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3:40 PM ET, August 22, 2006

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Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran ready for 'serious' nuclear talks  —  TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Tuesday that Tehran was ready to enter "serious negotiations" over its disputed nuclear program but did not say whether it was willing to suspend uranium enrichment — the West's key demand.
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Iran Rejects Offer For Nuclear Talks
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Jim Romenesko / poynter.org:   Journo kidnappings no longer the story it once was
Associated Press:
Connecticut Groups Push to Remove Lieberman From Ballot  —  Critics of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.
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Chris Bowers / mydd.com:
CT-Sen: New Rasmussen Poll Shows Closer Race  —  I became a subscriber to Rasmussen reports yesterday in order to increase the amount of information I have available to make Senate and Governor forecasts.  They may be a Republican firm, but I am already finding the information worth it.
Associated Press:
Iran 'fires on Romanian oil rig'  —  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian oil rig off the coast of Iran came under fire from an Iranian warship and was later occupied by Iranian troops, a company spokesman said.  —  The Iranians first fired into the air and then fired at the Orizont rig, said GSP spokesman Radu Petrescu.
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Bloomberg:
Iran's Navy Attacks and Boards Romanian Rig in Gulf (Update3)  —  Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) — Iran attacked and seized control of a Romanian oil rig working in its Persian Gulf waters this morning one week after the Iranian government accused the European drilling company of ``hijacking'' another rig.
Arthur C. Brooks / Opinion Journal:
The Fertility Gap  —  Liberal politics will prove fruitless as long as liberals refuse to multiply.  —  The midterm election looms, and once again efforts begin afresh to increase voter participation.  It has become standard wisdom in American politics that voter turnout is synonymous …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Hezbollah Sinks Australian Ship (Fauxtography)  —  Hezbollah's official website is running this pic which it claims is the Israeli ship which it damaged off the coast of Beirut.  —  The only problem, as discovered by Andrew Bolt of The Herald Sun, is that the ship in the pic is actually …
Discussion: Hot Air and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Andrew Bolt / NEWS.com.au:
Hezbollah sinks Australian warship
Sam Kean / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Educators Question Absence of Evolution From List of Majors Eligible for New Grants  —  Like a gap in the fossil record, evolutionary biology is missing from a list of majors that the U.S. Department of Education has deemed eligible for a new federal grant program designed to reward students majoring …
Paul Bedard / US News:
Washington Whispers  —  Don't laugh, but a loaner training kayak in the pool of the House of Representatives gym made the difference in President Bush's House victory for a pork-busting line-item veto.  "That's spot on," says Colorado Rep. Mark Udall, who helped talk 34 other Democrats into backing the measure 247 to 172.
Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
Point of No Return?  —  It is hard to think of a time when a nation — and a whole civilization — has drifted more futilely toward a bigger catastrophe than that looming over the United States and western civilization today.  —  Nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran and North Korea mean …
Discussion: Dinocrat and Austin Bay Blog
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WUSA-TV:
Exclusive Poll Results Show Allen Losing Ground  —  GOP Allen's Once Large Lead Evaporates: In an election for the United States Senate in Virginia today, 8/21/06, incumbent Republican George Allen edges Democrat challenger James Webb 48% to 45%, according to an exclusive SurveyUSA poll conducted for W*USA-TV in Washington, DC.
USA Today:
Poll: GOP up after terror arrests  —  WASHINGTON — The arrest of terror suspects in London has helped buoy President Bush to his highest approval rating in six months and dampen Democratic congressional prospects to their lowest in a year.  —  In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday …
Agence France Presse:
Greenland's glaciers have been shrinking for 100 years: study  —  Greenland's glaciers have been shrinking for the past century, according to a Danish study, suggesting that the ice melt is not a recent phenomenon caused by global warming.  —  Danish researchers from Aarhus University studied glaciers …
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Judge Orders Justice Department Investigation of Leak to CBS Report  —  A federal judge has ordered a Justice Department probe into how CBS News obtained a story two years ago disclosing an FBI investigation into a pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Daily Mail:
Obsessed Bin Laden wanted to kill Whitney Houston's husband  —  Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden is so obsessed with singer Whitney Houston he thought about killing her husband, Bobby Brown, it was claimed last night.  —  The suggestion is made by Sudanese poet and novelist Kola Boof …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
In Election Push, Bush Faults Talk of Iraq Pullout  —  President Bush seized on Monday on Democratic calls for withdrawal from Iraq to make an election-year case that his political rivals did not properly understand the threats to the nation and would create a more dangerous world.
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
President on Another Planet  —  For a moment there, I was almost encouraged.  George W. Bush, the most resolutely incurious and inflexible of presidents, was reported last week to have been surprised at seeing Iraqi citizens — who ought to be grateful beneficiaries of the American occupation …
Christy Setzer / Senate Majority Project:
Outrageous Quote of the Day: James Inhofe  —  "What's happened [in Iraq] is nothing short of a miracle."  —  Yes, folks, we know there's a lot of wacky stuff out there from our esteemed Senate body, but the Senate Majority Project's "Outrageous GOP Quote of the Day" award today goes to repeat winner …
 
 
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Associated Press:
Thousands of Marines face involuntary recalls
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Photographic evidence of Hezbollah counterfeiting?  (Update: Cameo from Scar Lady?)
Bill Clinton / New York Times:
How We Ended Welfare, Together
Ezra Klein / Los Angeles Times:
The Job Sen. Clinton Should Want  —  Skip the presidential rat race …
Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
UN envoy to Livni: IDF raid near Baalbek violated cease-fire
Tim Butcher / Telegraph:
Israeli soldiers attack 'dithering' leadership
Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Joe Rosenthal, Photographer at Iwo Jima, Dies
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Cornelia Dean / New York Times:
A Man, a Plan, a Dam. Then, an F.B.I. Call.
Examiner:
Who's the senator who wants spending kept secret?
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
The Fame Motive  —  Money and power are handy, but millions …
New York Times:
Other Voices: In Search of Honesty on the Eavesdropping Story …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Officials Seek Broader Access to Airline Data
Jack Risko / Dinocrat:
Big economy, small deficits
Metehan Demir / Jerusalem Post:
Israel, US foil Iran arms transfer