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Rice Makes Unannounced Visit to Beirut — BEIRUT, July 24 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced stop in Beirut Monday in an effort to shore up Lebanon's fragile government, beleaguered by nearly two weeks of relentless bombing raids that have wrecked much of the country's infrastructure …
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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Rice meets with Lebanon PM in Beirut — WASHINGTON - In a surprise visit to Beirut, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised the beleaguered prime minister of Lebanon on Monday for his courage in struggling to contain the fighting between the Hezbollah militia and Israel.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A War Between Neighbors, Seen From Their Back Yard — Brian Williams was talking to a Detroit native fighting in the Israeli military as the soldier was launching a round of shells into southern Lebanon. — "One of these shells," the NBC anchor told him, "today or tomorrow …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:Israeli offensive doomed to fail? …
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Dialing for Spines...And the Constitution — Last week Pachacutec asked all of the Roots project members to reach out to their senators to find out how they intended to vote on Arlen Specter's revision of FISA legislation. [If you haven't yet joined the Roots Project, you should] (see UPDATE below).
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Arlen Specter / Washington Post:
Surveillance We Can Live With — President Bush's electronic surveillance program has been a festering sore on our body politic since it was publicly disclosed last December. Civil libertarians, myself included, have insisted that the program must be subject to judicial review to ensure compliance with the Fourth Amendment.
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Meryl Gordon / New York Magazine:
Joe Lieberman's War — The hawkish senator finds himself in an epic battle—with his own party. — J — oe Lieberman walked into the Athenian Diner looking worn-out but wired. He'd been up late the night before, unable to unwind after his acrimonious televised debate with Senate challenger Ned Lamont.
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Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
'Chickenhawk' — ``IT'S TOUCHING that you're so concerned about the military in Iraq," a reader in Wyoming e-mails in response to one of my columns on the war. ``But I have a suspicion you're a phony. So tell me, what's your combat record? Ever serve?"
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Dean Barnett / Weekly Standard:
Kos, Hezbollah, and Israel — WHEN THE BOMBS began to fall in the Middle East, the Daily Kos had a problem. And the Daily Kos's problem could soon be the Democratic party's problem. — On the one hand, one of the most solid blocks of support for the Democratic party is America's Jewish community.
Eric Pfeiffer / Washington Times:
Democrats pledge to fight Bolton nod — Senate Democrats have promised a "bruising fight" over the administration's nomination of John R. Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. — Mr. Bolton's nomination was sent out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year without …
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Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
Civil rights hiring shifted in Bush era — Conservative leanings stressed — WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is quietly remaking the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, filling the permanent ranks with lawyers who have strong conservative credentials but little experience in civil rights …
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Patrick Cockburn / Independent:
Sectarian break-up of Iraq is now inevitable, admit officials — The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, meets Tony Blair in London today as violence in Iraq reaches a new crescendo and senior Iraqi officials say the break up of the country is inevitable.
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Pakistan Expanding Nuclear Program — Plant Underway Could Generate Plutonium for 40 to 50 Bombs a Year, Analysts Say — Pakistan has begun building what independent analysts say is a powerful new reactor for producing plutonium, a move that, if verified, would signal a major expansion …
Ron Brynaert / The Raw Story:
Time: Presidential adviser wants Bush to 'beef up' White House Counsel's office fearing possible Dem-controlled House probes — An adviser to President George W. Bush wants the White House Counsel's office to be "beef[ed] up" in case a possibly Democratic controlled House pursues a …
Daniel Gilbert / New York Times:
He Who Cast the First Stone Probably Didn't — LONG before seat belts or common sense were particularly widespread, my family made annual trips to New York in our 1963 Valiant station wagon. Mom and Dad took the front seat, my infant sister sat in my mother's lap and my brother and I had what we called "the wayback" all to ourselves.
Annabelle McDonald / The Australian:
Peace prize winner 'could kill' Bush — NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren. — Campaigning on the rights of young people at the Earth Dialogues forum …
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
'It Looked Weird and Felt Wrong' — From its first days in Iraq in April 2003, the Army's 4th Infantry Division made an impression on soldiers from other units — the wrong one. — "We slowly drove past 4th Infantry guys looking mean and ugly," recalled Sgt. Kayla Williams …
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