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12:30 PM ET, July 8, 2008

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Los Angeles Times:
Forced servitude in America?  —  The U.S. already has high rates of volunteerism, but that's apparently not good enough for our presidential candidates.  —  There's a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who will allegedly scrub the stain of racism from the nation …
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Ali / Think Progress:
Jonah Goldberg compares Obama's national service plan to slavery.  —  Today in a LA Times op-ed, conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg compared Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) plan to encourage volunteerism among students to a form of slavery, suggesting in the first sentence that …
Discussion: AMERICAblog News and rubber hose
Marc Ambinder:
Murphy Not Likely To Join McCain Campaign  —  Republican strategist Mike Murphy, caught in a whirlpool of competing currents, does not expect to join the McCain campaign as a strategist, Murphy and people familiar with the situation said this morning.  —  Though Murphy has told associates …
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Jason Zengerle / The New Republic:
As Mike Murphy Turns
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Questions Arise on Return of a Key Aide to McCain Campaign
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Risky Business  —  The waiters were still clearing the breakfast dishes yesterday when John McCain's most prominent adviser raised the subject of erection enhancement.  —  Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief who is now the Republican National Committee's “Victory Chairman,” …
Reza Khalili / Pajamas Media:
Former CIA Agent in Iran Comes In from the Heat  —  Going public for the first time in an article and interview on Pajamas Media, an Iranian who infiltrated Iran's Revolutionary Guard for the CIA accuses the mullahs of orchestrating — among other things — the 1988 explosion of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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Jerusalem Post:
'US won't let Israel attack Iran'
Discussion: The Corner and Atlas Shrugs
Parisa Hafezi / Reuters:
Iran to “hit Tel Aviv, U.S. ships” if attacked
Discussion: Hot Air and Israel Matzav
Washington Post:
Mr. Obama on Iraq  —  BARACK OBAMA has taken a small but important step toward adjusting his outdated position on Iraq to the military and strategic realities of the war he may inherit.  Sadly, he seems to be finding that the strident and rigid posture he struck during the primary campaign …
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:   Obama's “Dogwhistle”  —  Fred Hiatt gives the Left a lesson …
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Adding up the cost of Obama's agenda  —  Some budget analysts say the Democrat's proposals for funding tens of billions of dollars in programs may not be enough.  —  WASHINGTON — In more than a year of campaigning, Barack Obama has made a long list of promises for new federal programs costing tens …
New York Times:
Put War Powers Back Where They Belong  —  THE most agonizing decision we make as a nation is whether to go to war.  Our Constitution ambiguously divides war powers between the president (who is the commander in chief) and Congress (which has the power of the purse and the power to declare war).
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Associated Press:   Bigger war role for Congress proposed
Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
A Clintonian at Fox  —  Howard Wolfson, who was a top strategist for the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is going where some Democrats were unwilling to go during the early days of the election season: the Fox News Channel.  —  The network is expected to announce …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Top Clinton Adviser to Join Fox News
Discussion: Open Left and Daily Kos
Spengler / Asia Times:
America's special grace  —  To ascribe a special grace to America is outrageous, as outrageous as the idea of special grace itself.  Why shouldn't everyone be saved?  Why aren't all individuals, nations, peoples and cultures equally deserving?  History seems awfully unfair …
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Michael Ledeen / The Corner:   Spengler Strikes Again
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Lurching With Abandon  —  In one of the numbers from “Fiddler on the Roof,” Tevye sings, with a mixture of emotions: “We haven't got the man ... we had when we began.”  —  Back in January when Barack Obama pulled off his stunning win in the Iowa caucuses, and people were lining up in the cold …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
$40 Million Health Care Campaign Will Target Some Dems  —  A consortium of progressive groups, think tanks, trade unions and activists are set to launch a $40 million health care campaign to prepare the ground for the next president to sign expanded care early in 2009.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Taking aim at the next Karl Rove  —  Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who has primary jurisdiction over the executive branch, is considering legislation to eliminate Karl Rove-type advisers in future administrations.  —  The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hints broadly …
June Kronholz / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton's Convention Role Being Negotiated  —  Democrats Weigh Putting Her Name Into Nomination  —  Hillary Clinton won a hefty 1,600 convention delegates in six months of primaries.  A big question now is whether to let them vote at the Democratic convention.
Discussion: TIME.com
Randolph E. Schmid / Associated Press:
Pet owners prefer McCain over Obama  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — If the presidential election goes to the dogs, John McCain is looking like best in show.  —  From George Washington's foxhound “Drunkard” to George W. Bush's terriers “Barney” and “Miss Beazley,” pets are a longtime presidential tradition …
 
 
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Ad Wars: McCain and the Redefinition of Hope
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Robert Winnett / Telegraph:
G8 summit: Gordon Brown has eight-course dinner before food crisis talks
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Matthew Yglesias:
What Works  —  Chris Bowers critiques the flip-flop line …
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Nitya / Political Punch:
Obama's Plane Scare
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
White House sorry about Berlusconi bio gaffe
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Clinton wields powerful e-mail list
Chris Frates / The Politico:
Site attacks single-payer health care
Discussion: Moonbattery
Bill Zwecker / Chicago Sun Times:
Clinton drops in on Aspen festival
Guardian:
Just two of the 19 dishes on the dinner menu at the G8 food shortages summit
Discussion: normblog
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Washington Post Signals Shift With a New Editor
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
LIMBAUGH.  —  If you happened to be unaware that there's …
 

 
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