Top Items:
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
AP Poll: GOP pick is 'none of the above' — WASHINGTON - And the leading Republican presidential candidate is ... none of the above. — The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that nearly a quarter of Republicans are unwilling to back top-tier hopefuls Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson …
RELATED:
Lydia Saad / Gallup Poll:
2008 Nomination Contests Holding Steady With Clinton and Giuliani on Top — No further decline in McCain's support despite rough patch on campaign trail — PRINCETON, NJ — A new Gallup survey, conducted July 12-15, 2007, finds little change from earlier this month in public preferences …
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Iran Is Found To Be a Lair of Al Qaeda — Intelligence Estimate Cites Two Councils — WASHINGTON — One of two known Al Qaeda leadership councils meets regularly in eastern Iran, where the American intelligence community believes dozens of senior Al Qaeda leaders have reconstituted …
RELATED:
CNN:
Official: Al Qaeda will use Iraq to attack U.S. — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The new National Intelligence Estimate will warn that al Qaeda will try to use its capabilities and contacts in Iraq to attack the United States, according to a senior government official.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Politico sewer — The Politico today is prominently touting on its front page another vapid, petty, and inane "news story" — the type of story which has, in just a few short months, become its hallmark: … Impressively, they followed up their Romney scoop with a hard-hitting …
Discussion:
The Politico, MSNBC, The Atlantic Online, Outside The Beltway, Wonkette, Attytood, DownWithTyranny!, The Carpetbagger Report, MyDD and The Iconic Midwest
Dan Reilly / The Politico:
Ron Paul comments stir a fuss — There's been quite a stir over an item I posted Friday about an appearance by Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul of Texas on the Alex Jones radio show. — Paul's supporters have been crying foul over the Crypt's headline to the post:
RELATED:
David Brooks / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Heroes and History — President Bush's self-confidence is the most remarkable feature of his presidency.
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, Think Progress, The Carpetbagger Report, Brilliant at Breakfast, Shakesville and MSNBC
RELATED:
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
David Brooks' field trip to the White House
David Brooks' field trip to the White House
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Democrats Maneuver To Force Iraq Votes — Senate Democratic leaders are planning a rare all-night session tonight, employing theatrics and scheduling votes that they hope will chip away at Republican resolve to back President Bush's Iraq war strategy. — Majority Leader Harry M. Reid …
Discussion:
Think Progress, MSNBC, AMERICAblog, The Moderate Voice, State of the Day, The Democratic Daily, Blue Crab Boulevard and Don Surber
RELATED:
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
No Magic Bullets For Iraq — Leave Washington in the winter, return in midsummer. First you'll be surprised by the heat, then by the humidity. Then you'll be surprised by the certainty. — Out in the world, there are shades of gray. Here inside the Beltway, there are black-and-white solutions.
RELATED:
Jim Henley / Unqualified Offerings:
Anne Applebaum Looks Also Into You
Anne Applebaum Looks Also Into You
Discussion:
Lawyers, Guns and Money
Dan Morain / Los Angeles Times:
He backs Clinton; her backers help him — Ex-Iowa Gov. Vilsack endorses senator, then receives $87,000 from her supporters to help pay off his own presidential campaign debt. — Shortly after endorsing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack received nearly $90,000 …
Washington Post:
Exit Strategies — Would Iran Take Over Iraq? Would Al-Qaeda? The Debate About How and When to Leave Centers on What Might Happen After the U.S. Goes. — If U.S. combat forces withdraw from Iraq in the near future, three developments would be likely to unfold.
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, Needlenose, IraqSlogger.com, TIME: Swampland, Salon and Norwegianity
Cornelia Dean / New York Times:
Islamic Creationist and a Book Sent Round the World — In the United States, opposition to the teaching of evolution in public schools has largely been fueled by the religious right, particularly Protestant fundamentalism. — Now another voice is entering the debate, in dramatic fashion.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Belabor the Point — Democrats find one government office they want to cut back. It's the one that exposes union corruption. — The new Democratic Congress has finally found a government agency whose budget It wants to cut: an obscure Labor Department office that monitors the compliance of unions with federal law.
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Habeas Restoration: Down To The Razor Thin Wire — I am told by a source who knows the head count that we are within a slim margin on the habeas restoration amendment — and that the vote could still go either way. It is a razor thin margin right now, which means there is no Senator whose vote can be taken for granted.
John Tierney / New York Times:
A Survival Imperative for Space Colonization — In 1993, J. Richard Gott III computed with scientific certainty that humanity would survive at least 5,100 more years. At the time, I took that as reason to relax, but Dr. Gott has now convinced me I was wrong.
Sarah Ellison / Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones, News Corp. Set Deal — Tentative $5 Billion Pact — Gets Board Vote Tonight; — Family to Meet Thursday — News Corp. reached a tentative agreement for the purchase of Dow Jones & Co. at its original $5 billion offer price. The deal will be put to the full Dow Jones board …
New York Times:
The Hand That Controls the Sock Puppet Could Get Slapped — Correction Appended — On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog — or the chief executive of a Fortune 500 company. — Or so thought John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods Market, who used a fictional identity …
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:
Politicization of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy — At the request of Sara Taylor, the former White House Director of Political Affairs, John Walters, the nation's drug czar, and his deputies traveled to 20 events with vulnerable Republican members of Congress in the months prior to the 2006 elections.
Discussion:
TPMmuckraker
Salon:
The Salon Interview: Elizabeth Edwards — So in January 2009, what's the first thing John Edwards does to make life different for poor people in America? — Well, a lot of it is a legislative agenda that needs to pass, but some of it he can do right away.