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1:40 PM ET, July 31, 2006

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Richard / EU Referendum:
Milking it?  —  For an update on this post, see here.  —  Certainly, the photographs are distressing, and indeed they are meant to be.  As this piece tells us: … But the photographers, it seems, are not too fussy about how they go about "adding to the shock value".
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Reuven Koret / Israel Insider:
Hezbollywood?  Evidence mounts that Qana collapse and deaths were staged  —  It was to be a perfect Hollywood ending for Hezbollah.  Just as the Israeli bombing of the village of Qana in 1996 brought a premature end to Israel's Operation "Grapes of Wrath," so too a sequel of Qana II could change …
Associated Press:
Israeli air force continue Lebanon strikes  —  JERUSALEM - The Israeli air force carried out strikes Monday in southern Lebanon despite an agreement to halt raids for 48 hours after nearly 60 Lebanese civilians were killed in an Israeli bombing, the army said.
CNN:
Israel: No cease-fire in coming days  —  Hopes dim for quick end to Mideast crisis  —  JERUSALEM (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday there would be no cease-fire in the coming days to fighting between his nation's forces and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia.
Discussion: MSNBC, NO QUARTER and Demagogue
Guardian:
As the shells fall around them, Hizbullah men await the Israelis  —  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, south of Tyre  —  Inside a well-furnished apartment in a village on the outskirts of Tyre, with shelves of books piled from floor to ceiling, a black turbaned cleric and three men sit sipping bitter coffee.
Associated Press:
Israeli Strikes Resume After Brief Lull
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Child Victims Incite Anger in Lebanon and Beyond  —  The images of the dead children in southern Lebanon played across the television screens on Sunday over and over again — small and caked in dirt and as lifeless as rag dolls as rescuers hauled them from the wreckage of several residential …
Discussion: Truthdig and TPMCafe blogs
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Independent:
Robert Fisk: 'How can we stand by and allow this to go on?'
Discussion: QandO and PoliPundit.com
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
A Night of Death and Terror for Lebanese Villagers
Discussion: An Unsealed Room
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
From Carnage in Lebanon, a Concession
Discussion: THE WAR IN CONTEXT
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Rice to Seek Mideast Cease-Fire Through UN
Discussion: Hot Air
New York Times:
Fooling the Voters  —  The two bills passed by the House last Friday and Saturday reflect a single Republican electoral strategy.  Representatives want to appear to have accomplished something when they face voters during their five-week summer break, which starts today …
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Reuters:
FACTBOX-Details of U.S. House estate tax, wage bill
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and Ezra Klein
Haaretz:
France says Iran is respected, stabilizing force in Middle East  —  Iran is a significant, respected player in the Middle East which is playing a stabilizing role, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said Monday, during a visit to Lebanon.  —  "It was clear that we could never accept …
New York Times:
Men Not Working, and Not Wanting Just Any Job  —  ROCK FALLS, Ill. — Alan Beggerow has stopped looking for work.  Laid off as a steelworker at 48, he taught math for a while at a community college.  But when that ended, he could not find a job that, in his view, was neither demeaning nor underpaid.
Henry / Crooked Timber:
Lieberman-Lamont and the blogs  —  Mark Schmitt has the best blog-overview of the Lieberman-Lamont race that I've seen so far. … There's just one thing that I'd add to this.  As Mark said in a previous post, the netroots aren't a critically important force on the ground in Connecticut …
David Abel / Boston Globe:
Romney apologizes for use of expression  —  To some, `tar baby' is racial pejorative  —  Governor Mitt Romney yesterday apologized for using the expression ``tar baby" — a phrase some consider a racial epithet — among comments he made at a political gathering in Iowa over the weekend.
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
And Now, The Good News  —  The world seems aswirl.  Where do we stand today?  —  Let's use the analysis of bestselling author Thomas Barnett, who divides the world into a functioning "Core" (North America, Europe, East Asia, rising China and India) and a nonfunctional "Gap" (the Middle East …
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Ned Lamont's First Video Blog: Let's Talk About Iraq  —  Over the weekend Ned filmed his first video blog.  Since Joe Lieberman doesn't want to talk about his war in Iraq, I guess it's up to the rest of us.  —  If you think there is more to be said on the topic and things aren't going quite …
Russell Berman / New York Sun:
Schumer Says Bolton Won't Face Filibuster  —  A Democratic filibuster of John Bolton's nomination as United Nations ambassador is "unlikely," Senator Schumer said yesterday.  —  Mr. Schumer supported an effort last year to block Mr. Bolton's nomination from gaining a full Senate vote …
Juan / Informed Comment:
Sistani Threatens US over Israeli War on Lebanon  —  The US punditocracy and ruling elite is fixated on Hizbullah as a "terrorist group" even though the organization hasn't engaged in international terror against American civilians in many years.  What they forget about Hizbullah …
 
 
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TMZ.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Gibson Skated Twice Before
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
To Climb the Mountain Or Stop
Discussion: Haaretz and Daily Pundit
William F. McCants / NY Daily News:
Terror's playbook  —  Al Qaeda manual is a blueprint for hate …
Robyn E. Blumner / St. Petersburg Times:
For 2008 election, Al Gore could be the real deal
Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
How the Brain Helps Partisans Admit No Gray
Discussion: The Mahablog
Pew Research Center:
Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership
Discussion: BuzzMachine and TVNewser
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
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Washington Post:
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Walter Dellinger / New York Times:
A Slip of the Pen  —  Chapel Hill, N.C.  —  "THIS is one of those historic moments.
Discussion: Balkinization
Julia Preston / New York Times:
U.S. Puts Onus on Employers of Immigrants
Winter Patriot / The BRAD BLOG:
EXCLUSIVE: ELECTION CONTEST TO BE FILED IN BUSBY/BILBRAY RACE MONDAY MORNING!!
Discussion: Bring it On!
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
The Wisdom Of Retreat  —  Three Lessons From Its Own Record …
Katie Pulls / New York Post:
STRINGS IN COCKPIT  —  KATIE Couric had fellow passengers aboard …
Time:
Even Churchill Couldn't Figure Out Iraq
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As a Tactic, Starving Is Found Wanting
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