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12:15 PM ET, August 17, 2006

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Sutin Wannabovorn / Associated Press:
Suspect Admits Killing JonBenet Ramsey  —  The American suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case said publicly Thursday he was with the 6-year-old when she died and called her death "an accident," a stunning admission that will help answer 10 years of questions in the unsolved murder case.
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CNN:
Suspect confesses to JonBenet Ramsey killing  —  Ex-schoolteacher claims killing wasn't intentional: 'I loved her'  —  (CNN) — An American arrested in Thailand, confessing that he was with child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey when she died in her parents' basement nearly a decade ago, said "her death was an accident."
Alisa Tang / Associated Press:
Ex-wife gives alibi for JonBenet suspect
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Hagee's Office Responds: Contradicts L.A. Times  —  I heard back from General Hagee's office yesterday regarding my inquiry about when Gen. Hagee briefed John Murtha about Haditha.  The bottom line: Gen. Hagee's office has directly contradicted an assertion by the L.A. Times …
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MSNBC:
Lawmaker: Marines killed Iraqis 'in cold blood'  —  Navy conducting war crimes probe into November violence in Haditha  —  A video provided to Reuters in March by Hamourabi, a human rights group, shows covered bodies, which Hamourabi says are of 15 civilians shot to death by Marines in Haditha in November.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
NEWS.com.au:
Kidman condemns Hamas, Hezbollah  —  NICOLE Kidman has made a public stand against terrorism.  —  The actress, joined by 84 other high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses and media moguls, has taken out a powerfully-worded full page advertisement in today's Los Angeles Times newspaper.
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Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
However, Nicole Kidman is hot  —  I've been wondering if it is possible for me to describe exactly how much I don't give a damn what actors think.Or rock stars.  —  I should state at the outset that when actors lend their celebrity to raise money for cancer research and similar causes, I think its wonderful.
Discussion: Tim Blair
New York Times:
Insurgent Bombs Directed at G.I.'s Increase in Iraq  —  A recent bombing in Baghdad.  Most of the roadside bombs are directed at American-led forces, officials say.  —  The number of roadside bombs planted in Iraq rose in July to the highest monthly total of the war, offering more evidence …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Faces, Too, Are Searched at U.S. Airports  —  As the man approached the airport security checkpoint here on Wednesday, he kept picking up and putting down his backpack, touching his fingers to his chin, rubbing some object in his hands and finally reaching for his pack of cigarettes, even though smoking was not allowed.
Washington Post:
Lebanon Sending Troops Into South  —  Compromise Will Allow Hezbollah to Keep Arms  —  Breaking an impasse, the Lebanese government on Wednesday ordered army troops to deploy across southern Lebanon under a compromise arrangement that allows the Hezbollah militia to retain some of its arms caches near the border with Israel.
Discussion: QandO and All Things Beautiful
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New York Times:
Eye on Election, Democrats Run as Wal-Mart Foe  —  Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, a likely Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, delivered a 15-minute, blistering attack to warm applause from Democrats and union organizers here on Wednesday.  But Mr. Biden's main target …
Matt Moore / Associated Press:
Plane-Plot Suspects to Be Kept in Jail  —  LONDON — A district judge ruled Wednesday that British investigators have until next week to investigate the suspects arrested in an alleged plot to blow up as many as 10 trans-Atlantic jetliners, saying they could be kept in custody without charge.
Discussion: Unfogged
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
For the GOP, a Heartland Plunge  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — When the Columbus Dispatch's respected poll recently reported that Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell was trailing Democratic Rep. Ted Strickland by 20 points in the race for governor of Ohio, there was dismay but no shock among his fellow Republicans.
Colin Brown / Independent:
Bush is crap, says Prescott  —  Deputy PM criticises US handling of Middle East, condemning 'cowboy' President at private meeting  —  John Prescott has given vent to his private feelings about the Bush presidency, summing up George Bush's administration in a single word: crap.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Democrats' Stock Is Rising on K Street  —  Washington lobbying firms, trade associations and corporate offices are moving to hire more well-connected Democrats in response to rising prospects that the opposition party will wrest control of at least one chamber of Congress from Republicans in the November elections.
Anita Kumar / St. Petersburg Times:
Backing Harris?  Her list shortens … In the U.S. Senate primary, Rep. Katherine Harris has been touting key political endorsements from fellow Republican lawmakers.  The problem is, some of them never endorsed her.  —  Several members of the U.S. House called the Harris campaign …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Duke Cunningham's Wife Speaks!  (But Not to Us)  —  It's not a pretty picture: the night before Duke Cunningham was sentenced and taken into custody, he dumped a duffel bag filled with dirty underwear and $32,000 in $20 and $100 bills in his wife's driveway as a desperate attempt to salvage some of his ill-gotten gains.
Discussion: Wonkette
Judy Sarasohn / Washington Post:
Putting the Pork in One Barrel  —  One legislator's "pork," of course, is another's vital public works project.  But all are earmarks, those tax and spending directions added to money bills at the behest of anonymous lawmakers — anonymous, that is, until the legislation is passed and they can boast of it to constituents.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
 
 
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Taylor Marsh / The Huffington Post:
Ann Coulter's Beautiful Big Money Smear Machine
Kelly Candaele / Los Angeles Times:
Unions Should Organize, Not Politicize
Discussion: Ezra Klein and DonkeyRising
The Blotter:
Top al Qaeda Man In Pakistan Nabbed
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Pledge Drive: Lebanon
Daniel Freedman / New York Sun:
Mugged by Reality  —  Douglas Murray isn't a man you'd immediately peg …
Jonathan S. Landay / Knight Ridder:
White House backing new plan to defuse insurrection in Pakistan
Discussion: Needlenose
Iain Dale / Iain Dale's Diary:
Inigo Wilson Deserves Our Support
Joe Scarborough / The Huffington Post:
Is Bush an idiot?  —  The greatest political gift a politician …
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Duncan Campbell / Guardian:
Pakistan says al-Qaida link to plot found
Discussion: NewsHog
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Peretz appoints war inquiry committee
Associated Press:
'Hybrid Mutant' Found Dead in Maine
Little Green Footballs:
Hitler, the Mufti of Jerusalem, and Islamic Fascism
Discussion: Hot Air
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
The Economics of Fear  —  This is an age of glaring contradictions.
Suzanne Gamboa / Associated Press:
Democratic Web Ad Angers Some Hispanics
Telegraph:
Ditch US in terror war, say 80pc of Britons
The Blotter:
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