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3:30 AM ET, July 28, 2008

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Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Worried Banks Sharply Reduce Business Loans  —  Banks struggling to recover from multibillion-dollar losses on real estate are curtailing loans to American businesses, depriving even healthy companies of money for expansion and hiring.  —  Two vital forms of credit used by companies …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Agonist
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Petraeus won't join bandwagon for Iraq withdrawal timetable  —  BAGHDAD — The top U.S. military commander in Iraq isn't buying the increasingly popular idea of a publicly stated timetable for American troop withdrawal.  —  Gen. David Petraeus, the Iraq commander, said in an interview …
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CNN:
McCain, Obama accuse each other of shifting on Iraq
Discussion: The Raw Story and Balloon Juice
Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
McCain Reverses Himself on Affirmative Action  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis and Kevin Kilbane Report: During a “This Week” interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos John McCain reversed himself on affirmative action and endorsed for the first time a proposed state ballot measure which would end race …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: Obama 49%, McCain 40%  —  Third day with Obama holding a significant lead over McCain  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama now leads John McCain among national registered voters by a 49% to 40% margin in Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted July 24-26.
Dahleen Glanton / Chicago Tribune:
New battles erupt over gun laws  —  From airports to Disney World, the fight to limit firearms continues in the courts  —  ATLANTA—Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a ban on handguns, gun opponents are fighting to preserve or expand gun-free zones …
MSNBC:
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)  —  MR. TOM BROKAW: And we are here with Senator Obama late Saturday afternoon in London, the last stop of his nine-day overseas trip.  —  You head back to the United States in a few hours.  For purposes of this program, we'll say good morning.
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Speaking In Code  —  I haven't finished Jane Mayer's book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals yet, but so far it's the probably the creepiest book I've read yet about the Torture Regime.  (Philippe Sands' book Torture Team …
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Rights Issue Looms as Bush Heads to China  —  Diplomacy During Games Is Subject Of Intense Debate  —  With President Bush set to leave next week for the Olympics in Beijing, the White House is coming under increased pressure from lawmakers and advocacy groups to make a public statement …
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama visits hospital for sore hip  —  All that basketball seems to be taking at least a slight toll on Sen. Barack Obama's nearly 47-year-old body.  —  Late Sunday, he visited the University of Chicago Medical Center to have a sore hip checked by an orthopedic doctor.
Discussion: TIME.com
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Democracy Institute Gives Donors Access to McCain  —  As Senator John McCain waited to speak at the annual awards dinner of the International Republican Institute, a democracy-building group he has led for 15 years, lobbyists and business executives dominated the stage at a Washington hotel ballroom.
Anita Thompson / The Huffington Post:
Listening to the Dalai Lama in Aspen  —  ASPEN — My late husband, Hunter S. Thompson, said that he was a teenage girl trapped in the body of an elderly dope fiend.  I realized something as I watched the highest ranking monk of Tibetan Buddhism: His Holiness is a teenage girl trapped in the body of a Dalai Lama!
Discussion: TalkLeft
Katie Allison Granju / WBIR-TV:
Second church shooting victim dead  —  This is a developing story.  Click “refresh” on your Web browser for the latest updates.  —  10:30 pmA neighbor told 10News Adkisson described himself as a “Confederate” and a “believer in the old South.”  She says Adkisson self-identified …
Discussion: Corrente and The Moderate Voice
Times of London:
Barack Obama's brother pushes Chinese imports on US  —  BARACK Obama's half-brother has been helping to promote cheap Chinese exports in a low-profile business career while the Democratic senator has been winning worldwide fame in his race for the White House.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Keep On Believing  —  Earnest libs get reassurance that there is no liberal media bias, with predictable but amusing results.  —  Per James Rainey, media columnist for the LA Times citing a recent Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University study, the media has not been in the tank …
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Andrew Tyndall / tyndall report posts:
Update on Obama the Phenomenon
Discussion: TVNewser
 
 
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THE BIG PICTURE  —  Just think that a couple weeks ago …
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McCain may not speak for the McCain campaign
Conor Clake / Creative Capitalism:
Reader Submissions, Take 4  —  A fresh round of reader submissions …
Discussion: EconLog
Julia Preston / New York Times:
After Iowa Raid, Immigrants Fuel Labor Inquiries
Discussion: ParaPundit and TalkLeft
Matthew Yglesias:
Impractical Scheme of the Day  —  The health policy reform world has …
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John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama at UNITY convention in Chicago
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Nathan Halverson / Santa Rosa Press-Democrat:
Smile, you're on Google  —  Some residents cringe as Internet …
William Poole / New York Times:
Too Big to Fail, or to Survive
Ginger Adams Otis / New York Post:
OBAMA'S SECRET RESCUE MISSION
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and Fox News
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Sunday Conversation: Obama's Berlin Speech Re-examined
Military Times HOME:
Officer: Part of anti-Obama e-mail was wrong
John Freeman Gill / New York Times:
Cold Shoulders  —  THE streets were bright with promise …
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