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6:45 PM ET, August 5, 2007

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ABCNEWS:
GOP Candidates Face Off in Iowa  —  Iowa Caucus-Goers Turn Hawk Eyes on the Republican Hopefuls  —  So much for a quiet Sunday morning in Iowa.  —  The Republican presidential contenders didn't waste a minute during their first network television debate, each aggressive …
Discussion: Ian Schwartz
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Washington Post:
Iowa Republicans Are Not Thrilled With Presidential Field  —  As the Republican presidential candidates gather this morning in Des Moines for their fourth debate, Iowa GOP voters are expressing limited enthusiasm for the field of current and potential aspirants, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
ABCNEWS:
POLL: Strong Iowa Presence Lifts Romney, But Republican Enthusiasm is Low  —  Republican Contenders Meet in Iowa for First Network Debate Sunday  —  A strong presence in Iowa has lifted Mitt Romney over his Republican rivals in overall support and ratings of personal attributes alike.
Mike Glover / Associated Press:
Analysis: GOP rivals walk delicate line  —  DES MOINES, Iowa - The Republican presidential candidates walked a delicate line in their latest campaign debate, seeking some distance from President Bush and an unpopular war in Iraq while offering assurances of change in a new Republican administration.
Mike Glover / Associated Press:
GOP Hopefuls Generally Agree on Iraq
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Althouse
CNN:   GOP debaters jab Democrats, each other
Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:   This morning's Republican presidential candidate debate in Iowa …
The Huffington Post:   John Neffinger, Drew Westen and Rachel Sklar: GOP Des Moines …
Sharon Begley / Newsweek:
Truth about global-warming deniers  —  Sen. Barbara Boxer had been chair of the Senate's Environment Committee for less than a month when the verdict landed last February.  "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," concluded a report by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and businesses in 40 countries.
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Newsweek Disgrace: 'Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine'
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
Washington Post:
Jack Bauer's Next Mission: Fighting Global Warming
Discussion: the talking dog
CNN:
Al Qaeda member: U.S. embassies prime targets  —  (CNN) — U.S. Embassies and American interests "at home and abroad" are prime targets for terrorist attacks, American al Qaeda member Adam Yahiye Gadahn said in a newly released al Qaeda-produced video.  —  "We shall continue to target …
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Ynetnews:
'Establish Islamic state'  —  Radical UK Islamist group holds London conference.  'Why is Palestine still occupied?' asks speaker  —  Yaakov Lappin  —  The British branch of a world-wide radical Islamist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, held a conference London on Saturday, in which speakers called …
Discussion: ParaPundit
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Lydia Hislop / Times of London:
Schools are run by Islamic group Blair pledged to ban
David Davis / Times of London:   The wrong voice for Muslim Britain
Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com:
Lead Pipes vs. Leaky Pipes  —  The netroots is reveling in Chicago, and the natural reaction is to ask, "Where's our YearlyKos?"  —  It's a good question, but ultimately a short-sighted one from an historical perspective.  Go back and re-read the TNR piece on the netroots from May.  Especially this part:
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Tapscott's Copy Desk:
Can we please stop sobbing about 'our Yearly Kos' now?
Discussion: Riehl World View
Michael Yon / NY Daily News:
I have seen the horror  —  Al Qaeda is guilty of monstrosities in Iraq - no matter what anyone says  —  Amid all this talk of timetables for the War in Iraq, blurred as they are by a strange lemming-like compulsion to declare the "surge" strategy a failure almost before it actually began …
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
The vanishing jihad exposés  —  Mark Steyn column  —  How will we lose the war against "radical Islam"?  —  Well, it won't be in a tank battle.  Or in the Sunni Triangle or the caves of Bora Bora.  It won't be because terrorists fly three jets into the Oval Office …
Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
Republicans hardening stance on immigration  —  (08-04) 04:00 PDT Washington — An anti-immigration backlash has taken hold among Republicans in the Capitol, led in some cases by the staunchest supporters - Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina …
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
Government hunts for warrantless wiretap leaker  —  Priorities: The Attorney General apologized for 'creating confusion'  —  The controversy over President Bush's warrantless surveillance program took another surprise turn last week when a team of FBI agents, armed with a classified search warrant …
Washington Post:
The Rise Of Jeri Thompson  —  Ex-Senator's Wife Is Helping to Shape His Probable Bid  —  On a hot Saturday in June 2002, Fred D. Thompson married his second wife, Jeri Kehn, in an unventilated Congregational church in her home town of Naperville, Ill. Kehn, in a Valentino gown …
Editor and Publisher:
Murdoch Says He Just Wants More 'Urgency' in 'WSJ'  —  NEW YORK His Saturday business column for The New York Times (available online only via TimesSelect) mainly explores how the Bancroft family blew the deal with the News Corp. But Joseph Nocera closes it with a brief sit-down interview …
Thomas B. Edsall / Huffington Post:
Most Top GOP Presidential Candidates Duck Executive Privilege Question  —  Read More:  —  On July 20, the Bush administration took preemptive action designed to mute in advance charges of a cover-up in the likely event that the dispute over present and former White House aides' testimony turns into a head-on collision with Congress.
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
 
 
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Ben Feller / Associated Press:
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
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Kos / Daily Kos:
My YearlyKos keynote address
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Outcry as British Council quits Europe to woo Muslim world
Pajamas Media:
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Confederate Yankee:
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Guardian:
Better red than dead
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The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

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