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2:55 PM ET, July 21, 2007

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Washington Post:
The Phony Debate  —  THE SENATE Democratic leadership spent the past week trying to prove that Congress is deeply divided over Iraq, with Democrats pressing and Republicans resisting a change of course.  In fact that's far from the truth.  A large majority of senators from both parties favor …
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Margaret Talev / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Senate tied in knots by filibusters  —  WASHINGTON — This year Senate Republicans are threatening filibusters to block more legislation than ever before, a pattern that's rooted in — and could increase — the pettiness and dysfunction in Congress.  —  The trend has been evolving for 30 years.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Bush Approves New CIA Methods  —  President Bush set broad legal boundaries for the CIA's harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects yesterday, allowing the intelligence agency to resume a program that was suspended last year after criticism that it violated U.S. and international law.
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Rules Lay Out C.I.A.'s Tactics in Questioning
Discussion: Power Line, TalkLeft and Reuters
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
C.I.A. Allowed to Resume Interrogations
Discussion: Ezra Klein and White House
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Court Tells U.S. to Reveal Data on Detainees at Guantánamo  —  A federal appeals court ordered the government yesterday to turn over virtually all its information on Guantánamo detainees who are challenging their detention, rejecting an effort by the Justice Department …
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Matt Apuzzo / The Huffington Post:
Judges Seek All Gitmo Detainee Evidence
Discussion: The Sideshow
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Chief Justice Is Reinstated in Pakistan
Discussion: WorkingForChange
Washington Post:
Fight Over Documents May Favor Bush, Experts Say  —  Contempt Charge Precedents Cited in Firings Case  —  The Bush administration's vow this week to block contempt charges from Congress could prove to be a successful strategy for protecting White House documents about the multiple firings of U.S. attorneys …
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Chris Weigant / The Huffington Post:
White House Declares Bush Emperor
Discussion: Burnt Orange Report
New York Times:
A White House Warning on Contempt Charges
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker and MyDD
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
On Why So Few Bloggers Have Endorsed In 2008  — Part One: New Establishment Rising: The End Of The Flat Blogosphere  — Part Two: New Establishment Rising: Why So Few Bloggers Have Endorsed in 2008  —  Taking a quick look at The Liberal Blog Advertising Network …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
They Don't Really Support the Troops  —  The latest from the New Republic and the Nation.  —  Cindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier who was killed in Iraq, emerged on the American political scene two years ago.  Distraught and unstable, she was shamelessly exploited by opponents of George W. Bush …
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Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:   Aside from the tragedy of the war itself, one of the more …
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
The Pentagon Gets a Lesson From Madison Avenue  —  U.S. Needs to Devise a Different 'Brand' to Win Over the Iraqi People, Study Advises  —  In the advertising world, brand identity is everything.  Volvo means safety.  Colgate means clean.  IPod means cool.
Online NewsHour:
Senate Debates Iraq Withdrawal; Report Shows Al-Qaida Regrouping  —  As the Senate debated different proposals for redeploying troops from Iraq, the National Intelligence Estimate revealed that al-Qaida is regrouping despite the war on terrorism.  Political analysts Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the week's events.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
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Faiz / Think Progress:
David Brooks: 'I'm so confused' about what to do in Iraq.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
KAL / Democracy in America:
Bald eagles  —  Our political cartoonist casts his eye towards the presidential campaign  —  A GROWING number of Republicans are hoping that Fred Thompson, a former senator and television actor, will throw his hat into the presidential ring.  Should he do so, he'd be wise to keep his head …
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The Pentagon Insults Hillary Clinton  —  BIG MISTAKE.  —  The extraordinary exchange of letters between Sen. Hillary Clinton and the undersecretary of defense for policy may turn out to be a signal event in the congressional debate over the Iraq war—and possibly in the 2008 presidential election.
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Breaking: Gates Distances Himself From Edelman's Attack On Hillary Clinton
Nigel Bunyan / Telegraph:
Binman's St George bandana 'is racist'  —  A black dustman has been banned from wearing a St George's Cross bandana because council officials say it could be regarded as racist.  —  Matthew Carter, 35, who was born in Barbados, used the headgear to keep his dreadlocks out of the way while he was on his rounds in Burnley, Lancs.
Discussion: Harry's Place
CNN:
Doctors remove polyps from Bush's colon  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush on Saturday reclaimed his presidential power from Vice President Dick Cheney after undergoing a routine colonoscopy, a White House spokesman said.  —  Five polyps were found in the examination, spokesman Scott Stanzel said.
Discussion: Wonkette
Faiz / Think Progress:
Sen. Sununu: I Don't Want President Bush To Campaign With Me  —  The New York Times writes this morning that conservatives are trying to walk a fine line between supporting and distancing themselves from President Bush: … One of those conservative trying to strike this delicate balance is Sen. John Sununu (R-NH).
Discussion: New York Times
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Bloggers Raise Red Flags Over New Republic's 'Baghdad Diarist'  —  The column in the New Republic, described as being penned by a U.S. soldier in Iraq, is filled with tales of petty, stomach-churning behavior.  —  The "Baghdad Diarist," writing under the pseudonym Scott Thomas, says he was …
 
 
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Weekly Standard:
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Discussion: The Corner
Jules Crittenden:
Pelosi Pageturner  —  In the offing.  Seems a little early for that.
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Federal minimum wage rising this week
Discussion: Three Wise Men
Cliff Schecter:
Once You Join The GOP, You Can Never Leave The Family
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Joe Conason / Reuters:
Rudy and Romney: Artful dodgers
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
Editor and Publisher:
'NYT': Ron Paul for President — Of the 'Wackos'?
Amy Lorentzen / Associated Press:
Romney backs interrogation, Patriot Act
Google:
Google Intends to Bid in Spectrum Auction If FCC Adopts Consumer …
Karol / Alarming News:
"Sometimes I can't believe it when I look up in the mirror"
Discussion: QandO