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2:00 AM ET, July 22, 2008

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Drudge Report:
NYT REJECTS MCCAIN'S EDITORIAL; SHOULD ‘MIRROR’ OBAMA  —  An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES — less than a week after the paper published an essay written by Obama, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
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CNN:
New York Times rejects McCain essay  —  (CNN) — The New York Times has rejected an op-ed piece written by John McCain defending his Iraq war policy in response to a piece by Barack Obama published in the paper last week.  —  In an e-mail to the McCain campaign, Opinion Page Editor David Shipley …
Discussion: TIME.com and TPM Election Central
Daniel Finkelstein / Comment Central:
Why the New York Times were right to reject John McCain's article  —  The New York Times has rejected a piece by Senator John McCain, having already run one by Barack Obama.  And you know what?  I think they may be right.  —  Here's how I would have dealt with the two articles …
Ali / Think Progress:
McCain Warns Of ‘Hard Struggle’ On The ‘Iraq-Pakistan Border’
Discussion: Firedoglake and Political Machine
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
McCain insists he was right, Obama wrong on Iraq
Discussion: TalkLeft
Human Events:
ENPR Special: Sources say McCain Veep Pick to Come This Week  —  Sources close to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign are suggesting he will reveal the name of his vice presidential selection this week while Sen. Barack Obama is getting the headlines on his foreign trip.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
McCain To Meet With Jindal  —  John McCain will huddle with vice presidential aspirant Bobby Jindal during a trip to New Orleans later this week, sources close to the campaign confirm to The Fix.  —  McCain's trip to Louisiana on Wednesday was the cause of much head scratching in the political world …
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain closes in on VP  —  John McCain has narrowed his vice-presidential possibilities to the point where he considered a decision this week — but he's likely to hold off, say sources close to the campaign.  —  The prospect of stepping on Barack Obama's much-anticipated overseas trip …
Discussion: TownHall Blog and The New Republic
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Andrea on Obama Trip: ‘What Some Would Call Fake Interviews’  —  Andrea Mitchell might be a doyenne of the liberal media, but she has her reporter's pride and principles, both of which have been trampled by the way the Obama campaign has managed the media during the candidate's current trip to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Discussion: TownHall Blog
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ABCNEWS:
Obama Won't ‘Rubber Stamp’ Military Decisions  —  In Exclusive ‘Nightline’ Interview, Senator Says He Still Doesn't Support Surge  —  After meeting with top U.S. military commanders and members of the Iraqi government, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today said his opposition to the surge …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and Betsy's Page
Marc Ambinder:
Obama Concedes That Surge Didn't Go As He Expected  —  Sen. Barack Obama said it was “fair” to notice that he did not anticipate that the surge of U.S. troops into Iraq would be coincident with the so-called Sunni Awakening and the decisions of Shia militias to reduce their footprints …
Hillary Clinton / The Huffington Post:
An Outrageous Attempt by the Bush Administration to Undermine Women's Rights  —  The Bush administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly putting ideology before science and women's health.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put in place new barriers …
Gary Gensler / The Huffington Post:
Hillraisers Donated Less Than $20,000 To Obama In June  —  By now, most political junkies know that Barack Obama raised a lot of money in June.  —  But his campaign's $52 million dollar take for the month becomes all the more impressive when considering the utter lack of help he received …
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Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
New Yorker's plane snub over Obama ‘terrorist’ cartoon
Discussion: The Huffington Post
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Ceci n'est pas une movement
Discussion: Political Machine and Taylor Marsh
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Georgia Presidential Election  —  McCain Still Holds Solid Lead In Georgia  —  John McCain continues to enjoy a solid lead over Barack Obama in Georgia.  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the state shows McCain attracting 48% of the vote while Obama earns 39%.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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New York Times:
Bosnian Serb Under Arrest in War Crimes  —  PARIS — Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted war criminals for his part in the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995, was arrested Monday in a raid in Serbia that ended a 13-year hunt.
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
WHY IT'S WORTH TALKING ABOUT MEAT.  —  I've been struggling with exactly the right statistic to encapsulate why it's worthwhile to elevate meat into the energy conversation, but I think this, from the PB&J Campaign, might do the trick: … And it's much easier.
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Savage Stands by Autism Remarks  —  Michael Savage, the incendiary radio host who last week characterized nearly every child with autism as “a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out,” said in a telephone interview on Monday that he stood by his remarks and had no intention of apologizing …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Losing Sight of Progress  —  HOW BLIND SALAMANDERS MAKE NONSENSE OF CREATIONISTS' CLAIMS.  —  It is extremely seldom that one has the opportunity to think a new thought about a familiar subject, let alone an original thought on a contested subject, so when I had a moment of eureka a few nights ago …
 
 
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
A.C.L.U. Sues Alabama on Ballot Access
Discussion: TalkLeft
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Iran Offers 2 Pages and No Ground in Nuclear Talks
Michele Bachmann / National Review:
Drill Here.  Drill Now.  —  This past weekend, I had the privilege …
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Hezbollah Brigades propaganda specialist captured in Baghdad
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Elizabeth Goodwin / New York Sun:
Upper East Side Church Hosts a Holocaust Denier
Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Online:
Poll: Obama, McCain locked in tight battle for Michigan
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Louisiana seeks change on death penalty
Matt / Think Progress:
O'Reilly Attacks Gore For Attending Netroots Nation: 'The Same …
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Neel Shah / RADAR:
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Todd Gitlin / CJR:
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Discussion: Hullabaloo and Open Left
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
House Democratic Campaign Arm Broadens TV Buy
Karl / protein wisdom:
Obama's moneywoman was a subprime mortgage queen
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama Leads McCain by Six Points
Discussion: The New Republic
John Derbyshire / The Corner:
The “Inartful” Maliki  —  Andy: Nothing in any of Maliki's …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Ross Douthat:
The Road To Serfdom?  —  That's what President Bush has put us on …
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Times Columnist Uncovers His Darkest Story
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