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2:20 PM ET, August 22, 2006

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Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran ready for 'serious' nuclear talks  —  TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Tuesday that Tehran was ready to enter "serious negotiations" over its disputed nuclear program but did not say whether it was willing to suspend uranium enrichment — the West's key demand.
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Bloomberg:
Iran's Navy Attacks and Boards Romanian Rig in Gulf (Update3)  —  Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) — Iran attacked and seized control of a Romanian oil rig working in its Persian Gulf waters this morning one week after the Iranian government accused the European drilling company of ``hijacking'' another rig.
Associated Press:
Iran 'fires on Romanian oil rig'  —  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian oil rig off the coast of Iran came under fire from an Iranian warship and was later occupied by Iranian troops, a company spokesman said.  —  The Iranians first fired into the air and then fired at the Orizont rig, said GSP spokesman Radu Petrescu.
Edmund Blair / Reuters:
Iran hands over nuclear response
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Iran Rejects Offer For Nuclear Talks
Associated Press:
Connecticut Groups Push to Remove Lieberman From Ballot  —  Critics of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.
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Chris Bowers / mydd.com:
CT-Sen: New Rasmussen Poll Shows Closer Race  —  I became a subscriber to Rasmussen reports yesterday in order to increase the amount of information I have available to make Senate and Governor forecasts.  They may be a Republican firm, but I am already finding the information worth it.
Paul Bass / New Haven Independent:
City Asked To Un-"Democrat" Lieberman
Discussion: Firedoglake and Sirotablog
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stuff.co.nz:
Diplomat admits no progress in Wiig's kidnapping
Arthur C. Brooks / Opinion Journal:
The Fertility Gap  —  Liberal politics will prove fruitless as long as liberals refuse to multiply.  —  The midterm election looms, and once again efforts begin afresh to increase voter participation.  It has become standard wisdom in American politics that voter turnout is synonymous …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Hezbollah Sinks Australian Ship (Fauxtography)  —  Hezbollah's official website is running this pic which it claims is the Israeli ship which it damaged off the coast of Beirut.  —  The only problem, as discovered by Andrew Bolt of The Herald Sun, is that the ship in the pic is actually …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Andrew Bolt / NEWS.com.au:
Hezbollah sinks Australian warship
Paul Bedard / US News:
Washington Whispers  —  Don't laugh, but a loaner training kayak in the pool of the House of Representatives gym made the difference in President Bush's House victory for a pork-busting line-item veto.  "That's spot on," says Colorado Rep. Mark Udall, who helped talk 34 other Democrats into backing the measure 247 to 172.
USA Today:
Poll: GOP up after terror arrests  —  WASHINGTON — The arrest of terror suspects in London has helped buoy President Bush to his highest approval rating in six months and dampen Democratic congressional prospects to their lowest in a year.  —  In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday …
Sam Kean / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Educators Question Absence of Evolution From List of Majors Eligible for New Grants  —  Like a gap in the fossil record, evolutionary biology is missing from a list of majors that the U.S. Department of Education has deemed eligible for a new federal grant program designed to reward students majoring …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
A Case for Accountability  —  (White House photo by David Bohrer, under the header "President Bush, Secretary Rumsfeld Discuss Progress in Iraq," from August 2003.)  —  That was then: … This is now: … What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a President who has had to face …
Agence France Presse:
Greenland's glaciers have been shrinking for 100 years: study  —  Greenland's glaciers have been shrinking for the past century, according to a Danish study, suggesting that the ice melt is not a recent phenomenon caused by global warming.  —  Danish researchers from Aarhus University studied glaciers …
Daily Mail:
Obsessed Bin Laden wanted to kill Whitney Houston's husband  —  Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden is so obsessed with singer Whitney Houston he thought about killing her husband, Bobby Brown, it was claimed last night.  —  The suggestion is made by Sudanese poet and novelist Kola Boof …
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
President on Another Planet  —  For a moment there, I was almost encouraged.  George W. Bush, the most resolutely incurious and inflexible of presidents, was reported last week to have been surprised at seeing Iraqi citizens — who ought to be grateful beneficiaries of the American occupation …
Examiner:
Who's the senator who wants spending kept secret?  —  The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner  —  WASHINGTON - A Senate staffer — who shall remain nameless here — must have awakened on the wrong side of the bed Monday morning.  Said staffer exploded in response …
 
 
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