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12:15 PM ET, August 12, 2008

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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  —  MOSCOW — The past week's events in South Ossetia are bound to shock and pain anyone.  Already, thousands of people have died, tens of thousands have been turned into refugees, and towns and villages lie in ruins.  Nothing can justify this loss of life and destruction.
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
War Puts Focus on McCain's Hard Line on Russia  —  HARRISBURG, Pa. — The intensifying warfare in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has put a new focus on the increasingly hard line that Senator John McCain has taken against Russia in recent years, with stances that have often gone …
Spengler / Asia Times:
Putin for US president - more than ever
Discussion: Neptunus Lex
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.”
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Pelosi indicates openness to offshore drilling vote  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday night dropped her staunch opposition to a vote on offshore oil drilling in the House.  —  Republicans, reacting to high gas prices, have demanded a vote on additional oil exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf …
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CNN:
Pelosi open to vote on offshore drilling
Discussion: Open Left
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 …
Discussion: Althouse and Prairie Weather
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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.
Garance Franke-Ruta / Washington Post:
Edwards Took Mistress on 2006 Presidential Announcement Tour  —  Well, you gotta give him one thing: the man has chutzpah.  —  Photographs distributed by wire services and posted online by technology blogger Robert Scoble show that former North Carolina senator John Edwards took …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Edwards affair began early: Hunter friend
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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” …
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
“99 Percent”  —  The National Enquirer promises more; from Larry King last night: … When something like this happens, I really don't understand why the guy doesn't just get out of the picture.  You made a mistake.  It's a bummer for you — and maybe even cruel that it's come out, but it has.
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CNN:
CNN LARRY KING LIVE
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
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 …
Learfield / Radio Iowa:
Jim Leach endorsing Obama  —  According to a source in the Obama campaign, former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach — a Republican — will be endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama this morning.  Leach, as you may recall, lost his bid for re-election in 2006 after three decades …
Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
New McCain Web Ad: “Hot Chicks Dig Obama”  —  The latest McCain Web ad takes the “Celeb” tag to a whole new low — it proclaims that “Hot chicks dig Obama”:  —  “We know he doesn't have much experience, and isn't ready to lead, but that doesn't mean he isn't dreamy,” says the announcer …
Tahman Bradley / Political Punch:
Penn in December 2007 on Plan for Two-Way Race Against Obama: “Release the Tapes”  —  In a December 30, 2007 memo written on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Mark Penn writes to his fellow Clinton staffers that after the caucuses, if Obama “is riding a high we will have to take him down.”
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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Front-Runner's Fall
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.
Discussion: Wonkette and TIME.com
James Risen / New York Times:
Use of Iraq Contractors Costs Billions, Report Says  —  WASHINGTON — The United States this year will have spent $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since the invasion in 2003, a milestone that reflects the Bush administration's unprecedented level of dependence on private firms for help in the war …
Aluf Benn / Reuters:
PA rejects Olmert's offer to withdraw from 93% of West Bank  —  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday rejected an Israeli peace proposal, which included withdrawal from 93 percent of the West Bank, because it does not provide for a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Discussion: The New Republic and Israel Matzav
 
 
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Cheney or Putin? … A key point: Russia is not exporting …
Hollywoodreporter / The Live Feed:
NBC responds to Olympic fakery accusations
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
CNN Avoids Mentioning Islam in Segment on ‘Honor Killings’
Discussion: ParaPundit and Snapped Shot
Mike Pechar / The Jawa Report:
Champion Pig Named Muhammad
The Huffington Post:
Democratic Convention Theme Taken From Wes Clark's PAC
Brent Budowsky / Editor and Publisher:
Target Obama: Why The Press Must Fact-Check Campaign Claims
Jennifer C. Kerr / Associated Press:
Most companies in US avoid federal income taxes
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A Catholic Case Against Barack
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N.F.L. Executives Hope to Keep Salaries Secret
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Martin Kady II / The Politico:
‘Chameleon’ Reid looks to 2010 election
Bing West / Wall Street Journal:
The War in Iraq Is Over. What Next?
Al Baker / New York Times:
City Would Photograph Every Vehicle Entering Manhattan and Sniff Out Radioactivity
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Wall Street Journal:
Voter Registration Is the New Battleground
James Gerstenzang / The LA Times President Bush Blog:
Is George Bush a ‘hapless Jimmy Carter’?
Discussion: The Swamp
Sid Lowe / Guardian:
Olympics: Spain's eye-catching faux pas
 

 
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