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11:05 AM 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
Discussion: protein wisdom and New York Times
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 …
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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 …
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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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.
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.”
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Brad Stone / New York Times:
As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Alex Payne, a 24-year-old Internet engineer here, has devised a way to answer a commonly asked question of the digital age: Is my favorite Web site working today?  —  In March, Mr. Payne created downforeveryoneorjustme.com, as in, “Down for everyone, or just me?”
Discussion: The Agonist
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
John McCain: ‘I hate the bloggers’  —  John McCain, Town Hall Meeting, Merrimack, NH 12/29/07  —  Hey right wing bloggers.  I think he's talking about you too. … I'm giddy with the thought that he isn't very fond of me.
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 …
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 …
Washington Post:
Supreme Slip-Up  —  A recent high court ruling is factually flawed.  The justices should correct it.  —  WHEN A NEWSPAPER gets its facts wrong, it's supposed to publish a correction, and, if someone's reputation has been harmed, a retraction and apology.  It can be embarrassing …
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Rhode Island Presidential Election  —  Rhode Island: Obama Enjoys Big Lead in Blue State  —  Barack Obama leads John McCain 55% to 31% in Rhode Island, according to the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state since the primaries.
Discussion: The New Republic
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Rasmussen Reports:
Libertarians Favor Obama and Other Looks at Election 2008
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
US Pentagon doubts Israeli intelligence over Iran's nuclear programme  —  Pentagon chiefs fear that Israeli plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear programme will fail to destroy the facilities because neither the CIA nor Mossad knows where every base is located
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Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Iran Says Nuclear Policy Is Unchanged
Discussion: Hot Air
 
 
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Obama Addresses His Faith
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Washington Post:
Veterans Hit the Battlegrounds
Discussion: TIME.com
CNN:
Mbeki brokers meeting of Mugabe, MDC faction
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Secretive Agency Under the Spotlight
 Earlier Items: 
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama: Rest assured, I'm still fully committed to abandoning Iraq
Discussion: Associated Press and CNN
Stuart MacDonald / Times of London:
Sniffer dogs to wear ‘Muslim’ bootees
Pauline Arrillaga / Associated Press:
Americans' unhappy birthday: ‘Too much wrong right now’
Discussion: Doug Ross
John Tagliabue / New York Times:
Why Fly When You Can Float?  —  The view inside the cabin …
Discussion: The Impolitic
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
re: Civics  —  A totally crazy Saturday-morning thought …