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Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Israel nearly triples troops in Lebanon — BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel staged wide-ranging airstrikes and sent commandos into the Hezbollah heartland Saturday as the United Nations raced to begin enforcing its new cease-fire blueprint and stop the heavy fighting still raging in southern Lebanon.
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Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
FAQ - Special "Peace In Our Time" Edition!
FAQ - Special "Peace In Our Time" Edition!
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Kesher Talk
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
A Response To Paul — Paul Mirengoff, a true gentleman and a friend …
A Response To Paul — Paul Mirengoff, a true gentleman and a friend …
John Solo / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Bureaucracy impedes bomb-detection work — WASHINGTON — As the British terror plot was unfolding, the Bush administration quietly tried to take away $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new explosives detection technology. Congressional leaders rejected the idea …
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Recent Posts at Lightstalkers:
Staged Shots from Lebanon? Please comment... This link was provided in another post but I thought it deserved a thread of its own. It shows an unidentified man apparently staging for the cameras a photo which essentially uses dead children as props......first of all I am appauled …
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EU Referendum
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hezbollywood: Photog accuses stringers of digging up bodies? (Update: Photos added) — I'm adding the question mark because we don't know yet if the guy who said it is who he says he is. But if it's true — if — then Ace is right: it's "a serious, meltdown level scandal for the media."
MSNBC:
Source: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests — British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official says … MSNBC TV — LONDON - NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Legal surveillance, not illegal eavesdropping, stopped the U.K. terrorist attacks
Legal surveillance, not illegal eavesdropping, stopped the U.K. terrorist attacks
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Dan / Riehl World View:
AP Source Salam Daher Rescues Bodies That Aren't There — An AP article white washes a Lebanese Civil Defense worker bloggers suspect of disseminating Hezbollah propaganda. And they quote a colleague who apparently doesn't have any concerns about sharing information with Hezbollah to back him up.
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Tim Rutten / Los Angeles Times:
Lebanon photos: Take a closer look — THE controversy this week over Reuters' distribution of digitally manipulated, falsely labeled and — probably — staged photos of the fighting in Lebanon hasn't been nearly as large as it should have been. — Credit for bringing the sordid business …
Marcus Mabry / MSNBC:
The Ripple Effect — The foiled airline plot boosts President Bush's terror ratings, but the new NEWSWEEK Poll finds a lot for Democrats to cheer as the midterm elections approach. — Charles Rex Arbogast / AP — Americans awakened to a new day of air travel on Aug. 10.
Kate Connolly / Telegraph:
I was in Hitler's SS, admits Günter Grass — Germany was rocked by the revelations last night that Günter Grass, its greatest living author and doyen of the Left, was a member of Hitler's elite Waffen-SS. — The Nobel laureate, who has been the country's moral guide for decades …
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Natalie Solent, Vox Popoli, The Heretik, Tim Blair, Tim Worstall, Majikthise and The Reaction
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Joe Lieberman And The Jews — Rabbi Marc Gellman, writing in Newsweek, expresses puzzlement about why Joe Lieberman did so poorly among Connecticut's Jews. Here's part of it: … There's a lot more in his impassioned essay but the answer may be a bit simple: — Few groups are totally monolithic anymore.
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The Empire Zone
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
U.S. Ambassador Says Iran Is Inciting Attacks — Iran is pressing Shiite militias here to step up attacks against the American-led forces in retaliation for the Israeli assault on Lebanon, the American ambassador to Iraq said Friday. Iran may foment even more violence as it faces off …
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Whose Issue Is Terrorism? — The Parties Maneuver for Advantage on National Security — The aggressive Democratic response to this week's foiled terrorist plot reflects a widely shared view among party strategists that intensified attacks against President Bush represent the best chance …
Associated Press:
Conservative group sets sights on Chafee — PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Fresh off their first victory over a Republican incumbent, GOP conservatives seeking party purity on taxes and spending are focused on ousting moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
Blue America: Dave Mejias, NY-03 — (Dave Mejias joins us live in the comments to chat with you about his candidacy. Please stop by the comments and give Dave a great FDL welcome. Thanks! — CHS) — When I spoke with Dave Mejias on the phone a couple days ago I mentioned that I grew …
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Crooks and Liars
Ron Todt / Associated Press:
Santorum: Intelligence leakers "traitors;" urges strong pursuit — PHILADELPHIA - The disruption of an alleged terrorist plot to blow up airliners shows the importance of intelligence-gathering and the need to pursue the "traitors" who recently leaked information about classified government programs …
Greenskeeper / Media Matters for America:
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser — Coverage of Lamont-Lieberman race: a case study in how anti-Dem narratives dominate political media — even as political threat level for Republicans rises to "severe" — In the wake of Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont's primary victory …