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12:30 AM ET, August 15, 2006

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Washington Post:
Sen. Allen's Remarks Spark Ire  —  Democrat James Webb's Senate campaign accused Sen. George Allen (R) of making demeaning comments Friday to a 20-year-old Webb volunteer of Indian descent.  —  S.R. Sidarth, a senior at the University of Virginia, had been trailing Allen with a video camera …
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Jeffrey Feldman / FRAMESHOP:
'Macaca' or 'Macaque'  —  News breaking out of Virginia is that Senator George Allen called a person a 'macaca' while on the campaign trail.  The person was dark skinned and, as it happens, working for Jim Webb's campaign.  —  There has been some question as to what this word 'macaca' means …
Discussion: Eschaton
Tom Curry / MSNBC:
Donors say Lieberman will be well-funded  —  Supporters of Israel from both parties will be crucial to senator's effort  —  Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., campaigning last Thursday in Waterbury, Conn., a city he won with 60 percent of the vote in last week's primary.  —  WASHINGTON -
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Don Michak / Journal Inquirer:
Senate rivals' lieutenants launch ideological salvoes  —  So much for civility in the now three-way race for the U.S. Senate.  —  In separate e-mails sent to reporters over the weekend, top officials in the campaigns of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and his Democratic challenger …
Discussion: Associated Press and LamontBlog
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Did Cheney Go Too Far?  —  By insinuating that the sizeable majority of American voters who oppose the war in Iraq are aiding and abetting the enemy, Vice President Cheney on Wednesday may have crossed the line that separates legitimate political discourse from hysteria.
Associated Press:
2 Fox News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza  —  Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two of the journalists inside, according to witnesses and Fox.  "We can confirm that two of our people were taken against their will in Gaza," Fox News said in a statement.
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Reuters:
Two Fox News journalists kidnapped in Gaza: witness
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Rockets hit Lebanon despite cease-fire  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon - Tens of thousands of Lebanese jammed bomb-cratered roads Monday as they returned to still-smoldering scenes of destruction after a tenuous cease-fire ended 34 days of vicious combat between Israel and Hezbollah.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Arab TV binging on Lebanese death porn to incite Muslims (Update: Ynet busts CNN)  —  It's electrifyin'. … "The Sixth War," as in the sixth Arab-Israeli war.  They've made Hezbollah the standard-bearer of Arab pride.  Quote: … And this despite the fact that Sunni governments like Saudi Arabia …
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BBC:
Step up extremism fight - Kelly
Discussion: USS Neverdock
Janet Daley / Telegraph:
'Fascistic' is the right word for Islamic fundamentalism
Ben Webster / Times of London:
Muslims face extra checks in new travel crackdown  —  THE Government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest risk.  —  The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people …
Yael K / Step-by-Step:
Pres.  Ahmadinejad trying to infect Israelis with web viruses?  —  Information forwarded to me:  —  The Iranian president, Ahmadinejad, has opened his very own blog.  You can read the news here.  Wouldn't it be nice to pay him a visit and tell him what you think about his terror-supporting regime?
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Spencer Ackerman / American Prospect:
A Hawk for All Seasons  —  When it comes to foreign policy, Joe Lieberman's hawkish consistency is the hobgoblin of a little mind.  —  It took all of two days for Joe Lieberman to jettison the high-minded justifications for his post-primary campaign against Democratic Senate nominee Ned Lamont.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Defeatism and attacks on the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war  —  We have a rule in our country that "attacking the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war" helps The Terrorists and emboldens our enemies.  Joe Lieberman put it this way: "in matters of war, we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril."
Michael J. Totten:
The Storm Before the Calm  —  The events in this essay took place on August 11 and 12.  —  METULLA, ISRAEL - Israel scrapped the proposed ceasefire agreement on August 11 and launched a full-scale ground invasion of Lebanon.  Presumably the Israeli Defense Forces wanted to rapidly snap …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Saint Maximilian Kolbe, A Saint For Our Times  —  Today is the feast day of my favorite saint (yes, I know, Catholic alert!), Father Maximilian Kolbe.  The patron saint of journalists, families, and prisoners died in Auschwitz in 1941, taking the place of another selected for death.
Media Matters for America:
Media Matters to CNN: Will anchor Roberts be disciplined for suggesting Lamont is "the Al Qaeda candidate"?  —  Dear Messrs.  Klein and Santos:  —  I am writing to express my great concern over an incident that occurred on your network Friday, August 11, 2006.
DarkSyde / Daily Kos:
Perspective: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Get a Grip  —  I know there are millions of brave, decent conservatives.  My apologies to those folks for the following.  But good grief, when did the Republican Party become infested with what sound like so many loud, whining cowardly pundits?
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Says Israel Defeated Hezbollah  —  President Bush said Monday that Hezbollah guerillas suffered a defeat at the hands of Israel in their monthlong Mideast war.  —  "There's going to be a new power in the south of Lebanon," Bush said.  —  The president also said the war was part …
Maria Aspan / New York Times:
Ease of Alteration Creates Woes for Picture Editors  —  The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj, had manipulated pictures he took for Reuters has raised questions about the standards of photojournalism at a time of widespread digital photography.
 
 
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James Rosen / The State:
Defeat of Bush's judicial nominee traced to S.C.'s Graham
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats See Security as Key Issue for Fall
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Independent:
America's one-eyed view of war: Stars, stripes, and the Star of David
Discussion: Hot Air and Seeing the Forest
Ynetnews:
CNN Int'l snubs Israeli civilians
Howie / The Jawa Report:
More Reuters Images Staged
Jonathan Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
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Times of London:
Wimmin at War  —  It is 25 years since the Greenham Common protests began.
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Associated Press:
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