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10:05 AM ET, July 30, 2007

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New York Times:
A War We Just Might Win  —  VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal.  The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility.
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Joe Klein / TIME: Swampland:
What's Missing in this Column?
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
General Petraeus rebuts Iraq row claim
Discussion: Anything They Say and Reuters
Los Angeles Times:
Soccer title brings rare gift: Iraq unity
Discussion: Informed Comment
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Two to Be Excluded From a Dem Administration
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Swedish Film Director Ingmar Bergman Dies at 89  —  Ingmar Bergman, an Academy Award-winning Swedish writer-director whose name came to define an entire genre of stark movies about the human condition, such as "The Seventh Seal," "Wild Strawberries" and "Persona," has died at his home at the age of 89, Swedish media reported Monday.
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Louise Nordstrom / Associated Press:
Filmmaker Ingmar Bergman dies at 89
Discussion: Rising Hegemon and Eschaton
USA Today:
Study links more hurricanes, climate change  —  The number of hurricanes that strike each year has more than doubled over the past century, an increase tied to global warming, according to a study released Sunday.  —  "We're seeing a quite substantial increase in hurricanes over the last century …
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Jim Loney / Reuters:
Study blames climate change for hurricane rise  —  MIAMI (Reuters) - The number of Atlantic hurricanes in an average season has doubled in the last century due in part to warmer seas and changing wind patterns caused by global warming, according to a study released on Sunday.
Discussion: Wizbang
ABCNEWS:
Surveillance Cameras Win Broad Support  —  Majority of Americans Favor Extra Safety Factor of Cameras  —  Crime-fighting beats privacy in public places: Americans, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, support the increased use of surveillance cameras — a measure decried by some civil libertarians …
Washington Post:
Gonzales's Truthfulness Long Disputed  —  Claims of Misstatements to Shield Bush Stretch Back a Decade  —  When Alberto R. Gonzales was asked during his January 2005 confirmation hearing whether the Bush administration would ever allow wiretapping of U.S. citizens without warrants …
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Bush's Turkish Gamble  —  The morass in Iraq and deepening difficulties in Afghanistan have not deterred the Bush administration from taking on a dangerous and questionable new secret operation.  High-level U.S. officials are working with their Turkish counterparts on a joint military operation …
Julian Borger / Guardian:
Iran opens doors of nuclear plant  —  The rush to process uranium is to generate electricity, officials tell Julian Borger in Isfahan.  But there are no power stations  —  In the bowels of Iran's uranium conversion facility in Isfahan strands of black and red wire stretch from the concrete wall …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Robin Toner / New York Times:
Anti-Abortion Leaders Size Up G.O.P. Candidates  —  After 30 years of political organizing within the Republican Party, the anti-abortion movement has won a series of victories in legislatures and courts and stands tantalizingly close to winning even more.  But these are anxious days for the movement.
Dennis Welch / East Valley Tribune:
Homicide charges in helicopter crash a tough call  —  VIDEO: Eyewitnesses recount midair collision  —  VIDEO: Firefighters give condolences at Scottsdale Airpark  —  VIDEO: Two helicopters collide in midair  —  VIDEO: Footage from ABC15 helicopter involved in crash  —  View slideshow.
Discussion: The Agitator and Reason Magazine
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A True Political Partner  —  John Edwards's Wife Has Helped Shape His Presidential Bid and Often Shares Its Spotlight  —  Aboard a small chartered jet, Elizabeth Edwards — lawyer, mother, author, cancer patient, candidate's wife — was flying recently from New Hampshire to Iowa.
Discussion: New York Times, MSNBC and TIME
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] An Immoral Philosophy  —  What kind of philosophy says that it's O.K. to subsidize insurance companies, but not to provide health care to children?
Michael J. Totten:
Baghdad Raid Night  —  BAGHDAD - "We want to use you as bait," Sergeant Eduardo Ojeda from Los Angeles, California, told me before I embedded with his unit on what was shaping up to be a night raid.  —  "Excellent," I said.  "That's why I'm here."  —  This is what passes for black Army humor in Baghdad.
Thomas Wagner / Associated Press:
NGOs report humanitarian crisis in Iraq  —  LONDON - About 8 million Iraqis — nearly a third of the population — need immediate emergency aid because of the humanitarian crisis caused by the war, relief agencies said Monday.  —  Those Iraqis are in urgent need of water, sanitation …
Discussion: On Deadline and AMERICAblog
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DOG ATE MY CONSTITUTION  —  I don't want to get into a back and forth about whether it makes sense or sense yet to impeach Alberto Gonzales.  But I assume we all agree that members of Congress should have a good enough working knowledge of the constitution to know how impeachment works.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Kagro X / Daily Kos:
Ellen Tauscher versus the Constitution
Discussion: Firedoglake
 
 
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New York Post:
NERVY JUDITH RATTLED HILLARY
Discussion: Charleston Daily Mail and TIME
Janny Scott / New York Times:
In Illinois, Obama Proved Pragmatic and Shrewd
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Shocking 'Chris Matthews' Discussion: Maybe We Shouldn't Leave Iraq
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
Holly Bailey / Newsweek:
Is McCain back? The underdog fights on
Discussion: Centerfield
Ben Leapman / Telegraph:
Abu Hamza bullied in prison, says wife
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
In Baghdad, Justice Behind the Barricades
Discussion: Air America Radio
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
FCC to Rule on Wireless Auction
Michelle Malkin:
Which of these is a crime in America?  —  A pictorial pop quiz for you.
 Earlier Items: 
Dan Glaister / Guardian:
US accused of fuelling arms race with $20bn Arab weapons sale
Discussion: The Heretik and CNN
Roger Cliff / San Diego Union-Tribune:
China's challenge  —  U.S., European strategy must adjust to confront
Drew Westen / Washington Post:
Dems, You Gotta Have Heart
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Edwards Leads Giuliani by Seven, Thompson by Eleven
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
Blogger fest a magnet for liberal politicos
Discussion: TalkLeft
New York Times:
In Opposing Tax Plan, Schumer Breaks With Party
William J. Kole / Associated Press:
Official: U.N. troop standards too low
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Strike Up The Band  —  On the Stephanopoulos bobble head roundtable …
 

 
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