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Bob Geiger:
After GOP Iraq-Withdrawal Filibuster, Reid Sets Aside Defense Authorization Bill — In an in-your-face response to Republicans continuing to block a full Senate vote on withdrawing American troops from Iraq, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) just moments ago set aside …
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Breaking: Reid Yanks Defense Authorization Bill To Force GOP's Hand — Ratcheting up the stakes in the wake of the GOP's successful blocking of a vote on Iraq withdrawal just moments ago, Harry Reid just announced on the Senate floor that he won't allow a vote on the entire Defense Authorization bill until …
Think Progress:
Reid Pulls Defense Authorization Bill Off The Floor, Vows To Return To Iraq Redeployment Legislation — After forcing conservatives to stand all-night and filibuster the Levin-Reed Iraq redeployment bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has pulled the entire Defense Authorization bill from consideration on the Senate floor.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Flynt Ready to Implicate Another Senator — Larry King interviewed Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt last night on how he linked Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) to an alleged prostitution ring. Flynt now says he's got information linking another U.S. Senator to a sex scandal.
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Townsend: 'I Don't Know' If Al Qaeda Was In Iraq Before The War — Yesterday's National Intelligence Estimate concluded that al Qaeda remains strong in Iraq and has been energized by the Iraq war. It stated: … Today in an interview with NPR, Homeland Security Advisor Frances Fragos Townsend argued …
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Maria Bartiromo / Business Week:
A Resolute Condoleezza Rice — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been at George W. Bush's side since he was sworn in as President in 2001, first as National Security Advisor and now as the nation's top diplomat. Like the President, she has been pilloried for not adequately recognizing …
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Lester Munson / ESPN:
Legal odds against Vick just got much longer … A grand jury indicted Atlanta Falcons' quarterback Michael Vick on Tuesday, which at least partially answers one question that has lingered since the news first broke about an alleged dogfighting operation on property owned by Vick in Virginia: Was Vick involved?
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Mark Maske / Washington Post:
Falcons' Vick Indicted In Dogfighting Case — Star QB Alleged to Have Been Highly Involved — A federal grand jury in Richmond indicted Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and three other men yesterday on charges related to their alleged operation of a dogfighting ring based at a property Vick owns in southeastern Virginia.
Zzaki / Political Punch:
Fishy behavior — People Magazine reports that former Vice President Al Gore's youngest daughter, Sarah Gore, 28, married businessman Bill Lee at the Beverly Hills Hotel earlier this month. For the rehearsal dinner, at Beverly Hills' Crustacean restaurant, executive chef Helene An prepared …
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
North to Alaska — Rep. Don Young attacked his fellow Republicans on the House floor Wednesday, as he defended education funds allocated to his home-state of Alaska. — "You want my money, my money," Young stridently declared before warning conservatives that, "Those who bite me will be bitten back."
Allison Klein / Washington Post:
Hummer Owner Gets Angry Message — Vandals Batter D.C. Man's SUV, Slash Its Tires and Scratch In an Eco Note — On a narrow, leafy street in Northwest Washington, where Prius hybrid cars and Volvos are the norm, one man bought a flashy gray Hummer that was too massive to fit in his garage.
Associated Press:
U.S.: Top al-Qaeda in Iraq leader captured — BAGHDAD (AP) — The highest-ranking Iraqi leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been arrested and told interrogators that Osama bin Laden's inner circle wields considerable influence over the Iraqi group, the U.S. command said Wednesday.
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Associated Press:US: Top al-Qaida in Iraq figure captured
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Media Matters for America:
Wash. Post's Murray: GOP won't support Iraq withdrawal because "[t]hey're just not willing to do that to the military" — On the July 18 edition of MSNBC Live, during a discussion of Senate Republicans' move blocking an up or down vote on a Democratic amendment aimed at withdrawing troops from Iraq …
Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Generation Chickenhawk: the Unauthorized College Republican Convention Tour
Ed Koch / Real Clear Politics:
I'm Done Defending the Iraq Policy — I'm bailing out. I will no longer defend the policy of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq to assist the Iraqi central government in the ongoing civil war. While our men and women in the military suffer casualties daily, the Iraqi government refuses …
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