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Jon Lender / Hartford Courant:
`Vets For Freedom' Creates Stir — Group With GOP Ties Backs Lieberman; White House Declines To Endorse Schlesinger — Connecticut's U.S. Senate race continued Monday along its unpredictable way: The White House declined to endorse the nominee of state Republicans - and a new "Vets for Freedom" …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dem angst escalates — A group of Senate Democrats is growing increasingly angry about Sen. Joe Lieberman's (D-Conn.) campaign tactics since he lost the Democratic primary last week. — If he continues to alienate his colleagues, Lieberman could be stripped of his seniority within …
Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
Israel threatens to resume war if Hizbullah refuses to disarm — The IDF will have to resume operations in Lebanon if the expanded United Nations force being assembled does not fulfill its obligation to dismantle Hizbullah, an official in the Prime Minister's Office warned on Tuesday.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Israel: Game On If Hezbollah Keeps Weapons
Israel: Game On If Hezbollah Keeps Weapons
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New York Magazine:
Andrew Sullivan blogs from a parallel world — After a somber beginning, the president finally found his voice last night. It's been hard for him to connect viscerally to the public, and the formality of a congressional address doesn't exactly help. He remains awkward, stiff, emotionally detached.
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
What If 9/11 Never Happened? — A counterhistory. — T — here are days in New York—surprisingly many of them, all things considered—when it's almost possible to forget that we are living in an age of terror. And then there are days, like last Thursday with its headlines out of London …
Guardian:
Liberal agonies — Leader — "Why are the liberals always on the other side?" asks the fictional French military commander Colonel Mathieu when he is challenged, in The Battle for Algiers, for using torture to fight terror. The film suggests that torture works as a tool of immediate necessity …
New York Times:
Iraqi Death Toll Rose Above 3,400 in July — July appears to have been the deadliest month of the war for Iraqi civilians, according to figures from the Health Ministry and the Baghdad morgue, reinforcing criticism that the Baghdad security plan started in June by the new Iraqi government has failed.
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Larry O'Dell / Associated Press:
Allen Sorry for Calling Man 'Macaca' — RICHMOND, Va. — Sen. George Allen apologized Tuesday for remarks that offended a man of Indian descent who was tracking the Republican's re-election campaign for Democratic challenger Jim Webb. — S.R. Sidarth said he felt Allen was singling …
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Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
Lebanese rescuer 'Green Helmet' injured — TYRE, Lebanon - A civil defense worker who has drawn controversy for holding up the bodies of children killed in Lebanon said Tuesday he was lightly injured fighting a weekend fire sparked by an Israeli bomb. — Salam Daher, dubbed the Green Helmet …
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Washington Post:
Hezbollah Balks At Withdrawal From the South — Hezbollah refused to disarm and withdraw its fighters from the battle-scarred hills along the border with Israel on Tuesday, threatening to delay deployment of the Lebanese army and endangering a fragile cease-fire.
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Haaretz, DEBKAfile, NewsBusters.org, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Strata-Sphere, Wizbang and Israel Matzav
Jamie Glassman / Times of London:
Have you heard the one about the Jews? — As a writer on The Ali G Show I can do insulting jokes. But the anti-Jewish sentiment at Edinburgh is shocking — THERE'S NOTHING I like more than a Jewish joke. It's the anti-Jewish ones I'm not so keen on. — Wandering through the streets …
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Clayton Cramer's BLOG, Amygdala, Secular Blasphemy, Done With Mirrors, Tim Blair and BrothersJudd Blog
Art Levine / Salon:
Salon's shameful six — There was Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. Here are the six states where vote suppression could cost voters their voice — and Democrats the election — in 2006. — Eva Steele has a son in the military who is supposed to be fighting for freedom in Iraq …
Eric Boehlert / The Huffington Post:
Little Green Footballs, Staged War Photos, and the Story the Press Won't Tell — As Little Green Footballs, the right-wing warblog, continues to be toasted in the press for helping ferret out a Reuters news photo that was marginally altered to show a smoldering, bombed-out Beirut in the wake …
Michael J. Totten:
War Warps the Mind a Little — The events in this essay took place on August 11 and 12. — NORTHERN ISRAEL - War does strange things to the mind. The first time you hear the loud BOOM, BANG, and CRASH of incoming and outgoing artillery, you will jump. You will twitch. You will want to take cover.
DFH / Drinking From Home:
Orla Guerin - Busted! — Two reports from Bint Jbeil from yesterday's news, one from Orla Guerin on the BBC (watch the full report here**) and the other from Alex Thomson on Channel 4 News (click here to view. Window Media Player only. 2 mins in.) (Added emphasis mine in all spoken extracts)