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10:00 AM ET, July 18, 2007

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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.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Lack Support to Force Vote on Pullout  —  A handful of Republicans who have distanced themselves from President Bush on the war in Iraq refused Tuesday to back a plan to withdraw American troops from the conflict, leaving Senate Democrats short of the support needed to force a vote on their proposal.
Washington Post:
Senators Debate Iraq War in Overnight Session  —  GOP Denounces Effort As Political Theatrics  —  A handful of U.S. senators sustained a marathon all-night debate on Iraq overnight, alternating speechmaking on the Senate floor with snatches of sleep in makeshift dorm rooms or, in some cases …
Discussion: Wonkette and Hot Air
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Republicans Call Reid's Bluff
Karina / The Gavel:
Candlelight Call to Action
Discussion: NonParty Politics and Daily Kos
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.
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Read It and Weep  —  EVEN BUSH'S INTELLIGENCE REPORT SAYS THE WAR IN IRAQ IS MAKING US LESS SAFE AT HOME.  —  The National Intelligence Estimate that was released today—titled "The Terrorist Threat to the Homeland"—amounts to a devastating critique of the Bush administration's policies on Iraq, Iran, and the terrorist threat itself.
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The National Intelligence Estimate
Discussion: News Hounds
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Six Years Later, the Same Threat
Discussion: MSNBC and AMERICAblog
New York Times:
The Politics of Fear
Michael Saul / NY Daily News:
Attorneys in Rudy firm buck boss  —  With partners like these, who needs enemies?  —  Rudy Giuliani is a named partner at Bracewell & Giuliani, but that hasn't stopped some of the law firm's attorneys from backing his rivals for President.  —  Nearly one-third of the firm's attorneys …
Discussion: MSNBC
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
R. Milhous Giuliani  —  With the same rootless confidence that causes people to ignore hurricane warnings, many social conservatives remain in denial about Rudy Giuliani's chances of winning the Republican nomination.  —  But with three debates and eight months as the Republican front-runner under his belt …
Discussion: MSNBC and TIME: Swampland
Tina Daunt / Los Angeles Times:
Winfrey, Obama just the ticket
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Edwards risks backing the poor  —  It is just after Christmas in 2003 and John Edwards is running hard for president of the United States.  —  He is in Iowa, with the caucuses about three weeks away.  Pundits, guided by a massive disinformation campaign, have decided that Howard Dean is going to win Iowa.
Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:
Lawmaker admits error in Nazi reference  —  WASHINGTON - The nation's first Muslim congressman said Tuesday that he erred in comparing the Bush administration's response to Sept. 11 to an event that led to Adolf Hitler's consolidation of power in Nazi Germany.
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com and Hot Air
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Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Reps. Cantor, Wamp blast Ellison for 9/11 comments
Associated Press:
US: Top al-Qaida in Iraq figure captured  —  BAGHDAD - The U.S. command said Wednesday the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested, adding that information from him indicates the group's foreign-based leadership wields considerable influence over the Iraqi chapter.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Gateway Pundit
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Spineless Sages  —  Top GOP Senators Only Talk Against the War  —  Anyone searching for the highest forms of invertebrate life need look no further than the floor of the U.S. Senate last week and this.  These spineless specimens go by various names — Republican moderates …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Firedoglake and Daily Kos
Carlin Romano / Chronicle of Higher Education:
If We Don't Call Them Names, the Terrorists Win  —  After the terrorist near misses in London and Glasgow, British officials did the expected.  They raised their nation's threat-assessment level.  They weighed the balance between civil liberties and new, tougher security measures.
Discussion: Angry Bear
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.
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 …
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
White House Had Drug Officials Appear With GOP Candidates  —  White House officials arranged for top officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy to help as many as 18 vulnerable Republican congressmen by making appearances and sometimes announcing new federal grants …
Discussion: TIME: Swampland and TBogg
 
 
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Jacqueline L. Salmon / Washington Post:
Christian Fantasy Genre Builds Niche Without Hogwarts, Muggles or Spells
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Associated Press:
Senator questions Border Patrol deadly force
Joe / Climate Progress:
2007: First or second hottest year on record so far
Discussion: Think Progress
David Freddoso / The Corner:
WOW! GEORGIA-10
Discussion: sos.georgia.gov and Redstate
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Earmarks gone wild
CNN:
YouTube politics: Candidates lose control
John Stossel / Real Clear Politics:
Where Michael Moore is Wrong
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Richard Beeston / Times of London:
Security services 'foil plot to kill Berezovsky at the London Hilton'
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
David Corn / Washington Post:
Why Bush Is A Loser  —  Who knew Bill Kristol had such a flair for satire?
Gregg Easterbrook / The Huffington Post:
Greatest Living American Ignored
San Diego Union-Tribune:
Imprisoned Cunningham outlines depths of corruption to FBI
Larry Kudlow / The Corner:
Triumphant Goldilocks  —  The big theme in today's Dow crossing …
ESPN:
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Financial Times:
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