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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
American Grit — We can't fire the president right now, so we're waiting it out. — It's been a slow week in a hot era. I found myself Thursday watching President Bush's news conference and thinking about what it is about him, real or perceived, that makes people who used to smile at the mention of his name now grit their teeth.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Vive La Resistance — Peggy Noonan formally joins the resistance today. Welcome! Money quote: … And unnerving. I've gone through the same cycle as Peggy, just a little sooner. I'm just alternately very angry and very sad now, and trying to figure out how we can repair the damage - globally and domestically.
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Associated Press:
Clinton, Edwards talk of limiting debate — DETROIT (AP) - Democrats John Edwards and Hillary Rodham Clinton consider themselves among the top presidential candidates. — They were caught by Fox News microphones discussing their desire to limit future joint appearances to exclude some lower rivals after a forum in Detroit Thursday.
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New York Post:
FRED MEETS WITH RUDY'S FIRE FOES — Likely Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson hit Rudy Giuliani's turf yesterday, talking with the city firefighters-union chief who's going all out to derail the former mayor's 2008 candidacy. — Thompson had breakfast with Uniformed Firefighters …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Deserting Petraeus — "The key to turning [Anbar] around was the shift in allegiance by tribal sheiks. But the sheiks turned only after a prolonged offensive by American and Iraqi forces, starting in November, that put al-Qaeda groups on the run." — Finally, after four terribly long years, we know what works.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Hold Your Fire and Brimstone — Perhaps because no one else will do it, I want to offer a qualified defense of Sen. David Vitter, the socially conservative Louisiana Republican who faces a bit of a problem. — Vitter admitted Monday night to a "very serious sin in my past" …
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Elana Schor / The Hill:
Ethics groups blame AWOL McConnell — Frustrated by Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) vow to hold up ethics conference talks until earmark reforms are enacted, Democrats and watchdog groups are pointing a finger at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). — McConnell is standing idle …
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Bloomberg:
Conrad Black, Three Codefendants Convicted of Fraud — Conrad Black, former chief executive officer of Hollinger International Inc., was found guilty of defrauding the newspaper publisher, becoming the latest CEO convicted in a five-year U.S. crackdown on corporate crime.
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Allison Klein / Washington Post:
A Gate-Crasher's Change of Heart — The Guests Were Enjoying French Wine and Cheese on a Capitol Hill Patio. When a Gunman Burst In, the Would-Be Robbery Took an Unusual Turn. — A grand feast of marinated steaks and jumbo shrimp was winding down, and a group of friends was sitting …
Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Plan B Use Surges, And So Does Controversy — The popularity of the morning-after pill Plan B has surged in the year since the federal government approved the sale of the controversial emergency contraceptive without a prescription. — Plan B sales have doubled since the Food …
Victor Davis Hanson / City Journal:
The New York Times Surrenders A monument to defeatism on the editorial page — On July 8, the New York Times ran an historic editorial entitled "The Road Home," demanding an immediate American withdrawal from Iraq. It is rare that an editorial gets almost everything wrong, but "The Road Home" pulls it off.
Agence France Presse:
Churchill dropped from England's history syllabus — Britain's World War II prime minister Winston Churchill has been cut from a list of key historical figures recommended for teaching in English secondary schools, a government agency says. — The radical overhaul of the school curriculum …
hughhewitt.townhall.com:
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman understands the war better than all the other Democrats, and better than a handful of Republicans. — The Hugh Hewitt Show — HH: Pleased to welcome now to the Hugh Hewitt Show Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Senator, good to have you, thanks for joining us.
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David Blair / Telegraph:
Musharraf declares war on Muslim extremists — President Pervez Musharraf pledged to combat Muslim extremists across Pakistan yesterday as furious crowds demonstrated against the storming of the Red Mosque and two suicide bomb attacks left six dead. — In a televised address to the nation …
John Holusha / New York Times:
New York Times Journalist Killed in Baghdad — Khalid W. Hassan, 23, an interpreter and reporter in the Baghdad bureau of The New York Times, was shot and killed today, the bureau chief, John F. Burns, reported. He was the second Iraqi employee of the Times to be killed during the current conflict.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
What Atheists Can't Answer — British author G.K. Chesterton argued that every act of blasphemy is a kind of tribute to God, because it is based on belief. "If anyone doubts this," he wrote, "let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor."