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10:00 AM ET, July 19, 2007

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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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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Candidates Shift as G.O.P. Field Alters  —  The decline of John McCain's presidential campaign, and the rising profile of Fred D. Thompson as a prospective contender, are forcing candidates to rewrite their strategies as they adjust to a playing field vastly different from just one month ago.
Discussion: MSNBC
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Billing Records Resurrected? (Updated & Bumped)
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McCain tries to shore up support on the Hill
Patterico's Pontifications:
Fred's Billing Records Found!
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Hot Air
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Bush: No Deal On Children's Health Plan  —  President Says He Objects On Philosophical Grounds  —  President Bush yesterday rejected entreaties by his Republican allies that he compromise with Democrats on legislation to renew a popular program that provides health coverage to poor children …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
George Bush Leaves Children Behind In Health Insurance Proposal Stance
Discussion: Kiko's House
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow  —  Press Briefing Slides (PDF, 1.8 mb, 7 pages)  —  MR. SNOW: As Bill Plante just said, let's begin by welcoming back Bret Baier.  You've been in a lot of our thoughts and prayers, and very happy to hear the Bret's son has come through some very testing surgery, coming through with flying colors.
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Tina Susman / Los Angeles Times:   U.S. says Iraqi militant nonexistent
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Katy Byron / CNN:
Transformer explosion rattles Manhattan
Discussion: Blogs of War and On Deadline
Associated Press:
Mysterious insurgent a sham, U.S. says  —  BAGHDAD — Over the past year, Iraqis heard several audio recordings by a mysterious terrorist leader named Omar al-Baghdadi singing the praises of al-Qaida and urging his followers to attack U.S. troops.  —  The whole thing was a sham, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
Lewis Z. Koch / Firedoglake:
Whose Conspiracy?  —  The government has concluded its case against Jose Padilla and yesterday, to no one's surprise U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Cooke refused a defense request for directed verdict of not guilty.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Frazier claimed "I think it is a very tightly knit conspiracy."
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Warren Richey / Christian Science Monitor:   Without a plot, is Padilla guilty?
Think Progress:
Bush's Agencies Of Mass Politicization  —  This week's report that officials in the Office of National Drug Control Policy made politically motivated appearances in the months leading up to the 2006 elections are only the latest example of the Bush administration's misuse of federal employees.
Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle:
The Courage to Conjoin  —  Ramesh Ponnuru writes: … This is a stupefyingly widespread view that flows from an elementary error in thinking.  —  Suppose you know that there is free will or that moral reasoning is not futile.  Next, suppose you find that the universe is made out of only whatever the universe is made out of.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
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Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner:   One Recent Debate about God
Andrew Grice / The Independent:
How Murdoch had a hotline to the PM in the run-up to Iraq war  —  Tony Blair had three conversations with the media magnate Rupert Murdoch in the nine days before the start of the Iraq war, the Government has disclosed.  —  Details of the former prime minister's contacts with Mr Murdoch …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Candidates spend heavily on voter lists  —  Of all the right-leaning publications and websites that have written upbeat pieces about Mitt Romney, few have been as effusive as NewsMax, a conservative magazine based in West Palm Beach, Fla., with a discernible soft spot for the former governor and his wife.
Discussion: MSNBC
hughhewitt.townhall.com:
General David Petraeus on the conditions on the ground in Iraq  —  The Hugh Hewitt Show  —  HH: Welcome, General.  You took over command of the multinational forces in February of this year, February 10.  In the past five months, how have conditions in Iraq changed?
Andrew Ryan / Boston Globe:
None of the above  —  Bill offers voters a way to put action in dissatisfaction: force a new election  —  Massachusetts voters sick of holding their noses on Election Day could get another option: none of the above.  —  The proposal would let voters reject all candidates and demand a new election.
Discussion: Wizbang
KTVT-TV:
UPDATE: Cache Of Weapons Found In Dallas Apartment  —  FIRST REPORTED ON CBS11TV.COM  —  (CBS 11 News) DALLAS Federal sources tell CBS 11 News that law enforcement officers have confiscated a large cache of weapons found in an apartment near the federal building in downtown Dallas.
Discussion: snapped shot and Jihad Watch
Zogby:
Zogby: Bush Job Approval 34%  —  President's rating mostly stable since start of year; Just 14% give the new Dem Congress a positive rating—nine points below GOP Congress last October  —  President Bush's job approval rating now stands at 34% among likely voters nationwide …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Murdoch's Arrival Worries Journal Employees  —  On May 14, more than 100 reporters, editors and executives clustered in The Wall Street Journal's main newsroom to mark the retirement of Peter R. Kann, the longtime leader of their corporate parent, Dow Jones & Company.
Discussion: Think Progress and Brian Beutler
 
 
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New York Times:
Stymied by G.O.P., Democrats Stop Debate on Iraq
Discussion: MSNBC
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Author of His Own Undoing
Discussion: The Politico and Brian Beutler
Valleywag:
Propaganda: Google's right-wing Australian mouthpiece
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Flying Imams — Are Democrats Trying to Sink Pete King's Amendment?
CBS News:
Poll: Most Support Iraq Timetable
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
CNN:
McCain snaps: 'Finished' discussing campaign
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Cleric Switches Tactics to Meet Changes in Iraq
Nour Samaha / Lebanon Daily Star:
Two Israeli journalists scrap ethics for scoop
Discussion: Pajamas Media
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew G. Bostom / American Thinker:
Recognition for the Silent Jewish Refugees
Discussion: The Corner
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Voters unhappy with Bush; Congress: Reuters poll
Sonya Geis / Washington Post:
Witness Testifies Marine Knowingly Shot Children in Haditha
Richard Alleyne / Telegraph:
Nation asked to name worst social evils
Discussion: Samizdata.net
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI remotely installs spyware to trace bomb threat
CNN:
Study group chair: Hit al Qaeda in Pakistan