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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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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."
NIM / The Ham Hock of Liberty:
Attention Pundits — Memo to: Jon Chait, Joe Klein, Lee Siegel, Richard Cohen, and the rest. — From: Some guy with a blog. — Gentlemen, it has come to my attention that your strings of pearls are being worn thin from clutching, at the intemperate and potty-mouthed "fascism" of liberal blogs.
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 …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
New York Times' David Brooks Again Slams Daily Kos and Netroots — David Brooks of the New York Times has been on a quite an anti-liberal blogosphere roll of late. After eviscerating Markos Moulitsas Zuniga - the proprietor of the Daily Kos - in a June 25 op-ed entitled "Respect Must be Paid For …
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Tparty / LamontBlog:Fakin' It — Liberal Oasis uncovers, and the official blog confirms …
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CNN:
The end of cowboy diplomacy — Why the 'Bush Doctrine' no longer works for Bush administration — Editor's note: The following is a summary of this week's Time magazine cover story. — Time.com — All the good feeling at the White House at President Bush's early birthday party on July 4 …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush's Shift: Being Patient With Foes — WASHINGTON, July 9 — President Bush has never made apologies for enshrining pre-emption as the defining doctrine of his first term. He has declared many times that in a post-9/11 world, presidents no longer have the luxury of waiting for the slow grinding …
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 …
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Baghdad Erupts in Mob Violence — BAGHDAD, July 9 — A mob of gunmen went on a brazen daytime rampage through a predominantly Sunni Arab district of western Baghdad on Sunday, pulling people from their cars and homes and killing them in what officials and residents called a spasm of revenge …
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Washington Post:
Scores Of Sunnis Killed in Baghdad — Neighborhood Residents Describe Signs of Torture — BAGHDAD, July 9 — Shiite Muslim militiamen rampaged through a Sunni Arab neighborhood in Baghdad early Sunday morning, killing more than 50 people and discarding bodies in the streets, according to Iraqi officials and witnesses.
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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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Jonathan Darman / Newsweek:
One Hug at a Time — John Edwards is back-with a retooled résumé and a lot of love for Iowans. — July 17, 2006 issue - It's Friday night in Iowa and an old politician is trying some new tricks. John Edwards is back-back, with the familiar deep drawl, dark tan and honeyed hair.
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Rick Hasen / Election Law:
ANALYSIS OF THE DISTRICT COURT DECISION ON TOM DELAY'S CANDIDACY — I have just had a chance to read Texas Democratic Party v. Bensiker, the case from last week in which a federal district court reached the conclusion that Tom DeLay's name could not be removed from the Texas ballot and replaced …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:This Race Brought To You By Texas Democrats
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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 …
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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.
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Times of London:
Death trap — Christina Lamb has spent 20 years covering Afghan wars and was lucky to escape with her life after a firefight 10 days ago. Afghanistan is littered with the debris of invading empires - so why do we refuse to learn from history? — When you twice stare death in the face …
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