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11:00 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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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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Examiner:
Spending money behind closed doors?  —  The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner  —  WASHINGTON - Something new is happening today as The Examiner invites readers to help uncover which members of Congress sponsored the 1,867 secret spending earmarks worth more than $500 million …
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."
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."
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Times of London:
Link between British suspect and 9/11 conspirator explored  —  THE German authorities are investigating contacts between a Briton being questioned over the alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airlines and a key figure in the September 11, 2001, terrorist cell.
Discussion: USS Neverdock
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   British Sky Plot May Have 9/11 Connection
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 …
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
KLTV-TV:
Clinton Sounds Off on Terror, Republicans  —  Taking a break from his work at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto on Monday, former President Clinton warned Republicans not to politicize the London terror arrests, slammed Sen. Joe Lieberman, whom he campaigned for just a couple weeks ago …
Amy Fox / WZZM-TV:
Men held in Michigan suspected of plan to attack Mackinac Bridge  —  Federal authorities helped with the investigation into a possible terror threat to the Mackinac Bridge.  The FBI office in Detroit worked with local law enforcement authorities before the police arrested three men in Caro on Friday.
Business Wire:
New National Poll Finds: More Americans Know Snow White's Dwarfs Than Supreme Court Judges, Homer Simpson Than Homer's Odyssey, and Harry Potter Than Tony Blair  —  DULLES, Va. & UTICA, N.Y.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Aug. 14, 2006—  Gold Rush Pop Culture Poll from AOL and Mark Burnett …
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.
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.
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.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Triumph of Unrealism  —  Five weeks have passed since the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers provoked Israel to launch its most unsatisfactory military operation in 58 years.  What problem has been solved, or even ameliorated?  —  Hezbollah, often using World War II-vintage rockets …
Telegraph:
Multiculturalism is to blame for perverting young Muslims  —  By Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester  —  Islamic radicalism did not begin with Muslim grievances over Western foreign policy in Iraq or Afghanistan.  It has deep roots, going back to the 13th-century reformer Ibn Taimiyya …
 
 
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John Dickerson / Slate:
Stranger and Stranger  —  WHY IS GEORGE BUSH READING CAMUS?
Richard A. Posner / Washington Post:
We Need Our Own MI5
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Up Close And Too Personal  —  Katie Couric, Center of Attention …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Latest Bush Approval Rating at 37%
Discussion: First Draft
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Conservatives Put Faith in Church Voter Drives
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / TCS Daily:
Don't Trust If They Won't Verify  —  Once again, fake news …
Haaretz:
IDF General Staff sources: Halutz cannot escape resignation
Jerusalem Post:
Assad: American plan for a new Mideast has collapsed
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Joshua Sharf / View From a Height:
Mini-Mullah  —  Downtown Denver experienced an anti-Israel rally …
Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
Bush Signs Law to Save War Memorial Cross
Associated Press:
Iran Unveils Holocaust Cartoon Exhibit
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Josh White / Washington Post:
Lawmaker Apologizes To Marines For Remarks
Oliver Willis:
The Weekly Standard's Bigot Eruption
Stephen Foley / Independent:
To google or not to google? It's a legal question
James Rosen / The State:
Defeat of Bush's judicial nominee traced to S.C.'s Graham
Discussion: Power Line and Bizzyblog
Ynetnews:
CNN Int'l snubs Israeli civilians
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

 
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