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4:35 PM ET, August 4, 2007

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Washington Post:
Senate Votes To Expand Warrantless Surveillance  —  White House Applauds; Changes Are Temporary  —  The Senate bowed to White House pressure last night and passed a Republican plan for overhauling the federal government's terrorist surveillance laws, approving changes that would temporarily …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Candidates court bloggers, avoid commitment  —  CHICAGO — The second YearlyKos convention is a show of strength for the new blogging establishment: A parade of major Democratic politicians, including the leaders of the House and Senate and almost every presidential candidate …
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Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Democrats court liberal bloggers  —  CHICAGO - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton refused Saturday to forsake campaign donations from lobbyists, turning aside challenges from her two main rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination with a rare defense of the special interest industry.
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Slowly, Clinton Shifts on War, Quieting Foes
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The Turn  —  Defeatists in retreat.  —  Hot July brings cooling showers, / Apricots and gillyflowers, as Sara Coleridge's doggerel has it.  But for the American antiwar movement, this July brought only a cold drizzle, wilted blossoms, and bitter fruit.  —  For the Iraq war's opponents, July began as a month of hope.
Discussion: The Corner and Wake up America
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Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Kristol Meth  —  The war's most enduring organ-grinder is gettin' his Friedman on today, declaring once again that Bush's war has reached a turning point, and that Americans are slowly — to the chagrin of the New York Times — awakening to the Good News.  Steve Bennen gives substance to the obvious …
Discussion: The Impolitic
Pajamas Media:
Soldier Censored at Kos Convention  —  VIDEO Fireworks broke out at a Friday morning session of the second day of the YearlyKos Convention entitled "The Military and Progressives: Are They Really That Different?".  An as yet unidentified uniformed soldier attempted to address the panel on the subject of the "Surge".
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
And Now It's Oberstar's Turn  —  Yesterday, Senator Amy Klobuchar blamed the collapse of the I-35W bridge on a lack of highway funds — even though the 2005 highway bill increased federal funding to Minnesota by 46% over its five-year span.  Apparently realizing that line of argument wouldn't hold …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Sister Toldjah
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insideBayArea:
Police: Oakland Post editor's killer confesses to slaying  —  A 19-year-old handyman at Your Black Muslim Bakery admitted to police Friday night that he ambushed and killed Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, investigators said.  —  Police said Devaughndre Broussard told them he killed Bailey …
Discussion: Associated Press
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The Influence Peddler:
Confirmation: GOP Won the Vote  —  Congressional Quarterly seems to have the definitive article on the furor in the House the other night.  They lead with the news of a 'ceasefire,' but later confirm that the vote ought to have been a Republican win.  —  The piece leads with the creation …
Discussion: CNN and The Jawa Report
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Washington Post:
Gonzales Now Says Top Aides Got Political Briefings  —  Justice Department officials attended at least a dozen political briefings at the White House since 2001, including some meetings led by Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, and others that were focused on election trends prior …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Too Sense
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
In Iraq, a Perilous Alliance With Former Enemies  —  FORWARD OPERATING BASE ISKAN, Iraq — Inside a brightly lit room, the walls adorned with memorials to 23 dead American soldiers, Lt. Col. Robert Balcavage stared at the three Sunni tribal leaders he wanted to recruit.  —  Their fighters had battled U.S. troops.
Discussion: NION and TIME: Swampland
Juan Cole / Informed Comment:
Pakistani Protests against Obama;  —  Clinton leaves Nukes on the Table;  —  Tancredo an Inspiration to the Criminally Insane that They, Too, Could run for President  —  I'm going to hear Senator Barack Obama on Saturday afternoon at the Yearly Kos convention.  Will report back on Sunday about his remarks.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The Conservative Principles Poll [Stephen]  —  A lot of my friends in the center-right blogosphere think Andrew and his readers are a bunch of lefties.  So let's take an unscientific poll.  Russell Kirk famously laid out 10 conservative principles.  To how many do you subscribe?
Little Green Footballs:
Thug, Dictator, and Useful Idiot  —  Sean Penn is The Useful Idiot. … (Hat tip: Geepers.)
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush surveys bridge, pledges aid  —  MINNEAPOLIS - President Bush pledged Saturday to cut red tape that could delay rebuilding a highway bridge that once arched over the Mississippi River but now lies crumbled in muddy water concealing some victims.  —  Bush, still dogged by his administration's …
Discussion: Dependable Renegade
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
ISRAEL: THE OUTSIDE STORY  —  Israel is a vibrant country without peer in ways that Americans would appreciate if they were aware of them.  Yet as a result of Israel's depiction in the mainstream media, Israel's image in the United States and elsewhere inverts reality.
 
 
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New York Times:
Partisan Anger Stalls Congress in Final Push
The Atlantic Online:
The Gates, Crashed  —  The best possible evidence for the idea …
Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
Blue America Welcomes Russ Warner
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
Hurrah! The Saudis are coming!
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown: FISA and Fear Mongering
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Telegraph:
Foot and mouth outbreak sparks emergency
Rudolph W. Giuliani / Boston Globe:
A free-market cure for US healthcare system
Discussion: Power Line
Walter Shapiro / Salon:
Joe Lieberman, from his indie perch
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Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
PAPER BALLOTS FOR CALIFORNIA! …
Stephanie Zacharek / Salon:
"The Bourne Ultimatum"  —  In this exhilarating action threequel …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Chris Kelly / The Huffington Post:
The National Review Invades Canada
Bryan / Hot Air:
Alms for Jihad update Updated
Discussion: Power Line
The Atlantic Online:
Community Standards  —  Atrios, or as we call him in real life …
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner and Eschaton
Barbara McMahon / Guardian:
Aborigine wins payout for stolen childhood
Discussion: The Moderate Voice