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2:55 PM ET, August 3, 2006

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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.
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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.)
Susan Haigh / Associated Press:
New poll shows Lieberman losing ground  —  HARTFORD, Conn. - Millionaire businessman Ned Lamont opened a double-digit lead over veteran Sen. Joe Lieberman less than a week before Connecticut's Democratic primary, according to a poll released Thursday.  —  Lamont, a political novice …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Ned Lamont On Jane Hamsher - Cut And Run
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.
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Harry Reid May Ask Senator Clinton to Preempt Presidential Ambitions to Succeed Him as Senate Majority/Minority Leader  —  Some high level Democratic Party political insiders have shared with TWN details of a potential shift in vectors for several of the major political stars in that party.
Reuters:
Iran frees bin Laden son -German newspaper  —Text+BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran has freed a son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from house arrest, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday.  —  Die Welt said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released Saad bin Laden on July 28 with the aim of sending him to the Syria-Lebanon border.
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Hasani Gittens / New York Post:
OSAMA'S EVIL SPAWN IN LEB
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Daily Pundit
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 …
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.
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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Jay Tolson / US News:
Q&A: What happens after Fidel is gone?
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
An Estate Tax Twist Reverses Party Roles On Minimum Wage  —  For years, organized labor has worked hard to raise the minimum wage, while business groups have campaigned to block such a change.  This week in the Senate, however, the AFL-CIO is pushing to kill the wage increase while practically …
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Israel resumes strikes in Beirut suburbs  —  BOURJ AL-MULOUK, Lebanon - Israeli war planes renewed strikes against Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday for the first time in nearly a week and an Israeli missile killed three in a border village, a day after Hezbollah launched its biggest rocket attacks yet against Israel.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Doubling Two Bad Bets?  —  If you think there is an echo in the air when officials discuss the twin crises in Iraq and Lebanon, you're not hearing things.  In both cases the argument for carrying on the destructive current policy comes down to a claim that "we can't afford to let the other guy win."
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
Damien Cave / New York Times:
In Iraq, It's Hard to Trust Anyone in Uniform  —  A Baghdad tailor worked on military and police uniforms.  The government plans to introduce new uniforms that will be difficult to copy.  —  The camouflaged Iraqi commandos who kidnapped 20 people from a pair of central Baghdad offices …
Discussion: Needlenose
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Top Military Lawyers Oppose Plan for Special Courts  —  The military's top uniformed lawyers, appearing at a Senate hearing yesterday, criticized key provisions of a proposed new U.S. plan for special military courts, affirming that they did not see eye to eye with the senior Bush administration …
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 …
 
 
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Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
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Scott Winship / American Prospect:
No End of Ideology  —  Netroots members insist that they're non-ideological pragmatists.
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Bloomberg:
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Rumsfeld, in Reversal, Agrees to Testify at Senate Hearing
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
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Financial Times:
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Vital Perspective:
New Video: Inside Baalbek Mission of Last Evening with Israeli Commandos
Washington Post:
RUMSFELD: IRAQ ISN'T IN "A CLASSIC CIVIL WAR AT THIS STAGE …
David Stout / New York Times:
Grief and Sacrifice Reach Into the Halls of Congress
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Yoav Stern / Haaretz:
Hezbollah claims of combat successes become less and less believable
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