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8:40 AM ET, August 23, 2007

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New York Times:
'Free Iraq' Is Within Reach, Bush Declares  —  President Bush delivered a rousing defense of his Iraq policy on Wednesday, telling a group of veterans that "a free Iraq" is within reach and warning that if Americans succumb to "the allure of retreat," they will witness death and suffering of the sort not seen since the Vietnam War.
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CNN:
Bush compares Vietnam 'tragedy' to Iraq pullout
Discussion: Blue Jersey
Chris Roberts / El Paso Times:
Transcript: Debate on the foreign intelligence surveillance act  —  The following is the transcript of a question and answer session with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell.  —  Question: How much has President Bush or members of his administration formed your response to the FISA debate?
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Chasing The Boogeyman  —  In case anyone was wondering what kind …
Discussion: Jesus' General
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
McConnell: FISA Debate Will Kill Americans
Discussion: Think Progress and The Next Hurrah
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Did Clinton Lie About Targeting Bin Laden?  —  It appears that Bill Clinton may have exaggerated his record when it came to strategizing against Osama bin Laden.  Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball take a look at the Inspector General's report of the pre-9/11 intelligence failures at the CIA and find an interesting nugget.
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Martiga Lohn / Associated Press:
Experts tie pigeon dung, bridge collapse  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. - Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed interstate bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy: pigeons.  —  Inspectors began documenting the buildup …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
David Shuster Dismantles President Bush's Viet Nam Rhetoric  —  This evening on "Hardball" MSNBC's David Shuster started off the hour with a dead on debunking of President Bush's rhetoric from his speech earlier today in which proclaimed that a U.S. pullout in Iraq would have the same consequences as our withdrawal from Viet Nam.
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Huffington Post:
Tammy Haddad Out As Chris Matthews EP
Discussion: Firedoglake and TVNewser
Luke Salkeld / Daily Mail:
How Miss Slackistan and the Burka Beauties fell foul of the racism zealots  —  It probably seemed like a good idea at the time.  Stuck for inspiration about what to wear at their village carnival, one group made a last-minute decision to dress up in mock Muslim burkas.
New Jersey Online:
AG: Cops must ask suspects for immigration status … Attorney General Anne Milgram today ordered all local police officers in New Jersey to inquire about the immigration status of suspects charged with serious crimes, and to notify federal immigration authorities if there is reason to believe the suspect is in the country illegally.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
CNN Softballs Bob Murray...What about those documents?  —  This interview is one of the reasons why America is so uninformed about serious issues in our country.  Kyra Phillips is really engaged in the Utah mining disaster and has a genuine passion about the story, but instead of asking …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Amir Taheri / Gulf News:
Sarkozy 'corrects' Chirac's errors  —  One of the key promises that Nicolas Sarkozy had made during his presidential election campaign last spring was to "correct" foreign policy "mistakes" made by his predecessor Jacques Chirac.  —  Chief among these was Chirac's desperate efforts to prevent …
Discussion: Gay Patriot and Neptunus Lex
Lydia Saad / Gallup Poll:
Clinton Maintains Expanded Lead for Democratic Nomination  —  Represents improved positioning over June, but similar to earlier in 2007  —  PRINCETON, NJ — A new Gallup Poll finds New York Senator Hillary Clinton's strengthened frontrunner status in the Democratic field …
Jay Rosen / Los Angeles Times:
The journalism that bloggers actually do  —  Blowback!  That's what you're in for when a great American newspaper runs a Sunday opinion piece as irretrievably lame as "Blogs: All the noise that fits" by Michael Skube (Aug. 19).  Skube is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning author who teaches journalism …
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Romney Struggles to Define Abortion Stance  —  Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said this week that as president he would allow individual states to keep abortion legal, two weeks after telling a national television audience that he supports a constitutional amendment to ban the procedure nationwide.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
CNN:
U.S. officials rethink hopes for Iraq democracy  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Nightmarish political realities in Baghdad are prompting American officials to curb their vision for democracy in Iraq.  Instead, the officials now say they are willing to settle for a government that functions and can bring security.
Discussion: Making Light, Hoffmania! and Wonkette
The Atlantic Online:
Animals rights  —  As long time readers know, I'm, well, crunchy-ish.  I make my own yogurt, I fret about global warming, and I only eat certified humane meat.  I don't care about killing farm animals, but I do think that their lives, however long they are, should be worth living on sheepish or piggy or . . . er . . . cowese terms.
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
CBS Was Warned on 'Kid Nation,' Documents Show  —  The producers of a CBS reality show featuring 40 children living on their own in the New Mexico desert were warned by the state attorney general's office while the show was being taped last spring that they might be violating the state's child-labor laws …
Discussion: Say Anything and digg
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Are Fundamentals "Sound"?  —  Dean Baker fears that they are not: … I guess the big difference is that I don't think that home prices are likely to plunge.  Why not?  Because Ben Bernanke is more aware than any other possible Fed Chair that large-scale housing asset price deflation threatens …
Discussion: Eschaton and Washington Monthly
 
 
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Telegraph:
Britain's rising levels of gun crime
Media Matters for America:
Post, AP uncritically report anti-abortion activist's claim …
Henry / Crooked Timber:
Democracy and Unipolarity  —  Jack Snyder, Robert Shapiro …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Foreign Aid Groups Face Terror Screens
Associated Press:
Putin's bare-chested photos set Russia abuzz
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
A Response to ever more from Andrew Sullivan
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Welcome To The New CQ!  —  As CQ readers have already surmised …
Monica Guzman / The Big Blog:
Tuesday's Daily Haiku was a bad call
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
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The Atlantic Online:
Does torture work?
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Susanne Cervenka / Florida Today:
Allen says he sought security of KSC guard post
Discussion: Pandagon
Think Progress:
Gen. Batiste's Op-Ed That The WSJ And The Washington Times Didn't Want You To See
Discussion: The Newshoggers
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
Imams drop 'John Doe' suit
Tim Tagaris / Chris Dodd for President:
ESPAÑOL  —  Senator Dodd Responds to Candidates' Reactions to the Surge
Discussion: Daily Kos and Eschaton
Kathy Barks Hoffman / Associated Press:
Michigan senate votes to move primary up
Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
Embattled Bush Official Resigns Justice Post