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8:00 AM ET, July 19, 2007

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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Billing Records Resurrected?  (Updated & Bumped)  —  The Los Angeles Times will report in the next day or so that billing records have been found at Arent Fox which show some consultations between Fred Thompson and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
MORE ADO ABOUT NOTHING  —  Tomorrow's New York Times tries to keep alive the "issue" of Fred Thompson's work on behalf of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association.  The Arent Fox law firm has apparently found its billing records and provided them to the Times …
Discussion: TBogg and The Corner
CNN:
Study group chair: Hit al Qaeda in Pakistan  —  (CNN) — U.S. forces should go into Pakistan to rout al Qaeda from the safe haven it has found in the mountains on the border with Afghanistan, a co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group said.  —  Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, who also served …
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Katy Byron / CNN:
Transformer explosion rattles Manhattan  —  NEW YORK (CNN) — One person died and 26 were injured after a steam pipe burst in midtown Manhattan Wednesday, causing a transformer to explode and sending thick plumes of steam and ash into the air near Grand Central Terminal, New York officials said.
Discussion: Blogs of War and On Deadline
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Bush: No Deal On Children's Health Plan  —  President Says He Objects On Philosophical Grounds  —  President Bush yesterday rejected entreaties by his Republican allies that he compromise with Democrats on legislation to renew a popular program that provides health coverage to poor children …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
George Bush Leaves Children Behind In Health Insurance Proposal Stance
Discussion: Kiko's House
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."
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Laura McGann / TPMmuckraker:
Young Threatens To Bite NJ Rep. Like An Alaskan Mink
A'Melody Lee / Political Radar:
Sex Ed for Kindergarteners 'Right Thing to Do,' Says Obama  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do."
Lewis Z. Koch / Firedoglake:
Whose Conspiracy?  —  The government has concluded its case against Jose Padilla and yesterday, to no one's surprise U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Cooke refused a defense request for directed verdict of not guilty.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Frazier claimed "I think it is a very tightly knit conspiracy."
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Warren Richey / Christian Science Monitor:   Without a plot, is Padilla guilty?
Edith Honan / Reuters:
Ex-Cheney aide gets 10 years in prison in spy case  —  NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A former White House official who took top secret documents from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office and gave them to opposition figures in the Philippines was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison.
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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 …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Angry Bear
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:   From Maria Bartiromo's...
Dennis Prager / Front Page Magazine:
History Will Harshly Judge Those for Iraq Withdrawal  —  Name:  —  SusieQ  —  Letter from a conservative  —  A reluctant goodbye to WND  —  " I was very reluctant to write this letter because it is so negative, but I've reached the point in which I can no longer stay silent.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Vive La Resistance
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Candidates Shift as G.O.P. Field Alters  —  The decline of John McCain's presidential campaign, and the rising profile of Fred D. Thompson as a prospective contender, are forcing candidates to rewrite their strategies as they adjust to a playing field vastly different from just one month ago.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI remotely installs spyware to trace bomb threat  —  The FBI used a novel type of remotely installed spyware last month to investigate who was e-mailing bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Wash.  —  Federal agents obtained a court order on June 12 to send spyware called CIPAV …
Sonya Geis / Washington Post:
Witness Testifies Marine Knowingly Shot Children in Haditha  —  One of the Marines charged with murdering civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 knew that only women and children were huddled in a back bedroom in a house there, but he opened the door and shot them anyway, a squadmate testified Tuesday.
Andrew G. Bostom / American Thinker:
Recognition for the Silent Jewish Refugees  —  The bicameral Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) will hold a landmark hearing on Thursday July 19th regarding the hundreds of thousands of Jews forced to flee their communities in the Arab Muslim nations as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Discussion: The Corner
 
 
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