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6:20 AM ET, August 21, 2006

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Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:
Kerry Calls Lieberman the New Cheney  —  Senator Labels Bush Iraq Policy 'Disaster,' Lieberman Bid 'Huge Mistake'  —  Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., blasted fellow a Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, for continuing his bid in the Connecticut Senate race despite a narrow loss to newcomer Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary earlier this month.
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Ctblogger / ConnecticutBLOG:
Help me count Joe Lieberman's lies
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Video: Kerry on Lieberman, Lieberman on Kerry
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Kerry Couldn't Find Mainstream With Both Hands And A Flashlight
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Is Lieberman "The New Dick Cheney"
Matt Stoller / mydd.com:
Dismantling the Liebermachine  —  I find it quite ironic that those best positioned to understand the implications of Lieberman's downfall are the most apt to describe the race as unimportant or meaningless instead of the momentus event it really is.  I would throw into this TPM reader DK …
Discussion: The Mahablog
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Stepping Into The Breach
Discussion: Sisyphus Shrugged
Robert Weller / Associated Press:
Experts Praise Royal Treatment of Karr  —  Authorities probably had a very good reason for allowing JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr to live it up on the 15-hour flight to the United States, legal experts say — they wanted him to talk.  —  Denver attorney Larry Pozner …
Discussion: PunditGuy
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Seattle Times:
JonBenet suspect a patient at Thai sex-change center
Discussion: TalkLeft and Ace of Spades HQ
Ben Taylor / Daily Mail:
Firebrand Islamic academic: 'dying for your beliefs is just'  —  A British-based Muslim radical appeared to back suicide bombing yesterday when he claimed that dying for your beliefs was 'just'.  —  Dr Azzam Tamimi told an 8,000-strong crowd that standing up for your principles was the 'greatest act of martyrdom'.
Reuters:
Olmert asks Italy to lead UN force  —  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called for Italy to lead a U.N. peacekeeping force for Lebanon, his office said in a statement on Sunday.  —  The call was made in a telephone conversation between Olmert …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Robert Dreyfuss / Washington Monthly:
A Higher Power  —  James Baker puts Bush's Iraq policy into rehab.  —  Amid the highly charged political infighting in Washington over what to do in Iraq, you might be excused for not noticing that a bipartisan commission quietly started work last spring with a mandate to help the Bush administration rethink its policy toward the war.
TwinCities.com:
Minnesota's muddled election scene makes forecasts hazardous  —  Minnesota's electoral politics are deeply muddled as we head into the high election season next month.  —  The national political environment favors the Democrats, but the state's political situation benefits the Republicans.
Discussion: Power Line
Times of London:
If you want sharia law, you should go and live in Saudi  —  Shahid Malik, the Labour MP, explains why he told fellow Muslims that if they don't like Britain they should pack their bags  —  Scotland Yard described it as a plot "to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale".
Dr. Steven Taylor / PoliBlog:
Hewittian Hysteria  —  Writes Hugh Hewitt on his Townhall blog: … These kinds of statements vex me, just as blanket statements that voting for Republicans is some sort of vote to punish the poor or a vote for racism or hatred, or authoritarianism or whatever.
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Cold War Missiles Target of Blackout  —  The Bush administration has begun designating as secret some information that the government long provided even to its enemy the former Soviet Union: the numbers of strategic weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
Discussion: Mia Culpa and Liberal Values
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
World is watching as Iraq war tests U.S. mettle  —  One way to measure how the world has changed in these last five years is to consider the extraordinary address to his nation by General Musharraf on Sept. 19, 2001.  Pakistan was one of just three countries in the world (along with …
Discussion: USS Neverdock
Will Lester / Associated Press:
Sen. Hagel says GOP has lost its way  —  WASHINGTON - Republicans have lost their way when it comes to many core GOP principles and may be in jeopardy heading into the fall elections, Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), R-Neb. says.  —  Hagel, a possible presidential candidate in 2008 …
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
IRAQ: QUIT OR COMMIT  —  I've been putting off writing this post for a couple of months.  Not out of any fear of blogospheric consequences although it would pain me if my honest opinion drove people away from this site.  But I realize many readers who have been following my evolving position …
Peter Burnet / BrothersJudd Blog:
SHORT MEMORIES  —  Our foreign policy is just plain wrong (Menzies Campbell, The Observer, August 20, 2006) … How easy it is to forget what the world looked like exactly five years ago in August, 2001.  A huge and contiguous swath of the globe from Lebanon through Syria, Iraq, Iran …
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:
Driving Forces Behind Rising Income Inequality: Tracking the Internet Debate  —  To a good neoclassical economist, the statement that the relative price of a factor of production—like the labor of the elite top 1% of America's wage and salary distribution—has risen is the same thing …
 
 
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Simon Walters / Daily Mail:
Blair 'feels betrayed by Bush on Lebanon'
Gateway Pundit:
Don't Be Fooled, Playground Bombs Are Not Targeting US Soldiers
Discussion: Flopping Aces
Forkum / Cox & Forkum:
Disproportionate Response II
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Backlashes in Lebanon and Israel
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The shocking decision in ACLU v. NSA.
Pamela / Atlas Shrugs:
THAT FACE, THAT FACE, THAT COVERGIRL FACE  —  Tom P gave me a heads up on this photo.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Melanie Phillips on "Londonistan"
Discussion: USS Neverdock
Jamie Doward / Observer:
Cleric who urged jihad to be freed from prison
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Ryan Lizza / New York Times:
The YouTube Election  —  AUGUST, usually the sleepiest month …
Charlie Reina / The Huffington Post:
Katherine Harris: Martha Mitchell Redux?
Ben Stein / New York Times:
Looking for the Will Beyond the Battlefield
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
British Night Goggles Go From Iran To Hezbollah
New York Post:
MOMENT OF TRUTH  —  ISLAMO-FASCIST TERROR COULD TRIGGER A BRUTAL
Discussion: Power Line and QandO
Bill / True Blue Liberal:
Five Years After 9/11, Fear Finally Strikes Out
Theodore Dalrymple / City Journal:
Real Crime, Fake Justice
David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
I.R.S. Enlists Help in Collecting Delinquent Taxes
 

 
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