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6:05 PM ET, August 15, 2006

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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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Val Prieto / Michelle Malkin:
San Francisco In Support of Slavery
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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."
Kimberly Hefling / Associated Press:
Poll Shows Pa. Senate Race Narrowing  —  MANNS CHOICE, Pa. - Democrat Bob Casey is holding onto his lead over Republican Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record) in one of the nation's hottest Senate races, despite the recent appearance of a Green Party candidate who is considered a spoiler for Casey, a poll released Tuesday shows.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and TPMmuckraker
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
In Wake of Plot, Justice Dept. Will Study Britain's Terror Laws  —  Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales on Monday ordered a side-by-side review of American and British counterterrorism laws as a first step toward determining whether further changes in American law are warranted.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush says U.S. safer, but not yet safe
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
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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Bernard Goldberg / Opinion Journal:
Mr. Ahmadinejad's Neighborhood  —  Iran's rulers have learned to play the media game.
Discussion: Wizbang and Power Line
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.
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" …
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 …
Colin Brown / Independent:
Let us adopt Islamic family law to curb extremists, Muslims tell Kelly  —  Muslim leaders have urged Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for Communities, to support Islamic family law in Britain to stop youths joining Islamic extremists.  —  Following three hours of meeting with Muslim groups in Whitehall …
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 …
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'
Bob Geiger / The Huffington Post:
No Joke: Lieberman Backer Mark Pryor is Vice-Chair of The DSCC  —  Even though I cover the Senate, I'm the first to admit that I don't know it all about the body's customs and every procedural nuance of the legislative process.  But what I'm about to tell you seems pretty easy to figure out.
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 …
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.
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.
Robert Cox / Examiner:
Anti-partisan Lieberman may be on to something  —  WASHINGTON - When I left New York last week for a family vacation in Southern California, Sen. Joe Lieberman had just lost the Democratic primary in Connecticut and was preparing for his first day as an independent candidate for higher office.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Lawrence M. Krauss / New York Times:
How to Make Sure Children Are Scientifically Illiterate  —  Voters in Kansas ensured this month that noncreationist moderates will once again have a majority (6 to 4) on the state school board, keeping new standards inspired by intelligent design from taking effect.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Up Close And Too Personal  —  Katie Couric, Center of Attention, Says She Just Wants to Do Her Job  —  She is already the most heavily scrutinized, psychoanalyzed and gossiped-about anchor in network history, and she hasn't yet uttered a single "good evening" on a CBS newscast.
Discussion: Baltimore Sun and NewsBusters.org
Chris Bowers / mydd.com:
MyDD / Courage Campaign Poll: Republicans Divided On Iraq, Accountability  —  Please continue to donate to the MyDD / Courage Campaign Polling Project.  This important work cannot continue without your support.  Also, check out the official, public, PDF version of the report.
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.
Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
Women in Top Ranks Pull Up the Pay of Others  —  Study Says Existing Salary Gap Fades When Female Managers Are in Charge  —  MONTREAL — American women earn substantially more money and narrow the long-standing gender gap in income if other women in their workplaces reach the ranks of senior management …
Discussion: Political Animal and Feministing
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 …
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.
 
 
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