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11:35 AM ET, August 17, 2007

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Russ Buettner / New York Times:
For Giuliani, Ground Zero as Linchpin and Thorn  —  As Rudolph W. Giuliani campaigns around the country highlighting his stewardship of New York City after the Sept. 11 attacks, he is widely hailed for bringing order to a traumatized city.  But he has also raised the hackles of rescue …
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Horses Mouth:
Twenty-nine hours.  —  That's the total amount of time Rudy Giuliani actually spent at Ground Zero in three months following the attacks, according to a report in this morning's New York Times.  —  Rudy, you'll recall, recently caused a huge controversy by saying he'd spent …
Discussion: The Rude Pundit and The Heretik
Atrios / Eschaton:   And I Landed on the Moon, Too
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
John Edwards, Exploiter Of The Poor
Discussion: Washington Wire
New York Times:
Padilla Is Guilty on All Charges in Terror Trial  —  In a significant victory for the Bush administration, a federal jury found Jose Padilla guilty of terrorism conspiracy charges on Thursday after little more than a day of deliberation.  —  Mr. Padilla, a Brooklyn-born convert to Islam …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
What History Taught Karl Rove  —  When I asked Karl Rove this week to summarize his approach to politics, he quoted from memory a 167-year-old letter by Abraham Lincoln to his Whig campaign committee: "Keep a constant watch on the doubtful voters, and from time to time have them talked to by those in whom they have the most confidence."
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
KARL ROVE, CHAMPION OF THE LITTLE GUY....A couple of days ago …
Discussion: State of the Day
Confederate Yankee:
Yet Again: AFP's Photo Woes Continue  —  Fresh off of being caught trying to pass off unfired civilian ammunition as evidence of soldiers shooting into the home of an elderly Iraqi woman, the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has been caught once again in a photography scandal involving …
Discussion: TigerHawk and Riehl World View
Los Angeles Times:
A rush to pull out cash  —  Worried about the stability of mortgage giant Countrywide Financial, depositors crowd branches.  —  Anxious customers jammed the phone lines and website of Countrywide Bank and crowded its branch offices to pull out their savings because of concerns …
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Chris Isidore / CNNMoney.com:
Countrywide forced to turn to banks for help
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama Takes Sharper Tone to the Trail  —  Senator Barack Obama has moved in recent weeks to sharpen his tone noticeably as he fights for the Democratic presidential nomination, increasingly drawing sharp contrasts with his rivals and seeking to turn criticism of his foreign policy credentials into a fresh argument for change.
Discussion: TIME
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Elizabeth Edwards: Attacker-in-chief
Discussion: New York Times
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Army Audits: Official Sites, Not Blogs, Breach Security  —  For years, members of the military brass have been warning that soldiers' blogs could pose a security threat by leaking sensitive wartime information.  But a series of online audits, conducted by the Army, suggests …
Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Pentagon Paid $999,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers to Texas  —  Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to a Texas base, U.S. officials said.
Brendan Loy / The Irish Trojan's Blog:
Dean already a Cat. 2, could become a Cat. 5 this weekend  —  I'm breaking my Dean-silence 80 minutes early to report that the storm is now a Category 2 hurricane, with 100 mph winds, rapidly approaching the Lesser Antilles.  Indeed, the outer bands are already affecting the islands …
Discussion: Fausta's blog
Kimberley A. Strassel / Opinion Journal:
Democrats and Cannibals  —  The Kos kids try but fail to devour party moderates.  —  Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar is today fond of quoting a famous Lyndon Johnson line: "You know the difference between cannibals and liberals?  Cannibals only eat their enemies."
Alex Hammer / The Moderate Voice:
Vision  —  They say that "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man (or woman) is king (queen)."  —  Malcolm X was assassinated when he started embracing more peaceful/conciliatory (difficult to find the most accurate word, I want to be very fair) views.  —  Ghandi was, most assuredly, a man of peace.
Errol Morris:
Will the Real Hooded Man Please Stand Up  —  Every human being has his own particular web of associations for identifying and interpreting reality, which, most often, instinctively and unthinkingly, he superimposes on every set of circumstances.  Frequently, however, those external circumstances …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Construction Woes Plague U.S. Embassies  —  The new air-conditioning system in the $66 million U.S. Embassy in Mali broke down in June, sending office temperatures soaring to 100 degrees.  An electrical fire erupted in the rehabilitated annex to the embassy in Rome.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and The Swamp
Federal Reserve:
For immediate release  —  Financial market conditions have deteriorated, and tighter credit conditions and increased uncertainty have the potential to restrain economic growth going forward.  In these circumstances, although recent data suggest that the economy has continued to expand at a moderate pace …
 
 
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Al Gore's Zero Emissions Makes Zero Sense
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