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1:55 AM ET, August 5, 2007

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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Kos Presidential Forum: Highs and Lows  —  CHICAGO, Ill. — Seven of the eight Democratic candidates for president just spent 90 rollicking minutes answering questions and — occasionally — jabbing each other in the marquee event of this year's YearlyKos gathering.
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Ezra Klein:
YearlyKos Presidential Forum Liveblogging  —  • This'll be a different kind of forum.  The kind where the crowd sings "Happy Birthday" to Barack Obama.  And yet, even though applause and interruptions are allowed, the questions are starting tough.  Richardson got the first query …
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Democrats court liberal bloggers  —  CHICAGO - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton refused Saturday to forsake campaign donations from lobbyists, turning aside challenges from her two main rivals with a rare defense of the special interest industry.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Hillary booed (but only twice)  —  CHICAGO — Any debate Hillary Clinton doesn't lose, she wins.  And she didn't lose the debate at the YearlyKos Convention here Saturday.  —  Throughout the campaign year, Clinton has led all national polls, and almost always with double-digit leads.
Discussion: Hot Air and michellemalkin.com
Dave Johnson / The Huffington Post:
YearlyKos - Liveblogging Presidential Leadership Forum
Discussion: TIME: Swampland
The Atlantic Online:
At YearlyKos, Clinton Defends Lobbyists
Jill / Feministe:
Liveblogging the YK Presidential Forum
Discussion: TalkLeft and Pandagon
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CNN:
Congress expands U.S. ability to eavesdrop  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The House late Saturday night approved the Republican version of a measure amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by a vote of 227-183, with most Republicans and conservative Democrats supporting the bill.
Discussion: Balkinization and Daily Kos
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Democrats' responsibility for Bush radicalism
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Little Green Footballs:
Daily Kos Playing Whack-a-Mole  —  The first Daily Kos diary on the subject of the Soltz Shoutdown has disappeared from their site.  Gone missing, along with more than 50 comments.  Here's where it used to be:  —  Daily Kos: What happened to this soldier?!?!?
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 …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Video: Pajamas Media interviews soldier who spoke up at Yearly Kos …
San Francisco Chronicle:
7 ARRESTED IN RAIDS AFTER EDITOR'S SLAYING  —  CRIME SPREE INQUIRY: Cops storm Oakland bakery in probe of 3 shooting deaths  —  The son of the late Yusuf Bey was among seven people arrested Friday in predawn police raids on Your Black Muslim Bakery and three homes in connection with three Oakland homicides …
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Broadcast Networks Ignore Murder of Oakland Post Editor
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
insideBayArea:
Police: Oakland Post editor's killer confesses to slaying
Discussion: Associated Press
Shantel Middleton / ABC News 4 Charleston:
Explosives Found Near Goose Creek; FBI on Scene  —  Goose Creek - Berkeley County police pulled over a vehicle in a routine traffic stop near Meyers Road and Highway 1-76 around 6 p.m. The vehicle with Florida tags was driven by two men of Middle Eastern descent.  Inside police found explosive devices.
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WIS-TV:
Police: Explosives found in car in Berkeley County  —  GOOSE CREEK (WCBD) - The FBI and the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department are investigating what they think are explosives found in a car in Goose Creek.  —  Police say part of Highway 176 in Berkeley County is closed …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Kevin Yamamura / Sacramento Bee:
State curtails e-voting  —  L.A. system decertified; restrictions on two others  —  Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A13  —  California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, bowing to fears of computer fraud, Friday decertified Los Angeles County's electronic voting system and sharply curtailed …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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International Herald Tribune:
Broader wiretapping authority advances in U.S. Congress  —  WASHINGTON: A furious push by the White House to broaden its wiretapping authority appeared on the verge of victory Saturday as a bill advanced in Congress to give the Bush administration more latitude temporarily to eavesdrop without court warrants …
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Thomas Ferraro / Reuters:
Bush urges House to pass spy bill
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.
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Holly Bailey / Newsweek:
Fred Thompson's Powerful but Mysterious Wife  —  She wields tremendous influence over her husband's would-be presidential campaign.  But who is Jeri Thompson—and why won't the campaign discuss her?  —  Man About Town: As a celebrity bachelor during his time in D.C., Thompson …
Discussion: Redstate and Riehl World View
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Republicans try to rebuke Murtha  —  House Republicans sought to rebuke Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) Friday night for his actions while presiding over the chamber earlier in the day.  —  The resolution was just one of the many protest measures Republicans lobbed at the majority Friday …
Michael Ignatieff / New York Times:
Getting Iraq Wrong  —  The unfolding catastrophe in Iraq has condemned the political judgment of a president.  But it has also condemned the judgment of many others, myself included, who as commentators supported the invasion.  Many of us believed, as an Iraqi exile friend told me the night the war started …
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