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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Beauchamp Recants — THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp—author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's July 23 issue as well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Still Wields the Threat of Terrorism — Until last weekend, President Bush had repeatedly fallen short in seven months of battles with a Democratic-led Congress that would not give him what he wanted on immigration or education, health care or energy policy.
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USA Today:
Poll: Dems favor Clinton over Obama — WASHINGTON — New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has significantly widened her lead over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination in the wake of a dispute over handling foreign policy, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Clinton's Foreign Policy Balancing Act — In Her Stances, Senator Has One Eye on Primary, One on General Election — While preparing to give a major critique of the war in Iraq last month, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton read a draft of the speech and added a few lines of her own.
Washington Post:
As British Leave, Basra Deteriorates — Violence Rises in Shiite City Once Called a Success Story — As British forces pull back from Basra in southern Iraq, Shiite militias there have escalated a violent battle against each other for political supremacy and control over oil resources …
Holly M. Sanders / New York Post:
TIMESSELECT CONTENT FREED — The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned. — After much internal debate, Times executives - including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - made the decision to end …
Ion Mihai Pacepa / Opinion Journal:
Propaganda Redux — Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies with its intemperate attacks on President Bush. — During last week's two-day summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown thanked President Bush for leading the global war on terror.
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White House:
President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with President Karzai of Afghanistan — In Focus: Rebuilding Afghanistan — PRESIDENT BUSH: Good morning. Thank you; be seated. Welcome. — I appreciate a man I've come to admire, President Karzai, for joining us.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Edwards Makes Courting Labor a Key Strategy in Bid for Nomination — Backing Meant Little for 2004 Candidates — Former senator John Edwards of North Carolina came to a labor hall here Monday morning for a speech on trade policy, but he had a different audience in mind.
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Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
In Dusty Archives, a Theory of Affluence — For thousands of years, most people on earth lived in abject poverty, first as hunters and gatherers, then as peasants or laborers. But with the Industrial Revolution, some societies traded this ancient poverty for amazing affluence.
New York Times:
Bridge Collapse Revives Issue of Road Spending — In the past two years, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota twice vetoed legislation to raise the state's gas tax to pay for transportation needs. — Now, with at least five people dead in the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge here …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
BROWNBACK GETS TUBULAR — I don't agree with the issue Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) is advocating in this campaign web video (he's pushing his consistent pro-life position in contrast to Mitt Romney's 'light on the road to the White House' conversion to the cause).
Peter Carlson / Washington Post:
All the News That Seemed Unfit to Print — Somewhere in Kalamazoo, Elvis weeps: The Weekly World News is folding. — The Weekly World News was not one of those sleazy tabloids that cover tawdry celebrity scandals. It was a sleazy tabloid that covered events that seemed to occur in a parallel universe …
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ABCNEWS:
'Plot Would Have Killed Thousands' — EXCLUSIVE: Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Offers Chilling Details About 2006 Airplane Plot and Current Terror Threats — Terrorists who had planned to detonate gel-based explosives on U.S.-bound flights from London last August …
John Derbyshire / The Corner:
Is 2008 The New 1964? — There's a Pro-Ron-Paul meme going around, to the effect that 2008 is the new 1964; i.e. that on the premise—debatable in itself, of course—that the GOP has no chance of winning the presidency next year, conservatives should run a Goldwater-style insurgency to remind …
CNN:
Crews 'using every means known to mankind' to reach miners — HUNTINGTON, Utah (CNN) — Rescue crews in central Utah know exactly where six trapped miners are located, but were forced to turn around late Monday because of "impassable conditions," the mine's operator said.
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