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3:30 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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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.
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.
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 …
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?
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.
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 …
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Daily Pundit
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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 …
New York Times:
200 Missiles Hit Israel as Battle Rages in Lebanon  —  Hezbollah guerrillas fired the largest number of rockets yet into Israel — more than 200 — on Wednesday as thousands of Israeli troops faced fierce fighting in Lebanon, and sought to establish a buffer zone under their control.
Discussion: Think Progress and Whiskey Bar
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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 …
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."
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
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 …
 
 
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centerforpolitics.org:
The 2006 Midterms: Guilt by Association?
Stephen Holden / New York Times:
Tony Bennett at 80, Keeping the Flame
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Among Militia's Patient Loyalists, Confidence and Belief in Victory
Sean Yoong / Associated Press:
Ahmadinejad: Destroy Israel, end crisis
Dennis Cauchon / USA Today:
What's the real federal deficit?
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Scott Winship / American Prospect:
No End of Ideology  —  Netroots members insist that they're non-ideological pragmatists.
Bill Maher / The Huffington Post:
The World IS Mel Gibson
 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
U.S. Stocks Rise on Earnings Reports; Time Warner, P&G Advance
Discussion: BOPnews
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Rumsfeld, in Reversal, Agrees to Testify at Senate Hearing
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
White House Asks Congress to Define War Crimes
Washington Post:
But They're Aces on Getting Out the Youth Vote!
Discussion: Althouse and Instapundit.com
Vital Perspective:
New Video: Inside Baalbek Mission of Last Evening with Israeli Commandos
Reuters:
Iran working with N.Korea on missiles: Institute
David Stout / New York Times:
Grief and Sacrifice Reach Into the Halls of Congress
Discussion: First Draft