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Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
Iran soldiers killed in Lebanon transferred to Tehran via Syria — Follows info Revolutionary Guard units assisting Hezbollah against Jewish state — JERUSALEM - The bodies of Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers who were killed by the Israeli army in Lebanon have been transported to Syria …
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Avi Issacharoff / Haaretz:
Gaza groups ready to deal on cease-fire, release of Shalit — All groups in Gaza, including Hamas, would now accept a cease-fire deal with Israel which would include releasing Gilad Shalit, according to the Palestinian Agriculture Minister, who also heads the coordinating committee of Palestinian organizations there.
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Palestinians: 'Day of rage' against Rice visit — Palestinians are calling for a general strike in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to protest US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to the region scheduled for later this week, accusing Washington of backing Israel's military campaigns against Hamas and Hizbullah.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Democrats' Plan Focuses on Middle Class — Sen. Clinton Presents Domestic Agenda Featuring Tax Breaks and Tuition Help — DENVER, July 24 — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) accused Republicans under President Bush of economic mismanagement and favoring the rich here on Monday …
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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Clinton Releases Proposals to Help the Middle Class — DENVER, July 24 — With divisions in the Democratic Party on full display nationwide, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to stake out the center here on Monday, issuing a broad policy platform geared toward helping middle-class voters …
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
It's Disproportionate. . . Just my luck. I go away on vacation and it happens to be the week when George W. Bush's strategic view of the current world situation is revealed: Russia big. China big, too. World leaders boring. Lady world leaders need neck rub. Terrorism bad.
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Richard Cohen / Real Clear Politics:
A Proportionate Response is Madness — If by chance you have the search engine LexisNexis and you punch in the words "Israel'' and "disproportionate,'' you run the risk of blowing up your computer or darkening your entire neighborhood. Just limiting the search to newspapers and magazines …
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Top Iraqi's White House Visit Shows Gaps With U.S. — Iraqis buried their dead Monday from another suicide bombing. Prime Minister Maliki has tried without success to end such violence. — BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 24 — When Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki visits the White House on Tuesday …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
For One Senate Candidate, the 'R' Is a 'Scarlet Letter' — The candidate, immersed in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country, sat down to lunch yesterday with reporters at a Capitol Hill steakhouse and shared his views about this year's political currents.
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Jennifer Harper / Washington Times:
50 percent of U.S. says Iraq had WMDs — Half of Americans now say Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the United States invaded the country in 2003 — up from 36 percent last year, a Harris poll finds. Pollsters deemed the increase both "substantial" and "surprising" …
Peter Brown / Real Clear Politics:
Democrats Lose if Lieberman is Defeated — The most interesting question about the possibility that Connecticut Democrats could deny Joseph Lieberman renomination is whether that would help or hurt the senator's political prospects. Or, for that matter, the Democratic Party's.
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Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
Nice Rats, Nasty Rats: Maybe It's All in the Genes — On an animal-breeding farm in Siberia are cages housing two colonies of rats. In one colony, the rats have been bred for tameness in the hope of mimicking the mysterious process by which Neolithic farmers first domesticated an animal still kept today.
Andrew Norfolk / Times of London:
Despair as forced marriages stay legal — A police chief accuses the Government of abandoning young women to a life of violence — THE lives of young women might be ruined by the Government's failure to make forced marriages illegal, a senior police officer has warned.
The Hill:
50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill — #1 Michelle Persaud, 27 — Staff counsel — Michelle Persaud's delicate features burst into a smile as she describes the mistake many men make with her. — Seeing her dark eyes and mocha skin, her flowing black tresses and expansive lashes …
Joseph Carroll / Gallup:
Bush Job Approval at 37% — Similar to 37% average rating for all of June — PRINCETON, NJ — A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds 37% of Americans approving of the way Bush is handling his job as president and 59% disapproving. Despite many extraordinary events dominating the news over the past weeks …
Judd / Think Progress:
Cliff May: National Review Bloggers Are 'Fighting a War' That Is 'Equally Consequential' To U.S. Troops in Combat — On Friday, the National Review's Katherine Jean Lopez wrote a rather innocuous review of the new Oliver Stone movie, World Trade Center. Lopez wrote the movie was "about why we fight."
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
From Planning to Warfare to Occupation, How Iraq Went Wrong — The title of this devastating new book about the American war in Iraq says it all: "Fiasco." That is the judgment that Thomas E. Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for The Washington Post, passes on the Bush administration's decision …
Ynetnews:
Iran threatens response if Syria attacked — Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad-Reza Sheybani says 'Israel can't deal with our capabilities' Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad-Reza Sheybani says 'Israel can't deal with our capabilities; Lebanon war beginning of end of Israel'
Dennis Prager / Real Clear Politics:
Israel's War Separates Decent Left From Indecent Left — I believe the Left has been wrong on virtually every great moral issue in the last 30 years. — During that period, it was wrong on the Cold War — it devoted far more energy to fighting anti-communism than to fighting communism.
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