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7:55 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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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
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.  In the aftermath of a Quinnipiac poll this morning showing the three term Democrat far behind behind challenger Ned Lamont …
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.
Discussion: Sirotablog
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
What Happens After Lieberman Loses?
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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Reader's Digest:
Mel Gibson: Has He Gone Too Far?  —  The actor speaks about the Holocaust and defends his father.  —  When we interviewed Mel Gibson over two years ago for his controversial movie, The Passion of the Christ, we expected to make news.  But we didn't know then that what Gibson had to say to us would be just as relevant today.
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Bill Maher / The Huffington Post:
The World IS Mel Gibson
Media Matters for America:   O'Reilly blasts "smear merchants" …
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.
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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'
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.
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.
Jerusalem Post:
France slams call to destroy Israel  —  TEHERAN  —  Days after calling Iran a "stabilizing" force in the Middle East, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy issued a statement harshly criticizing Iran's call on Thursday to destroy Israel.  —  "I totally condemn these words," …
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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
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 …
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 and Balloon Juice
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 …
Matt Born / Daily Mail:
Uproar at BBC satire featuring Westminster 9/11 attack  —  The BBC has been urged to pull a 'sick' new comedy show which features spoof news reports of Tony Blair being assassinated and a 9/11-style video of terrorists crashing an airliner into the Houses of Parliament.
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 …
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 …
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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Gus G. Sentementes / Baltimore Sun:
Door at Baltimore Hebrew University firebombed
Tbogg / ...a somewhat popular blogger:
A very passive-aggressive outing  —  What fun you missed while you were sleeping!
centerforpolitics.org:
The 2006 Midterms: Guilt by Association?
Stephen Holden / New York Times:
Tony Bennett at 80, Keeping the Flame
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
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Scott Winship / American Prospect:
No End of Ideology  —  Netroots members insist that they're non-ideological pragmatists.
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Rangel Plans Exit if Party Fails
Discussion: Unfogged and GregsOpinion.com
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Rumsfeld, in Reversal, Agrees to Testify at Senate Hearing
Agence France Presse:
Rare snowfall across South Africa
Damien Cave / New York Times:
In Iraq, It's Hard to Trust Anyone in Uniform
Discussion: Needlenose and Nitpicker
 

 
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: ~100 NYT Tech Guild members cross the picket line to work on Election Day; NYT engineer and union steward Benjamin Harnett says the figure is under 50

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

 
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