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11:55 AM ET, August 22, 2007

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Washington Post:
Democrats Refocus Message on Iraq After Military Gains  —  Democratic leaders in Congress had planned to use August recess to raise the heat on Republicans to break with President Bush on the Iraq war.  Instead, Democrats have been forced to recalibrate their own message in the face …
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USA Today:
Bush's Iraq speech to hit on Vietnam  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Bush plans to argue today that a hasty "retreat" from Iraq would lead to the kinds of bloodbaths that followed U.S. withdrawals from Vietnam and Cambodia in the 1970s.  —  In a speech he is to deliver here at the Veterans …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
OSAMA IS MY SHEPHERD I SHALL NOT WANT
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Democrats Miscalculate On Iraq
Discussion: Firedoglake and Liberty Pundit
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Sub-Standard  —  IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE that, not so long ago, neoconservative foreign policy thinking overflowed with ideas and idealism.  The descent has been steep, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the pages of The Weekly Standard—particularly in William Kristol's editorials …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:   Chaitred revisited
Katrin Bennhold / International Herald Tribune:
France shifts its stance on the conflict in Iraq  —  PARIS: After years of shunning involvement in a war it said was wrong, France now believes it may hold the key to peace in Iraq, proposing itself as an "honest broker" between the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish factions.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
French Plan Engagement In Iraq
Discussion: Fausta's blog
Matthew Yi / San Francisco Chronicle:
Field Poll shows Californians lean toward dividing electoral votes  —  (08-21) 04:00 PDT Sacramento —  California voters are inclined to support a proposed ballot initiative that would change how the Golden State allocates its electoral votes in presidential campaigns …
Hamid Ahmed / Associated Press:
14 U.S. troops die in Iraq copter crash  —  BAGHDAD - A Black Hawk helicopter went down Wednesday in northern Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard, the military said, the deadliest crash since January 2005.  —  Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, meanwhile, lashed out at American criticism …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters  —  Not that they're worried or anything.  But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president.  As in, it doesn't want any.  —  A White House manual that came …
Aaron Klein / New York Sun:
Fatah Militant: U.S. Training Was Key to Intifada's Success  —  RAMALLAH — American-run programs that train Fatah militias were instrumental in the "success" of the Palestinian intifada that began in 2000, a senior Fatah militant told The New York Sun.  —  "I do not think that the operations …
Discussion: The Corner
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Aksa Martyrs Brigades: Truce over
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
One in four read no books last year  —  WASHINGTON - There it sits on your night stand, that book you've meant to read for who knows how long but haven't yet cracked open.  Tonight, as you feel its stare from beneath that teetering pile of magazines, know one thing — you are not alone.
Reuters:
Now dirty chopsticks picked up in China scare  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest is a string of food and product safety scares.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Gulf Times
Now Magazine:
TERRORIST VIDEO THREATENS DAVID BECKHAM AND JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE  —  Becks and JT are targets of fanatics  —  David Beckham and Justin Timberlake are the targets of an alleged Al-Qaeda murder plot.  —  A chilling internet video, which has been posted on YouTube, brands Becks, 32, and JT, 26, as criminal influences on young Muslims.
Discussion: Gone Hollywood and Central Sanity
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Federal No-Bid Contracts On Rise  —  Under pressure from the White House and Congress to deliver a long-delayed plan last year, officials at the Department of Homeland Security's counter-narcotics office took a shortcut that has become common at federal agencies: They hired help through a no-bid contract.
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
So You Think You Can Be President?  —  Our system for choosing presidents doesn't work very well.  Voters are woefully uninformed on the most basic of issues and many end up voting on whim.  I don't think restricting the franchise is a good solution, however.
Discussion: Unqualified Offerings
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Pro-Bush group spends $15M defending war  —  A new group, Freedom's Watch, is launching Wednesday with a $15 million, five-week campaign of TV, radio and Web ads featuring military veterans that is aimed at retaining support in Congress for President Bush's "surge" policy on Iraq.
Discussion: Political Radar
Agence France Presse:
Most US adults in the dark about world politics  —  Two-thirds of US adults admit to being in the dark about political issues outside the United States, and only a third are well-versed in US politics, the results of a poll published Tuesday showed.  —  Candidates in the US presidential primaries …
 
 
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Toronto Star:
Police accused of using provocateurs at summit
Jim Tankersley / Chicago Tribune:
Dems look to Bean on how to win in GOP-leaning area
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How bots rigged D.C.'s "hot" reporter contest
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah Mine disaster has MSHA chief under fire on Capitol Hill
Discussion: SquareState.net
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
C.I.A. Lays Out Errors It Made Before Sept. 11
Philip Bobbitt / New York Times:
The Warrantless Debate Over Wiretapping
Agence France Presse:
Taliban chief says Bin Laden alive: video
Discussion: Hot Air
Herschel Smith / The Captain's Journal:
Operation Alljah and the Marines of 2nd Battalion, 6th Regiment
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White House Seeks to Keep E-Mails Secret
John Stossel / Real Clear Politics:
Why the U.S. Ranks Low on WHO's Health-Care Study
Los Angeles Times:
Not so fast, Christian soldiers
Discussion: cab drollery
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Thompson, Giuliani start trading shots
Lisa Wangsness / Boston Globe:
Romney's rhetoric glosses Mass. years
Discussion: MSNBC, New York Times and TIME
Daniel Finkelstein / Times of London:
Our inheritance taxes must go - pass it on
Discussion: Samizdata.net
Turkishdailynews:
Gül wasn't elected but won anyway
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Telegraph:
David Cameron: Scrap the Human Rights Act
 

 
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