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Think Progress:
Live-Blogging The Senate Iraq Filibuster — [ThinkProgress is at the Capitol building, live-blogging the all-night conservative filibuster of Iraq withdrawal legislation.] — 12:27 AM: 1,000 people gathered outside the Capitol tonight for a rally and candlelight vigil.
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Washington Post:
Senators Pull All-Nighter For Debate On Iraq War — GOP Denounces Effort As Political Theatrics — Democrats rolled out cots and ordered pizzas as they settled in for a marathon Senate debate on Iraq last night that featured numerous speeches but little chance of getting any closer to resolving the stalemate over how to end the war.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
GOP establishment rallies around Bush — The Republican establishment is rallying to the defense of President Bush and his controversial war strategy, with some GOP members of Congress cherry-picking intelligence about a resurgent Al Qaeda to buy at least two more months for Bush's Iraq strategy.
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Intelligence Puts Rationale For War on Shakier Ground — The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort.
Media Matters for America:
On Good Morning America, Sawyer falsely claimed Reid "vows to filibuster" — During the July 17 edition of ABC's Good Morning America, co-anchor Diane Sawyer falsely claimed that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) "vows to filibuster, talking all night to close out all topics besides a vote on Iraqi troop withdrawals."
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Intelligence Report Warns of al-Qaeda's Capabilities — Worldwide counterterror efforts have restrained Osama bin Laden's network from again attacking the United States, but al-Qaeda's capabilities to mount such an attack have been "protected or regenerated" partly by securing a safe haven …
Michelle Malkin:
The Senate slumber party-Open thread Update: 10:10pm Stunts and snoozes...now Lieberman speaks Update: Dems in the majority whine, "Let us vote"...11:54pm Menendez screams about "tyranny of the minority;" mocking Democrat placards Update: 12:30am Reid wants an 11:00am cloture vote …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
A look inside the war rooms on the war — Leaders are instructing Democratic lawmakers to blitz their states with anti-Bush messages as the Senate gears up for an all-night debate on Iraq withdrawal, according to an internal memo provided to The Politico by a Democratic official.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:Democrats Lack Support to Force Vote on Pullout
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The Corner:Statesman McCain — From the senator floor a few ago:
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Democrats.senate.gov:Reid: Democrats Heed Call Of American People, Continue Fight …
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Taylor Marsh
ESPN:
Falcons' Vick indicted by grand jury in dogfighting probe — Michael Vick has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the dogfighting probe of his property in Virginia. — The indictment alleges that Vick and his co-defendants began sponsoring dogfighting in early 2001 …
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Washington Post:
Papers Detail Industry's Role in Cheney's Energy Report — At 10 a.m. on April 4, 2001, representatives of 13 environmental groups were brought into the Old Executive Office Building for a long-anticipated meeting. Since late January, a task force headed by Vice President Cheney …
Satyam / Think Progress:
ABC goes 'Inside the Surge.' — Last night, ABC's Nightline aired a segment capturing a rare view from the ground of the fighting that mires U.S. troops in Baghdad. Through the lens of an embedded reporter, ABC followed several U.S. soldiers for two weeks in May, watching …
Joan Walsh / Salon:
The Salon Interview: Elizabeth Edwards — On her confrontation with Ann Coulter, why she backs gay marriage — and why Edwards is a better choice for women than Hillary Clinton. — Elizabeth Edwards listens to her husband speak at a campaign event in Concord, N.H., April 2, 2007.
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Washington Times:
Bush office is anti-Muslim, group says — A Muslim civil rights group today blamed Bush administration policies for promoting "Islamophobia" and said the "war on terror" won't stop terrorists. — "The new perception is that the United States has entered a war with Islam itself," …
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Don Surber, Jihad Watch, Riehl World View, Atlas Shrugs, Power Line, Stop The ACLU and Little Green Footballs
Rebecca Keeble / NEWS.com.au:
Gore's message loses bite — Decrease Increase - — Submit comment: — ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore's green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter's wedding in Beverly Hills. — Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass - arguably one of the world's most threatened fish species.
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