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2:00 PM ET, August 10, 2008

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Satyam / Think Progress:
Fox News Host Refuses To Talk About Russia-Georgia War, Insists On Covering Edwards' Affair  —  Yesterday, Russia launched a major military offensive against Georgia, which Georgia has called “a state of war.”  Nearly two thousand people have died and the conflict risks sparking a wider war.
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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
Sometimes, There's News in the Gutter  —  THE John Edwards “love child” story finally hit the national news media and made the front page of yesterday's Times.  For weeks, Jay Leno joked about it, the Internet was abuzz, and readers wondered why The Times and most of the mainstream media seemed …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Keeping It Rielle  —  John Edwards's confession was a little bit breathtaking.  —  Not the sex stuff.  That happens here all the time.  —  And certainly not covering up the sex stuff.  That happens here all the time, too.  First people uncover; then they cover up.
Jonathan Darman / Newsweek:
What Rielle Hunter Told Me
Discussion: Stop The ACLU and TalkLeft
New York Post:
NO TEST FOR ‘LOVE LIPS’ JOHN
Discussion: TMZ.com
New York Times:   No DNA test, says woman in Edwards controversy
Ed Hornick / CNN:
Edwards' affair could mean political free fall
New York Times:
Russian Troops Tighten Hold on Georgia  —  GORI, Georgia — Russian troops that had poured into the disputed territory of South Ossetia moved up to the border with Georgia on Sunday, as the conflict appeared to be developing into the worst clashes between Russia and a foreign military since the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
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Daily Mail:
The Pipeline War: Russian bear goes for West's jugular  —  The war in Georgia escalated dangerously last night after Russian jets reportedly bombed a vital pipeline that supplies oil to the West.  —  After a day of heightening international tensions, Georgian leaders claimed …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Clinton told to portray Obama as foreign  —  Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign, advised her to portray Barack Obama as having a “limited” connection “to basic American values and culture,” according to a forthcoming article in The Atlantic.
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
US Election 2008: The joke is finally on Barack Obama  —  Have you heard the one about the presidential candidate who was once so popular that comedians were frightened to make jokes about him?  —  The punchline is this: the more seriously he took himself, the more Barack Obama has become a laughing matter.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Pres. Bush declines to slap Misty May-Treanor's bikinied butt  —  President George W. Bush, who played baseball, coached Little League, owned a big league team and watches the Texas Rangers at every opportunity, can't stay away from the U.S. teams at the Beijing Olympic games.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   But He Gave Up Golf  —  US President George W. Bush plays beach …
Las Vegas Sun:
McCain's attacks on rival fall flat with vets group  —  Republican offers plan to let some get care outside VA  —  Sen. John McCain, speaking to disabled veterans Saturday in Las Vegas, attacked his Democratic opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, for his foreign policy record …
Lawrence Schumacher / St. Cloud Times:
Veteran gets one-on-one chat with Franken  —  There's an old saying in politics that elections are won or lost one vote at a time.  —  On Friday, DFL-endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken demonstrated how true that saying can be, when a roundtable on veterans issues at Brigitte's Cafe …
Manu Raju / The Hill:
McCain holds off backing ‘Gang of 10’ energy plan  —  Republican Sen. John McCain is not ready to embrace a bipartisan energy plan that could complicate his presidential campaign if Democrats advance the bill weeks before the November elections.  —  The bill is being drafted by some of his closest allies …
Terry Box / Washington Post:
Gas Is Sky-High and the Glaciers Are Melting.  But I'm Not Junking My Great American Joyride.  —  My car swills gas, downing shot after shot of rich red petrol.  It rumbles rudely at stoplights, scaring the Prius drivers around me.  Its flinty suspension — stiff and unyielding …
Discussion: First Draft and Don Surber
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
What's the answer to this?  —  A commenter here on Friday noted what appears to be a rather glaring contradiction in the case against Bruce Ivins.  In response to criticisms that the FBI's case contains no evidence placing Ivins in New Jersey, where the anthrax letters were sent …
 
 
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Targeting Obama for his choice in vacation spots
Jonathan Watts / Guardian:
Eight dead in western China clashes
Mohammed Abbas / Reuters:
Iraq demands “very clear” U.S. troop timeline
Discussion: MyDD
Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. guns arm Mexican drug cartels
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Race Is In Holding Pattern For Now
Discussion: The Caucus and TIME.com
Isambard Wilkinson / Telegraph:
Pakistan army to ask Pervez Musharraf to resign
Guardian:
George Clooney plans to film story of Bin Laden's driver
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
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Peter Mansoor / Washington Post:
How The Surge Worked  —  Given the divisive debate over the Iraq war …
Discussion: Commentary and SWJ Blog
New York Times:
Anthrax Case Had Costs for Suspects
ABCNEWS:
Are Democrats Now Pro-Life?  —  As Convention Draws Near, New Talk of a Pro-Life Presence
Mike Allen / Yahoo! News:
McCain mocks Obama oratory
Discussion: pandagon.net
Gateway Pundit:
Barack Obama Is a Citizen of Kenya...
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
The surge is working? Hardly.
Neal Gabler / Los Angeles Times:
Obama: star of his own movie