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5:25 PM ET, August 3, 2006

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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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DeLay Loses Appeal To Get Off Ballot  —  Ex-Rep. Tom DeLay remains on the TX-22 ballot.  —  A federal appeals court affirmed a lower court's ruling that the state GOP had no grounds to remove DeLay from the ballot.  —  Judge Sam Sparks ruled in July that, at the time DeLay was taken off …
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.
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
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.
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 …
Discussion: NO QUARTER, Macsmind and AMERICAblog
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
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 …
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.
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.
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:
Door at Baltimore Hebrew University firebombed
centerforpolitics.org:
The 2006 Midterms: Guilt by Association?
Hasani Gittens / New York Post:
OSAMA'S EVIL SPAWN IN LEB
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
Discussion: THE WAR IN CONTEXT
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Top Military Lawyers Oppose Plan for Special Courts
Washington Post:
But They're Aces on Getting Out the Youth Vote!
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
In Iraq, It's Hard to Trust Anyone in Uniform
Discussion: Needlenose
Tony Karon / Time:
Who Is Winning the Peace in Lebanon?
Financial Times:
Transcript: Interview with Mark Malloch Brown
Discussion: Say Anything and BitsBlog
Vital Perspective:
New Video: Inside Baalbek Mission of Last Evening with Israeli Commandos
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Doubling Two Bad Bets?
Reuters:
Iran working with N.Korea on missiles: Institute
David Stout / New York Times:
Grief and Sacrifice Reach Into the Halls of Congress
 

 
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