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11:10 AM ET, July 26, 2007

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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Senator May Seek Gonzales Perjury Probe  —  Leahy Sets Deadline For Revised Testimony  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy threatened yesterday to request a perjury investigation of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, as Democrats said an intelligence official's statement …
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New York Times:
Defying the Imperial Presidency  —  The House Judiciary Committee did its duty yesterday, voting to cite Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, and Joshua Bolten, the White House chief of staff, for contempt.  The Bush administration has been acting lawlessly in refusing to hand …
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Waxman seeks RNC e-mails from White House Counsel Fielding
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Did Gonzo Lie?  —  Alberto Gonzales performed poorly as a witness …
Discussion: Redstate
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Omerta  —  YouTube of Bill Moyers and Jon Stewart discussing …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown: Leahy Doesn't Buy White House Lies
The New Republic:
A STATEMENT FROM SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP:  —  As we've noted in this space, some have questioned details that appeared in the Diarist "Shock Troops," published under the pseudonym Scott Thomas.  According to Major Kirk Luedeke, a public affairs officer at Forward Operating Base Falcon …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
SCOTT THOMAS SPEAKS  —  "The editors" of the New Republic have posted a statement from the soldier formerly known as Scott Thomas — he now identifies himself as Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp — with this preface: … Scott Thomas Beauchamp writes:
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
What's that Now?  —  "Scott Thomas" now known as Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp writes:
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
John Solomon / Washington Post:
No Easy Verdict on Thompson The Lawyer  —  Cases Indicate Willingness to Defy GOP Orthodoxy  —  Before he was elected as a tough-on-crime U.S. senator from Tennessee or played a New York prosecutor on TV's "Law and Order," Fred Dalton Thompson worked as a lawyer who argued …
Discussion: Time, race42008.com and Ian Schwartz
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Newt flirts with Thompson  —  Newt Gingrich's long, slow striptease over whether he will seek the presidency in 2008 looks like it might come to an unexpected conclusion: a date with Fred Thompson.  —  Publicly, Gingrich has been sending signals making clear that a presidential candidacy for him is becoming less likely.
Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
McCain's Media Team Resigns, Futher Shaking Up Campaign  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain's well-known media team has resigned, an indication that his campaign shake-up is continuing to backfire and imperiling the Arizona Republican's presidential candidacy.
Karl / Press Esc:
US Senators call for universal Internet filtering  —  Submitted by Adam Thomas on Wed, 2007-07-25 20:47.  - Americas - Tech - United States - News  —  US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order …
Dan Elliott / Associated Press:
Fired Colo. professor sues university  —  DENVER - A professor who was fired after comparing some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi sued the school Wednesday, saying officials retaliated against him for exercising his right to free speech.  —  Ward Churchill was ousted by the University …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and USS Neverdock
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Rocky Mountain News:
Regents do their duty  —  Churchill firing only responsible course, given the evidence
Discussion: Power Line
Washington Post:
War Crimes and the White House  —  The Dishonor in a Tortured New 'Interpretation' of the Geneva Conventions  —  One of us was appointed commandant of the Marine Corps by President Ronald Reagan; the other served as a lawyer in the Reagan White House and has vigorously defended the constitutionality …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
As regular readers...  IMPEACHMENT?  —  As regular readers of this site know, I've always been against the movement to impeach President Bush.  I take this position not because he hasn't done plenty to merit it.  My reasons are practical.  Minor reasons are that it's late in the president's term …
Harry Reid / Washington Post:
The Senate on Iraq: No 'Phony Debate'  —  On reading the July 21 editorial "The Phony Debate," it became clear why The Post's editorial writers have been such eager cheerleaders for the Bush administration's flawed Iraq policies — the two share the same disregard for the facts en route to drawing dubious conclusions.
Discussion: Think Progress
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
While Real Bullets Fly, Movies Bring War Home  —  LOS ANGELES, July 25 — On a night four years ago, five soldiers back from three months in Iraq went drinking at a Hooters restaurant and a topless bar near Fort Benning, Ga.  —  Before the night was over, one of them, Specialist Richard R. Davis …
Jean Edward Smith / New York Times:
Stacking the Court  —  WHEN a majority of Supreme Court justices adopt a manifestly ideological agenda, it plunges the court into the vortex of American politics.  If the Roberts court has entered voluntarily what Justice Felix Frankfurter once called the "political thicket," it may require a political solution to set it straight.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
(ed.note: This is...  AS BAD AS BUSH … The Iraq fiasco provides few opportunities for mirth.  But one is watching Fred Hiatt, czar of the Washington Post editorial page, try to kick up enough dust to wriggle out of his own position on the war.  —  A necessary preliminary to this discussion …
 
 
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The Atlantic Online:
Michigan Republicans Fighting Over Primary, and Giuliani and McCain …
Discussion: MSNBC
Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour
Discussion: Salon, Norwegianity and DefCon Blog
Kevin Whitelaw / US News:
Iraq Envoy Says U.S. Lags in Arms Delivery
Bill Koenig / Bloomberg:
Ford Has Surprise $750 Million Profit, Ending Losses
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Thomas P. M. Barnett / US News:
Managing China's Ascent
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Spitzer's Office Vows to Fight Investigation
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
'It Didn't Happen'  —  Democrats go soft on crimes against humanity.
Hamid Ahmed / Associated Press:
US: Attackers in Iraq have improved aim
Discussion: MSNBC and Rising Hegemon
 Earlier Items: 
Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Obesity Spreads In Social Circles As Trends Do, Study Indicates
City Journal:
Grading Mayoral Control
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Mark Steyn / Macleans.ca:
The Black Trial: The human drama the jury didn't see
Rudy Giuliani / Real Clear Politics:
Leading America Toward Energy Independence
Discussion: Economist's View
Little Green Footballs:
CAIR Goes After Rudy Giuliani
Discussion: The Jawa Report, CAIR and Hot Air
Rory Carroll / Guardian:
US medics graduate in Havana
Des Moines Register:
Edwards talks issues, borrows salve on RAGBRAI