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Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
Purely foolish Democrats — Sen. Joe Lieberman's irritating, but his enemies in the party are worse. — NED LAMONT'S challenge to Sen. Joe Lieberman in next month's Connecticut primary has blossomed into a full-scale Democratic civil war. What's at stake is the legitimacy of partisanship.
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Riehl World View, Economist's View, Connecticut Local Politics, Hullabaloo, Don Surber, Weekly Standard and Eschaton
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Bill Scher / liberaloasis.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Lieberman Ad Uses Fake Lamont Sticker — A TV ad, with a message approved by Sen. Joe Lieberman, uses a phony Ned Lamont bumper sticker to falsely claim that all Lamont has to say is "No More Joe." — The ad ran today on Hartford's Fox affiliate WTIC-61, during "Fox News Sunday."
Tim Tagaris / Ned Lamont for Senate:
Filling the Air With Outright Lies [6] — Filling the Air With Outright Lies — In the debates, through Marion Seinfeld (aka the last comic standing), and now using his millions in corporate lobbyists/political action committee funds to flood the airwaves, Joe Lieberman is just outright lying …
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Riehl World View
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hatemania! Goldstein's stalker wants right-wingers' heads cracked (Update: PW hit with another DOS) — Quoting another brave, plain-speaking truthteller. In fairness, they don't seem too adamant about bludgeoning; the main thing is having us put down like "rabid animals," so presumably injections would be okay.
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Andrew J. Bacevich / Washington Post:
What's an Iraqi Life Worth? — In Iraq, lives differ in value — and so do deaths. In this disparity lies an important reason why the United States has botched this war. — Last November in Haditha , a squad of Marines, outraged at the loss of a comrade, is said to have run amok …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
"We Don't Do Body Counts" — When I read things like this today in the Washington Post by Andrew J. Bacevich, I'm struck by the fact that people like me, and many, many others were talking about this stuff years ago and predicting the problems that would ensue.
Barry Wilner / Associated Press:
Italy Beats France for 4th World Cup Title — Italy let France do nearly anything it wanted Sunday, except win the World Cup. That belongs to the Azzurri, 5-3 in a shootout after a 1-1 draw. — Outplayed for an hour and into extra time, the Italians won it after French captain Zinedine Zidane …
Washington Post:
Plumbing Iowa for Democratic Caucus Votes? Bring Money — To most people, all the national Democrats beating a path to Iowa this month look an awful lot like presidential candidates. But to the state Democratic Party, they look like something else: revenue enhancers.
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Adam Cohen / New York Times:
What Chief Justice Roberts Forgot in His First Term: Judicial Modesty — At the confirmation hearings for John Roberts, there were two theories about what kind of a chief justice he would be. His critics maintained that he was an extreme conservative whose politics would drive his legal rulings.
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
His Hipness, John G. Roberts — WRITING in April for a unanimous Supreme Court, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. found that the police in Brigham City, Utah, acted properly in entering a home without a warrant after they peered through a window and saw a fight in progress that had left one man spitting blood.
Ronald Klain / Washington Post:
Don't Take the High Road — For the presidential campaign of Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, narrowly declared the loser to Felipe Calderòn in Mexico's much-disputed returns, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that he has avoided the two biggest problems …
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Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Hoekstra's Threat — I had a feeling there was something more—a lot more—to the Lichtblau-Shane story reporting a surveillance program that Peter Hoekstra hadn't been briefed on. Only I wasn't sharp enough to do what texas dem did—look for the letter referenced in the article.
Discussion:
Unclaimed Territory, Booman Tribune, PoliBlog, Andrew Sullivan, Think Progress and Talking Points Memo
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Michael Sheridan / New York Post:
SECRET WAR VS. EVIL KIM — TARGETING NUKES — July 9, 2006 — SEOUL, South Korea - A program of covert action against nuclear and missile traffic to North Korea and Iran is to be intensified after last week's missile tests by the North Korean regime. — Intelligence agencies …
Roger Lowenstein / New York Times:
The Immigration Equation — The day I met George Borjas, cloistered in his office at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard while graduate students from Russia, India, China and maybe Mexico mingled in the school cafe, sipping coffee and chattering away in all their tongues …
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