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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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Bob Geiger / BobGeiger.com:
Update: Senate Democrats Supporting Ned Lamont — I never claimed when I began keeping this list that I would be 100-percent sure that I had gotten every Senate Democrat who had pledged support for Ned Lamont as the legitimate Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Connecticut.
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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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."
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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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 …
Bill Roggio / Counterterrorism Blog:
After Action Report: Winners and Losers in the Hezbollah-Israel War — With the cessation of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel largely holding after 24 hours, it is time to look at the likely winners and losers of the Hezbollah-Israel war. Israel spent the weekend scrambling to reach …
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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 …
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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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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
The Era of Networked Journalism Begins — Today marks a key moment in the evolution of the Web as a reporting medium. The first left-right-center coalition of bloggers, activists, non-profits, citizens and journalists to investigate a story of national import: Congressional earmarks and those who sponsor and benefit from them.
Luke Thomas / sanfranciscosentinel.com:
Happy Birthday Fidel — San Franciscans honor the life of the world's longest reigning revolutionary leader — Members of Dance Brigade perform a dance ode to honor the life of Cuban President — Fidel Castro at Dance Mission Theater on Saturday. — The event was co-sponsored by Casa Cuba Resource Center.
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Kos Irhabi / The Jawa Report:
Kossacks : 'Mike Wallace was totally rude and a jingoistic idiot' — While many commentators have roundly criticized Mike Wallace for letting the Iranian President walk all over him in the recent 60 Minutes interview, the reality-based community at Daily Kos is upset that Wallace was so terribly rude to Amadinnerjihad:
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Guardian:
TAKE SOME GODDAMN RESPONSIBILITY!!!! — [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.] — Professor Plum: ""the alleged plot has been foiled". This is a contradiction in terms because if the plot is alleged and is yet to be proven how can it be foiled?".
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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 …
Reuters:
Snow White's dwarfs more famous than US judges: poll —Text+NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Snow White's seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two Supreme Court Justices, according to a poll on pop culture released on Monday.
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 …
Ynetnews:
Iran: Victory celebrations, threats to Israel — Thousands of citizens take to streets chanting, 'Lebanon won, Israel destroyed'; dozens of ambulances hold procession in show of empathy with casualties of war. Senior religious figure in Iran warns: 'If Israel and US attack us, we will shoot missiles at Tel Aviv'
Gavin Sandvoss / Gay Rights Watch:
EXCLUSIVE: Lou Beres of the Christian Coalition Confesses to Molesting Family Members — GayRightsWatch.com Exclusive:. In a just released police report (pdf), Lou Beres, former head of the Oregon Christian Coalition, finally confessed to the charges that he so vehemently denied last October.
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)
Martin Griffith / Associated Press:
Notices to be posted about Nevada candidate's death — RENO, Nev. (AP) - Nevada Republicans will get another reminder of the death of one of their statewide candidates when they vote in Tuesday's primary. — Under state law, election officials must post notices at polling places notifying voters …
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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Doug Donovan / Baltimore Sun:
Cardin promises cancer cure … With a month to go before primary voters head to the polls to choose Senate nominees, Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin kicked off yesterday a weeklong effort to highlight his congressional record and vision on health care by making the mother of all campaign promises - to cure cancer.
Deacon / Power Line:
HALF AN HOUR WITH BENJAMIN NETANYAHU — I just had the opportunity to participate, along with half a dozen or so other bloggers, in a conference with Benjamin Netanyahu. The former (and I hope future) Prime Minister spoke with us for half an hour, most of which involved answering our questions.