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10:35 AM ET, August 1, 2006

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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 …
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Joe's Tomorrow Tour
Elizabeth Hamilton / Hartford Courant:
Running Silent  —  Lieberman and campaign volunteers …
Discussion: LamontBlog and ConnecticutBLOG
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lamont Appears On `Colbert Report'
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.
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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?
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.
rushlimbaugh.com:
Drive-By Media Plays Willing Accomplice, Eats Up Sick Islamo-Fascist Propaganda
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Haaretz:
Israel ready to swap 2 Lebanese prisoners for IDF soldiers
Mark Lavie / Associated Press:   Israeli Security Cabinet OKs offensive
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
Associated Press:   Ailing Castro Gives Temporary Power to Brother
Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:
Take a deep breath  —  Im on about an hour's sleep.
Discussion: The Bullwinkle Blog
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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Jerusalem Post:
No half measures  —  On Sunday morning, after an Israeli strike killed some 60 people at Kafr Kana, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the cabinet, "I have no intention of requesting a change in the direction of the fighting, or in reducing the action of the security forces."
Washington Post:
No Cease-Fire Soon, Israeli Leader Says
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  —  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 …
Discussion: The Left Coaster
Wall Street Journal:
U.S., Israel Start to Diverge As Casualties Mount  —  Peres Says Several Weeks  —  Needed to Crush Hezbollah;  —  Rice Presses for Cease-Fire  —  By YOCHI J. DREAZEN in New York and MARC CHAMPION in Jerusalem  —  Tensions are emerging between the U.S. and Israel over the fighting …
Discussion: Political Animal
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New York Times:
Israel Pushes On Despite Agreeing to Airstrike Lull
Discussion: The Mahablog and Riehl World View
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Analysis: Bush Mideast stance may flop
Discussion: THE WAR IN CONTEXT and NewsHog
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.
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.
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."
 
 
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Philadelphia Inquirer:
Santorum links Casey to wrong al-Jazeerah
Boston Globe:
Dignity faces a steamroller
Discussion: Unfogged and Norwegianity
Allison Hope Weiner / New York Times:
Mel Gibson: The Speed of Scandal
Vijay Joshi / Associated Press:
Bus filled with Iraqi soldiers bombed
Discussion: The Arabist
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Mitt Romney, Talk Radio, "Tar Baby" Remark
Ronny Sofer / Ynetnews:
Cabinet approves expanding ground operations
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Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Betting on Democracy  —  Reversals for Fragile New Governments Mean Hard Choices for Bush
Discussion: TAPPED and Publius Pundit
John Kerry / The Huffington Post:
Standing for Something  —  Today I was at Faneuil Hall at home …
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Mideast Conflict a Setback for Iran Reform Movement
Claudia Rowe / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Shooting exposes the war at home
Scott Guiterrez / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Suspect in Jewish Federation shootings recently baptized
 

 
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