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10:15 PM ET, July 12, 2006

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Ynetnews:
Annan condemns Israel attack in Lebanon  —  UN Secretary General says 'I condemn without reservations the attack in southern Lebanon'; Iran nuclear negotiator: When the Zionist entity attacks and slaughters the Palestinian people ... Resistance is necessary  —  News agencies
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Mohammed Zaatari / MSNBC:
Israel strikes come within 10 miles of Beirut  —  Prime minister says assaults over captured prisoners will be 'very painful'  —  Among the sites targeted by Israeli warplanes was the Qassmieh Bridge in southern Lebanon.  At least two civilians have died in the attacks.  —  FREE VIDEO
Fox News:
U.S. Blames Syria, Iran For Israeli Soldiers' Kidnapping  —  ROSTOCK, Germany — Syria and Iran are to blame for the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah terrorists and the subsequent Israeli military response, U.S. officials said Wednesday.  —  The White House called for the immediate …
Haaretz:
3 soldiers killed, 2 seized in Hezbollah border strike  —  Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and two others were abducted Wednesday morning in an attack by guerillas from the militant Hezbollah organization.  —  The militants attacked two IDF armored Hummer jeeps patrolling along …
Guardian:   Israelis invade Lebanon after soldiers are seized
Amanda / Think Progress:
Justice Department Lawyer To Congress: 'The President Is Always Right'  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday heard testimony from Steven Bradbury, head of the Justice Department's office of legal counsel.  When questioned by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on whether the President's interpretation …
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Patrick Hynes / Ankle Biting Pundits:
Web Video Too Low Even for DemoRATS
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Brett Zongker / Associated Press:
Nation's Capital Declares Crime Emergency  —  Two groups of tourists were robbed at gunpoint on the National Mall, just hours after the police chief declared a crime emergency in the city in response to a string of violence that included the killing of a British activist.
Discussion: QandO and The Right Angle
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Allison Klein / Washington Post:
July Homicide Total Rises to 14 in District
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Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Novak: Rove was a source in outing Plame  —  WASHINGTON - Columnist Robert Novak said publicly for the first time Tuesday that White House political adviser Karl Rove was a source for his story outing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.  —  In a column, Novak also says his recollection …
Claire Shipman / ABCNEWS:
Gorbachev: 'Americans Have a Severe Disease'  —  15 Years After Being Deposed From Power, Former Leader Discusses Russia, U.S.  —  July 12, 2006 — Mikhail Gorbachev is generally regarded as the man who broke down the "iron curtain" that separated the communist world from the West and thawed …
Noel Sheppard / Real Clear Politics:
Is the Daily Kos About to Implode?  —  It appears that the post-Yearly Kos month from hell is continuing for Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the proprietor of the Internet's premier liberal blog Daily Kos.  After receiving some extremely negative press from major publications such as the New York Times …
Gina Serpe / Yahoo! News:
Airwaves Again Safe for "South Park" Scientology Spoof  —  Comedy Central is finally respecting Cartman's authoritay.  —  One week after South Park's controversial "Trapped in the Closet" episode garnered an Emmy nomination, and nearly four months after it was abruptly pulled from rotation on the cable net …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Online Venture Seeks To Elevate the Debate  —  Civility Is In, Rancor Out on Web Site Begun by Democratic, GOP Strategists  —  A group of political strategists who have spent years firing heavy artillery at each other came together at the Hay-Adams Hotel yesterday, put aside their weapons …
Anne Gearan / Associated Press:
Nations sending Iran to Security Council  —  PARIS - World powers agreed Wednesday to send Iran back to the United Nations Security Council for possible punishment, saying the clerical regime has given no sign it means to negotiate seriously over its disputed nuclear program.
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Michelle Malkin / Jewish World Review:
'La Raza' schools: Your tax dollars at work  —  "La Raza" is Spanish for "The Race."  —  It's bad enough the White House lent its prestige to The Race's annual conference.  But did you know the Bush administration has forked over millions of federal tax dollars directly to The Race?
New York Times:
General Sees Need for More U.S. Forces in Baghdad  —  By PAUL von ZIELBAUER and DAVID S. CLOUD  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 12 — Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the senior American commander in Iraq, said today that "terrorists and death squads" were responsible for the surge in sectarian killings …
Tbogg / ...a somewhat popular blogger:
The hidden balls trick  —  Which one is the quarterback?  —  As Mr Mark B. from Austin Texas will tell you, I am prone to the occasional misspelling or typo when putting up posts.  Hey, it happens to the best of us.  But I found this comment over at Ann Althouse particularly humorous in light of the subject matter.
Tim Starks / public.cq.com:
Confluence of Hurdles Hampers Panel's Iraq Probe  —  A Senate panel investigation into the use of intelligence leading up the the Iraq war remains in limbo after almost three years of politically charged clashes over the content and conclusions of the inquiry.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and The Horse's Mouth
Jules Crittenden / Real Clear Politics:
Dawn Over Tokyo  —  Sixty-one years after the end of World War II, Japan is on the verge of becoming a mature, responsible democracy.  —  Once Japan's troops raped and murdered their way across China, enslaved women as prostitutes for their soldiers, and starved, beat and worked Allied POWs to death.
Discussion: QandO and Murdoc Online
Gabriel Sherman / New York Observer:
Wall Street Rift: Journal Reporters Reject Gigot Line  —  The Wall Street Journal news staff can live with occasional opposition from the paper's editorial page.  What it can't live with is the editorial page's support.  —  "People feel like we're walking around with knives in our backs," one news staffer said.
Marc Gunther / CNNMoney.com:
The extinction of mass culture  —  The advent of 300 channels and the Internet has fragmented audiences - and the explosion of choice has left us poorer  —  NEW YORK (Fortune) — Quick: Name the biggest star in prime-time television.  —  Now: Name a star created by the Internet.
 
 
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