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6:35 AM ET, August 3, 2006

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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
About That Graphic...  I sincerely apologize to anyone who was genuinely offended by the choice of images accompanying my blog post today on the Huffington Post.  It's also important to note that I do not, nor have I ever worked for Ned Lamont's campaign.  However, at their request, I removed the image earlier today.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Lieberman Assails Lamont Over Supporter's Blog Post  —  The bitter Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut erupted in fresh controversy Wednesday over a doctored photo of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) in blackface that was posted by a blogger who has been an influential promoter of challenger Ned Lamont.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
wtnh.com:
Endorsements for Lamont; Picture puts 'blackface' on Lieberman  —  _ Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton visited Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport to announced their endorsement of challenger Ned Lamont in his campaign against Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
Yoav Stern / Haaretz:
Hezbollah claims of combat successes become less and less believable  —  If Hezbollah-run media are to be believed, then 35 Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed or wounded in Ayta a-Shab , militants downed an Israeli helicopter and destroyed a house in which IDF soldiers were hiding …
Discussion: Hyscience
New York Times:
Evolution Fight Shifts Direction in Kansas Vote  —  Less than a year after the Kansas Board of Education adopted science standards that were the most wide-reaching in the nation in challenging Darwin's theory of evolution, voters on Tuesday ousted the conservative majority on the board that favored those guidelines.
Discussion: True Blue Liberal and The RBC
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Michelle Malkin:
Haq charged: "Heinous"  —  The Seattle shooter who killed one woman and shot five other women in their stomachs after declaring he was a "Muslim-American" who was "angry at Israel" has been charged with nine felony counts including murder, hate crimes, and kidnapping.
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Gene Johnson / Associated Press:
Man charged in Seattle shooting rampage
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Patrick O'Connor / The Hill:
DCCC's $51.5M ad blitz  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has reserved $51.5 million of television advertising in 32 congressional districts.  —  The allocation reveals an aggressive posture toward the midterm elections, with 27 Republican-held districts targeted …
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
WHY DEMOCRATS ARE SPLIT ON LIEBERMAN:  —  Matt Yglesias has some interesting thoughts about the reason Democrats of different vintages tend to part company on the Lieberman question.  Matt basically argues that if you started paying attention to politics after 1998 (and certainly after November …
Discussion: Legal Fiction and TAPPED
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
THE FOGIES AND THE TURKS....Matt Yglesias argues, basically …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
BBC:
Blasts hit Baghdad football game  —  At least 12 people, many of them children, have been killed in bomb attacks while they were playing football in west Baghdad, police say.  —  Two blasts hit a makeshift pitch on waste ground in a mainly Shia district.  About a dozen other people were hurt.
Associated Press:
Rome: Jewish shops defaced with swastikas  —  About 20 shops owned by Jews vandalized in apparent neo-fascist attack linked to fighting in Middle East.  Flyers signed by group calling itself Armed Revolutionary Fascists left at the shops denouncing 'Zionist economy,' including pro-Hizbullah slogans
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Amygdala
Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:
Court Hands New York Times a Setback in Miller Case  —  The New York Times suffered a legal setback yesterday in its battle to keep a federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, from obtaining the phone records of its former reporter, Judith Miller.  —  A federal appeals court yesterday granted …
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
N.Y. Times Must Surrender Reporters' Phone Data
CNN:
Israel arrests 5, kills 10 in hospital raid  —  Israeli military: Video proves hospital was Hezbollah HQ  —  JERUSALEM (CNN) — Israel's military released video Wednesday that it said proved a hospital it raided overnight in Lebanon was a Hezbollah headquarters.  Hezbollah disputed the account.
Associated Press:
Nearly Complete Haditha Probe Supports Accusations Against Marines  —  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, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.
Lebanon.Profile / Lebanese Political Journal:
Lebanon: A Primer  —  To understand the current conflict, one must understand the way Lebanese think about this situation.  —  I'll note historical events alive in the minds of Lebanese, and note why Lebanese aren't "infantile" (the preferred Israeli term at the moment) for blaming Syria and Iran.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
GOP Donors Funded Entire PA Green Party Drive  —  OK, we've done it.  We've nailed it down: Every single contributor to the Pennsylvania Green Party Senate candidate is actually a conservative — except for the candidate himself.  —  The Luzerne County Green Party raised $66,000 in the month …
Jerusalem Post:
Bloggers raise questions about Kana  —  The IDF is looking into allegations raised over the past few days by several pro-Israel, Jewish and conservative Weblogs that Hizbullah may have staged aspects of the Kana tragedy on Sunday, in which some 60 Lebanese bodies were removed from a building …
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Rumsfeld Decides to Testify on Iraq War  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld late Wednesday reversed a decision to skip a public hearing on Capitol Hill and said he will testify at a session on the Iraq war.  —  The move came after hours of criticism and pressure …
 
 
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Saus / Hashmonean.com:
Ground Assault Map: IDF Pounding Hezbollah
Tom Gross / National Post:
The media war against Israel
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Solomon / Solomonia:
Gobbed by the Peaceniks — Report from the "Support Lebanon" Rally
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Murtha wants an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Courage Campaign / MyDD Poll: Why Francine Busby Lost
Washington Post:
Hezbollah Unleashes Fiery Barrage
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B.A. / Connecticut Bob:
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
ANOTHER "CIVILIAN" BITES THE DUST
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Haaretz:
Settler reservists: Won't go to Lebanon if aim is to advance pullout
Nancy A. Youssef / Knight Ridder:
Shiite leaders distance themselves from Iraqi government
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Troops Fight to Expand Foothold in Ramadi
Discussion: Needlenose and Think Progress
Confederate Yankee:
Schwinns of War  —  And the questions surrounding the air strike at Qana keep coming.
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and Cold Fury
Colleen O'Boyle / Media Research Center:
Decades of Cheering Castro's Communism
Reuters:
Iran frees bin Laden son: newspaper
theonion.com:
Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self
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