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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Hail Mary Attempt #1: Lieberman's New Thug Strategy — So I just tracked this down with several sources, and something really strange is going on. Lieberman's campaign seems to arming his supporters with aggressive talking points in order to pick fights at Lamont events.
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Lieberman Falls Short on Recruits — Guest contributor Kevin Rennie is a columnist for the Hartford Courant. — Lieberman Falls Short on Recruits — Sen. Joseph Lieberman's (D-CT) Tour for Tomorrow continues to be punctuated with today's struggles to save his troubled campaign.
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Tim Tagaris / Ned Lamont for Senate:
"Paid-for Thuggery" [9] — I am just as astonished as anyone else watching reports from today's event in Meriden fly around the blogosphere at break-neck speed. I'll be honest, at first I was a bit skeptical. I had heard stories of behind-the-scenes desperation and frustration from the Lieberman camp …
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.
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Michelle Malkin:Blackface diaries: Lamont and the nutroots
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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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Jesselee / The Stakeholder:
Tom DeLay Loses Again — Lone Star Project... DeLay stays on the ballot. Welcome back. And yes, I can independently confirm this information. — UPDATE: From the Chron... Court rules GOP can't replace DeLay on ballot [AP] … Wow, again? Sounds like Tom DeLay isn't so anxious …
R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Court rules GOP can't replace DeLay on ballot — AUSTIN - A federal appeals court panel today in a bipartisan order ruled that former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay cannot be replaced on the November ballot for the congressional seat he vacated in June. — The Republican Party said it will quickly file …
Victor Davis Hanson / Real Clear Politics:
It's Not Just About Land — Despite the claims of terrorist organizations, Israel's current two-front war is not just about land. After all, Hezbollah and Hamas fired rockets from Lebanon and Gaza well after Israel had withdrawn from both places. — Indeed, if sacred Arab ground …
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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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Nico / Think Progress:
Rumsfeld Claims Insurgent Violence Increases 'In the Spring, Summer and Fall Months' — Last month, Lt. Gen. David Richards, head of NATO's Afghan security force, said the country was "close to anarchy." — Asked about the situation today, Rumsfeld admitted there was a resurgence of the Taliban …
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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.
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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 …
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Associated Press:
Seven people killed in rocket strikes in northern Israel — A barrage of Hezbollah rockets slammed into northern Israel on Thursday, killing at least seven Israelis. Three people were killed when a rocket crashed directly into a house near the northern town of Ma'alot …
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Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:
Generals raise fears of Iraq civil war — WASHINGTON - Two of the Pentagon's most senior generals conceded to Congress on Thursday that the surge in sectarian violence in Baghdad in recent weeks means Iraq may descend into civil war. — "Iraq could move toward civil war" …
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Sidney Blumenthal / Salon:
The neocons' next war — Richard Perle (Zuma Press photo) and Elliott Abrams (Reuters photo) — The National Security Agency is providing signal intelligence to Israel to monitor whether Syria and Iran are supplying new armaments to Hezbollah as it fires hundreds of missiles into northern Israel …
CNN:
Bombs pound Beirut for second night — Hezbollah threatens to attack Tel Aviv as payback for airstrikes — BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — Israel launched a second straight night of airstrikes on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Friday, targeting an area known as a stronghold of Hezbollah militants.
Little Green Footballs:
New Lieberman Art at Daily Kos — Posted in the comments to one of several threads bashing Joe Lieberman today at Daily Kos, we find the following Photoshop illustrations from the "progressive" minds of the Kos Kidz. — This time with the always-popular homosexual slur theme. (Hat tip: DM.
Washington Post:
U.N. Talks Focus on Terms of Cease-Fire — Lebanon Sees No Solution to the Conflict Without a Role for Syria and Iran — Lebanon's acting foreign minister, Tarek Mitri, said Wednesday he doubts that his government would agree to invite a European-led intervention force into southern Lebanon …
Fausta / faustasblog.com:
Reading between Granma's lines: a Yasser moment — In today's Granma, the official organ of the Cuban dictatorship, another statement from the Commander in Chief (n Spanish), dated August 1 but posted on August 2, … Interesting statement, indeed: … As Mario Loyola puts it,
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
A Reform That Worked — President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, better known as "welfare reform," on Aug. 22 of that year. A decade later it stands as a rarity: a Washington success story.
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly blasts "smear merchants" and "vampires" criticizing Mel Gibson; Rivera smears Olbermann, Stewart, and Colbert … During a discussion on the August 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor with Geraldo at Large host and former Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera …
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