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3:40 AM ET, August 5, 2008

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Multiple Oil Company Executives Gave Huge Contributions To Electing McCain Just Days After Offshore Drilling Reversal  —  Ten senior Hess Corporation executives and/or members of the Hess family each gave $28,500 to the joint RNC-McCain fundraising committee, just days after McCain reversed himself …
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FactCheck.org:
Obama's Overstatement  —  An Obama ad says McCain's campaign got $2 million from “Big Oil.”  The total is actually $1.3 million.  —  Obama released a TV spot saying McCain's campaign got $2 million from “Big Oil” while McCain proposed “another $4 billion in tax breaks” for the industry.
Matthew Mosk / The Trail:
Left Keeps Hammering McCain Oil Ties
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Hess Corporation “Office Manager” And Her Husband Both Gave $28,500 To Elect McCain
Discussion: Top of the Ticket
Dayo Olopade / The New Republic:
Green Gold for McCain
Discussion: Dealbreaker
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Sun-Times political columnist Robert Novak retires  —  FROM SUN-TIMES STAFF REPORTS  —  Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement following the diagnosis of a brain tumor, a prognosis the Sun-Times' political columnist describes as “dire.”  —  “The details are being worked …
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Sommer Mathis / DCist:
Awkward/Sad/Funny Typo from Novak AP story on NYTimes.com
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and FishBowlDC
William Branigin / Washington Post:
Robert Novak Announces Immediate Retirement
Ryan Grim / The Politico:
Bayh Partisans cancel softball game  —  Sen. Evan Bayh's staff softball team, The Bayh Partisans, has cancelled the game it had scheduled for tomorrow evening with the drug policy team The One Hitters.  Bayh staffer Jonathan Stahler sent One Hitter team captain Kris Krane an e-mail Monday morning citing …
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Democratic Daily
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Bil Browning / The Bilerico Project:
Obama will name Bayh his VP choice on Wednesday  —  Updated at the end of the post.  —  I'm going to put my neck out on the line by making a prediction.  Barack Obama will announce his vice-presidential choice Wednesday morning.  It will be Indiana Senator Evan Bayh.
Zogby:
ATV/Zogby Poll Toss-Up!  McCain 42%, Obama 41% as Undecided Voters Increase...  Obama loses support among his strongest demographic groups  —  UTICA, New York - A national Associated TV/Zogby International telephone poll of 1,011 likely voters conducted July 31-Aug. 1 finds Republican …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Riehl World View
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Bob Herbert: Why is everyone missing the phallic symbols in McCain's Britney ad?  —  Between this and last week's Godwin-ing of the crowd scenes, I'm honestly curious to see where the left takes the critique next.  One would think they'd either run out of cards to play or would quietly pocket …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Book says White House ordered forgery  —  A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.  —  Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Why the tire-pressure gauge stings; Update: The spin continues  —  An inability to comprehend context appears to have broken out among the Leftosphere.  Apparently, none of our colleagues on the port side of the blogosphere can figure out why Barack Obama's suggestion that the energy crisis …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THE LATEST MEME  —  Truly a Kuhnian moment.  John McCain is so honorable and straight-shooting that the only explanation for his campaign's headlong dive into sleaze, xenophobia and gonzo bamboozlement is that McCain is so out of it and controlled by his advisors that he doesn't actually know what they're doing in his name.
Discussion: MyDD
Los Angeles Times:
Barack Obama shifts on tapping national oil reserves  —  In a campaign speech in Michigan, the candidate suggested releasing oil from the emergency stockpile, a relief plan reminiscent of President Clinton's in 2000.  —  LANSING, MICH. — Democrat Barack Obama called today for tapping …
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Associated Press:   Obama about-face: Tap U.S. oil reserves
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
POCKET....Here's the latest Obama ad pushing back on John McCain's oil policy.  Basic message: McCain takes lots of money from oil interests, while Obama wants to tax their windfall profits in order to fund a $1,000 rebate to hardworking taxpayers.  —  So is the ad any good?  It depends.
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Curt / Flopping Aces:
Obama's New Attack Ad = Obama hearts Marxism
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
The Meaning of Capitalism  —  I've received an enormous amount of email, mostly positive, about my capitalism column (the most common complaint from the friendly readers was that capitalism is a Marxist term we shouldn't concede.  A fair complaint).  But I thought this email is worth responding to:
The Hill:
White House says no to special session of Congress  —  The White House has rejected calls from House Republicans that it convene a special session of Congress on energy, saying it wouldn't make a difference.  —  “We don't have plans to call Congress into session — it won't make a difference …
New York Times:
Pressure Grows for F.B.I.'s Anthrax Evidence  —  WASHINGTON — After four years of painstaking scientific research, the F.B.I. by 2005 had traced the anthrax in the poisoned letters of 2001 to a single flask of the bacteria at the Army biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., according to government scientists and bureau officials.
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
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CNN:
Source: DNA links man to anthrax mailings
Discussion: Anthrax Vaccine
Phoenix Woman / Firedoglake:
The Joys of the RNC  —  From a T-shirt sold by a local entrepreneur  —  O bliss!  O rapture!  The RNC is coming to town.  The traffic headaches, the commandeered parking ramps.  The cops newly outfitted with tasers.  I think I'll pass, thanks.  —  But the Republican National Committee …
Discussion: Norwegianity and Alas, a blog
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Boston's birthday gift to Obama  —  Happy Birthday indeed.  —  Boston's biggest names in Democratic politics, once divided into two camps during the presidential primary, united this evening to throw Barack Obama a 47th birthday fund-raiser bash.  —  The event at the swank State Room near Faneuil Hall …
 
 
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Now, 2 Obama backers, Bernie Mac and Morgan Freeman,hospitalized
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