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12:50 PM ET, August 15, 2008

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CBN.com:
Rick Warren Plans to Bring up Obama, McCain's Personal Life  —  It's going to get a little personal Saturday night at Saddleback Church in California.  John McCain and Barack Obama will spend an hour each talking to Pastor Rick Warren at his Compassion Forum.
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Jill Zuckman / Chicago Tribune:
John McCain and the POW church riot  —  HARRISBURG, Pa. — They called it the church riot.  —  Sen. John McCain, who is known for his reticence and even discomfort invoking faith on the campaign trail, was once dubbed a “Hell's Angel” for rioting against his captors in Vietnam in order to hold Sunday church services.
Zzaki / Political Punch:
Rick Warren Would Have Serious Compunctions About Voting for an Adulterer, Says John Edwards Has Lost the Trust of America  —  I had the privilege of interviewing Rick Warren today, the best-selling author of The Purpose-Driven Life and the world-famous evangelical pastor.
USA Today:
Candidates take turns at faith forum
Discussion: Comedy Central
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
McCain alarms base with abortion comment  —  Top social conservative leaders in key battleground states are urging John McCain not to pick a running mate who supports abortion rights, warning of dire consequences from a Republican base already unenthused about their nominee.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Mike Allen's PLAYBOOK
Discussion: Texas Monthly
Taxpayers for Common Sense:
HEADLINES BY TCS  —  New information has surfaced that alleges Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) turned a $5,000 investment into $129,250 profit with the help of a secret no-interest loan that the Senator had not previously disclosed.  —  Federal prosecutors filed a new motion late yesterday …
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
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Richard Mauer / Anchorage Daily News:
Feds reveal more in Stevens case
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
Michael Goodwin / NY Daily News:
Barack Obama blinks in Hillary face-off  —  Russia rolls over Georgia, Hillary Clinton does the same to Barack Obama.  Now we know who's boss.  —  Obama blinked and stands guilty of appeasing Clinton by agreeing to a roll call vote for her nomination.  That he might not have had much choice …
Wall Street Journal:
Evidence in Georgia Belies Russia's Claims of ‘Genocide’  —  By ANDREW OSBORN in Tskhinvali, Georgia, and JEANNE WHALEN in Moscow  —  Russia's assertions that it was provoked into war by “genocide” in South Ossetia and that it is observing a cease-fire in Georgia came under new challenge Thursday …
Discussion: Danger Room
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Philip Stephens / Financial Times:
The vulnerabilities that lie behind Putin's belligerence
New York Times:
Bush, Decrying ‘Bullying,’ Calls for Russia to Leave Georgia
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
New York Times:
Lawyers' Ties Hint at Extent of Hiding Edwards's Affair  —  As tabloid reports of a sex scandal threatened former Senator John Edwards's presidential campaign last December on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, two lawyers surfaced with written statements that appeared to exonerate the candidate.
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ESPN:   Edwards' “other woman” revives memories of a gruesome scandal
Washington Post:
McCain's Focus on Georgia Raises Question of Propriety  —  After Chiding Obama, He Dwells on Crisis as a President Might  —  Standing behind a lectern in Michigan this week, with two trusted senators ready to do his bidding, John McCain seemed to forget for a moment that he was only running for president.
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Rich Lowry / Real Clear Politics:
The Lieberman Option  —  A vice-presidential pick is always important, but John McCain confronts a starkly existential choice this year.  —  Is he running as a Republican or chiefly as a bipartisan deal-maker?  Does he have a reasonable shot at victory, or face desperately long odds?
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Pakistan Daily Times:
Deal is done  —  * Coalition offers president safe passage, security cover if he resigns * Nawaz ready to show flexibility  —  ISLAMABAD: The coalition government has offered indemnity and security to President Pervez Musharraf if he resigns, sources privy to the developments said on Thursday.
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Washington Post:
Pakistani President Expected to Resign
Discussion: Informed Comment and On Deadline
Associated Press:
Obama bodysurfs at Sandy Beach  —  U.S. Sen. Barack Obama bodysurfed today at Sandy Beach today, a place he frequented as a teen-ager growing up in Honolulu.  —  The presidential candidate was photographed shaking hands with bodyboarders, catching a few waves and paying homage …
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
McCain, RNC report $96 million cash on hand  —  Featured Topics: - John McCain - Barack Obama  —  WASHINGTON - John McCain and the Republican National Committee started August with a hefty $96 million, financially flush and strongly positioned to compete with prolific fundraiser Barack Obama and the Democrats.
Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Another flub?  Bush vowed Navy aid to Georgia too soon  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush Wednesday promised that U.S. naval forces would deliver humanitarian aid to war-torn Georgia before his administration had received approval from Turkey, which controls naval access to the Black Sea …
Stuart Koehl / Weekly Standard:
The Pain Game  —  A military response to Russia's aggression?  —  Conventional wisdom has rapidly hardened around the proposition that there is no practical military response to the Russian invasion of Georgia.  In fact, if the Georgians were inclined to fight, there is quite a lot …
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Balloon Juice
Lynn Smith / Los Angeles Times:
Doc blames Clintons for 9/11 miniseries' DVD holdup  —  ‘Blocking the Path to 9/11,’ produced by John Ziegler and Citizens United, claims that further showing of ABC's controversial project has been quashed.  —  In Hollywood docudramas, when the phrase “miscarriage of justice” is employed …
Discussion: Power Line and AlterNet
Wall Street Journal:
McCain's Son Sat on Troubled Bank's Board  —  Silver State Bancorp Is Facing Big Losses, Regulatory Scrutiny  —  Sen. John McCain's son served until last month on the board audit committee of a Nevada bank that is struggling to survive amid mounting losses and regulatory scrutiny.
John R Bolton / Telegraph:
After Russia's invasion of Georgia, what now for the West?  —  At least for now, the smoke seems to be clearing from the Georgian battlefield.  But the extent of the wreckage reaches far beyond that small country.  —  Russia's invasion across an internationally recognised border …
Discussion: The Corner and Atlas Shrugs
 
 
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John Podhoretz / Commentary:
The Argument for Lieberman  —  With John McCain's vice …
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Weekly Standard:
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Jeff Mason / Tales from the Trail:
Obama takes shirt off again, goes body surfing in Hawaii
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Tom Hayden / The Nation:
Today in The Nation: Defunding the Peace Movement
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
VICE PRESIDENT GORE?
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Biden, Bayh get VP night slots at convention