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12:55 PM ET, July 6, 2008

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Marie Colvin / Times of London:
Al-Qaeda is driven from Mosul bastion after bloody last stand  —  The murder toll is dropping, the insurgents are on the run.  Our correspondent is on the front line as the Iraqi army takes control  —  The hunt began just after dawn.  Iraqi armoured personnel carriers surrounded …
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Times of London:
Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda  —  American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.  —  After being forced from its strongholds in the west …
Abe Greenwald / Commentary:
The Times's Debilitating OCD
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Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Despair Drives Suicide Attacks by Iraqi Women
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
Jeffrey Goldberg:
Bill Clinton On Unstable ex-POWs  —  Bill Clinton is speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, and he said just now, apropos of almost nothing (actually, during a long peroration on Nelson Mandela): “Every living soul on this planet has some highly-justified anger.  Everyone.
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Punch
Karl / protein wisdom:
Lefty blogs got no lovin' for AP's Loven  —  Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press did a piece on Barack Obama's attempted dash for the center that made poor Josh Marshall's eyes bleed.  And a bunch of Marshall's fellow travelers bleed with him.  —  What really sets Marshall off is that Loven …
Matt / Think Progress:
Fred Barnes's Advice To McCain: Revive Your Struggling Campaign By Using Gay-Bashing As A Wedge  —  Discussing Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) struggling campaign on Fox News Sunday today, Weekly Standard Executive Editor Fred Barnes argued that McCain “needs to pay attention to the right.”
Kevin Ferris / Philly.com:
Back Channels: He's brave and he's honest  —  A senior noncommissioned officer at Fort Lewis, Wash., in the late '70s had the unenviable task of guiding soldiers through the discharge process.  —  He would face a roomful of GIs eager to begin civilian life and methodically review a mountain …
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Employers Fight Tough Measures on Immigration  —  Under pressure from the toughest crackdown on illegal immigration in two decades, employers across the country are fighting back in state legislatures, the federal courts and city halls.  —  Business groups have resisted measures that would revoke …
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown  —  ST. LOUIS - Barack Obama celebrated “active faith” as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Obama Addresses His Faith
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama: Rest assured, I'm still fully committed to abandoning Iraq
Discussion: Flopping Aces and CNN
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot  —  Correction Appended  —  JUST three years ago, with oil trading at a seemingly frothy $66 a barrel, David J. O'Reilly made what many experts considered a risky bet.  Outmaneuvering Chinese bidders and ignoring critics who said he overpaid …
Peter Beinart / Washington Post:
The Fear Democrats Can Jettison  —  In “The Best and the Brightest,” David Halberstam chronicles Lyndon Johnson's absolute terror of appearing soft on communism.  Having seen fellow Democrats destroyed in the early 1950s because they tolerated a Communist victory in China …
Discussion: TalkLeft and TownHall Blog
Urmee Khan / Telegraph:
Moon mistaken for UFO  —  Police in Wales were called to investigate a mysterious flying saucer, only to discover it was the moon.  —  The moon was mistaken for a “bright, stationary” UFO which had been loitering for at least half an hour, by a confused local in South Wales who made a 999 call to the police.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Obama backtracks on late-term abortions.  —  Does he think we won't notice?  First, he limited the health exception to “serious physical” things: … Then, he switched!  He now wants a mental health exception! … So as long as a woman can get her “blues” classified by a medical health professional as …
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
Wall-E for President  —  SO much for a July Fourth week spent in idyllic celebration of our country's birthday.  This year's festivities were marked instead by a debate — childish, not constitutional — over who is and isn't patriotic.  The fireworks were sparked by a verbally maladroit retired general …
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Durbin slams Senate GOP for obstructing key bills  —  Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Saturday strongly criticized the chamber's Republicans, accusing them of stopping “efforts to bring change to Washington.”  —  Durbin, who delivered the Democratic radio address …
 
 
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Patrick Cockburn / The Independent:
Military action ‘would destabilise Iraq’
Daniel Foggo / Times of London:
‘Germ warfare’ fear over African monkeys taken to Iran
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Dotcomabc / Political Radar:
Obama ‘Puzzled’ by Frenzy Over Iraq War Plan Comments
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
The Truth Commission  —  When a distinguished American military …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll
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Supreme Slip-Up  —  A recent high court ruling is factually flawed.
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Veterans Hit the Battlegrounds
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Stuart MacDonald / Times of London:
Sniffer dogs to wear ‘Muslim’ bootees
Pauline Arrillaga / Associated Press:
Americans' unhappy birthday: ‘Too much wrong right now’
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
John McCain: ‘I hate the bloggers’
John Tagliabue / New York Times:
Why Fly When You Can Float?  —  The view inside the cabin …
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