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2:00 AM ET, July 19, 2007

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CNN:
Study group chair: Hit al Qaeda in Pakistan  —  (CNN) — U.S. forces should go into Pakistan to rout al Qaeda from the safe haven it has found in the mountains on the border with Afghanistan, a co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group said.  —  Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, who also served …
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
North to Alaska  —  Rep. Don Young attacked his fellow Republicans on the House floor Wednesday, as he defended education funds allocated to his home-state of Alaska.  —  "You want my money, my money," Young stridently declared before warning conservatives that, "Those who bite me will be bitten back."
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Laura McGann / TPMmuckraker:
Young Threatens To Bite NJ Rep. Like An Alaskan Mink
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Larry Flynt says he has 30 more names!  —  Larry Flynt told Larry King that he has at least 30 more names to release in his quest to expose Republican hypocrisy.  And ye shall be shocked at a certain Senator that he has left unnamed so far.  Sounds like a James Dobson/Wingnut/phony family values man …
Discussion: Cliff Schecter and Althouse
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Breaking: Reid Yanks Defense Authorization Bill To Force GOP's Hand  —  Ratcheting up the stakes in the wake of the GOP's successful blocking of a vote on Iraq withdrawal just moments ago, Harry Reid just announced on the Senate floor that he won't allow a vote on the entire Defense Authorization bill until …
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Bob Geiger:
After GOP Iraq-Withdrawal Filibuster, Reid Sets Aside Defense Authorization Bill
Maria Bartiromo / Business Week:
A Resolute Condoleezza Rice  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been at George W. Bush's side since he was sworn in as President in 2001, first as National Security Advisor and now as the nation's top diplomat.  Like the President, she has been pilloried for not adequately recognizing …
Discussion: Angry Bear and Los Angeles Times
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:   From Maria Bartiromo's...
Jo Becker / New York Times:
Records Show Ex-Senator's Work for Family Planning Unit  —  Billing records show that former Senator Fred Thompson spent nearly 20 hours working as a lobbyist on behalf of a group seeking to ease restrictive federal rules on abortion counseling in the 1990s, even though he recently …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Billing Records Resurrected?  —  The Los Angeles Times will report in the next day or so that billing records have been found at Arent Fox which show some consultations between Fred Thompson and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association.
Allison Klein / Washington Post:
Hummer Owner Gets Angry Message  —  Vandals Batter D.C. Man's SUV, Slash Its Tires and Scratch In an Eco Note  —  On a narrow, leafy street in Northwest Washington, where Prius hybrid cars and Volvos are the norm, one man bought a flashy gray Hummer that was too massive to fit in his garage.
Lester Munson / ESPN:
Legal odds against Vick just got much longer … A grand jury indicted Atlanta Falcons' quarterback Michael Vick on Tuesday, which at least partially answers one question that has lingered since the news first broke about an alleged dogfighting operation on property owned by Vick in Virginia: Was Vick involved?
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A'Melody Lee / Political Radar:
Sex Ed for Kindergarteners 'Right Thing to Do,' Says Obama  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do."
Edith Honan / Reuters:
Ex-Cheney aide gets 10 years in prison in spy case  —  NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A former White House official who took top secret documents from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office and gave them to opposition figures in the Philippines was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison.
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Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Generation Chickenhawk: the Unauthorized College Republican Convention Tour
Discussion: Ali Eteraz
Media Matters for America:
Wash. Post's Murray: GOP won't support Iraq withdrawal because "[t]hey're just not willing to do that to the military"  —  On the July 18 edition of MSNBC Live, during a discussion of Senate Republicans' move blocking an up or down vote on a Democratic amendment aimed at withdrawing troops from Iraq …
Katy Byron / CNN:
Transformer explosion rattles Manhattan  —  NEW YORK (CNN) — One person died and 26 were injured after a steam pipe burst in midtown Manhattan Wednesday, causing a transformer to explode and sending thick plumes of steam and ash into the air near Grand Central Terminal, New York officials said.
Discussion: Blogs of War and On Deadline
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Turkey bombards northern Iraq, Iraq says  —  BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government said Turkish artillery and warplanes bombarded areas of northern Iraq on Wednesday and called on Turkey to stop military operations and resolve the conflict diplomatically.  —  The claim occurred amid rising tension …
Todd Beeton / MyDD:
John Edwards On What It Means To Be A Democrat  —  John Edwards concludes his Road To One America poverty tour today with a major speech in Kentucky, the site where Robert F Kennedy ended a similar trek in 1968.  The washingtonpost.com has a remarkably uncynical interview with Edwards …
Jennifer L Pozner / WIMN's Voices:
Stephen Colbert applauds next feminist role model: "The Susan B. Anthony of Pole Dancing"  —  What's the best thing about working from home?  Stephen Colbert is my lunch break.  Just finished watching my DVR'd Colbert Report of Monday's show, and came across a gem of a segment on Johnna Mink, the "Susan B. Anthony of pole dancing."
 
 
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Lewis Z. Koch / Firedoglake:
Whose Conspiracy?  —  The government has concluded its case …
Matt / Think Progress:
Matthews: I 'sympathize with Scooter Libby.'
Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
An Interview With General Petraeus
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
CNN Political Ticker:
Presidential candidate hospitalized
Anne Nivat / International Herald Tribune:
Life in the 'red zone'
Jim Galloway / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Broun leading run-off for Norwood's seat
Hindrocket / Power Line:
ABOUT LAST NIGHT
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Maybe you had...  ALL NIGHTER AT JOE'S PLACE  —  Maybe you …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Fact or Fiction?
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Vive La Resistance
Jonathan Kahn / Scientific American:
Race in a Bottle  —  Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted …
Discussion: The Corner
Farhad Manjoo / Salon:
Freeing the iPhone the legal way
Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com:
Ron Paul Will Place Second at Ames
Ed Koch / Real Clear Politics:
I'm Done Defending the Iraq Policy