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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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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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Hartford Courant, New York Sun, The New Republic, Beltway Blogroll, Outside The Beltway, The RCP Blog, Flopping Aces, Taegan Goddard's …, The Agonist, Dean's World, All Things Beautiful, Shakespeare's Sister, The American Thinker, Bull Moose, Ace of Spades HQ, RedState, Centerfield, The Huffington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, Donklephant, The Mahablog, TBogg, QandO, FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog, Balloon Juice, Associated Press, Blue Crab Boulevard, IMAO, New York Times, Liberty and Justice, TPMmuckraker, PSoTD, Instapundit.com and A Chequer-Board of Nights …
Susan Haigh / Associated Press:
New poll shows Lieberman losing ground
New poll shows Lieberman losing ground
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The Carpetbagger Report, Liberty and Justice, The Democratic Daily and The American Thinker
Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Lieberman rips W's war plan
Lieberman rips W's war plan
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Firedoglake, MyDD, New Haven Independent, Democrats.com, Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos, LamontBlog, Eschaton, New York Times, Sirotablog and Burnt Orange Report
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Tom Delay hearts Joe Lieberman
Tom Delay hearts Joe Lieberman
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tpmcafe.com, Comments From Left Field, LamontBlog, The News Blog, Daily Kos, Connecticut Bob, DownWithTyranny!, The Sideshow and Firedoglake
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.
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Right Wing News, The Sundries Shack, Power Line, Iowa Voice, PoliPundit.com, PunditGuy, Daily Pundit and Clayton Cramer's BLOG
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.
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Ezra Klein, Captain's Quarters, The Carpetbagger Report, Outside The Beltway, Daily Kos and The Agonist
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 …
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Hasani Gittens / New York Post:
OSAMA'S EVIL SPAWN IN LEB — IRAN UNLEASHES QAEDA HEIR TO AID HEZ — A son of Osama bin Laden has gone from Iran to Lebanon with the mission to organize terror attacks against Israel, it was reported yesterday. — Saad bin Laden, 27, one of the terror mastermind's eldest sons …
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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 …
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 …
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."
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The Left Coaster, The Bullwinkle Blog, Blue Crab Boulevard, TAPPED, Eschaton and Middle Earth Journal
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 …
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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 …
Haaretz:
Lebanese hospital: Number of casualties from Qana air strike is 28, not 52 — A Tyre hospital on Thursday revised the number of casualties resulting from Israel's air strike on the south Lebanese village of Qana from 52 down to 28. — On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch questioned the death toll in the Qana attack.
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 …
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 …