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5:10 PM ET, August 21, 2007

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Jennifer Hunter / Chicago Sun Times:
Michelle gets stronger all the time  —  'I don't want my girls to live in a country based on fear'  —  Barack Obama often says that his wife, Michelle, is smarter than he is, stronger than he is, and gives better speeches than he does.  —  On a trip to Iowa last week, Michelle was a firebrand …
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Obama Spokesman Denies Michelle's Speech Was Attack On Hillary  —  A mini-skirmish erupted this morning in the Democratic Primary after the Chicago Sun Times quoted Michelle Obama saying the following at a recent campaign stop: … The Sun Times claimed that this "could be interpreted" as an attack on the Clintons.
Discussion: The Corner and The Atlantic Online
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Congress Approval Rating Matches Historical Low  —  Just 18% approve of job Congress is doing  —  PRINCETON, NJ — A new Gallup Poll finds Congress' approval rating the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   The Limbo Congress!  —  How low can you go?  Chubby Checker …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Party Of Tolerance  —  How desperate are Louisiana Democrats to hold onto power?  They're about to air a television ad attacking the leading Republican candidate for governor for his religious views.  The TV spots will accuse Bobby Jindal of being anti-Protestant (via Bryan at Hot Air):
Discussion: Hot Air
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The Rothenberg / The Rothenberg Political Report:
Louisiana Governor: Backlash Anyone?
Kos / Daily Kos:
LA-Gov: Jindal (R) accused of being anti-Protestant
Fred Barnes / Opinion Journal:
Can the GOP Make a Comeback?  —  The recipe for Republicans is to stop acting like, well, Republicans—that is, Republicans of recent vintage.  —  It's not particularly visible at the moment, but there is a road to political recovery for Republicans.  Chances are they won't get far enough …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Report: CIA Director Unprepared for al-Qaeda Threat  —  Former CIA Director George Tenet failed to lead a strategic effort against al-Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks, the agency's inspector general concluded in a long-classified report released today.  —  The report, which Congress ordered …
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New York Times:
Tenet's C.I.A. Unprepared for Qaeda Threat, Report Says
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
9/11 TRUTHERS GUT PUNCHED BY HISTORY CHANNEL  —  In what will surely be seen as a defining moment for the 9/11 truther movement, the History Channel has delivered a blow for sanity and rationalism by airing a superior documentary entitled 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction.
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Joan Walsh / Salon:
Are Democrats really so lame?  —  Republicans are on the ropes, but yet another mainstream media star says it's Democrats who are in trouble, thanks to Bush-hating bloggers and billionaires.  Here we go again.  —  The Republican Party is the least respected institution in the U.S today …
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Bloomberg says won't run for president  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he cannot win the U.S. presidency and won't run, the strongest statement to date about his intentions for the 2008 presidential race.  —  Bloomberg previously had said he had no plans to run …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Michael J. Totten:
How to Spy in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD - American soldiers arrived in Iraq in 2003 with not much of a plan and little idea what to expect.  The Iraqi government, military, and police were overthrown and disbanded under de-Baathification.  Most Iraqis who knew how to run the country were either sent home or imprisoned.
The Daily Green:
Hurricane Dean: 1 Of 10 Most Intense Atlantic Hurricanes Ever Measured  —  Early this morning Hurricane Dean, after mercilessly intensifying over deep warm waters in the western Caribbean, slammed the Yucatan Peninsula around Chetumal as a Category 5 hurricane with winds upwards of 165 miles per hour …
Nan Aron / Washington Post:
An Unjust Judge  —  To understand the furor over President Bush's nomination of Leslie Southwick to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, one should start with the Goode family of Mississippi.  —  A propane heater exploded in their house, killing their granddaughter.  The Goodes sued the manufacturer.
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
For Wall Street's Math Brains, Miscalculations  —  Complex Formulas Used by 'Quant' Funds Didn't Add Up in Market Downturn  —  They are the powerful, cerebral and offstage actors of Wall Street, but the recent turmoil in the financial markets has yanked them into the light.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Caped Crusader From Vermont  —  "Sen. Patrick Leahy has a part in the next Batman movie."  — Associated Press, Aug. 19.  —  "Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) holds a media availability on the deadline for subpoenas for documents relating to the ... Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program."
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Undercover Black Man:
Illegal immigrant = runaway slave? Buuulls**t.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Hot Air
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
What Presidents Don't Know
Discussion: TalkLeft
Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
UPDATED: ES&S to Face Millions in Fines, Possible Decertification …
Discussion: Calitics
John Podhoretz / The Corner:
New Horror from the Director of 'Silence of the Lambs'
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Guest Post - Who's Killing The Clerics Of Najaf?
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
DOD 'Talon' Database Declawed
Sam Boyd / American Prospect:
The group blog of The American Prospect
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Faiz / Think Progress:
O'Hanlon: Soldiers Of The 82nd Airborne 'May Have Been Taking A Slight Poke' At Me
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Scott Gutierrez / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
FBI seeks help identifying 2 men seen aboard ferries
Andrew G. Bostom / Washington Times:
Jihad and dhimmitude  —  Celebrating its 17th birthday in 1961 …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Make Up Your Own Mine  —  An impoverished town strikes gold.
Dion Lefler / Wichita Eagle:
Court: Just being in U.S. isn't illegal
Barack Obama / MiamiHerald.com:
Our main goal: Freedom in Cuba
Jules Crittenden:
Party of Rage
Nellie Andreeva / Reuters:
Time right for Garofalo on "24"  —  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) …
 

 
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