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9:50 AM ET, July 16, 2007

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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Hamas Support Melting Away  —  The degree of the self-inflicted catastrophe that Hamas created with its rebellion has come into clearer focus after polling Gaza voters.  The territory used to serve as Hamas' political power base, but now a plurality of voters support their rival, Fatah.
Discussion: Jerusalem Post and Instapundit.com
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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
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
A Life of Unrest  —  Palestinians never used to do these things to one another.
Discussion: Power Line and Israpundit
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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Dover Bitch / Hullabaloo:
Closer  —  Revisiting Digby's post on the Lieberman Amendment …
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Next Hurrah
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Hungering for Thompson  —  The sound of silence tells an interesting tale when it comes to Fred Thompson.  A week after reports emerged suggesting that the former Tennessee senator once lobbied for an abortion rights group, few leaders of the GOP's conservative wing have expressed concern.
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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 …
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?
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 …
New York Times:
Democrats Continue to Beat Republicans at the Donor Box  —  The rich got richer when it came to presidential fund-raising last quarter as the Democrats saw their big financial edge over the Republicans extend even to lesser-known candidates.  And in both parties the financial gap between the leaders and the rest of the pack widened.
Discussion: TIME
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Washington Post:
Campaigns Raise, Burn More Cash, More Quickly
Discussion: MSNBC
Washington Post:
Pakistan Truce Appears Defunct  —  Insurgents Strike Police, Troops; At Least 44 Die  —  A controversial peace deal between the Pakistani government and local tribal leaders in an area where al-Qaeda is known to be regrouping appeared to collapse Sunday, as tensions escalated and a fresh wave of bombings killed at least 44 people.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
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Jane Perlez / New York Times:   Aid to Pakistan in Tribal Areas Raises Concerns
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 …
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.
Yoonrob / CNN Political Ticker:
Clinton, Obama, Edwards bank almost $100 million  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The three Democratic presidential frontrunners have amassed nearly $100 million in their combined campaign warchests, almost triple the amount of their Republican counterparts, according to reports filed Sunday night with the Federal Election Commission.
Discussion: ABCNEWS
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.
City Journal:
On the Front Line in the War on Terrorism  —  Cops in New York and Los Angeles offer America two models for preventing another 9/11.  —  Three time zones, 3,000 miles, and a cultural galaxy apart, New York and Los Angeles face a common threat: along with Washington, D.C., they're the chief American targets of Islamic terror.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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 …
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Hamas Goes 'on Trial' in Texas in Case Over Muslim Charity  —  The federal government's largest and most aggressive effort to prosecute alleged Hamas financiers in America is to be put to the test beginning today in a Dallas courtroom.  —  Five officials of what was once …
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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Leslie Wayne / New York Times:
Edwards Embarks on Tour in South to Focus on Poverty
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Fall a Warning to All GOP Candidates: Support the War at Your Own Risk
Discussion: Right Wing News and TigerHawk
Colin Brown / The Independent:
Pull troops out now and stand up to Bush, inquiry tells Brown
Discussion: Hot Air
Kevin / Pundit Review:
Darryl Sharratt, father of exonerated Haditha Marine Lance …
Bob Schieffer / CBS News:
Baghdad Is Too Hot For Iraqi Leaders?
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
'Independent' voted off finance island?
Sharon Waxman / New York Times:
Man of the Flesh to Man of the Cloth
Discussion: Beliefnet
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Did Military and Media Mislead Us? …
Discussion: New Pairodimes
 Earlier Items: 
Ali Eteraz:
Breaking Al-Qaeda Code Islamically: New OBL Video Possibly Announcement Of His Death
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Some Democratic Senators Still Not On Board To Restore Habeas Corpus
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Senators Seek Update to Iraq Authorization
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Bush Iraq policy controlled by Bill Kristol: UPDATED with Video
Discussion: Wonkette and Brian Beutler
Uzodinma Iweala / Washington Post:
Stop Trying To 'Save' Africa
Media Matters for America:
During all-white-male Meet the Press panel, Novak claimed …
ABCNEWS:
Thompson Uses Loophole to Avoid Reporting Fundraising