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3:50 PM ET, August 3, 2007

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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 …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Another Do-As-I-Say Moment For Edwards
Discussion: TVNewser
ABCNEWS:
Poll Finds Dems Neck and Neck in Iowa
Steven Stark / Real Clear Politics:
Does Edwards Need an Ivy Education?
Discussion: Ezra Klein
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 Corner:
JUST PLAIN CHEATING  —  They just replayed the whole mess …
Discussion: Wake up America
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Confederate Yankee:
Breaking: Kuwait-Based Army PAO Calls Beauchamp/New Republic Claim an "Urban Legend or Myth"  —  I've been silent on the New Republic's latest attempt to explain their editorial dereliction of editorial duties in the Scott Thomas Beauchamp collection of stories know as "Shock Troops" …
Pajamas Media:
KOS: "WE ARE THE CENTER!"  —  Is left-wing blog entrepreneur Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, AKA "Kos," the new liberal king maker of the Democratic Party?  At his opening day press conference for the annual YearlyKos Convention in Chicago, Kos told the assemblage: "There is no Jesse Jackson wing of the Democratic Party anymore.
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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 …
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Dick Polman / Dick Polman's American Debate:
America's bridge to nowhere
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and MSNBC
John W. Schoen / MSNBC:   U.S. highways badly in need of repair
Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
ACID FLASHBACK  —  Last night the whole YearlyKos aggregation finally gathered in one place, a sort of cozy airplane hangar somewhere within McCormick Place.  The room was so spacious that the audience—something like fourteen hundred people—could be comfortably seated at big round tables rather than rows of seats.
Discussion: Who Is IOZ?, Roger Ailes and Ezra Klein
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:   OFF THE RAILS....Hendrik Hertzberg, comparing YearlyKos …
Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
Romney: Hezbollah role model for U.S.  —  Urges emulating welfare projects used by terror group against Israel  —  JERUSALEM - Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney has cited the social welfare network of the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group as a role model the U.S. should copy to help promote …
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Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
Romney Didn't, did he?  —  Did Mitt Romney really say that the U.S …
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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Los Angeles Times:
'Depth of mistrust' in Iraq unforeseen
Discussion: Booman Tribune and The Next Hurrah
Sky News:
Flying Saucers Go Into Production  —  A "flying saucer" that glides three metres above the ground and carries two people has gone into commerical production.  —  US company Moller International has begun to manufacture parts for its Jetsons-like personal flying pod, the M200G Volantor.
Little Green Footballs:
Serviceman Shouted Down at YearlyKos  —  The American Prospect: AN ODD CLOSE. … Video, please.  —  (Hat tip: Exurban League.)  —  UPDATE at 8/3/07 10:46:52 am:  —  I'm not familiar with the exact regulations on this, but for the sake of argument let's say that it was against the rules for a uniformed soldier to ask a question.
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.
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
DeLay blasts Democrats' rookie mistakes  —  The ruckus on the House floor last night that caused over 100 Republican members to storm from the chamber was an example of in-over-its-head Democratic majority trying to manage the floor, former Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) said in an interview Friday afternoon.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
DNC shares oppo game plan with netroots  —  CHICAGO — It is not true that Democrats don't listen to Republicans.  They do.  —  The Democrats are listening to every word the Republican presidential candidates say, writing it down and even videotaping them whenever possible.
 
 
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Jed Babbin / Human Events:
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE CLINTON-OBAMA CAGE MATCH....At the risk of going all meta on you …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
The Raw Story:
Capitol police warned of DC terror attack in next six weeks
Peter Daou / Daily Kos:
Hillary will attend YearlyKos breakout session
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