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Washington Post:
Three Top Democrats Share Lead In Iowa Poll — Less than six months before Iowa voters open the 2008 presidential nomination battles, the Democratic contest in the Hawkeye State is a deadlock, with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards in a virtual tie for first place, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
'Net Roots' Event Becomes Democrats' Other National Convention — Last month, in a straw poll on the popular liberal blog Daily Kos, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), the front-runner for her party's presidential nomination, won only 9 percent of the vote, lagging far behind former senator John Edwards …
Charles Hurt / New York Post:
EDWARDS IN A BIZ HATE & $WITCH — John Edwards, who yesterday demanded Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., himself earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one of the media mogul's companies. — The Edwards campaign …
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
House erupts in chaos — In a massive flare-up of partisan tensions, Republicans walked out on a House vote late Thursday night to protest what they believed to be Democratic maneuvers to reverse an unfavorable outcome for them. — The flap represents a complete breakdown in parliamentary procedure …
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The Influence Peddler, Power Line, Comments From Left Field, Betsy's Page and Outside The Beltway
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
What Happened in the House Last Night?
What Happened in the House Last Night?
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The Sundries Shack
The New Republic:
A Statement on Scott Thomas Beauchamp — Scott Thomas Beauchamp is a U.S. Army private serving in Iraq. He came to THE NEW REPUBLIC's attention through Elspeth Reeve, a TNR reporter-researcher, whom he later married. Over the course of the war, we have tried to provide our readers with a sense of Iraq as it is seen by the troops.
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Weekly Standard, National Review, Betsy's Page, Hot Air, TIME: Swampland, JunkYardBlog, Shakespeare's Sister, New York Observer, The Huffington Post, baldilocks, QandO, Volunteer Opinion Journal, Op For, Riehl World View, Solomonia, Wake up America, A Blog For All, The Corner, Redstate, The Carpetbagger Report, Winds of Change.NET, Left in the West, Jeff Emanuel, protein wisdom, Say Anything, PrairiePundit and The Atlantic Online
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Dean Barnett / Townhall.com:
Franklin Foer and Co. Keep Digging
Franklin Foer and Co. Keep Digging
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Weekly Standard, Shakespeare's Sister, The Atlantic Online, The Corner, QandO and Washington Monthly
Washington Post:
Ruling Limited Spying Efforts — Move to Amend FISA Sparked by Judge's Decision — A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly declared a key element of the Bush administration's wiretapping efforts illegal, according to a lawmaker and government sources …
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Opinion Journal:
'Get Smart' in Washington — Democrats pretend to be serious about intelligence. — Imagine this scenario: U.S. intelligence against al Qaeda has declined by two-thirds because of court restrictions, and President Hillary Rodham Clinton is asking Congress to fix the problem.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Chris Dodd Smacks Down O'Reilly about Daily Kos: The VIDEO — Continuing on Nicole's post, I've got the video of Dodd doing a great job of sticking up for Daily Kos in an excellent way. He told the truth. And when propagandists like BillO are confronted with the truth—heads explode.
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Agence France Presse:
Pakistan slams 'ignorant' Obama attack warning — ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan accused Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama of "sheer ignorance" for threatening to launch US military strikes against Al-Qaeda on Pakistani soil. — Obama warned Wednesday that if he is elected president …
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The Politico, The Daily Whim, ABCNEWS, The Moderate Voice, QandO, Flopping Aces and The Atlantic Online
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Obama, Clinton in new flap, over nuclear weapons
Obama, Clinton in new flap, over nuclear weapons
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In From the Cold, Counterterrorism Blog, Doug Ross, The Belmont Club, The Caucus and rubber hose
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Gates Offers Blunt Review of Progress in Iraq — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that he was discouraged by the resignation of the Sunnis from Iraq's cabinet and that the Bush administration might have misjudged the difficulty of achieving reconciliation between Iraq's sectarian factions.
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Crooks and Liars
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Daniel Finkelstein / Comment Central:
Take your pick — a. This is a brilliant idea, providing an unknown candidate with a cut-through gimmick that helps him be remembered. The campaign strategist is a genius. — b. This is a lamentable idea, making a no-hope candidate look ridiculous, diminish his effectiveness …
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Fausta's blog
Counterterrorism Blog:
CAIR Executive Director Placed at HAMAS Meeting — The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, participated in a three-day summit of U.S.-based HAMAS members and supporters in 1993. — Until now, he had been identified only as Nihad LNU (last name unknown) in FBI reports and analyses.
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JunkYardBlog
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Maliki's Impact Blunted By Own Party's Fears — Hussein-Era Secrecy Persists, Analysts Say — BAGHDAD — As the U.S. military attempts to pacify Iraq so its leaders can pursue political reconciliation, Iraqi and Western observers say Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his inner circle …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Judge Backs C.I.A. in Suit on Memoir — Valerie Wilson may be the best known former intelligence operative in recent history, but a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that she was not allowed to say how long she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency in the memoir she plans to publish this fall.
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Taegan Goddard's …
Jerusalem Post:
'Egyptians killed 4 Sudanese on border' — Egyptian soldiers killed four Sudanese refugees near the Egypt-Israel border overnight Wednesday in full view of IDF troops, a shaken-sounding IDF soldier said in an interview with Channel 10, Thursday evening. — According to the soldier …
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq (Updated) — Robots have been roaming the streets of Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any warzone — the machines are carrying guns. — After years of development, three "special weapons observation …