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6:20 PM ET, July 21, 2007

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Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard:
The 9/11 Generation  —  Better than the Boomers.  —  In the 1960s, history called the Baby Boomers.  They didn't answer the phone.  —  Confronted with a generation-defining conflict, the cold war, the Boomers—those, at any rate, who came to be emblematic of their generation …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
They Don't Really Support the Troops  —  The latest from the New Republic and the Nation.  —  Cindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier who was killed in Iraq, emerged on the American political scene two years ago.  Distraught and unstable, she was shamelessly exploited by opponents of George W. Bush …
Discussion: The Impolitic and TPMCafe blogs
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Bloggers Raise Red Flags Over New Republic's 'Baghdad Diarist'  —  The column in the New Republic, described as being penned by a U.S. soldier in Iraq, is filled with tales of petty, stomach-churning behavior.  —  The "Baghdad Diarist," writing under the pseudonym Scott Thomas, says he was …
Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:
Aside from the tragedy of the war itself, one of the more disconcerting elements of the ongoing political debate is just how little progress we've seen in nearly five years.  Vapid arguments that were absurd in 2003 are still used routinely.  Offensive talking points that were discredited …
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
FRANKLIN FOER TALKS
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Washington Post:
The Phony Debate  —  THE SENATE Democratic leadership spent the past week trying to prove that Congress is deeply divided over Iraq, with Democrats pressing and Republicans resisting a change of course.  In fact that's far from the truth.  A large majority of senators from both parties favor …
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David Espo / Yahoo! News:   Analysis: GOP senators nervous about war
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
EXPERTS DISCUSS FLATNESS OF EARTH....The Washington Post …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Faiz / Think Progress:
David Brooks: 'I'm so confused' about what to do in Iraq.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
John Deeth / Iowa Independent:
Rudy Giuliani: Asked About HIV, He Answers With 9/11  —  Rudy Giuliani gets Iowa punctuality.  In fact, he may be the first presidential candidate in years to show up early at a caucus campaign stop.  Razzed by the Des Moines Register for running late in his last Iowa trip …
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Joe Conason / Reuters:
Rudy and Romney: Artful dodgers
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
Margaret Talev / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Senate tied in knots by filibusters  —  WASHINGTON — This year Senate Republicans are threatening filibusters to block more legislation than ever before, a pattern that's rooted in — and could increase — the pettiness and dysfunction in Congress.  —  The trend has been evolving for 30 years.
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:   McClatchy: Senate Republicans On Track For Record Setting Obstruction
Washington Post:
Fight Over Documents May Favor Bush, Experts Say  —  Contempt Charge Precedents Cited in Firings Case  —  The Bush administration's vow this week to block contempt charges from Congress could prove to be a successful strategy for protecting White House documents about the multiple firings of U.S. attorneys …
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Chris Weigant / The Huffington Post:
White House Declares Bush Emperor
Discussion: Burnt Orange Report
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
On Why So Few Bloggers Have Endorsed In 2008  — Part One: New Establishment Rising: The End Of The Flat Blogosphere  — Part Two: New Establishment Rising: Why So Few Bloggers Have Endorsed in 2008  —  Taking a quick look at The Liberal Blog Advertising Network …
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Court Tells U.S. to Reveal Data on Detainees at Guantánamo  —  A federal appeals court ordered the government yesterday to turn over virtually all its information on Guantánamo detainees who are challenging their detention, rejecting an effort by the Justice Department …
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Matt Apuzzo / The Huffington Post:
Judges Seek All Gitmo Detainee Evidence
Discussion: The Sideshow
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Public vs Private Face of Omar Bakri Mohammed: "Peace" vs. "Hooray al Qaeda!"  —  This IHT report, also published in the New York Times, portrays Omar Bakri Mohammed as a man who has moderated his views and who is trying to promote peace between the Lebanese government and the al Qaeda linked …
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Hassan M. Fattah / International Herald Tribune:   Muslim radical shows moderation, or at least tact
Jan Crawford / Legalities:
The Sky's Still Up There  —  Kathleen Sullivan, the former dean of Stanford Law School (who would be on any Democratic president's shortlist for the Supreme Court), said the other day that conservatives should be "dancing in the streets" at the end of the first full term of the Roberts Court.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
The Pentagon Gets a Lesson From Madison Avenue  —  U.S. Needs to Devise a Different 'Brand' to Win Over the Iraqi People, Study Advises  —  In the advertising world, brand identity is everything.  Volvo means safety.  Colgate means clean.  IPod means cool.
TMZ.com:
Mitt Catches S**t Over Hillary-Bashing Sign  —  Not everyone is a fan of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, but comparing them to one of the most dastardly pieces of human excrement of all time — that might be bit much.  Especially for a presidential candidate.
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Breaking: Gates Distances Himself From Edelman's Attack On Hillary Clinton  —  Defense Secretary Robert Gates is distancing himself from an under secretary's assertion that Senator Hillary Clinton's public questions about Pentagon troop withdrawal plans are aiding the enemy.
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Gates Steps In to Defuse Clinton-Pentagon Dispute
Discussion: Think Progress
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Bush Approves New CIA Methods  —  President Bush set broad legal boundaries for the CIA's harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects yesterday, allowing the intelligence agency to resume a program that was suspended last year after criticism that it violated U.S. and international law.
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Nigel Bunyan / Telegraph:
Binman's St George bandana 'is racist'  —  A black dustman has been banned from wearing a St George's Cross bandana because council officials say it could be regarded as racist.  —  Matthew Carter, 35, who was born in Barbados, used the headgear to keep his dreadlocks out of the way while he was on his rounds in Burnley, Lancs.
Discussion: Harry's Place
KAL / Democracy in America:
Bald eagles  —  Our political cartoonist casts his eye towards the presidential campaign  —  A GROWING number of Republicans are hoping that Fred Thompson, a former senator and television actor, will throw his hat into the presidential ring.  Should he do so, he'd be wise to keep his head …
 
 
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
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Christopher Drew / New York Times:
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Associated Press:
Bush: Fight against extremists must go on
Faiz / Think Progress:
Sen. Sununu: I Don't Want President Bush To Campaign With Me
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Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Federal minimum wage rising this week
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Melanie Phillips / Melanie Phillips's Articles:
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CNN:
Doctors remove polyps from Bush's colon
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