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10:00 AM ET, July 14, 2007

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The Blotter:
Exclusive: Terror Commander: New Attack Will Dwarf Failed Bomb Plot  —  Brian Ross and Maddy Sauer Report:  —  As senior intelligence and law enforcement officials met again today in the White House Situation Room to deal with the "summer terror threat," a top terror commander said an attack …
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Ynetnews:
Iranians arrest 14 squirrels for spying  —  Islamic Republic's intelligence agents allege rodents were carrying advanced Western spy gear  —  Iranian intelligence operatives recently detained over a dozen squirrels found within the nation's borders, claiming the rodents were serving as spies …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
AP Poll: Public gives Congress low marks  —  WASHINGTON — In the eyes of the public, Congress is doing even worse than the president.  —  Public satisfaction with the job lawmakers are doing has fallen 11 points since May, to 24 percent, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.
Discussion: Riehl World View
David Litterick / Telegraph:
Conrad Black guilty of multiple fraud charges  —  Conrad Black, the former media tycoon, last night faced years in jail after an American jury found him guilty of criminal fraud and obstructing justice.  —  Conrad Black arrives at court before the verdicts were delivered
Discussion: Samizdata.net
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Washington Post:
Rivalries Split McCain's Team  —  After Months of Staff Fights, Rick Davis Emerges as the Leader of a Diminished Campaign  —  After weeks of internal struggles over who would run John McCain's presidential campaign, three key aides went to the candidate in January and told him he had to take action.
Deacon / Power Line:
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOT MUCH, PART TWO  —  It occurs to me that my discussion of lobbying Fred Thompson may have performed in 1991 on behalf of an abortion rights group is somewhat superficial.  It's true that traditionally in this country lawyers are not identified with the positions of their clients.
Discussion: TBogg
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MattC / race42008.com:
Thompson's Trouble With Abortion
Discussion: The Corner
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Public Defenders Get Better Marks When on Salary  —  Some poor people accused of federal crimes are represented by full-time federal public defenders who earn salaries, others by court-appointed lawyers who bill by the hour.  A new study from an economist at Harvard says there is a surprisingly wide gap …
Discussion: The RBC and TalkLeft
Richard Allen Greene / The Politico:
Kucinich challenges Edwards and Clinton  —  Dennis Kucinich has challenged Hillary Clinton and John Edwards each to debate him one on one.  —  He has been on the warpath since the two were caught on open mics yesterday at the NAACP debate, apparently proposing to have debates without the long-shot candidates.
Discussion: The Daily Background
Bob Geiger:
The Saturday Cartoons  —  Oh, boy, are you all in for a good time with today's animation.  Our friend Nick Anderson at the Houston Chronicle does some unique mixing of cartoon animation and still pictures and comes up with a winner that's both poignant and funny.  Have a look:
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
McCain's Florida Campaign Co-Chair Arrested For Solicitation  —  Another day, another sex scandal involving a god-fearing republican who just happened to be a key supporter of John McCain.  That and the fact that this legislator had also co-sponsored bills on public sex is pretty much par for the course with these guys.
Discussion: State of the Day
Atrios / Eschaton:
Late Night  —  Reader s sent this in.  —  ...it's Glenn Gould, late in life, performing the first 7 of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Satyam / Think Progress:
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:   Benchmarks and Bickering: Where Are Dems on Iraqi Security?
David Beckham / CNN:
Release of tape in teen sex case may violate child-porn law  —  ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — A federal prosecutor wants a Georgia district attorney to stop giving out copies of a videotape used as evidence in a teenage sex case that has drawn national attention.
AlterNet.org:
Republican State Rep. Exposed Himself to Female Employee, Chased Her Screaming, "Suck It"  —  Howie Klein: Another Republican sex scandal.  Rep. David Almond (R-NC) is forced to resign after a "personal complaint" comes to light.  —  This post, written by Howie Klein, originally appeared on Down With Tyranny!
Paul Joseph Watson / Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com:
Ron Paul: U.S. In "Great Danger" Of Staged Terror  —  Congressman & presidential candidate warns of economic collapse precipitated by bombing of Iran  —  Presidential candidate Ron Paul says the U.S. is in "great danger" of a staged terror attack or a Gulf of Tonkin style provocation …
Discussion: Human Voices and Hot Air
Wall Street Journal:
We're Number One, Alas  —  Some good news on the tax cutting front: Last week lawmakers approved an 8.9 percentage point reduction in the corporate income tax rate.  Too bad the tax cutters are Germans, not Americans.  —  There's a trend here.  At least 25 developed nations …
Discussion: Economist's View
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Aaron Mannes / Counterterrorism Blog:
CAIR & Hamas: Implications and an Illustration
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: An Unjustified Privilege
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Booman Tribune:
Karbala Kidnapping: Another Lie Exposed
Business Week:
When Do You Stop The Presses?  —  Why the San Francisco Chronicle …
Discussion: CBS News and Attytood
New York Times:
The Land of Opportunity?
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Al Qaeda and its role in the Iraq insurgency
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Iraqi Military's Readiness Slips
Discussion: ThreatsWatch and On Deadline
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
New GOP bill challenges Bush Iraq policy
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Lieberman: Bush's 'Ratings Among Historians Will Be Greater …
Editor and Publisher:
EXCLUSIVE — Novak on C-SPAN: "I'm Never Going to Retire"
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
An American al Qaeda Devotee in New York
John W. Dean / FindLaw's Writ:
Harriet Miers's Contempt of Congress: Are Conservatives About To …
USA Today:
McCain can still joke about his troubles: 'I fired 'em all' he quips
Arlen Parsa / The Daily Background:
Exclusive: "Swift Boat" Ad Firm Linked to Viral Videos
hughhewitt.townhall.com:
Michael Yon reports from Baquba, Iraq that the surge appears to be working.
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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