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10:20 AM ET, August 15, 2006

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Associated Press:
Hizbullah likely to retain weapons  —  Hizbullah will not hand over its weapons to the Lebanese government but rather refrain from exhibiting them publicly, according to a new compromise that is reportedly brewing between Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Seniora and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
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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.
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:   Testing How Long the Mideast Cease-Fire Can Last
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:   IF YOU CAN'T SEE THEM, THEY'RE NOT THERE
Haaretz:
Olmert says Israel has dealt Hezbollah a harsh blow  —  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday afternoon that Israel's month-long military offensive in Lebanon had dealt Hezbollah a "harsh blow," and vowed to continue to pursue the leaders of militant organization.
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Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Our World: The Olmert government must go  —  From all sides of the political spectrum calls are being raised for the establishment of an official commission of inquiry to investigate the Olmert government's incompetent management of the war in Lebanon.  These calls are misguided.
Haaretz:
IDF General Staff sources: Halutz cannot escape resignation  —  Senior sources in the Israel Defense Forces General Staff and field officers who took part in the war in Lebanon said on Tuesday that Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, who went to his bank branch and sold an NIS 120,000 investment portfolio …
Discussion: An Unsealed Room and Whiskey Bar
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats See Security as Key Issue for Fall  —  After being outmaneuvered in the politics of national security in the last two elections, Democrats say they are determined not to cede the issue this year and are working to cast President Bush as having diminished the nation's safety.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
A Gap In Their Armor  —  The Democratic Party has a self-image problem.  —  Talk to Democrats at every level about the strong position the party is in for this fall's elections and the conversation inevitably ends with a variation of: "Yeah, if we don't blow it."
Adrian Blomfield / Telegraph:
Israel humbled by arms from Iran  —  Abandoned Hizbollah positions in Lebanon yesterday revealed conclusive evidence that Syria - and almost certainly Iran - provided the anti-tank missiles that have blunted the power of Israel's once invincible armour.  —  After one of the fiercest confrontations …
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
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White House:
President Discusses Foreign Policy During Visit to State Department  —  Washington, D.C.  —  In Focus: Global Diplomacy  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon.  Today I met with members of my national security team, both here at the State Department and at the Pentagon.
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Hezbollah the Loser In Battle, Bush Says
Andrew Roth / clubforgrowth.org:
The New Pork Database  —  A while back, several groups including the Club for Growth, were able to get their hands on the 2007 Labor-HHS appropriations bill that was introduced in the House (but has not yet passed), along with the committee report.  What we found were 1,867 pork projects hidden in the bill.
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Robert B. Bluey / humanevents.com:   Exposing Earmarks, One by One  —  Today marks an exciting development …
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 …
Washington Post:
George Allen's America  —  "MY FRIENDS, we're going to run this campaign on positive, constructive ideas," Sen. George F. Allen told a rally of Republican supporters in Southwest Virginia last week.  "And it's important that we motivate and inspire people for something."
Discussion: Wonkette and Not Larry Sabato
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Talking Points Memo:
From TPM Reader DN ...  I have mixed feelings about what DN has to say.  But I do recognize a lot in it I identify with.  TPM has always been pretty aggressive and pugilistic in its politics.  The site, after all, started during the 2000 recount, the founding political bad act from which, you might say, everything else followed.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / TCS Daily:
Don't Trust If They Won't Verify  —  Once again, fake news is in the news, as it turns out that many moving stories of carnage in Lebanon were not only moving, but, well, fake.  This raises major questions about the future of the news business, and offers a significant threat to free expression.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Latest Bush Approval Rating at 37%  —  Little fundamental change in rating since June  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll finds George W. Bush's presidential job approval rating at 37%, consistent with recent polling.  His approval rating has bounced between 36% and 40% since early June …
Discussion: First Draft
 
 
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
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Associated Press:
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Times of London:
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Don Michak / Journal Inquirer:
Senate rivals' lieutenants launch ideological salvoes