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3:45 PM ET, August 12, 2008

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Washington Post:
‘Snake Oil’  —  Debunking three ‘truths’ about offshore drilling  —  THE NATURAL Resources Defense Council Action Fund has taken out full-page ads in this newspaper and others to decry offshore drilling for oil as “George W. Bush's Gasoline Price Elixir” that is “100% Snake Oil.”
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Pelosi indicates openness to offshore drilling vote
CNN:
Pelosi open to vote on offshore drilling
Discussion: D-Day and Open Left
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Russia's Power Play  —  Asked in 1957 what would determine his government's course, Harold Macmillan, Britain's new prime minister, replied, “Events, dear boy, events.”  Now, into America's trivializing presidential campaign, a pesky event has intruded — a European war.
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Johanna Neuman / The LA Times President Bush Blog:
With Georgia, Russia at war, where's Condoleezza Rice?
Discussion: BAGnewsNotes and Top of the Ticket
James Fallows:
David Brooks from Chengdu: my lord  —  Some of his pensees: … This is the kind of thing you can say only if you have not the slightest inkling of how completely different a billion-plus people can be from one another.  Beijingers from Shanghainese, Guangdong entrepreneurs from farmers in Sichuan …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Harmony and the Dream  —  The world can be divided in many ways — rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian — but one of the most striking is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a collectivist mentality.  —  This is a divide that goes deeper …
New York Times:
Russia Says It Has Ordered Halt to Georgia Military Action  —  MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia announced Tuesday that he had ordered a halt to his country's military operation in Georgia, although he did not say that troops were pulling out and he insisted that Russian forces …
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Mikhail Gorbachev / Washington Post:
A Path to Peace in the Caucasus
Mark J. Penn / The Politico:
Negative ads: They really do work  —  Clever negative advertising works.  That is reality.  —  The tactic meets with media and pundit disapproval and spawns accusations of negativity, but the reality is that a clever negative ad can be devastatingly effective.
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Backers want Clinton nominated at convention
Discussion: Hot Air and Riehl World View
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Mukasey: No prosecutions in Justice hiring scandal  —  NEW YORK - Former Justice Department officials will not face prosecution for letting improper political considerations drive hirings of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday.
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Michelle Malkin:
Foreclosure sob story of the morning  —  Nope, the MSM has learned nothing from the subprime debacle, stimulus-palooza, and the foreclosure frenzy.  They are still printing sob stories to elicit sympathy for borrowers who don't deserve it.  —  Check this out from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Discussion: Riehl World View and Don Surber
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Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:   Foreclosed family's last goodbye to home
Richard T. Cullen / The Politico:
Enthusiasm gap plagues GOP convention  —  While excitement is building for a Democratic Party convention capped by Barack Obama's historic acceptance speech before a sold-out, 75,000-seat football stadium, the GOP convention the following week is shaping up to be a considerably more staid affair …
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
This is only one of John McCain's 8 or 9 (or 10) houses  —  Hey, nothing wrong with being filthy rich.  Just stop playing the regular guy, going after your opponent's supposedly elite life, when you and your wife combined are worth $100 million and you can't even remember how many homes you own.
Discussion: D-Day and Matthew Yglesias
Peter Hamby / CNN:
McCain: Putin wants ‘to restore the old Russian empire’  —  HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (CNN) - John McCain is turning up the heat on Moscow, and accusing Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of wanting to “restore the old Russian empire.”  —  McCain's comments came in an interview …
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Spengler / Asia Times:
Putin for US president - more than ever
Discussion: Right Wing News
Brent Budowsky / Editor and Publisher:
Target Obama: Why The Press Must Fact-Check Campaign Claims  —  What is the responsibility of reporters, editors and publishers when a candidate is the target of a campaign of attack and personal destruction employing the systematic use of lies, smears, innuendo and character assassination?
Learfield / Radio Iowa:
Jim Leach endorses Obama  —  “It's been a very difficult thing for me because I've never endorsed a Democrat before...but sometimes in life you come to a juncture where it's very clear the national interest trumps party discipline,” former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach said in a noontime interview with Radio Iowa.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Indiana Senator Offers Obama Risks and Rewards  —  WASHINGTON — As the Senate debate on the use of force against Iraq neared its climax in October 2002, Senator John McCain turned on the floor to Senator Evan Bayh to ask what had led him to take such “a visible, as well as important” …
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
New York Times Hits Bayh For Membership In Committee For Liberation Of Iraq
Discussion: Open Left
Natalie Gewargis / Political Punch:
Today's Campaign Contest: Count the Young White Women in McCain's Anti-Obama Video  —  How many young white women professing adoration for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, can you count in this anti-Obama web video that the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, was sending out yesterday?
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
In a Changing Corner of Pa., a Glimpse of Obama's Age Problem  —  LANCASTER, Pa. — When Gene Rutherford, 65, tries to make sense of the meteoric rise of Barack Obama, and the rampant enthusiasm for him among younger Americans, he thinks of the local mall, where as director of operations he often deals with teenagers.
Peter Wehner / Commentary:
Sullivan's Travels  —  In a post early this morning, Andrew Sullivan concludes with this: … This highlighted statement is an astonishing one.  The clear implication is that what America did in going to war with Iraq is the moral equivalent of what Russia has done to Georgia.
Discussion: The American Scene
Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:
WOMEN'S ISSUES AND THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.  —  The draft of the Democratic Party platform, principally written by Obama's Senate policy director, the estimable Karen Kornbluh, is a remarkably feminist document, one befitting of a political party that, this year, came exceedingly close to nominating a woman.
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Michael Goldfarb / John McCain 2008:
Russia Complies With The One  —  On Fox this morning, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine explained how Obama saved Georgia: … Of course the Russians complied with his request.  They've also started inflating their tires in order to reduce domestic demand and free up oil for export markets.
 
 
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Bob Owens / Pajamas Media:
Did Obama Actually Register for Selective Service?
Aaron Rutkoff / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Floods Florida Airwaves
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Obama's ‘no income taxes on seniors’ draws critics
Discussion: www.redstate.com
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
A Tad Short Of 99%  —  Every sex scandal, it seems …
John Derbyshire / The Corner:
Leadership
Mike Potemra / The Corner:
“Fascislamism”  —  It's Bernard-Henri Levy's word for that segment …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and pandagon.net
Marc Ambinder:
Waiting For The Mags, Passing The Time Productively
Discussion: D-Day
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Michael Luo / The Caucus:
Obama-cans Unite  —  Led by a former Bush fund-raiser …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
McCain camp dismisses plagiarism rap
Discussion: Wake up America
Richard Spencer / Telegraph:
Beijing Olympics: Faking scandal over girl who ‘sang’ in opening ceremony
Discussion: New York Magazine and Hot Air
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Cheney or Putin? … A key point: Russia is not exporting …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Edwards affair began early: Hunter friend
Patrick Buchanan / Real Clear Politics:
A Catholic Case Against Barack
James Risen / New York Times:
Use of Iraq Contractors Costs Billions, Report Says
Bing West / Wall Street Journal:
The War in Iraq Is Over. What Next?
Discussion: NewsBusters.org