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9:55 PM ET, July 7, 2006

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NY Daily News:
Bomb tunnel, flood city  —  One man is busted in Beirut, others hunted across  —  globe and terrorists are seen linked to Zarqawi  —  BY ALLISON GENDAR in New York and JAMES GORDON MEEK in Washington  —  The FBI has uncovered what officials consider a serious plot by jihadists to bomb …
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The Prowler / American Spectator:
What the New York Times Has Wrought  —  The New York Daily News' report this morning about what appears to have been an al Qaeda supported plot to blow up the Holland Tunnel in New York in order to flood the Wall Street financial district is drawing a lot of attention in the blogosphere …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
FBI disrupts New York City tunnel plot  —  WASHINGTON - Authorities have disrupted planning by foreign terrorists for an attack on New York City tunnels, two law enforcement officials said Friday.  —  FBI agents monitoring Internet chat rooms used by extremists learned in recent months …
CNN:
N.Y. tunnel terror plot uncovered  —  Plot surfaced via Internet postings  —  (CNN) — U.S. and Lebanese agents have foiled terrorist plans to attack New York's transportation system, U.S. authorities said Friday.  —  Counterrorism sources confirmed that a plot to blow up tunnels …
Fox News:
Report: FBI Used Web to Break Up NYC Terror Plot
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Assorted Babble
Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:
Plotters Plan Mass Suicide on Train on 9/11/06
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
David Stout / New York Times:
Bush Asserts Shield Could've Blocked Missile  —  WASHINGTON, July 7 — President Bush said again today that North Korea should renounce its missile ambitions, and he said he was fairly confident the United States could have intercepted a North Korean rocket headed for America.
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White House:
Press Conference by the President  —  THE PRESIDENT: Please be seated.  Thank you.  It's nice to be here in Chicago.  Mr. Mayor, I thought you might have had enough of me last night.  (Laughter.)  Thanks for the birthday party.  I really enjoyed our dinner, and enjoyed our conversation.
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:   Bush Determined to Rally Against N. Korea
Denis Horgan / Colin McEnroe:
The Thursday Night Fights  —  I haven't read anyone else's coverage or analysis yet, so forgive me if I'm repeating here.  —  Joe: I wasn't surprised by his pugnacious style.  You can't really disguise where you are, emotionally, in a situation like that, and his handlers were probably urging him to come out swinging, anyway.
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Los Angeles Times:
Purging antiwar Democrats  —  Activists are trying to make a smaller party tent by targeting Joe Lieberman, as the Connecticut senator lives down to their expectations.  —  ANTIWAR ACTIVISTS WHO ARE opposing the renomination of Sen. Joe Lieberman in next month's Connecticut Democratic primary complain that he's not a "real Democrat."
Hilary Sargent / Senate Majority Project:
Phone Jammer to Argue DC Officials Approved  —  According to a recent court filing, indicted phone jammer Shaun Hansen may offer an affirmative defense at his upcoming fall trial, arguing that the phone jamming scheme which his company carried out had the seal of approval of both the Republican National Committee and the White House.
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John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Man indicted in phone jamming case will argue Administration approved election scheme  —  The fourth man indicted in a New Hampshire phone-jamming scheme — in which Republican operatives jammed the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts in a 2002 Senate race …
Mark Morford / San Francisco Chronicle:
George W. Bush Is Dead To Me Nation cringes as the worst president ever continues long, painful slog to the end  —  It is like some sort of virus.  It is like some sort of weird and painful rash on your face that makes you embarrassed to walk out the door and so you sit there day after day …
John Yoo / Los Angeles Times:
The high court's Hamdan power grab  —  The justices are hampering the president's ability to fight terrorists, says an architect of Bush's legal strategy.  —  A PRESIDENT responds to an unprecedented war with unprecedented measures that test the limits of his constitutional authority.
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
New York Judges Reject Any Right to Gay Marriage  —  New York's highest court rejected yesterday a broad attempt by gay and lesbian couples across the state to win the right to marry under state law, saying that denying marriage to same-sex couples does not violate the State Constitution.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Ruling Keeps DeLay on Ballot  —  Judge Sides With Democrats, Says Former Lawmaker Can't Quit  —  A federal judge in Texas threw the political retirement of former House majority leader Tom DeLay into doubt yesterday, ruling that the Texas Republican Party must keep the indicted former congressman …
splcenter.org:
Racist extremists active in U.S. military SPLC urges Rumsfeld to adopt zero-tolerance policy  —  July 7, 2006 — Under pressure to meet wartime manpower goals, the U.S. military has relaxed standards designed to weed out racist extremists.  Large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis …
Diana West / Washington Times:
Appeasing jihadists  —  Just in time for the one-year anniversary of 7/7, a poll conducted for The Times of London indicates that 13 percent of British Muslims believe that the four Islamic suicide bombers who murdered 52 people in London last July should be regarded as "martyrs."
Reuters:
'Breast ironing' to stunt girls' growth widespread  —  1 in 4 girls in Cameroon suffer this abuse to protect against rape  —  YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Reuters) — Worried that her daughters' budding breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and even rape, their mother Philomene …
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister and Demagogue
Editor and Publisher:
Gallup: Almost Two-Thirds Want Iraq Withdrawal  —  NEW YORK A new Gallup poll finds that roughly 2 in 3 Americans urge a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, with 31% wanting this to start immediately.  But it also found that while 64% feel they "understand" the Bush administraton's argument for staying in Iraq …
 
 
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
The 'Rahm Whining About Dean' WATB Storyline
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David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
U.N. CONFERENCE ENDING, FREEDOM WINNING!!  As of 6 p.m. eastern time …
The Raw Story:
Bush says report CIA bin Laden unit closed is 'incorrect'
Discussion: King of Zembla
Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Ahmadinejad warns of Islamic 'explosion'
Nell Henderson / Washington Post:
Whither the Women?  —  After Decades on Rise, Labor Participation Rate Is Down
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
You Can Quote Them on That, Maybe
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People.com:
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James P. Rubin / New York Times:
A War Democrats Can Win
Chris Isidore / CNNMoney.com:
Job growth weak again
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