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9:50 AM ET, August 20, 2007

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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
As Democracy Push Falters, Bush Feels Like a 'Dissident'  —  By the time he arrived in Prague in June for a democracy conference, President Bush was frustrated.  He had committed his presidency to working toward the goal of "ending tyranny in our world," yet the march of freedom seemed stalled.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Karl Rove, Insider With an Outsize Reputation  —  From the moment he leaked word of his departure to the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Karl Rove has been lionized and vilified by the media hordes.  —  He is either a political giant, shrewdly plotting a series of victories during the Bush presidency …
Nicholas Lemann / New Yorker:
ROVIAN WAYS … Most politicians find the cult of the political consultant annoying, but George W. Bush always seemed to find it very annoying.  When he began running for President, he insisted, as candidates rarely do, that all his top advisers work only for him.
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Townhall.com
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   The Perfect Conspiracy-Theorist Foil
Gary Younge / Guardian:
Bush the embarrassing uncle
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Clinton backers see Warner — not Obama — as best V.P. choice  —  Anticipating that Sen. Hillary Clinton will clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, some supporters are beginning to argue against her choosing her principal rival — Sen. Barack Obama — for vice president.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Chances for Everybody, in Time, in Latest Debate  —  In this presidential election season, there have been debates piled upon debates, a string of opportunities for candidates to be sized up alongside one another.  Seldom has an audience been as important, though, as when the Democrats strode onto stage here on Sunday.
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BBC:
Roadside bomb kills Iraq governor  —  The Shia governor of Iraq's southern Muthana province has been killed by a roadside bomb, officials have said.  —  The governor, Mohammed Ali al-Hasani, was killed when the bomb exploded next to his convoy as it drove through the provincial capital, Samawa, police say.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
A Rush To Frame Views on Congress  —  Ads Start Before Presidential Race Consumes Voters  —  Democrats and Republicans are mounting a fierce battle to shape voter impressions of Congress during August's political lull, convinced that they must define the story line of the 2008 congressional election …
Discussion: Ankle Biting Pundits
Shawn Walker / The Independent:
Vladimir Putin rewrites Russia's history books to promote patriotism  —  Critics are accusing President Vladimir Putin's government of a Soviet-style rewriting of Russian history with a series of new "patriotic" textbooks to be unveiled in the new school year.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Joseph Lieberman / Opinion Journal:
Al Qaeda's Travel Agent  —  Damascus International Airport is a hub for terrorists.  —  The United States is at last making significant progress against al Qaeda in Iraq—but the road to victory now requires cutting off al Qaeda's road to Iraq through Damascus.
Boston Globe:
Short Fuse  —  Mitt Romney has been trying to persuade conservative voters that, even though he was governor of Massachusetts, he has not been contaminated by the Commonwealth's peculiar passions.  And in fact, his recent financial disclosure form offers documented proof of how he differs from the masses of Massachusetts.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Pajamas Media:
HOW THE NEW REPUBLIC GOT SUCKERED  —  When Pajamas Media heard the authenticity questions surrounding the "Baghdad Diarist" articles by Scott Thomas Beauchamp in The New Republic, we asked our Washington Editor Richard Miniter to look into how the respected opinion magazine could once again be the locus of such a scandal.
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
An Interview With Robert Novak  —  On Friday of last week, I did a telephone interview with Robert Novak about his book, The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington.  What follows is the transcript of our interview (Note: This interview has been edited slightly to correct grammar and for brevity's sake.)
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Betsy's Page
Jules Crittenden:
Manly Man/Stay-At-Home Dad  —  ... doth protest a little much about his manliness.  Should have stopped at the "low mordant chuckle."  —  Hey, Niewert, you want to be a real man ... try having more kids.  One's like a hobby.  That's like boutique parenthood.  I'm kicking myself because we stopped at three.
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Jaya Narain / Daily Mail:
Seven-year-old Muslim boy stopped in US on suspicion of being a terrorist  —  For seven-year-old Javaid Iqbal, the holiday to Florida was a dream trip to reward him for doing well at school.  —  But he was left in tears after he was stopped repeatedly at airports on suspicion of being a terrorist.
Discussion: The Newshoggers and All Spin Zone
Chris Collins / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. says Iranians train Iraqi insurgents  —  BAGHDAD - For the first time, the U.S. military said on Sunday that Iranian soldiers are in Iraq training insurgents to attack American forces.  —  Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a top U.S. commander who is in charge of a large swath of Iraq south of Baghdad …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
ANNALS OF REPORTING  —  For a variety of reasons I try to stay out of the debates over blogs as such, what they're good or bad at and the rest.  But this morning I was alerted to an opinion column in the Los Angeles Times by Michael Skube, a journalism professor at Elon University.
 
 
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Telegraph:
Terror victims are BBC licence-payers, too
Discussion: Biased BBC
Mark Halperin / Time:
Grading the Dems' Iowa Debate
Discussion: The Blue State
Des Moines Register:
Yepsen: Obama may be biggest debate winner
Ann Marlowe / Weekly Standard:
The Afghan Grassroots  —  All politics is local, even in Nangarhar Province.
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Keeping a Lonely Vigil at Camp Casey
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Tim Shipman / Sydney Morning Herald:
British military sparks US fears of losing Basra
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Next Huckabee Surprise?
Stuart Barnes / Times of London:
Scientists hail 'frozen smoke' as material that will change world
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Another Democrat wants higher taxes
David Charter / Times of London:
Blair's deal on new EU treaty 'largely revives the rejected constitution'
Discussion: Tim Worstall and EU Referendum
James Kimberly / Chicago Tribune:
Hastert career comes full circle
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs and Donklephant
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
I Know What You Did Last Summer  —  I hate to sound melodramatic …
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Army Too Stretched if Iraq Buildup Lasts
Discussion: Eschaton
Robert Tait / Guardian:
Khomeini 'sought to drop Death to US chant'
Discussion: Hot Air and The Corner
Tom Matzzie / The Huffington Post:
TV Ads: Bush-Petraeus 10-Year Plan Means a Draft
Misha Glenny / Washington Post:
The Lost War  —  We've Spent 36 Years and Billions of Dollars Fighting …