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David Wiessler / Reuters:
Top Republican predicts Gonzales may resign — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee predicted on Sunday Attorney General Alberto Gonzales might step down in the face of a substantial Senate "no-confidence" vote on his performance.
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Abu Kais / From Beirut to the Beltway:
Assad's volcano in Lebanon — Terrorist group Fatah al-Islam unleashed its fury on the Lebanese army today, killing at least 12 army soldiers and ISF members and wounding dozens of others, including civilians. The Syrian-backed group— made up of Syrian, Palestinian, Lebanese …
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Associated Press:
Islamic militants, security forces battle in Lebanon … TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese tanks pounded the headquarters of a group with suspected links to al Qaeda in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli Sunday after the northern city's worst clashes in two decades killed 22 soldiers and 17 militants.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
"F*** YOU": THE INSIDE STORY — John McCain's eruption at fellow conservative Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is an incident that reverberates on several levels. It renews lingering doubts about whether McCain possesses proper temperament to be President. It also raises serious questions …
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Iraq's Sadr Overhauls His Tactics — NAJAF, Iraq — The movement of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has embarked on one of its most dramatic tactical shifts since the beginning of the war. — The 33-year-old populist is reaching out to a broad array of Sunni leaders, from politicians to insurgents …
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Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Influx of Al Qaeda, money into Pakistan is seen — U.S. officials say the terrorist network's command base is increasingly being funded by cash coming out of Iraq. — WASHINGTON — A major CIA effort launched last year to hunt down Osama bin Laden has produced no significant leads on his whereabouts …
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Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
Tainted Chinese Imports Common — In Four Months, FDA Refused 298 Shipments — Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical. — Frozen catfish laden with banned antibiotics. — Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria. — Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.
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Paul Bedard / US News:
Bush's Summer Hires Targeted — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a little trick up his sleeve that could spell an end to President Bush's devilish recess appointments of controversial figures like former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton. We hear that over the long August vacation …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
JEEZ, ANDREW'S AT IT AGAIN. — I never understand what sends him off on these tears. I kind of think he actually wants me to be pro-torture, though he certainly knows better. Sullivan's certainly not above torturing the record to get the answers he wants, though to be fair he more often simply ignores it.
Des Moines Register:
Democrats prefer Edwards in new poll — Presidential candidate John Edwards leads rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in a new Des Moines Register poll of Iowans likely to take part in the Democratic caucuses. — The Iowa Poll shows Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina …
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Peter Howell / Toronto Star:
Canadians don't care for Sicko — Moore's health-care film gets rough reception — Michael Moore is handing out fake bandages to promote his new film Sicko, an exposé of the failings of the U.S. health care system. — But he may feel like applying a couple to himself after the mauling …
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Salena Zito / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Fred's watershed? — TRIBUNE-REVIEW — On the day of the first Southern-state Republican debate on the Fox News Channel, one undeclared GOP candidate performed a media leapfrog. — With the help of one 38-second video clip and a great sense of humor, Fred Thompson …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Flynt On Falwell — Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler Magazine, writes a remembrance of the odd friendship that he shared with the founder of Moral Majority, Rev. Jerry Falwell. His recollections should remind us that the personal and the political need not become inseparable.
Telegraph:
US surge is failing, says UK's Iraq envoy — The "troop surge" by American soldiers in Iraq is not working, one of Britain's senior military officials in Baghdad has said. — In a pessimistic assessment of the strategy designed to pull Iraq back from all-out civil war, Alastair Campbell …
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Gingrich Assails 'Radical Secularism' — In Speech, Ex-Speaker Praises Falwell, Offers No Hints About His Political Plans — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decried a "growing culture of radical secularism" Saturday morning as he hailed the life of Liberty University's late founder …
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New York Times:
Editorial: The Immigration Deal — The immigration deal announced in the Senate last week poses an excruciating choice. It is a good plan wedded to a repugnant one. Its architects seized a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul a broken system and emerged with a deeply flawed compromise.
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Kevin Libin / National Post:
So how did it become required classroom viewing? — Even climate change experts say many of the claims in Al Gore's film are wrong. — First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class.
Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Decline and fall of the neocons — Paul Wolfowitz's departure from the World Bank signals the end of an ideological era in Washington — As Tony Blair was bidding farewell to President George W Bush in the Rose Garden on Thursday, the World Bank was preparing to kick out Paul Wolfowitz as president.
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Jonathan Leake / Times of London:
Plan to put slop bucket in every home — Ministers want a slop bucket for food waste to be placed in every kitchen under their latest plan to generate green electricity. — Instead of throwing out scraps, households would be required to store them separately for at least a week until they are collected by recycling teams.