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12:20 PM ET, July 23, 2007

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Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Lead By $100 Million In Money Race  —  WASHINGTON — With more than a year to go before the 2008 elections, Democratic candidates have raised $100 million more in campaign contributions than Republicans, putting them on track to win the money race for the White House and Congress …
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Washington Post:
Poll Shows Clinton With Solid Lead Among Democrats  —  By a wide margin, Democrats view Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) as the party's candidate best positioned to win the general election, and she holds a double-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the race for the nomination, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll.
Quinnipiac University News and Events:
July 23, 2007 - Bloomberg Boosts Democrats' Fortunes In Florida, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; McCain Fades In Republican Primary Race  —  If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg runs for President as an independent candidate, it helps Democrats in Florida, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama solicits La Raza backing  —  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Sen. Barack Obama told the nation's largest Hispanic advocacy group yesterday that he earned their support for his presidential campaign by marching in last year's May 1 immigrant rallies and challenged them to learn whether others met that standard.
Discussion: MSNBC, Hot Air and PoliPundit.com
Dan Morain / Los Angeles Times:
Small donors playing bigger role in campaigns
Discussion: Washington Post
Bill Schneider / CNN:   For Clinton, debate could turn into 7 against 1
Rasmussen Reports:
Associated Press, MSNBC and CNBC Seen as Having Liberal Bias  —  In the final poll of a series measuring perceptions of media bias, the Associated Press, local television stations, MSNBC, and CNBC are all perceived as tilting to the left when reporting the news.
Discussion: Don Surber and QandO
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Rasmussen: Liberal Bias In American Media
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Politico Playbook: First date  —  Good Monday Morning.  —  YOU were the TIME person of the year (great resume fodder) and now YOU (or some of you, at least) get to help out host Anderson Cooper and electronically ask the Democratic candidates questions during the two-hour CNN/YouTube debate at 7 Eastern tonight.
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Unlikely Adversary Arises to Criticize Detainee Hearings  —  NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Stephen E. Abraham's assignment to the Pentagon unit that runs the hearings at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, seemed a perfect fit.  —  A lawyer in civilian life, he had been decorated for counterespionage …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Democrats Press House to Expand Health Care Bill  —  After a rare bipartisan agreement in the Senate to expand insurance coverage for low-income children, House Democrats have drafted an even broader plan that also calls for major changes in Medicare and promises to intensify the battle with the White House over health care.
Discussion: Open Left, Brian Beutler and MSNBC
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   An Unusually Effective Minority
Sarah Cohen / Washington Post:
Deceased Farmers Got USDA Payments  —  The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and routinely failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were properly made, according to a government report.
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
On Duty  —  In the cause of liberty, we must be ever vigilant.  Via the NYTimes opinion page: … The radical nature of the Republican party must be understood in full context in order to comprehend the broad scope of their grab at power — and their wholesale rejection of the principles …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Bill Kristol, Highly Recommended  —  Bill Kristol's the-war-is-being-won piece in The Washington Post brought him plenty of ridicule, but at least one person liked it.  —  President Bush read the July 15 Outlook article that morning and recommended it to his staff.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
CHENEY: A WORD FROM STEPHEN HAYES  —  Stephen Hayes is the Weekly Standard senior writer whose whork we have frequently highlighted here.  Steve's new book is the biogaphy Cheney: The Live of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President.  Tomorrow the book is officially published.
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Yeas & Nays:
What You Don't Know About Cheney  —  Rare inside look
Discussion: Think Progress
Reuters:
U.N. suspends peacekeepers amid sex abuse charges  —  ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire (Reuters) — The United Nations said on Saturday it had suspended a Moroccan military contingent from its peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire while it investigated allegations of widespread sexual abuse.
Little Green Footballs:
KILLITARY: Lefties Dropping the Fiction of 'Supporting the Troops'  —  The leftist blogosphere went out of their way to cover this one up as quickly as possible.  —  It was posted at Daily Kos, as Ace relates.  But the Kidz are on edge about their credibility, so it was deleted within hours, without a word of explanation.
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David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
TV provides poor signal for Hillary  —  When Hollywood producer Rod Lurie created fictional president Mackenzie Allen in 2005 for the show "Commander in Chief" he made no mistake about one of his goals: tilling the soil of popular culture so that it would soon be easier for a real woman to take root in a nonfiction Oval Office.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Dr. Broun Goes to Washington  —  A conservative Republican wins a stunning upset in a Georgia House race.  —  Special elections to fill vacant House seats are usually fought over local concerns, but often they have national overtones.  The stunning result of a Georgia race last week is a case in point.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
City Journal:
In the Heart of Freedom, in Chains  —  Elite hypocrisy, gangsta culture, and failure in black America  —  Two April days threw a clarifying light on the state of race in America.  On the 11th, North Carolina's attorney general exonerated three white Duke students of the rape charges …
 
 
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
If You Can't Say Anything Nice, I'll Deport You
Wyatt Buchanan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Pelosi promises congressional contempt charge for Harriet Miers
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"
David Nather / CQPolitics.com:
Lieberman's New Party Line
Discussion: My Left Nutmeg
Hugo Lindgren / New York Magazine:
Who Wants to Be a Cultural Billionaire?
Susan Goldsmith / Oregonian:
Unruly schoolboys or sex offenders?
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Journalist Chosen to Lead a Public Policy Institute
Claire Brinberg / CNN:
Democratic trying to reach religious voters
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Associated Press:
Three sisters stabbed to death in Gaza 'honor killing'
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Nellie Andreeva / Hollywood Reporter:
Jones moves into '24' Oval Office
Discussion: Betsy's Page
ABCNEWS:
Natl. Intel Director Worried About Terror Sleeper Cells in U.S.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: The French Connections
William S. Lind / The American Conservative:
How to Win in Iraq  —  A stable Iraqi state would constitute …
Joel Brinkley / San Francisco Chronicle:
WANING INFLUENCE  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finds that her star is fading
Discussion: Corrente and FRAMESHOP
Guardian:
All the rage - victim of US bloggers' cartoon hits back
Ariel Leve / Times of London:
Al-Qaeda faces rebellion from the ranks
 

 
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