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12:30 PM ET, August 1, 2006

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Jimmy Carter / Washington Post:
Stop the Band-Aid Treatment  —  We Need Policies for a Real, Lasting Middle East Peace  —  The Middle East is a tinderbox, with some key players on all sides waiting for every opportunity to destroy their enemies with bullets, bombs and missiles.  One of the special vulnerabilities of Israel …
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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.
Bret Stephens / Opinion Journal:
Israel Is Losing This War  —  Its leaders need to act fast.  —  Israel is losing this war.  —  This is not to say that itwill lose the war, or that the war was unwinnable to start with.  But if it keeps going as it is, Israel is headed for the greatest military humiliation in its history.
Discussion: Cold Fury
New York Times:
Israel Pushes On Despite Agreeing to Airstrike Lull  —  A Gaza home destroyed by Israel Monday.  The Israeli Army called the homeowner to warn him about the attack, and his family was evacuated.  —  As Israel poured soldiers and artillery shells into southern Lebanon …
Discussion: Bring it On! and Riehl World View
Lebanon.Profile / Lebanese Political Journal:
When is Israel Wrong?
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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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A Primary Lesson for Lieberman  —  Consider the uncanny similarity between Sen. Joe Lieberman's campaign for reelection in Connecticut last weekend and a certain political weekend in New York 26 years ago.  —  In Connecticut, four Senate Democrats pleaded with the party's rank and file …
Elizabeth Hamilton / Hartford Courant:
Running Silent  —  Lieberman and campaign volunteers …
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Joe's Tomorrow Tour
Miami Herald:
A prelude: Miami streets burst with spontaneous joy  —  Miamians, eager to celebrate a change of any sort in Cuba's leadership, reacted to news of Cuba's power transfer with spontaneous partying, honking, yelling and joy.  —  ocorral@MiamiHerald.com  —  For two generations …
Discussion: Discourse.net and Sister Toldjah
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Michelle Malkin:
DANCING IN THE STREETS  —  ***1000am 8/1 update: Boston Herald's Jules Crittenden: Break out the cigars***  —  Thousands of anti-Castro Cuban-Americans are celebrating in the streets of the Little Havana of Miami tonight.  Streaming video of the celebrations here.  One step closer to Cuba Libre, baby.
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Ailing Castro Transfers Powers  —  Cuban Leader Has Surgery, Cedes Interim Control to Brother  —  Cuban President Fidel Castro, a nemesis of the U. S. government for more than four decades, temporarily relinquished power on Monday for the first time in his long reign, saying he had undergone intestinal surgery.
Discussion: Decision '08 and TAPPED
Miami Herald:
After power shift, no word on Castro's condition
Discussion: Reuters
David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
Tax Cheats Called Out of Control  —  So many superrich Americans evade taxes using offshore accounts that law enforcement cannot control the growing misconduct, according to a Senate report that provides the most detailed look ever at high-level tax schemes.
Discussion: The RBC and Political Animal
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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Tax Shelters Saved Billionaires a Bundle  —  Senate Panel Will Question Financial Advisers and Clients Who Used Offshore Schemes  —  A Senate committee today plans to criticize multimillion-dollar tax-avoidance schemes used by four prominent individuals, to highlight what it concludes …
Scott Guiterrez / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Suspect in Jewish Federation shootings recently baptized  —  Man who grew up Muslim drifted from Christianity  —  RICHLAND — Naveed Haq, now widely portrayed as a Muslim American so angry at Israel that he shot up a Jewish charity in Seattle, had recently converted to Christianity.
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
Evolution's Backers in Kansas Start Counterattack  —  God and Charles Darwin are not on the primary ballot in Kansas on Tuesday, but once again a contentious schools election has religion and science at odds in a state that has restaged a three-quarter-century battle over the teaching of evolution.
Haaretz:
Livni: Qana attack led to turning point in support for Israel  —  The deaths of dozens of civilians in an Israel Air Force attack on the southern Lebanese village of Qana marked a significant diplomatic turning point against Israel, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Tuesday.
Judd / Think Progress:
Powerline Uses Chopped Audio Clip to Smear Rep. John Dingell As Hezbollah Apologist  —  Yesterday, the popular right-wing blog Powerline smeared Rep. John Dingell (R-MI) as an apologist for Hezbollah using an edited clip from local Detroit television.  The post, entitled "Dingell …
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
White House Pressroom Gets a Makeover  —  Video Wall, Other Technology Could  —  Inject Drama and Directly Appeal  —  To Public in Briefings  —  WASHINGTON — For a decade, the daily White House news briefing has been televised.  Now it is becoming television.
Discussion: FishBowlDC
 
 
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Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
End of Days?  —  The Army's budgetary squeeze raises questions …
Peter Jackson / Associated Press:
GOP aids Green candidate Carl Romanelli
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
'It's my job to ensure that our members get a good bill'
Rasmussen Reports:
Washington Senate: Cantwell 48%, McGavick 37%
Discussion: The RCP Blog and MyDD
Boston Globe:
Dignity faces a steamroller
Discussion: Unfogged and Norwegianity
Allison Hope Weiner / New York Times:
Mel Gibson: The Speed of Scandal
Gretchen Ruethling / New York Times:
A Skeptic on 9/11 Prompts Questions on Academic Freedom
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Vijay Joshi / Associated Press:
Bus filled with Iraqi soldiers bombed
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Jerusalem Post:
IDF exchanges heavy fire with Hizbullah in south Lebanon
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Mideast Conflict a Setback for Iran Reform Movement
Claudia Rowe / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Shooting exposes the war at home
Discussion: Cold Fury
Pew Research Center:
No Outlet Stands Out as Most Reliable
Discussion: Media Blog and TVNewser
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

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The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

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