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Haaretz:
UN delegation presents cease-fire package; Livni hints Israel won't rule out int'l force in Lebanon — Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni hinted Tuesday that Israel would not object to a temporary international force in south Lebanon, despite earlier an outright Israeli rejection of such a plan.
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New York Times:
Israeli General Says Lebanon Offensive Will Last Weeks — JERUSALEM, July 18 — A top Israeli general said today that Israel's offensive in Lebanon would last another few weeks, and he said that the use of large numbers of ground forces had not been ruled out.
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Hunker Down With History — The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims …
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Times of London:
Beyond Lebanon — World leaders must do better than ground troops to silence Hezbollah — With many thousands in Israel and Lebanon fearful for their lives after a sixth day of unabated violence, it is natural that world leaders should clutch at any straw that may help to end the latest chapter of Middle East bloodshed.
Agence France Presse:
Lebanon civilian deaths morally not same as terror victims — Bolton — UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in Israel from "malicious terrorist acts".
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:IDF needs another week to alleviate Hizbullah threat
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Juan / Informed Comment:Israel Invades Lebanon; — Ongoing Airstrikes Kill Dozens of Lebanese Civilians;
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Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics:
Bush Gropes Germany's Merkel — President Bush took time out from the G-8 Summit to grope German Chancellor Angela Merkel. I'm not kidding. It boggles the mind. (Update: John at C&L has the video up.) — Via Mash (by the way, great get!), we get photos via a friend of his in Germany.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Presidential Groping — She sure doesn't seem to happy about it to me. … Video-WMP Video-QT later — This has been an awful trip for Bush to say the least on so many levels. Please list all the problems he has had in the comment section. … Lindsay: Every woman will recognize …
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Think Progress:
Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks 'Are You Going To Kill Me?' — Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) is leading the opposition to the H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. On Saturday, the Washington Post reported that Brownback has used a deceptive and false report …
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Duncan Black / Los Angeles Times:
Why the Left Is Furious at Lieberman — A blogger's blast at the embattled Connecticut senator. Hint: It's not just Iraq. — SOME TIME AFTER having lunch in Iraq with the junior senator from Connecticut, Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware told an interviewer …
Reuters:
NYT to cut paper size and close plant —Text+NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times Co. (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to narrow the size of its flagship newspaper and close a printing plant, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs, the company said in a story posted on its Web site late on Monday.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Times to Reduce Page Size and Close a Plant in 2008 — The New York Times is planning to reduce the size of the newspaper, making it narrower by one and a half inches, and to close its printing operation in Edison, N.J., company officials said yesterday. — The changes, to go into effect …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
G.O.P.'s Bid for Blacks Falters — Julian Bond, chairman of the N.A.A.C.P., addressing an early session of the group's convention Monday in Washington. President Bush, who has had strained relations with the group, may address it later. — WASHINGTON, July 17 — Even for some Republicans …
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Milt Freudenheim / New York Times:
A Windfall From Shifts to Medicare — The pharmaceutical industry is beginning to reap a windfall from a surprisingly lucrative niche market: drugs for poor people. — And analysts expect the benefits to show up in many of the quarterly financial results that drug makers will begin posting this week.
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James Boyce / The Huffington Post:
Punk'd By John O'Neill And His Friends — Last week on the Huffington Post, I asked a legitimate question: were the actions of the Swift Boat veterans who attacked John Kerry influenced by the substantial monetary payments they received? I think it's important for everyone to understand …
Jules Witcover / Salt Lake Tribune:
The Democrats' message dilemma — WASHINGTON — It was a bit startling the other morning to hear Sen. Charles Schumer of New York — the garrulous poster boy of Democratic liberalism — intone that New Deal Democracy is over. But also, he added just as surprisingly, so is Reagan Republicanism.
Michelle Malkin:
CALLING ALL RIGHTIES: DIGG THIS — Thanks to my wonderful web guy, Mark Jaquith, you'll notice a new feature at the end of every post that I started including over the weekend. It says "Digg This." If you click on it, it'll take you to Digg, the hot user-powered content site that now has a Politics section.
New York Times:
Car Bomb Kills Dozens Near Shiite Shrine in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 18— A bomb killed 53 people and wounded more than 100 in the Shiite city of Kufa today, a day after at least 48 people died as dozens of gunmen suspected of being Sunni Arabs went on a rampage through a mostly Shiite market area …
Faiz / Think Progress:
VIDEO: Bush Personally Blocked DOJ Investigation Of Wiretapping Program — Earlier this year, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which is charged with investigating attorney misconduct, announced that it could not pursue an investigation into the role …
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