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9:50 PM ET, July 31, 2007

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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
BREAKING... Home Depot dumps O'Reilly: "We will not... advertise on the Bill O'Reilly show"  —  Home Depot seems to have had a change of heart.  They're now unequivocally telling their customers that they will not advertise on Bill O'Reilly's show.  Oddly, however, they're now also claiming …
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Mike Stark / Daily Kos:
I just returned from Falafel Bill's house  —  After O'Reilly provided an "accountability moment" to the JetBlue CEO at his home, I decided to provide O'Reilly with his own accountability moment at his home.  —  I've just returned to home base.  —  I've got video of O'Reilly in his sleepwear (red shorts and a white t-shirt).
Dan / Riehl World View:   But, We're Winning, Right?
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Stevens threatens to block ethics bill  —  Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, whose home back in Alaska was raided by federal investigators Monday in a wide-ranging corruption investigation, has threatened to place a hold on the Democratic-drafted ethics legislation just passed by the House and expected on the Senate floor by week's end.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
HULK SMASH DANA BASH
Discussion: Think Progress
The Raw Story:
'Conflict' keeps Rumsfeld from Tillman hearing  —  Update: This story has been updated to reflect comment from the Oversight Committee's Republican staff.  Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will not testify at a hearing scheduled for Wednesday on the friendly fire death …
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Ken Layne Needs To Drum Up Weak Traffic At Wonkette, So He Endorses Strong-Form of Tillman Assassination Theory  —  And of course the hits are flying in.  —  So annoying that a sissyblog like Wonkette can get all the traffic from the left any day they choose simply by deciding to be insane.
DemocracyInAction.com:
Join Veterans in Writing President to Come Clean on Tillman
Discussion: Think Progress
Associated Press:
Retired general censured in Tillman case
Discussion: The Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
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White House:
Interview of the Vice President by Larry King, CNN  —  Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building  —  Q We're located in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office; it's in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, with the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney.
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
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Candy Crowley / CNN:   Thompson fundraising not blowing rivals away
Faiz / Think Progress:
Breaking: White House releases letter on NSA program.  —  After missing the noon deadline imposed by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the White House has released a statement seeking to resolve the discrepancies in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' contradictory statements about the NSA warrantless wiretapping program.
Discussion: TalkLeft
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The Raw Story:
White House releases NSA letter hours after deadline  —  The White House has responded to a Republican senator's request for information about Alberto Gonzales's conflicting testimony on a secret surveillance program but not by a 12 p.m. Tuesday deadline, CNN reported.
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New York Times:
Murdoch Seen to Win Control of Dow Jones  —  Rupert Murdoch appeared today to have gained enough support from the deeply divided Bancroft family to buy Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, for $5 billion.  —  Family members and trusts representing about 32 percent …
Richard Lardner / Associated Press:
Pentagon Announces Iraq Troop Rotations  —  WASHINGTON — Nearly 20,000 U.S. troops based in the United States will begin departing for Iraq in December as part of the regular rotation of combat forces there, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.  —  These Army and Marine Corps units …
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The Raw Story:   20,000 MORE TROOPS INTO IRAQ  —  The Pentagon announced Tuesday …
Nicholas Wapshott / New York Sun:
Brown Disappoints Critics of Iraq War  —  Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown, has disappointed American and British critics of the war in Iraq by declaring that he believes the West is involved in a "generation-long battle" against radical Islamic terrorism, that he believes …
Discussion: Wake up America and TigerHawk
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Toby Harnden / Telegraph Blogs:
What Bush and Brown really meant
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Hearing with DNI chief canceled amid FISA furor  —  House Democrats canceled Tuesday's planned hearing with Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, prompting a rebuke from Republicans who want Congress to proceed quickly on updating a key surveillance law.
Matthew Sanchez / Matt Sanchez:
BEAUCHAMP  —  After a helicopter ride around Baghdad, this afternoon I arrived at Forward Operating Base Falcon, where the mood was somber.  The Army has begun an official investigation into The New Republic articles of the "Baghdad Diarist", Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Hot Air
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Why Pelosi Opposes Impeachment  —  If she were not in the House—and not Speaker of the House—Nancy Pelosi says she "would probably advocate" impeaching President Bush.  —  But given her current role as party leader, at a breakfast with progressive journalists today (named …
 
 
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Talese On Frey  —  The publishing industry is one of the shallowest …
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Chris Dorsey / Iowa Politics:
IowaPolitics.com: Tancredo says threat of attack on holy sites would deter terrorism
Discussion: National Review
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
Snowman Video In YouTube Debate Chills Some Politicos
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Bradley Keoun / Bloomberg:
American Home Can't Fund Mortgages, Shares Plummet
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Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
More Yahoo! China documents emerge
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James W. Brosnan / Albuquerque Tribune:
House Ethics Committee to ask Iglesias about call from Heather Wilson
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Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Too uninformed to vote?
Discussion: World-O-Crap and Hullabaloo
Peter Graff / Reuters:
U.S. forces welcome least deadly month of Iraq push
Atheling / The Brussels Journal:
The Death of Sweden
Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press:
Consumer Confidence Hits 6-Year High
Discussion: QandO and NewsBusters.org
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Hillary on needle exchange: "As much spine as we possibly can"
John Tierney / New York Times:
The Whys of Mating: 237 Reasons and Counting
Sean O'Neill / Times of London:
Guantanamo cell is better than freedom, says inmate fighting against release