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Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
ANALYSIS: Giving the war an image of victory, not a draw — Borrowing from the world of soccer beloved to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the Israel Defense Forces operation in Lebanon went into overtime on Monday. — Olmert wants to take another stab at a decisive conclusion before the UN Security Council blows the final whistle.
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CNN:
Key Republican breaks with Bush on Mideast — Nebraska's Sen. Hagel calls for immediate cease-fire — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Urging President Bush to turn all U.S. efforts toward "ending this madness," a leading Republican senator Monday broke with the Bush administration and called for an immediate cease-fire in the Mideast.
David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:
Jaws of Defeat — The United States and Israel and every sentient being in the path of the Islamist crusade are teetering on the brink of a massive defeat in Lebanon and thus in the war on terror. Lest it be forgotten, this is a war that began with the Ayatollahs' revolution in Iran in 1979 …
Confederate Yankee:
Were the Qana Bodies Staged?
Were the Qana Bodies Staged?
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Anita Snow / Associated Press:
Castro relinquishes power before surgery — HAVANA - Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished his presidential powers to his brother Raul on Monday night and told Cubans he underwent surgery. — The Cuban leader said he had suffered gastrointestinal bleeding, apparently due to stress …
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Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:
fidel castro Death Watch, Take 2846 — BREAKING NEWS: — Local news is reporting that fidel castro has "temporarily" handed power of the communist nation over to his brother Raul. Details are sketchy at the moment, but reports are that he was suffering from "intestinal ailments."
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Ned Lamont on the Colbert Report — Stephen Colbert interviewed Ned Lamont tonight about the upcoming Connecticut primary. — Some rough transcript quotes from Ned: … Ned did an outstanding job at handling the tough interviews Stephen Colbert gives. He was quick with the responses and presented his platform very well.
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Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Democrats Unite on Iraq Withdrawal Demands — Twelve Democratic leaders of the House and Senate have urged President Bush in a strongly worded letter to begin withdrawing the 130,000 U.S. troops from Iraq by year's end, a sign that Democrats may be uniting on a key election-year issue that has divided the party.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Mel Gibson's Meltdown — HE IS SICK TO HIS EMPTY CORE WITH JEW-HATRED. — I was just in the middle of writing a long and tedious essay, about how to tell a real anti-Semite from a person who too-loudly rejects the charge of anti-Semitism, when a near-perfect real-life example came to hand.
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
The Gibson Affair: A Defining Hollywood Moment — So is Mel Gibson's drunken anti-Semitic spew really headline news — or is it just another celebrity DUI? Another high-profile addition to The Smoking Gun's mug shot gallery (Nick and Glen, meet your new buddy Mel)? Monologue fodder for Leno, Letterman, Conan, and Kimmel?
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Iran Hangs in Suspense as War Offers New Strength, and Sudden Weakness — These should be heady days for Iran's leaders. Hezbollah, widely regarded as its proxy force in Lebanon, continues to rain down rockets on Israel despite 17 days of punishing airstrikes.
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
Leaders in Iraq Strongly Rebuke Israel — Several prominent Iraqi clerics and officials today delivered their stiffest rebuke yet of Israeli airstrikes, condemning civilian casualties in Lebanon as shootings, bombings, and mass kidnappings continued to plague Iraq.
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Lebanon.Profile / Lebanese Political Journal:
When is Israel Wrong? — A Rant. As I've said, what does Israel realistically hope to accomplish? — I'm serious in asking this question. If Israel isn't wrong right now, when will the US, the international community, the rest of the world, and Israelis ever admit that Israel does horribly atrocious things?
R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Appeals court hears from lawyers in DeLay ballot battle — NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals panel indicated today that the ability of Republicans to replace former U.S. Rep. Tom Delay on the ballot rests on whether there was "conclusive" evidence that he had moved to Virginia.
John Solo / Associated Press:
Gitmo Guards Often Attacked by Detainees — The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons, Pentagon reports say.
Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Fla. Republicans won't back Rep. Harris — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The state Republican Party bluntly told Rep. Katherine Harris (news, bio, voting record) that she couldn't win this fall's Senate election and that the party wouldn't support her campaign, a letter obtained Monday by The Associated Press shows.
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Nicholas Lemann / New Yorker:
AMATEUR HOUR — On the Internet, everybody is a millenarian. Internet journalism, according to those who produce manifestos on its behalf, represents a world-historical development—not so much because of the expressive power of the new medium as because of its accessibility to producers and consumers.
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select Their Least Favorite People On The Right (2006 Edition) — Right Wing News emailed more than 225 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be their "Least Favorite People On The Right." Representatives from the following 45 blogs responded...
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