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10:00 AM ET, July 9, 2007

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Tahira Yaqoob / Daily Mail:
Live Earth branded a foul-mouthed flop  —  Live Earth has been branded a foul-mouthed flop.  —  Organisers of the global music concert - punctuated by swearing from presenters and performers - had predicted massive viewing figures.  —  But BBC's live afternoon television coverage attracted …
Agence France Presse:
Jet-setting pop stars no problem for Live Earth fans
Discussion: Power Line
Contactmusic.com:
LIVE EARTH JOHANNESBURG OFFICIALS BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE FOR POOR TURN-OUT
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
White House Debate Rises on Iraq Pullback  —  White House officials fear that the last pillars of political support among Senate Republicans for President Bush's Iraq strategy are collapsing around them, according to several administration officials and outsiders they are consulting.
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
'Scouting' the Hill on Iraq
Discussion: The Mahablog and Brian Beutler
Russell Berman / New York Sun:
Fired McCain Aides May Be Hired by Thompson  —  WASHINGTON — The downsizing of Senator McCain's presidential campaign is coming at an opportune time for Fred Thompson, the former Tennessee senator who is likely to jump into the race officially any day now and seeking to build a campaign staff in the early primary states.
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Miles Mogulescu / The Huffington Post:   Is Fred Thompson Another Jack Abramoff?
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Does Romney have Iowa locked down?
Discussion: New York Times and MSNBC
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Job Vacancies At DHS Said To Hurt U.S. Preparedness  —  A Fourth of Top Positions Not Filled, Report Says  —  The Bush administration has failed to fill roughly a quarter of the top leadership posts at the Department of Homeland Security, creating a "gaping hole" in the nation's preparedness …
Gary Gross / Let Freedom Ring:
So Similar It'S Scary  —  Sunday evening, I read this Strib article about Keith Ellison speaking "to a gathering of atheists."  Here's a quote worth noting: … Later Sunday night, I watched a replay of Sean Hannity's interview Imam Abdul Alim Musa.  Imam Musa made some outrageous statements during …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Keith Ellison, In The Nutball Box
R.J. Hillhouse / Washington Post:
Who Runs the CIA?  Outsiders for Hire.  —  Red alert: Our national security is being outsourced.  —  The most intriguing secrets of the "war on terror" have nothing to do with al-Qaeda and its fellow travelers.  They're about the mammoth private spying industry that all but runs U.S. intelligence operations today.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Blog That Made It Big  —  The Huffington Post, Trending Up and Left  —  NEW YORK — In the high-ceilinged SoHo offices that once housed an art gallery, Rachel Sklar is juggling a slew of stories destined for the virtual pages of the Huffington Post.  —  There's her interview with author Gay Talese …
Art Moore / WorldNetDaily:
Muslims declare sovereignty over U.S., UK  —  Hear Islamic leaders in London: 'Queen Elizabeth, go to hell!'  —  Across town from the site of the recent attempted car-bomb attacks, several thousand Muslims gathered in front of the London Central Mosque to applaud fiery preachers prophesying …
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
Alas, Poor Couric  —  But pity her not.  —  F  —  rom outside the sleek glass chamber of the CBS Evening News set, you can see her: alone in a prim black pantsuit and pearls, shuffling a stack of papers at the wide, half-moon desk.  Sitting stiff and still, she looks dwarfed under …
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Tunneling Near Iranian Nuclear Site Stirs Worry  —  The sudden flurry of digging seen in recent satellite photos of a mountainside in central Iran might have passed for ordinary road tunneling.  But the site is the back yard of Iran's most ambitious and controversial nuclear facility …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Voters Excited Over '08 Campaign; Tired of It, Too  —  "I'm afraid we are going to get tired of all this hoop-de-la," said Kathy Shaffer, an elementary school teacher from Clear Lake, Iowa.  "It is too much for too long.You get tired of it.  You put mute on the commercials."
Brian C. Mooney / Boston Globe:
He's N.H.'s secret to primary primacy  —  Power to schedule is held by a master  —  CONCORD, N.H. — William M. Gardner may be the single most powerful man in the nation when it comes to setting the schedule of contests that will nominate the presidential candidates of both parties next year.
Discussion: MSNBC
Washington Post:
All Grown Up — and Going to War  —  July is a month I sincerely hoped would never come.  —  At the end of this month, my young son, my only child, deploys with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.  His departure had been six months away, three months; now it is a matter of weeks.
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The Corner:
It's All About Me  —  Here's a primal scream that appeared in today's WaPo.
Discussion: Brian Beutler
BBC:
Three guilty over 21/7 bomb plot  —  Three men have been found guilty of plotting to carry out suicide bombings on London's transport network on 21 July 2005.  —  Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, and Ramzi Mohammed, 25, were convicted of conspiracy to murder.
Discussion: Harry's Place
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Edging Away From Inner Circle, Pelosi Asserts Authority  —  In February, only a month after becoming speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi settled weeks of threats from Rep. John D. Dingell, her blustery Energy and Commerce Committee chairman, by putting in writing her assent to one of his big demands …
 
 
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John Hughes / Bloomberg:
Fitzgerald May Testify on Prosecution of Libby Case, Leahy Says
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Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Robert Pear / New York Times:
A Battle Over Expansion of Children's Insurance
Discussion: Brian Beutler
John Biemer / Chicago Tribune:
Duckworth declines 2008 race
Discussion: TIME and Swing State Project
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Increasing Rate of Foreclosures Upsets Atlanta
Discussion: The Crone Speaks
Jack Aubry / National Post:
Gomery considered alleging misconduct by Chretien: transcript
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Iraqis told to arm themselves
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The Troubled Texas GOP
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Steven Weber / The Huffington Post:
What does Al know that we don't?  —  Why, given the opportunity that's …
Discussion: Shakesville and Kevin Sullivan
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