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."

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Congressman Says Program Was Disclosed by Informant  —  WASHINGTON, July 9 — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that the Bush administration briefed the panel on a "significant" intelligence program only after a government whistle-blower alerted him to its existence and he pressed President Bush for details.