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11:55 AM 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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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 …
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.
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Analysis: Bush Mideast stance may flop  —  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration may have badly miscalculated in insisting that any Mideast cease-fire be tied to long-term objectives.  As the toll on Lebanese civilians has soared, even moderate Arab governments have turned into U.S. critics …
Discussion: THE WAR IN CONTEXT and NewsHog
Lebanon.Profile / Lebanese Political Journal:
When is Israel Wrong?
Washington Post:
No Cease-Fire Soon, Israeli Leader Says
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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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
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.
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
Miami Herald:
After power shift, no word on Castro's condition
Discussion: Reuters
Anita Snow / Associated Press:   Castro's Condition Unknown After Surgery
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 …
Discussion: LamontBlog and ConnecticutBLOG
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Joe's Tomorrow Tour
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lamont Appears On `Colbert Report'
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.
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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Tax Shelters Saved Billionaires a Bundle
Discussion: The Left Coaster
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.
Discussion: The Left Coaster and NO QUARTER
Gretchen Ruethling / New York Times:
A Skeptic on 9/11 Prompts Questions on Academic Freedom  —  Sipping on a bottle of water and holding a book about the history and future of Islam, Kevin Barrett ticked off a few examples of what he saw as evidence that the Sept. 11 attacks had been an "inside job."
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.
 
 
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White House Pressroom Gets a Makeover
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Mideast Conflict a Setback for Iran Reform Movement
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