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Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press:
Japan considers strike against N. Korea — TOKYO - Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on the North's missile bases would violate its constitution, signaling a hardening stance ahead of a possible U.N. Security Council vote on Tokyo's proposal for sanctions against the regime.
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The U.N. Sideshow on Korea — The United Nations Security Council certainly should register international condemnation of last week's North Korean missile launches. But if any serious progress is going to be made on this and the related North Korean nuclear issue, it will not be through Security Council resolutions or sanctions.
Judd / Think Progress:White House Accuses Clinton of Sending 'Flowers and Chocolates' To Kim Jong-il
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Beheading Desecration Video of Dead U.S. Soldiers Released on Internet by al Qaeda (Video/Images) — A brutal video showing the desecration of the bodies of two U.S. soldiers has been released on the internet by an al Qaeda linked group. The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video.
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Susan Haigh / Newsday:
Lieberman campaign files forms to run as petitioning candidate — HARTFORD, Conn. — Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman filed paperwork Monday that will allow him to collect signatures to petition his way onto the November ballot if he loses an August primary. — Lieberman's campaign announced the move in an e-mail to reporters.
Toni Locy / Associated Press:
Judge: FBI Raid on Lawmaker's Office Legal — WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI raid on a Louisiana congressman's Capitol Hill office was legal, a federal judge ruled Monday. — Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan said members of Congress are not above the law.
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Kos Campaign — Liberal blogs like Daily Kos have made Joe Lieberman their first domino. But without a bigger vision, they may be the ones who fall. — M — arkos Moulitsas Zúniga, founder and chief firebrand of the liberal blog Daily Kos, sounded weary in a post …
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Marc Danziger / Examiner:
Democrats would be weaker without Lieberman — WASHINGTON - The week's big news is the decision by Joe Lieberman to hedge his bets and gather the signatures he will need to run — and most likely win — as an independent. — I've not been a big fan of Lieberman's; he's one of the key votes …
John Aloysius Farrell / Denver Post:
Rove: Bush to veto DeGette bill — President Bush will likely cast the first veto of his presidency if the Senate, as expected, passes legislation to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, White House aide Karl Rove said today. — "The president is emphatic about this," …
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BBC:
Zidane blames Materazzi insults — Zinedine Zidane's agent says the France captain headbutted Marco Materazzi in Sunday's World Cup final because the Italian made a "very serious" comment. — Zidane appeared to react to something that was said and was dismissed for his violent charge into his opponent.
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Kevin McCarra / Guardian:
Italy strike gold as Zidane sees red — Italy 1 - 1 France (Italy won 5-3 on pens) — Materazzi, 19; Zidane, 7 (pen) — Italy are world champions, with a flawless set of penalties in the shoot-out securing football's ultimate prize. They had never been undisputed masters in any other aspect …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Hoekstra's Whistleblower? — Earlier, we surmised that the whistleblower that House Intelligence Chairman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) was referring to was NSA whistleblower Russ Tice. Then we reconsidered. — Now another candidate has stepped forward: Dave Gaubatz.
Jennifer Brooks / delawareonline:
Biden says new Iraq leadership is shaky — Senator, just back from visit, concerned about stability — WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Biden returned from his seventh trip to Iraq on Saturday with serious misgivings about the new civilian government's ability to keep the country running once U.S. troops begin to withdraw.
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Associated Press:
Officials: 15 Injured In Building Blast — NEW YORK — A four-story building on Manhattan's Upper East Side collapsed into a pile of rubble Monday after a thunderous gas explosion that hurled fireballs high into the sky and left the upscale block covered in bricks, broken glass and splintered wood.
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John Holusha / New York Times:Gas Explosion Blamed for N.Y. Building Collapse
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James Boyce / The Patriot Project:
Taylor Marsh: The Swiftboating of John Murtha — A Patriot Project Exclusive by Taylor Marsh — Everything was okay until November 17, 2005. — But then all hell broke loose. Scott McClellan kicked it off. … Never mind that on November 15, 2005, the Senate voted 79-19 that 2006 …
Scott Winship / Democratic Strategist:
How Many Liberals and Conservatives? — Y'all ready for this? Another Data Day! (Admit it, when you read the first sentence that synthesizer-and-drum instrumental that they play at the baseball stadium between innings started playing in your head. And you kind of danced along.)
Dave Astor / Editor and Publisher:
Universal Says It Doesn't Think Coulter Plagiarized — NEW YORK Universal Press Syndicate said today that it doesn't think controversial columnist Ann Coulter is guilty of plagiarism. — When reached for reaction to Universal's statement, the head of the company the New York Post asked …
New York Post:
KILL, DON'T CAPTURE — HOW TO SOLVE OUR PRISONER PROBLEM — July 10, 2006 — THE British military defines experience as the ability to recognize a mistake the second time you make it. By that standard, we should be very experienced in dealing with captured terrorists, since we've made the same mistake again and again.
Los Angeles Times:
Wake up, Democrats: Ideas and vision do matter — Just waiting for the Republicans to self-destruct is a losing strategy. — SOMETHING HAPPENS to a political party when it is not just out of power but has had to play on the home field of its opponents for a generation: It loses faith in itself and becomes scared.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Full Disclosure — BRING ON THE PRESS REVELATIONS. — In encounters with various conservatives this past week, I have come to realize that they are entirely serious about regarding the "MSM," in particular the New York Times under the editorship of Bill Keller, as not just objectively treasonable …
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Inside Higher Ed: "We are as fair as we can bring ourselves to be" — For those of you who haven't seen this Inside Higher Ed piece, take a look. Then blink, and look again. — Does the story as it appears at Inside Higher Ed match the version of events we all watched unfold over the last few days?
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