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12:50 PM ET, August 7, 2007

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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Beauchamp Recants  —  THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp—author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's July 23 issue as well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns …
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Stephen Spruiell / The Corner:
Re: Private Second Glass
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Townhall.com
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
BLOGS MISSING THE REAL STORY AS USUAL
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Clinton's Foreign Policy Balancing Act  —  In Her Stances, Senator Has One Eye on Primary, One on General Election  —  While preparing to give a major critique of the war in Iraq last month, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton read a draft of the speech and added a few lines of her own.
USA Today:
Poll: Dems favor Clinton over Obama  —  WASHINGTON — New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has significantly widened her lead over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination in the wake of a dispute over handling foreign policy, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:   Hillary Time?  [Bruce]  —  A couple of months ago I came …
Holly M. Sanders / New York Post:
TIMESSELECT CONTENT FREED  —  The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned.  —  After much internal debate, Times executives - including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - made the decision to end …
Washington Post:
As British Leave, Basra Deteriorates  —  Violence Rises in Shiite City Once Called a Success Story  —  As British forces pull back from Basra in southern Iraq, Shiite militias there have escalated a violent battle against each other for political supremacy and control over oil resources …
Washington Post:
Our Chance to Capture the Center  —  With President Bush and the Republican Party on the rocks, many Democrats think the 2008 election will be, to borrow a favorite GOP phrase, a cakewalk.  Some liberals are so confident about Democratic prospects that they contend the centrism that vaulted Democrats …
Ion Mihai Pacepa / Opinion Journal:
Propaganda Redux  —  Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies with its intemperate attacks on President Bush.  —  During last week's two-day summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown thanked President Bush for leading the global war on terror.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Says Newt: 'Odds are significant' the Democrats win the White House  —  If you're a betting man, you have to like Democrats' chances of taking over the White House next year, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said early this morning.  —  "The odds are fairly significant that that the left will win next year.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Edwards Makes Courting Labor a Key Strategy in Bid for Nomination  —  Backing Meant Little for 2004 Candidates  —  Former senator John Edwards of North Carolina came to a labor hall here Monday morning for a speech on trade policy, but he had a different audience in mind.
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Clinton aide's PR firm is under attack
Discussion: TIME
Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
In Dusty Archives, a Theory of Affluence  —  For thousands of years, most people on earth lived in abject poverty, first as hunters and gatherers, then as peasants or laborers.  But with the Industrial Revolution, some societies traded this ancient poverty for amazing affluence.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Tougher Rules Change Game for Lobbyists  —  H. Stewart Van Scoyoc, founder of one of the biggest lobbying firms in Washington, spent an anxious morning with his lawyer last week assessing the far-reaching ethics and lobbying rules Congress had passed the day before.
Peter Carlson / Washington Post:
All the News That Seemed Unfit to Print  —  Somewhere in Kalamazoo, Elvis weeps: The Weekly World News is folding.  —  The Weekly World News was not one of those sleazy tabloids that cover tawdry celebrity scandals.  It was a sleazy tabloid that covered events that seemed to occur in a parallel universe …
Discussion: The Garlic and The Atlantic Online
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
City Is Rebuffed on the Release of '04 Records  —  A federal judge yesterday rejected New York City's efforts to prevent the release of nearly 2,000 pages of raw intelligence reports and other documents detailing the Police Department's covert surveillance of protest groups and individual activists …
Discussion: Think Progress and TPMmuckraker
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BROWNBACK GETS TUBULAR  —  I don't agree with the issue Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) is advocating in this campaign web video (he's pushing his consistent pro-life position in contrast to Mitt Romney's 'light on the road to the White House' conversion to the cause).
ABCNEWS:
'Plot Would Have Killed Thousands'  —  EXCLUSIVE: Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Offers Chilling Details About 2006 Airplane Plot and Current Terror Threats  —  Terrorists who had planned to detonate gel-based explosives on U.S.-bound flights from London last August …
 
 
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
FISA: Communication Breakdown
FactCheck.org:
Sunday Morning Missteps
Edward Cone / CIO Insight:
The Web 2.008 Campaign  —  Web video and social networks …
Discussion: TigerHawk
Liz Mair / The Atlantic Online:
More on Bloomberg's nanny state (surveillance state?) plans
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michael J. Totten:
An Iraqi Interpreter's Story
Discussion: Hot Air
Joe / Climate Progress:
Early 2007 saw record-breaking extreme weather
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
It's a Female Dog, or Worse. Or Endearing. And Illegal?
Steve Bousquet / St. Petersburg Times:
State's voter rolls shrinking
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George Jones / Telegraph:
UK 'should give up UN seat'
Gary Farber / Amygdala:
WHY RICHARD NIXON WAS SMARTER THAN GEORGE W. BUSH.  August 3rd, 1972.
Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Fundraisers Tap Those Who Can't Say No  —  'Bundlers' Look …
Discussion: MSNBC and Prairie Weather
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
FBI Bows to Modern Realities, Eases Rules on Past Drug Use
Discussion: The Crone Speaks
John Derbyshire / The Corner:
Is 2008 The New 1964?  —  There's a Pro-Ron-Paul meme going around …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Northern Exposure  —  The GOP's Alaska delegation could become …
CNN:
Crews 'using every means known to mankind' to reach miners
Discussion: Gateway Pundit