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11:05 AM 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.
Glenn Reynolds / Pajamas Media:
PROF. KENNETH ANDERSON fact-checks The New York Times' C.J. Chivers on Georgia.  “Look: what you've offered us is an argument, masquerading as a narrative news story.  I'm very interested in arguments, especially on a policy topic as difficult and fraught with risks as this, and I don't doubt that you have important things to say.
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  —  If Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin were president of the United States, would Iran try to build a nuclear bomb?  Would Pakistan provide covert aid to al-Qaeda?  Would Hugo Chavez train terrorists in Venezuela?
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Russia's Power Play
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S FECKLESS RESPONSE TO THE RUSSIAN INVASION.
Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. knew Georgia trouble was coming, but couldn't stop it
Rose Garden / White House:
President Bush Discusses Situation in Georgia
Discussion: Commentary and Hot Air
Xinhua News Agency:
McCain takes hard stance toward Russia
Discussion: NEWS.com.au and The Moderate Voice
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
“WE THOUGHT WE HAD AN UNDERSTANDING WITH THE RUSSIANS”. …
Discussion: D-Day
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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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Front-Runner's Fall  —  For all that has been written and said about Hillary Clinton's epic collapse in the Democratic primaries, one issue still nags.  Everybody knows what happened.  But we still don't have a clear picture of how it happened, or why.
Tahman Bradley / Political Punch:
Penn in December 2007 on Plan for Two-Way Race Against Obama: “Release the Tapes”
Discussion: Political Radar and The Next Right
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
News Under Our Noses
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and FishBowlDC
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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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:   “99 Percent”  —  The National Enquirer promises more; from Larry King last night:
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.
Discussion: TIME.com and American Spectator
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” …
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.”
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 …
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 …
Bing West / Wall Street Journal:
The War in Iraq Is Over.  What Next?  —  The war I witnessed for more than five years in Iraq is over.  In July, there were five American fatalities in Iraq, the lowest since the war began in March 2003.  In Mosul recently, I chatted with shopkeepers on the same corner where last January a Humvee was blown apart in front of me.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
 
 
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Infanticide, revisited  —  Barack Obama wants to move closer …
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Negative ads: They really do work
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Associated Press:
Bush could weaken Endangered Species Act
Wall Street Journal:
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Rasmussen Reports:
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MCCAIN'S MEMOS  —  In a sense the revelations of Mark Penn's …
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