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9:50 PM ET, August 19, 2006

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Edward Cody / Washington Post:
Israel Re-Enters Lebanon, Battles Hezbollah  —  Helicopter-borne Israeli commandos raided a Hezbollah stronghold in the Bekaa Valley early Saturday in what Lebanon called a "flagrant violation" of a fragile six-day-old cease-fire.  —  Hezbollah, which battled the Israeli military for 33 days until …
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Reuters:
Defense Min. Peretz: Raid unlikely to end cease-fire  —  Following an Israel Defense Forces commando raid near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon on Saturday, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Israel has violated the UN-backed truce and made him "deeply concerned."
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
BBC:
Israel mounts fresh Lebanon raid
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Israel Attacks Resupply Convoy
Rasmussen Reports:
Virginia Senate: Allen's Lead Shrinks After Controversial Remark  —  Allen (R) 47%, Webb (D) 42%  —  Senator George Allen's alleged slur of an opposition campaign worker of Indian descent, recorded on video, has provoked a furious controversy in the state.
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Washington Post:
Allen Flap May Give A Boost To Webb  —  RICHMOND — The nationwide fallout from controversial remarks Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) made last week has given Democrats new hope in a race many thought would be difficult to win in the historically conservative state.
Jim Hodges / Hampton Roads Daily Press:   McCain tries to rally veterans for Allen
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:   In Virginia, Webb Pulls Close
Atrios / Eschaton:
Oy  —  I don't know how we go from: … To: … The point is that the amount of money that has come from "progressives" to Lamont is a drop of the bucket in the grand scheme of things and most of it is "found money" and not diverted money.  While the Lump of Campaign Cash fallacy is popular it's one of the more annoying ones.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Money  —  people write something like this:
Talking Points Memo:
Should progressives shift their money and attention from the …
Discussion: The News Blog
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Verdict Against Iraq Contractor Overturned  —  Occupation Authority's Murky Status Cited  —  A federal judge threw out a $10 million jury verdict against an American company accused of overcharging on an Iraq reconstruction contract after concluding that the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority was not a U.S. government entity.
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
On Technical Grounds, Judge Sets Aside Verdict of Billing Fraud in Iraq Rebuilding  —  A federal judge has set aside a verdict of corporate fraud in Iraq on disputed technical grounds, raising questions about the ability of whistleblowers and the United States government to pursue companies …
Discussion: The Left Coaster and Defense Tech
Martha Mendoza / Associated Press:
AP Probe Looks at Recruiting Misconduct  —  More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters.  Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Daily Mail:
Mutiny on Flight 613  —  Passengers refuse to allow holiday jet to take off until two Asian men are thrown off plane  —  British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Officer Called Haditha Routine  —  Marine Said Deaths Didn't Merit Inquiry  —  The Marine officer who commanded the battalion involved in the Haditha killings last November did not consider the deaths of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, unusual and did not initiate an inquiry …
Sfarber / the talking dog:
TD Blog Interview with George Lakoff  —  George Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, a senior fellow at the progressive think-tank Rockridge Institute, and is the author of "Whose Freedom: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea" …
Alister Bull / Reuters:
Iraqi group uses Michael Moore film to mock Bush  —  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group has produced an elaborate video of what it said were attacks on U.S. troops, in the latest example of the increasingly sophisticated propaganda war being waged by Iraqi insurgents.
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Democrats = Traitors?  —  Hugh Hewitt: "Any vote for any Democrat is a vote against victory and a vote for vulnerability."  —  Steven Taylor: "[T]he last time I checked, the Democrats may be the partisan opponents of Republicans, but they aren't the enemies of the state."  —  Discuss.
Discussion: Riehl World View, NewsHog and Macsmind
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Fight fear-mongering with fear-mongering?  —  Slate's John Dickerson offers Dems some advice in responding to Republicans' election-year fear-mongering: fight fire with fire.  With the GOP telling voters, "Vote for Democrats and more Americans will die," it's the only reasonable approach.
Discussion: QandO
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The Blotter:
New Clues in the Hunt for bin Laden?
Discussion: Rantingprofs and Sister Toldjah
Gateway Pundit:
Hollywood "Zionists" Under Attack After Anti-Terror Ad Release!  —  Hmm... I didn't know Bernie Mac, Don Johnson, Serena Williams and Vivica Fox were Zionists?  —  Remember the story about this anti-Hamas, anti-Hezbollah, anti-terror ad that was published in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
OLD HANDS AT FAKERY  —  Some time ago, Richard Landes, a Professor of History at Boston University, and Pedro Zúquete made a film about the Palestinians' use of staged and faked video "bites," and the credulous international news agencies that fall for them.  Or, perhaps, collaborate in them.
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Fearful Iraqis Avoid Mosques as Attacks Rise  —  Haider Ali says he quit attending mosque because it was too dangerous.  Now he prays at home or in the basement of his convenience store, above.  —  Haider Ali communes with God through his CD player.  —  That is how he listens to the lectures …
 
 
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PAKISTAN....Michael Crowley writes something that's been bouncing around …
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Reuters:
About 50 French peacekeepers arrive in s. Lebanon
Todd Zywicki / The Volokh Conspiracy:
A CULTURE OF FREE SPEECH: Just a final thought that bears …
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Bluto / The Jawa Report:
Lebanese Army Ordered to 'Stand With' Hizballah
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A SUDDEN LACK OF CONTEXT
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Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
Ahmadinejad roadshow seduces an adoring public
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE PRICE OF PEACE  —  Yesterday I derogated UN Resolution 1701 …
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Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
At White House, Strange Silence Over Terror Probe Leak
Theo Emery / New York Times:
In Nashville, Sounds of Political Uprising From the Left
Larisa Alexandrovna / The Raw Story:
Intelligence officials doubt Iran uranium claims, say Cheney …
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Iranian Bloggers Show Regime's Satellite Dish Destruction
 

 
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