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5:25 PM ET, July 18, 2007

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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.
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Spineless Sages  —  Top GOP Senators Only Talk Against the War
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.
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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.
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 …
Talking Points Memo:
Hot on the...  CURIOUS TIMING  —  Hot on the heels of yesterday's release of the declassified NIE on Al Qaeda, the U.S. military in Baghdad announced today that it has captured a top leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq: … First off, the capture took place two weeks ago but was not announced until today.
The Corner:
Re: A Liberal War No More
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and INSTAPUTZ
Eric Pooley / Time:
Can Poverty Define John Edwards?  —  "This is the cause of my life," says John Edwards.  "When I die, if I've done something serious to help eradicate poverty, I'll die a happy man."  The candidate and I are riding in a minivan from Youngstown, Ohio to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Day Two of his …
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker
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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.
Pamela Geller Oshry / Atlas Shrugs:
BEST BLOGS BANNED.  TRUTH SILENCED  —  I mentioned earlier on my show that Atlas Shrugs has been banned in the UK and the EU according to Pim's Ghost.  Stranger still, the number of visits to this site generated by google search have all but disappeared in the past couple of days.
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?
Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Generation Chickenhawk: the Unauthorized College Republican Convention Tour
Bloomberg:
Obama, Clinton Draw Wall Street Donors Amid Bush Disenchantment  —  Wall Street donors are demonstrating their disenchantment with President George W. Bush and his policies on Iraq and the economy by giving more to Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than to Republican candidates.
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 …
Bradford Plumer / The New Republic:
WHY SO SECRETIVE?:  —  The Washington Post finally manages to figure out who met with Cheney's secret energy task force in 2001: … None of that is terribly surprising: It's not like anyone thought Cheney was meeting with Green Mountain Energy and Amory Lovins day after day.
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Voters unhappy with Bush; Congress: Reuters poll  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most U.S. voters think the country is on the wrong track and remain deeply unhappy with President George W. Bush and Congress, but still feel good about their finances and optimistic about the future, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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: Hot Air, Angry Bear and normblog
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 …
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
Fredo Finally Gives U.S. Attorney a Good Evaluation  —  In the Justice Department's Great Hall (the very room where giant, blue drapes covered the underdressed statuary during John Ashcroft's tenure as attorney general), an array of prosecutors, securities regulators and FBI honchos gathered yesterday …
 
 
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Jonathan Kahn / Scientific American:
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USA Today:
Defense wants $1.3B for safer vehicles
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Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com:
Ron Paul Will Place Second at Ames
Ed Koch / Real Clear Politics:
I'm Done Defending the Iraq Policy
Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
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Christian Lowe / Military.com:
Military.com Poll: War Support Waning
Reuters:
Mariane Pearl sues al Qaeda over husband's killing
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The Corner:
Re: A Liberal War No More
Joseph Carroll / Gallup Poll:
Americans' Ratings of Dick Cheney Reach New Lows
Discussion: Think Progress and First Draft
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Clinton, McCain on Senate floor on Iraq
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