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Virginia Senate: Allen's Lead Shrinks After Controversial Remark — Allen (R) 47%, Webb (D) 42% — Senator George Allen's alleged slur of an opposition campaign worker of Indian descent, recorded on video, has provoked a furious controversy in the state.
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Washington Post:
Allen Flap May Give A Boost To Webb — RICHMOND — The nationwide fallout from controversial remarks Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) made last week has given Democrats new hope in a race many thought would be difficult to win in the historically conservative state.
Edward Cody / Washington Post:
Israel Re-Enters Lebanon, Battles Hezbollah — Helicopter-borne Israeli commandos raided a Hezbollah stronghold in the Bekaa Valley early Saturday in what Lebanon called a "flagrant violation" of a fragile six-day-old cease-fire. — Hezbollah, which battled the Israeli military for 33 days until …
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BBC:
Israel mounts fresh Lebanon raid — Israel carried out an overnight raid inside Lebanon aimed at disrupting an arms transfer, the Israeli army says. — One soldier died and two were injured in the Bekaa Valley operation, it said. Lebanese sources earlier told Reuters agency that three militants also died.
Sam F. Ghattas / Associated Press:
Israeli soldier killed in Lebanon raid — BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah fighters battled Israeli commandos who landed near the militants' stronghold deep inside Lebanon early Saturday, killing one soldier, in the first apparent large-scale violation of the U.N.-brokered cease-fire between the sides.
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Officer Called Haditha Routine — Marine Said Deaths Didn't Merit Inquiry — The Marine officer who commanded the battalion involved in the Haditha killings last November did not consider the deaths of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, unusual and did not initiate an inquiry …
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Fight fear-mongering with fear-mongering? — Slate's John Dickerson offers Dems some advice in responding to Republicans' election-year fear-mongering: fight fire with fire. With the GOP telling voters, "Vote for Democrats and more Americans will die," it's the only reasonable approach.
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QandO
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Sfarber / the talking dog:
TD Blog Interview with George Lakoff — George Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, a senior fellow at the progressive think-tank Rockridge Institute, and is the author of "Whose Freedom: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea" …
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
The Week In Media Distraction — Saturday mornings always suck when you're a news junkie. You end up hearing a lot about nothing. This Saturday is even worse because that nothingness has been transformed into a replay of this entire week of none stop coverage of the JonBenet Ramsey murder case.
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Gateway Pundit:
Hollywood "Zionists" Under Attack After Anti-Terror Ad Release! — Hmm... I didn't know Bernie Mac, Don Johnson, Serena Williams and Vivica Fox were Zionists? — Remember the story about this anti-Hamas, anti-Hezbollah, anti-terror ad that was published in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday …
Todd Zywicki / The Volokh Conspiracy:
A CULTURE OF FREE SPEECH: Just a final thought that bears on the context of the recent Dartmouth imbroglio, as well as the possible larger implications of the story. This is the College's recent history of actually punishing students for speech of which the College disapproves.
Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
Ahmadinejad roadshow seduces an adoring public — Eyewitness report: Iran's president arrives on a US-made helicopter - an evangelist from the sky — He arrives amid a hurricane of swirling brown dust and deafening noise. A dense, rolling cloud of straw and dirt sweeps across the parched field …
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S.Z. / world-o-crap.com:
Maybe We Can Still Be Friends, Though — Inspired by Jacqueline, I would like to tell all you losers why I am way too good for you: — 1. My hair has lots of bounce and body. Not every woman's hair is thick and full, as any shampoo commercial will inform you.
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Democrats = Traitors? — Hugh Hewitt: "Any vote for any Democrat is a vote against victory and a vote for vulnerability." — Steven Taylor: "[T]he last time I checked, the Democrats may be the partisan opponents of Republicans, but they aren't the enemies of the state." — Discuss.
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Fearful Iraqis Avoid Mosques as Attacks Rise — Haider Ali says he quit attending mosque because it was too dangerous. Now he prays at home or in the basement of his convenience store, above. — Haider Ali communes with God through his CD player. — That is how he listens to the lectures …
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
At White House, Strange Silence Over Terror Probe Leak — The Bush administration hates leaks, especially when they involve classified information. They and their allies have made that abundantly and forcefully clear (Plame affair aside). Attorney General Al Gonzales has mounted …
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Alister Bull / Reuters:
Iraqi group uses Michael Moore film to mock Bush — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group has produced an elaborate video of what it said were attacks on U.S. troops, in the latest example of the increasingly sophisticated propaganda war being waged by Iraqi insurgents.
Bluto / The Jawa Report:
Lebanese Army Ordered to 'Stand With' Hizballah — Cross-posted from The Dread Pundit Bluto — Even the UK's rabidly leftwing Guardian Unlimited seems to find this alarming: … While the UN peacekeeping force is touted in the West as a deterrent to Hizballah terrorism with a mission …
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Liberty and Justice
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:Ceasefire fallout: All the wrong lessons (Update: Lebanese army …
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