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5:40 PM ET, August 3, 2006

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Michelle Malkin:
Blackface diaries: Lamont and the nutroots  —  US Senate candidate Ned Lamont of Connecticut, darling of the left-wing blogosphere, is now running as fast as he can from the nutball bloggers who have zealously promoted his campaign against Sen. Joe Lieberman from its inception.  (Today's Vent gives the overview.)
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Tom Delay hearts Joe Lieberman  —  Joe Lieberman finally got the endorsement he's been seeking for a long time.  On Hannity & Colmes tonight, Tom Delay finally threw his hat into the hotly contested CT race and announced his support for Joe Lieberman over Ned Lamont.
Rolling Stone:
THE LOW POST: The Mansion Family  —  In the first installment of his weekly Web-only column, Matt Taibbi writes that yuppie paranoia (and David Brooks) guarantees the Democrats are still — and forever — doomed.  —  "The conservative mansion has many rooms.
Discussion: Sirotablog
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Lieberman Falls Short on Recruits  —  Sen. Joseph Lieberman's (D-CT) Tour for Tomorrow continues to be punctuate with today's struggles to save his troubled campaign.  In the aftermath of a Quinnipiac poll this morning showing the three term Democrat far behind behind challenger Ned Lamont …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Lieberman Assails Lamont Over Supporter's Blog Post
Washington Times:
Senate votes to fund the fence  —  The Senate did an abrupt about-face yesterday, voting overwhelmingly to begin paying for 370 miles of fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border, just three weeks after voting against the same spending.
Associated Press:
Court rules DeLay's name stays on ballot  —  NEW ORLEANS - A federal appeals court panel on Thursday refused to let Texas Republicans replace Tom DeLay's name on the November congressional ballot.  —  A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling …
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BBC:
Iraq civil war warning for Blair  —  Civil war is a more likely outcome in Iraq than democracy, Britain's outgoing ambassador in Baghdad has warned Tony Blair in a confidential memo.  —  William Patey, who left the Iraqi capital last week, also predicted the break-up of Iraq along ethnic lines.
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Guardian:
Civil war warning blow to Blair
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
No Más  —  Castro may be dead.  It's time to kill Castroism.  —  It has long been my bitter hunch that the man I can't help think of as the last monster of the 20th century, Fidel Castro, creator and warden of the floating prison to our south, would die of old age in a big brass bed …
Discussion: A Blog For All and The RCP Blog
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nbc10.com:
Ohio Man Claims Right To Have Sex With Boys  —  Admitted Pedophile Says Children Can Consent  —  CLEVELAND — It was probably not a defense the court had heard before.  —  A suburban Cleveland man accused of sexually assaulting nine disabled boys told a judge Wednesday that his apartment …
Think Progress:
Rumsfeld: 'I Have Never Painted A Rosy Picture' About Iraq  —  Testifying before the Senate today, Donald Rumsfeld told Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) that he has "never painted a rosy picture" about Iraq.  Rumsfeld insisted that he has been "very measured" and told Clinton …
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Rumsfeld, in Reversal, Agrees to Testify at Senate Hearing  —  Under criticism, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld reversed course late Wednesday and agreed to testify Thursday at a public hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee.  —  Signs of simmering tensions between Mr. Rumsfeld …
Agence France Presse:
Rare snowfall across South Africa  —  JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Snow fell on South Africa's biggest city Johannesburg for the first time in 25 years as icy temperatures gripped vast swathes of the country, the weather office said.  —  "It (the snow) is by no means freakish but I would certainly classify …
Discussion: The Mahablog
Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
What's the real federal deficit?  —  How many billions (or trillions) of dollars depends on how you do the accounting  —  The federal government keeps two sets of books.  —  The set the government promotes to the public has a healthier bottom line: a $318 billion deficit in 2005.
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Was 9/11 an 'inside job'?  —  More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.
Bill Maher / The Huffington Post:
The World IS Mel Gibson  —  I suspect I'll have plenty more to say about Mel Gibson when Real Time returns to HBO on August 25 (PLUG!!!), but in the meantime a couple of thoughts:  —  As I watch so much of the world ask Israel for restraint in a way no other country would …
Sean Yoong / Associated Press:
Ahmadinejad: Destroy Israel, end crisis  —  PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis is to destroy Israel.  In a speech during an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders, Ahmadinejad also called for an immediate halt to fighting …
 
 
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Gus G. Sentementes / Baltimore Sun:
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centerforpolitics.org:
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Hasani Gittens / New York Post:
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Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Daily Pundit
Scott Winship / American Prospect:
No End of Ideology  —  Netroots members insist that they're non-ideological pragmatists.
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
White House Asks Congress to Define War Crimes
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Top Military Lawyers Oppose Plan for Special Courts
Washington Post:
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Financial Times:
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Vital Perspective:
New Video: Inside Baalbek Mission of Last Evening with Israeli Commandos
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Israel resumes strikes in Beirut suburbs
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Doubling Two Bad Bets?
David Stout / New York Times:
Grief and Sacrifice Reach Into the Halls of Congress
 

 
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: ~100 NYT Tech Guild members cross the picket line to work on Election Day; NYT engineer and union steward Benjamin Harnett says the figure is under 50

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

 
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