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9:30 AM ET, August 21, 2006

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Gregory / The Belgravia Dispatch:
LIEBERMAN AND RUMSFELD  —  I've really got no dog in the whole Lieberman/Lamont fight.  I live in Manhattan, not Connecticut, and this blog has never focused much on senatorial races and the like.  So I wasn't going to write about it much, if any.  But today I hear that Lieberman has called for Don Rumsfeld's resignation.
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
McCain Mines Elite of G.O.P. for 2008 Team  —  Senator John McCain is locking up a cast of top-shelf Republican strategists, policy experts, fund-raisers and donors, in a methodical effort to build a 2008 presidential campaign machine that is drawing supporters of President Bush despite the sometimes rocky history between the two men.
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Will Lester / Associated Press:   Sen. Hagel says GOP has lost its way
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.
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
For Kurds, a Long Wait for Justice  —  Hussein Begins Trial Today for 1988 Offensive That Used Chemical Attacks  —  Mustafa Arab Youssef walked up the grimy, stone steps of the crumbling, sand-colored Nizarkeh fort.  As he reached the second floor, his neighbor Haji Mohammed pointed …
Discussion: Eric Umansky and Rantingprofs
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Michael J. Totten / Reason:   The Kurds Go Their Own Way  —  Two hours into my first tour of Erbil …
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".
Roger Scruton / Opinion Journal:
'Islamofascism'  —  Beware of a religion without irony.  —  The term "Islamofascism" was introduced by the French writer Maxine Rodinson (1915-2004) to describe the Iranian Revolution of 1978.  Rodinson was a Marxist, who described as "fascist" any movement of which he disapproved.
Salon:
Overlooking New Orleans' women  —  A favorite approach of some cultural anthropologists is to look at the women of a given society as a gauge of its overall well-being.  By that approach, post-Katrina New Orleans is floundering.  No surprise there: We're all familiar with the criticism leveled …
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'.
USA Today:
Katrina struggle goes on for many  —  WASHINGTON — As the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches next week, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of those hit by the storm finds that just 16% say their lives are back to normal.  —  While most people are still in their homes and back on the job …
Rana Fil / tomgrossmedia.com:
Suha Arafat "remarries" (& anti-Hizbullah comment starts W. Bank wedding riot)  —  1. West Bank wedding riot after guest calls Nasrallah "a dog"  —  3. Palestinian babies being named after Hizbullah  —  6. Iranian cleric: We'll hit Tel Aviv over "iota" of Israeli aggression
Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:
Columbia-Educated Doctor Will Argue He Had To Help Al Qaeda  —  The Columbia University-educated doctor charged with promising to provide medical care to Al Qaeda operatives will argue that professional ethics require him to offer medical aid to all patients, even terrorists.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
John Donnelly / Boston Globe:
And now for the good news  —  Progress is being made in the fight against AIDS in Africa, thanks in no small part to the president's aid program.  But that's not what some people want to hear.  —  FIVE YEARS AGO, in Jos, Nigeria, a city on the country's central plateau …
Discussion: Miss Kelly
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: Althouse and PunditGuy
New York Post:
DID OSAMA LUST FOR  —  WHITNEY?  —  OSAMA bin Laden has more on his mind than just the destruction of the United States - the world's most wanted terrorist is obsessed with Whitney Houston, so much so that he's even mulled a hit on her hubby, Bobby Brown.  —  Kola Boof, 37 …
Discussion: Tim Blair
Guardian:
CIA's secret UK bank trawl may be illegal  —  US effort to track jihadist money transfers faces inquiry over privacy  —  Alexi Mostrous and Ian Cobain  —  A covert programme under which confidential information about British banking transactions is passed to the CIA with the full knowledge …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
Desert Connections  —  A real estate project is on track …
Scott Calvert / Baltimore Sun:
For some in Africa, it's 'magic' over pills
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan
Reuters:
Iran: No end to uranium enrichment
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES
Discussion: Washington Post
Angela K. Brown / Associated Press:
Sheehan, supporters protest at Karl Rove event
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Washington Post Continues Gunning for George Allen
Rasmussen Reports:
Maryland Governor: O'Malley Holding on to Lead
Jeffrey Chester / The Nation:
Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet
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Reuters:
Olmert asks Italy to lead UN force
Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:
Driving Forces Behind Rising Income Inequality: Tracking the Internet Debate
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
World is watching as Iraq war tests U.S. mettle
Discussion: Power Line and USS Neverdock
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
Robert Dreyfuss / Washington Monthly:
A Higher Power  —  James Baker puts Bush's Iraq policy into rehab.
Dr. Steven Taylor / PoliBlog:
Hewittian Hysteria  —  Writes Hugh Hewitt on his Townhall blog:
TwinCities.com:
Minnesota's muddled election scene makes forecasts hazardous
Discussion: Power Line
 

 
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: ~100 NYT Tech Guild members cross the picket line to work on Election Day; NYT engineer and union steward Benjamin Harnett says the figure is under 50

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

 
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