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11:15 AM ET, August 30, 2007

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Washington Post:
Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals  —  Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report.  The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive assessment …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
INTERVIEW: Tauscher Returns From Iraq, Warns Of 'Green Zone Fog'  —  Shortly after returning from Iraq, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) conducted an interview with ThinkProgress.  She said she conveyed three things to Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker: 1) "the American people …
Tony Batt / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Porter ties U.S. withdrawal from Iraq to $9 gasoline
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Terrorism Policies Split Democrats  —  Anger Mounts Within Party Over Inaction on Bush Tactics  —  A growing clamor among rank-and-file Democrats to halt President Bush's most controversial tactics in the fight against terrorism has exposed deep divisions within the party …
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New York Times:
Clinton Donor Under a Cloud in Fraud Case  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said yesterday that it would give to charity $23,000 it had received from a prominent Democratic donor, and review thousands of dollars more that he had raised, after learning that the authorities in California …
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Time:
Edwards On Track in Iowa  —  John Edwards is betting that a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses will catapult him into national contention, and so far his strategy in the state is on track.  A new TIME poll of likely Iowa caucus goers, taken a week after Edwards' seven-day …
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Eric Pooley / Time:
John Edwards Bets the Farm
Discussion: The Caucus
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Bush's Lost Iraqi Election  —  Ayad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq, hinted in a television interview last weekend at one of the war's least understood turning points: America's decision not to challenge Iranian intervention in Iraq's January 2005 elections.
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The Atlantic Online:
The Ignatius Cycle
Discussion: Eschaton
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
When Exactly Did Art Die?  —  At least the latest travesty in the art world comes Down Under rather than the US, but that only shows how global the collapse of art from a meaningful form to an anti-Christian realm of bigots has become.  The latest examples are entrants in the Blake Prize competition …
Discussion: NEWS.com.au, normblog and Daimnation!
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Andrew Bolt:
Jesus bin Laden
Discussion: Riehl World View
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Pentagon won't make surge recommendation to Bush  —  WASHINGTON — In a sign that top commanders are divided over what course to pursue in Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday that it won't make a single, unified recommendation to President Bush during next month's strategy assessment …
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New York Times:
U.S. Weapons, Given to Iraqis, Move to Turkey
Discussion: On Deadline
Washington Post:
Tapping Into The Secrets Of the Stall  —  Experts Say Anonymous Sex In Public Places Is A Compulsive Behavior  —  Consider the bathroom stall, that utilitarian public enclosure of cold steel and drab hue.  —  It can be a world of untold secrets, codes and signals as invitations to partake.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Elaine Silvestrini / TBO.com:
Jury Wants DNA, Hair Samples In USF Case  —  TAMPA - A federal grand jury in Tampa is asking for DNA and hair samples from a University of South Florida student jailed four weeks ago in South Carolina on explosives charges, his attorney said.  —  Andrew Savage said in a phone interview Wednesday night …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
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Michelle Malkin:
Mystery at Goose Creek update: Federal grand jury investigates
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Michael Yon:
Ghosts of Anbar, Part III of IV  —  A Model for Success  —  While some Iraqi Army and Police officers searched for the suspected bomber, we searched for the bomb supposedly planted along this stretch.  A culvert under a 4-lane road is a likely place.  —  SSG Rakene Lee set out to clear the tunnel.
Marc / The Van Der Galiën Gazette:
A Study in Cowardice  —  EDITOR's NOTE: This post has been pulled up.  For newer posts, scroll down.  —  The Center for America Progress' (CAP) recent study entitled "How to Redeploy: Implementing a Responsible Drawdown of U.S. Forces from Iraq" (PDF alert) features a quote from Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War:
Discussion: Open Left
Tim Craig / Washington Post:
Va. Republican Bill Would Bar Illegal Immigrants From College  —  Virginia Republicans announced legislation Wednesday that would prohibit public colleges and universities from accepting illegal immigrants even if they attended a public high school and were brought to the United States at an early age by their parents.
Tova Andrea Wang / Washington Post:
A Rigged Report on U.S. Voting?  —  After the 2000 Florida election debacle, Congress established a body called the Election Assistance Commission to improve voting and democracy in this country.  Two years ago, the commission approached me about doing a project that would take a preliminary look …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Stephen Farrell / New York Times:
Sadr Suspends His Militia's Military Operations  —  The radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr said Wednesday that he was suspending for six months his Mahdi Army militia's operations, including attacks on American troops, only hours after his fighters waged running street battles …
 
 
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Kevin Sack / New York Times:
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Hitchens Takes on Mother Teresa
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McCain posts POW video
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Daniel Chun / The New Republic:
Flower Bauer  —  "24"'s upcoming seventh season appears to mark …
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MoveOn.org Launches Ad Against Baird
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The Atlantic Online:
In defense of Petraeus-as-author  —  I am sorry to disagree …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Brian Beutler
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Media Showers  —  Why would the public lose trust?
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
Not the Killer, but Still Facing a Date With the Executioner
Paul Von Zielbauer / New York Times:
Marines' Trials in Iraq Killings Are Withering
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Slouching Towards Utopia? …
Debbi Farr Baker / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Passenger dispute delays American Airlines flight overnight
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Good news, but not for Democrats  —  IT'S A WAR, and it's …