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12:10 PM ET, August 2, 2006

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Nadim Ladki / Reuters:
Hizbollah bombards northern Israel  —  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah guerrillas bombarded northern Israel with rockets and fought up to 6,000 Israeli troops in Lebanon on Wednesday after Israel vowed to pursue the war until a strong international force arrived.
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Haaretz:
Report: Fierce fighting as IDF commandos launch raid deep in Lebanon  —  Israel Defense Forces commandos reportedly landed by helicopter late Tuesday night near the Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek in what Lebanese security sources described as a major operation against suspected Hezbollah positions.
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:   Israel Launches Deepest Lebanon Strike
Washington Post:
Israel Moves Thousands Of Soldiers Into Lebanon
Discussion: New York Times
Josh White / Washington Post:
Marine Names Murtha in Defamation Suit  —  Congressman Discussed Killings Involving Serviceman's Squad in Haditha, Iraq  —  A Marine Corps staff sergeant who led the squad accused of killing two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, will file a lawsuit today in federal court in Washington claiming …
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Associated Press:
Source: Haditha evidence implicates Marines  —  Investigators reportedly finish initial review in deaths of 24 civilians  —  WASHINGTON - Evidence collected on the deaths of 24 Iraqis in Haditha supports accusations that U.S. Marines deliberately shot the civilians, including unarmed women and children …
Discussion: A Blog For All
Rosemary Bennett / Times of London:
We must rethink the War on Terror - Blair  —  Read Blair speech in full  —  FIVE years into the War on Terror, Tony Blair called yesterday for a "complete renaissance of our strategy" to defeat militant Islam.  —  Speaking in Los Angeles, the Prime Minister admitted that the use of force alone …
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE and NO QUARTER
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MSNBC:
Evolution's foes lose ground in Kansas  —  Darwin's defenders increase their strength on Board of Education  —  TOPEKA, Kan. - Conservative Republicans who approved classroom standards that called evolution into question lost control of the state Board of Education in Tuesday's primary election.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Associated Press:
Evolution opponents lose control of Kansas school board
Jason Apuzzo / LIBERTAS:
Mel Gibson, Conservatives & The Cult of Celebrity  —  The Gibson mug shot.  —  Disney has unsurprisingly cancelled Mel Gibson's Holocaust TV series that he had in development.  [The Reuters article obnoxiously states: "The actor ... holds strong conservative Catholic religious and political views."
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Jeremiah Marquez / Associated Press:
Gibson asks Jews for help in healing
Keith Epstein / TBO.com:
Ex-Aide: Harris Hid Subpoena  —  More from this channel:  —  This feature requires the Macromedia Flash Plugin.  Please visit http://www.macromedia.com/go/ getflashplayer to download this plugin.  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris received a grand jury subpoena …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and First Draft
Christina Bellantoni / Washington Times:
Hill fries free to be French again  —  The fries on Capitol Hill are French again.  —  So is the breakfast toast in the congressional cafeterias, with both fries and toast having been liberated from the appellation "freedom."  —  Three years after House Republicans trumpeted the new names …
CNN:
Cuban TV: Castro says health 'stable'  —  Illness forces Cuban leader to cede power temporarily to brother  —  HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — Fidel Castro's health situation is "stable" and he is in "good spirits," according to a message attributed to him and read on Cuban television Tuesday evening.
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Anthony Boadle / Reuters:
Ailing Castro steps aside
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Mideast Lessons From 1973  —  Groping for a way to understand the ruinous mess in the Middle East, I find myself looking backward to an earlier ruinous mess, the Yom Kippur War of October 1973.  —  That long-ago war, like the current one in Lebanon, began with an Arab sneak attack …
Frank J. Gaffney / Opinion Journal:
One War  —  In its war on terror, the U.S. would never accept the limits being pushed on Israel.  —  WASHINGTON—On Sept. 11, 2001, a freedom-loving nation was attacked by a terrorist organization operating from the territory of a sovereign state with the acquiescence, if not the active complicity, of the latter's government.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Democrats Scrambling To Organize Voter Turnout  —  Top Democrats are increasingly concerned that they lack an effective plan to turn out voters this fall, creating tension among party leaders and prompting House Democrats to launch a fundraising effort aimed exclusively at mobilizing Democratic partisans.
Ynetnews:
Long-range rocket lands near Jenin  —  Some of long-range rockets fired at Israel Wednesday land across Green Line, in West Bank area - most southern point Hizbullah has managed to hit so far.  Police sappers believe rockets made in Syria  —  Ali waked  —  Some of the long range rockets …
Discussion: Yourish.com
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
U.S. Wins Access to Reporter Phone Records  —  A federal prosecutor may inspect the telephone records of two New York Times reporters in an effort to identify their confidential sources, a federal appeals court in New York ruled yesterday.  —  The 2-to-1 decision, from a court historically sympathetic …
Roger Kimball / Armavirumque:
'Potentially incendiary' at the Brooklyn Public Library  —  This spring, in my capacity as publisher of Encounter Books, I had the honor to publish Melanie Phillips's book Londonistan, a brilliant, but also harrowing, look at the ways in which radical Islam has established itself in England.
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Jerusalem Post:
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Iraq vows security takeover this year
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