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Michael Yon:
Bless the Beasts and Children — Where did they go? — On 29 June, American and Iraqi soldiers were again fighting side-by-side as soldiers from Charley Company 1-12 CAV, led by Captain Clayton Combs, and Iraqi soldiers from the 5th IA, closed in on a village on the outskirts of Baqubah.
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Michael Ledeen / The Corner:
The Killing Fields of Iraq — Yon's latest provides a clear picture of the terrorists' savage methods. Literally, because it's mostly photographs of what happened to a village that fell into the claws of al Qaeda. They just tore apart the villagers, their livestock, their children and women …
Washington Post:
A Political Force With Many Philosophies — Survey of Independents, Who Could Be Key in 2008, Finds Attitudes From Partisan to Apathetic — Fred Wood, a Marietta, Ohio, retiree, voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and John F. Kerry in 2004. In last year's midterm elections, he voted Republican for Senate and Democratic for governor.
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Talking Points Memo, The Moderate Voice, The Atlantic Online, Daily Kos, No Left Turns, Althouse and Prairie Weather
Faiz / Think Progress:
Lieberman Uses Foiled British Terror Plot To Push For Greater U.S. Domestic Spying — Appearing on ABC's This Week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) used the foiled terror attempts in London to call for greater domestic spying here in the United States. Lieberman said, "I hope these terrorist attacks …
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Crooks and Liars, Associated Press, The Newshoggers, Talking Points Memo, The Strata-Sphere, Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
Lynne Olson / Washington Post:
Why Winston Wouldn't Stand For W — George W. Bush always wanted to be like a wartime British prime ministers. He is. But it's not the one he had in mind. — President Bush's favorite role model is, famously, Jesus, but Winston Churchill is close behind.
Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
Pelosi lays blame for missed goals on Senate — (06-30) 04:00 PDT Washington — The problem for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't just President Bush. It's the Senate. — Pelosi sounded more apologetic than celebratory Friday when she announced with her Senate counterpart …
Curtis Raye / Political Radar:
Obama tops $30 million in second quarter — ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: A source close to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says his presidential campaign raised more than $30 million during the second quarter, which ended yesterday. — That figure tops Obama's haul during …
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Craig Murray:
Home Grown Terror — According to Willie Rae, Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police, there are clear links between today's Glasgow incident and the London car bombs. He declined to expand further, but I presume he meant more than that both events involved cars and petrol.
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NEWS.com.au:
Roswell aliens theory revived by deathbed confession — EXACTLY 60 years ago, a light aircraft was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, at a height of around 3000m. — Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light illuminated the aircraft. — Visibility was good and as pilot …
David Plouffe / Obama HQ:
The State of the Race — Less than six months ago, we began this campaign with a mission. — Barack and all of us were determined to defeat the politics of cynicism and division that is so pervasive in Washington today and replace it with a politics of unity, hope and common purpose.
New York Times:
Perspective on Her Side, Mrs. Edwards Enters Fray — Three months after Elizabeth Edwards said that her cancer had returned in inoperable form, her role and influence in John Edwards's presidential campaign is undiminished. She has made a flurry of charged public appearances …
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
Gangsta rap on death row as the US tunes out — To judge by their lyrics, gangsta rappers are adept at seeing off rivals with a bullet and their women with a slap. — But America's rappers are now trapped in a corner they don't seem able to shoot their way out of, with either weapons or words.
Free Lance-Star:
Centenary a modern sci-fi giant — PRINCE WILLIAM County—When Robert A. Heinlein opened his Colorado Springs newspaper on April 5, 1958, he read a full-page ad demanding that the Eisenhower administration stop testing nuclear weapons. The science-fiction author was flabbergasted.
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Blue Crab Boulevard
Mike Drummond / Centre Daily Times:
Civilian deaths decreasing — BAGHDAD — Iraqi civilian deaths in Baghdad dropped significantly in June, a possible indication that recent American military operations around the country and raids on car-bomb shops in the "belts" ringing the capital are starting to pay off.
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Nicholas Watt / Observer:
Blair launches stinging attack on 'absurd' British Islamists — Tony Blair has launched a powerful attack on 'absurd' British Islamists who have nurtured a false 'sense of grievance' that they are being oppressed by Britain and the United States. — In his most outspoken remarks on Islamists …
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Bush Is Told to Justify Executive Privilege — The chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees yesterday ratcheted up their fight with President Bush over documents on the firing of U.S. attorneys, sending the White House a barbed letter demanding that the president back down from a claim …
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