com:
Job growth unexpectedly slows  —  Payroll gain of 113,000 misses forecasts for fourth straight month; unemployment rises; wages up.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Job growth came in weak for the fourth straight month in July while the unemployment rate rose, according to a government report Friday …
Morning Call:
Shopping Place Ads Opinion Sitemap  —  HARRISBURG — Buoyed by a summer advertising blitz, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum R-Pa. has narrowed Bob Casey's lead in the battle for public opinion, closing to within a handful of points of the Democratic state treasurer, a new Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll has found.
 
 
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