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8:50 AM ET, July 9, 2007

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Rasmussen Reports:
Skeptical of Performers' Motives, Public Tunes Out Live Earth Event  —  The Live Earth concert promoted by former Vice President Al Gore received plenty of media coverage and hype, but most Americans tuned out.  Just 22% said they followed news stories about the concert Somewhat or Very Closely.
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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 …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Hot Air
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
Reuters:
Live Earth Internet streaming sets record: MSN
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Joel Gibson / Sydney Morning Herald:
Fifty bucks for a beer? It was Livid Earth in Sydney
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and State of the Day
Robert H. Reid / Associated Press:
Iraqis told to arm themselves  —  Politicians frustrated amid rising violence  —  BAGHDAD — Prominent Shi'ite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives, including 60 who died yesterday …
Discussion: New York Times
Jack Aubry / National Post:
Gomery considered alleging misconduct by Chretien: transcript  —  OTTAWA - Justice John Gomery's letter of warning to Jean Chretien in May, 2005, said an allegation of misconduct against the former prime minister was being considered in Judge Gomery's final report that would tie Mr. Chretien …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Muqtada al Sadr back in Iran  —  Muqtada al-Sadr.  —  Mahdi Army leader leaves Iraq and goes to Iran for second time this year  —  Muqtada al Sadr, the leader of the Shia Mahdi Army and the Sadrist bloc in parliament, has left Iraq and is in Iran, military sources told Reuters.
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Reuters:
Iraq's Sadr back in Iran - U.S. military sources
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 …
Raleigh News & Observer:
Blackwater manager blamed for 2004 massacre in Fallujah  —  When four Blackwater USA security guards were ambushed and massacred in Fallujah in 2004, graphic images showed the world exactly what happened: four men killed, their bodies burned and dragged through the streets.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Chicago Sun Times:
CIA leak: Now it can be told  —  Sun-Times columnist and famous Washington insider Robert Novak is one of the most controversial political reporters in America.  In the sweeping memoir The Prince of Darkness, the private man opens up for the first time about his life and career.
Daily Mail:
The terrorist who became a London traffic warden  —  A terrorist jailed for his involvement in a bomb attack on the Paris Metro - which killed eight people and wounded 80 - has been working as a traffic warden in England.  —  Mustapha Boutarfa, 32, was arrested by Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Edwards to announce poverty tour  —  Can JRE pull off a JFK, or an RFK (asks Politico chief political writer Mike Allen, who is sharing guestblogging duties while Ben is on vacation)?  John Edwards plans to announce Monday that he'll take a break from fund-raising and campaigning …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and protein wisdom
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Kristol: Bush Timed Clemency To Get Political Cover By Attacking Clinton
Discussion: Angry Bear and Norwegianity
Associated Press:
Pennsylvania government partially shuts down
New York Times:
The Public Editor  —  Clark Hoyt became The Times's third public editor on May 14, 2007.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Ron Paul on This Week
Jonathan Gurwitz / Opinion Journal:
The Troubled Texas GOP
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Steven Weber / The Huffington Post:
What does Al know that we don't?  —  Why, given the opportunity that's …
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Justice Secures His Place as a Critic of Integration
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
On the Wrong Side of 5 to 4, Liberals Talk Tactics
Discussion: Althouse
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Michael Daly / NY Daily News:
Son is Gore's Al-batross
Dean Baker / American Prospect:
Jobs Report: Sagging Employment Rates
Dean Nelson / Times of London:
Brainwashed children plead to die as martyrs in Red Mosque siege
Maha / The Mahablog:
The Wisdom of Doubt, Part V
Telegraph:
Islamic charity linked to car bomb suspect
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Why She Still Rocks  —  Madonna turns La Isla Bonita …
Florida Times Union:
Files show talks on 'vote caging'
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Her Jewish State  —  Soon after our first meeting in her Spartan office …
 

 
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A UK CMA report finds that Apple's policies hold back innovation in mobile browsers and recommends investigating Apple and Google's mobile ecosystem activities

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