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11:20 AM ET, July 16, 2007

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The Atlantic Online:
It's Official: McCain's Press Staff Resigns  —  Sen. John McCain's top three press aides resigned this morning, Republicans close to the campaign said and one of those aides confirmed.  —  The campaign's research director and two other press staffers also stepped down.
Discussion: A Blog For All and National Review
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
More Departures From McCain '08  —  In a widely expected move, Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) press department resigned en masse today.  —  Communications director Brian Jones stepped down, along with deputies Matt David and Danny Diaz.  Research director Brian Rogers and South Carolina …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Fall a Warning to All GOP Candidates: Support the War at Your Own Risk  —  John McCain's cratering campaign is an object lesson in how to kill a candidacy in three simple steps: 1) locate the biggest foreign policy disaster in U.S. history 2) embrace it 3) implode.
USA Today:
McCain's latest political strategy: Survival
Washington Post:
Campaigns Raise, Burn More Cash, More Quickly  —  Rapid Spending Puts Some in Jeopardy Early  —  Candidates for the White House are not only raising far more than ever before, many are also spending that money as fast as they get it, leaving some close to being forced from the race almost six months before the first votes are cast.
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Yoonrob / CNN Political Ticker:
Clinton, Obama, Edwards bank almost $100 million
Discussion: ABCNEWS
New York Times:
Democrats Continue to Beat Republicans at the Donor Box
Discussion: TIME
Byron York / The Corner:
Democratic Fiscal Restraint
Discussion: Salon
Guardian:
Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran  —  Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Julian Borger  —  The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned.
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Rice Losing Internal "War" With Cheney Over Iran Military Action
Duncan Mansfield / Associated Press:
Interest flares for Thompson's papers  —  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - If one man's trash is another man's treasure, then one politician's old papers are potentially another politician's — or journalist's — gold mine.  —  Which explains why Republican Fred Thompson's previously little-noticed personal papers …
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Peter Brown / Real Clear Politics:
Dems Apparently Fear Thompson
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:   Hungering for Thompson  —  The sound of silence tells …
Associated Press:
Poll: In Gaza, Hamas popularity wanes  —  The violent takeover of the Gaza Strip has cost Hamas some support there and bolstered its rival, Fatah, according to a poll released Sunday.  —  Hamas swept through Gaza last month, vanquishing numerically superior forces aligned with Fatah leader …
Discussion: Secular Blasphemy
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Hamas Support Melting Away
Discussion: Jerusalem Post and Instapundit.com
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Execution Of Ga. Man Near Despite Recantations  —  SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Georgia man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing a police officer in 1989, even though the case against him has withered in recent years as most of the key witnesses at his trial have recanted …
Frank Luntz / Los Angeles Times:
A GOP comeback strategy  —  Way behind in the polls, the party should exploit the anti-politician mood and offer a hopeful message.  —  ALL THE BIG questions for 2008 are on the Democratic side: Can Hillary Clinton show her humanity?  Does Obama have enough experience?  Will Edwards find a cheaper barber?
USA Today:
Pentagon balked at pleas from officers in field for safer vehicles  —  Pfc. Aaron Kincaid, 25, had been joking with buddies just before their Humvee rolled over the bomb.  His wife, Rachel, later learned that the blast blew Kincaid, a father of two from outside Atlanta, through the Humvee's metal roof.
Discussion: Danger Room and MoJoBlog
The Onion:
John Edwards Vows To End All Bad Things By 2011  —  AMES, IA—In an effort to jump-start a presidential campaign that still has not broken into the top Democratic tier, former Sen. John Edwards made his most ambitious policy announcement yet at a campaign event in Iowa Monday …
Robin Toner / New York Times:
New Populism Is Spurring Democrats on the Economy  —  On Capitol Hill and on the presidential campaign trail, Democrats are increasingly moving toward a full-throated populist critique of the current economy.  —  Clearly influenced by some of their most successful candidates …
Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Cunningham report portrays entangled panel  —  The still-unreleased findings say intelligence committee aides were used by the California congressman, now in prison for bribery.  —  WASHINGTON — An internal investigation that the House Intelligence Committee has refused to make public portrays …
Kwang-Tae Kim / Associated Press:
IAEA confirms N. Korea has shut reactor  —  SEOUL, South Korea - U.N. inspectors have verified that North Korea shut down its nuclear reactor, the watchdog agency's chief said Monday, the first on-the-ground achievement toward scaling back Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions since the international standoff began in late 2002.
 
 
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Robert Moore / Coloradoan Online:
Musgrave, liberals agree
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Mahdi Army, Not Al-Qaeda, is Enemy No. 1 in Western Baghdad
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Walter Mellon / Blog You Like a Hurricane:
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Newsweek:
Dilemma: How does U.S. get out of Iraq?
Discussion: Eschaton and Booman Tribune
Leslie Wayne / New York Times:
Edwards Embarks on Tour in South to Focus on Poverty
Washington Post:
Pakistan Truce Appears Defunct
City Journal:
On the Front Line in the War on Terrorism
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Hamas Goes 'on Trial' in Texas in Case Over Muslim Charity
Discussion: Power Line
Colin Brown / The Independent:
Pull troops out now and stand up to Bush, inquiry tells Brown
Discussion: Hot Air
Sharon Waxman / New York Times:
Man of the Flesh to Man of the Cloth
Discussion: Beliefnet