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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
About That Graphic... I sincerely apologize to anyone who was genuinely offended by the choice of images accompanying my blog post today on the Huffington Post. It's also important to note that I do not, nor have I ever worked for Ned Lamont's campaign. However, at their request, I removed the image earlier today.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
"Beyond The Pale" — Jane Hamsher, apparently intent on becoming the left's answer to Ann Coulter, put up a Huffington Post with a graphic of Joe Lieberman in blackface. [Well, well - what started as a blog spat now is covered in the WaPo, the Times, and the Sun.]
wtnh.com:
Endorsements for Lamont; Picture puts 'blackface' on Lieberman — _ Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton visited Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport to announced their endorsement of challenger Ned Lamont in his campaign against Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Lieberman Plans for Loss Next Week — Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) will shake up his campaign staff if he loses Tuesday's Democratic primary to challenger Ned Lamont. Lieberman supporters have watched with growing dismay since the spring as the three term senator's campaign has gone from oblivious to defensive.
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Michelle Malkin:
Ned Lamont's favorite nutball
Ned Lamont's favorite nutball
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Where's HoJo Now? — Graphics love to the always exceptional Darkblack.
Where's HoJo Now? — Graphics love to the always exceptional Darkblack.
CNN:
Israel arrests 5, kills 10 in hospital raid — Israeli military: Video proves hospital was Hezbollah HQ — JERUSALEM (CNN) — Israel's military released video Wednesday that it said proved a hospital it raided overnight in Lebanon was a Hezbollah headquarters. Hezbollah disputed the account.
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Aron Heller / Associated Press:
Hezbollah fires record number of rockets
Hezbollah fires record number of rockets
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Colleen O'Boyle / Media Research Center:
Decades of Cheering Castro's Communism — As news organizations update their obituaries of ailing Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, it's worth recalling how many liberal journalists have fallen under Castro's spell over the years, sounding like paid Cuban government propagandists as they touted the …
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Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:
Court Hands New York Times a Setback in Miller Case — The New York Times suffered a legal setback yesterday in its battle to keep a federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, from obtaining the phone records of its former reporter, Judith Miller. — A federal appeals court yesterday granted …
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Haaretz:
Settler reservists: Won't go to Lebanon if aim is to advance pullout — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday predicted that the outcome of the Israel Defense Forces' fighting in Lebanon would create "new momentum" for Israel's plan to separate from the Palestinians by withdrawing from much of the West Bank.
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
WHY DEMOCRATS ARE SPLIT ON LIEBERMAN: — Matt Yglesias has some interesting thoughts about the reason Democrats of different vintages tend to part company on the Lieberman question. Matt basically argues that if you started paying attention to politics after 1998 (and certainly after November …
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
THE FOGIES AND THE TURKS....Matt Yglesias argues, basically …
THE FOGIES AND THE TURKS....Matt Yglesias argues, basically …
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
GOP Donors Funded Entire PA Green Party Drive — OK, we've done it. We've nailed it down: Every single contributor to the Pennsylvania Green Party Senate candidate is actually a conservative — except for the candidate himself. — The Luzerne County Green Party raised $66,000 in the month …
Associated Press:
Rome: Jewish shops defaced with swastikas — About 20 shops owned by Jews vandalized in apparent neo-fascist attack linked to fighting in Middle East. Flyers signed by group calling itself Armed Revolutionary Fascists left at the shops denouncing 'Zionist economy,' including pro-Hizbullah slogans
BBC:
Blasts hit Baghdad football game — At least 12 people, many of them children, have been killed in bomb attacks while they were playing football in west Baghdad, police say. — Two blasts hit a makeshift pitch on waste ground in a mainly Shia district. About a dozen other people were hurt.
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
Evolution Opponents Lose Kansas Board Majority — Kansas voters on Tuesday handed power back to moderates on the State Board of Education, setting the stage for a return of science teaching that broadly accepts the theory of evolution, according to preliminary election results.
Reuters:
Iran frees bin Laden son: newspaper — 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.
Associated Press:
Nearly Complete Haditha Probe Supports Accusations Against Marines — WASHINGTON — Evidence collected on the deaths of 24 Iraqis in Haditha supports accusations that U.S. Marines deliberately shot the civilians, including unarmed women and children, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.
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theonion.com:
Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self — WASHINGTON, DC—In a decisive 1-0 decision Monday, President Bush voted to grant the president the constitutional power to grant himself additional powers. — "As president, I strongly believe that my first duty as president …
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Patrick O'Connor / The Hill:
DCCC's $51.5M ad blitz — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has reserved $51.5 million of television advertising in 32 congressional districts. — The allocation reveals an aggressive posture toward the midterm elections, with 27 Republican-held districts targeted …
Lebanon.Profile / Lebanese Political Journal:
Lebanon: A Primer — To understand the current conflict, one must understand the way Lebanese think about this situation. — I'll note historical events alive in the minds of Lebanese, and note why Lebanese aren't "infantile" (the preferred Israeli term at the moment) for blaming Syria and Iran.