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Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Romney speaks up for sons' decisions — BETTENDORF, Iowa - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Wednesday defended his five sons' decision not to enlist in the military, saying they're showing their support for the country by "helping me get elected."
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Quote Of The Day II … — Mitt Romney, explaining today why it's okay that none of his five sons enlisted in the military. — America thanks you, sons of Romney, for your brave and noble sacrifice on behalf of this great nation.
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
THEY WANT TO FIRE ALBERTO GONZALES AND GIVE HIM NEW EAVESDROPPING POWERS? — Happy six-month anniversary, U.S. attorney scandal! (And what do you get for the scandal that has everything?) — The half-birthday of the purge scandal's explosion onto the front pages last February brings …
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Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Spy chief's role in espionage bill questioned
Spy chief's role in espionage bill questioned
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The Next Hurrah
New York Times:
The Democratic Candidates Forum — The following is the transcript of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. candidates forum, as provided by Federal News Service. — PARTICIPANTS: — MODERATOR: KEITH OLBERMANN: These formalities out of the way, the lucky recipient of our first question has been determined by lottery.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
A SiCKO moment in the debate.
A SiCKO moment in the debate.
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Anne-Marie Slaughter / The Coffee House:
"To set the ship on a better course, you have to be ready to sink it." — The debate over bipartisanship continues. I wrote a response to the many responses I got, on this blog and others, to my initial article calling for more bipartisanship in the Washington Post.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
SERIOUS....I don't know Anne-Marie Slaughter. Here's what I mean by this: not just that I've never met her, but that I don't even know much of anything about her views, what she's written, or, when you get right down to it, what kind of foreign policy she prefers.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
INSTAPUNDIT IS SIX YEARS OLD TODAY: Here's what it looked like that first week.
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Center for American Progress:
Iraq Timeline: The Broken Record on "the Next Few Months" — The Bush administration as well as supporters and some critics of the Bush Iraq strategy have told Americans time and again during the past four years that the "next few months" in Iraq will be the "decisive, critical period" …
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Sara A. Carter / Washington Times:
Terrorists teaming with drug cartels — Islamic extremists embedded in the United States — posing as Hispanic nationals — are partnering with violent Mexican drug gangs to finance terror networks in the Middle East, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration report.
John Stossel / Real Clear Politics:
Let Wisconsin Experiment with Socialized Medicine — "On, Wisconsin ... run the ball clear down the field!" — It's time to amend the Wisconsin football song so we can cheer on the Badger State's politicians as they move toward health-care socialism. — The Wall Street Journal editorial …
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The Atlantic Online:
Facts? In the Lede? Shocking! — Via Brian Beutler, the AFP tries a revolutionary experiment in writing their story in such a way as to make readers better informed about the issue at hand rather than more familiar with the president's propaganda. Here's the lede: … Oh, my!
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Janie McCauley / Associated Press:
Bonds Makes History With 756th Home Run — SAN FRANCISCO: Barry Bonds hit No. 756 to the deepest part of the ballpark Tuesday night, and hammered home the point: Like him or not, legitimate or not, he is baseball's new home run king. — Bonds broke Hank Aaron's storied record in the fifth inning …
Josh White / Washington Post:
General Blames Clerical Errors In the Case of Missing Arms — Bookkeeping deficiencies allowed thousands of weapons issued to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005 to then go missing, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said yesterday. — "Some percentage" …
Patrick Cockburn / The Independent:
Disaster looms as 'Saddam dam' struggles to hold back the Tigris — As world attention focuses on the daily slaughter in Iraq, a devastating disaster is impending in the north of the country, where the wall of a dam holding back the Tigris river north of Mosul city is in danger of imminent collapse.
WTSP-TV:
Prosecutor: Islamic students had pipe bombs — Tampa, Florida - When 24-year-old Ahmed Mohamed and 21-year-old Yousef Megahed appeared in court, there was no question in the prosecutor's mind what this was all about. She says Mohamed was in possession of pipe bombs and materials that could have been made to make more bombs.
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Larry Thomas / The News and Tribune:
Clark County Republican leader elected to national post — Clark County's Republican Party chairman has been elected head of the Young Republican National Federation. — Glenn Murphy Jr., a 33-year-old from Utica, was elected to the chairman's post July 7 in Hollywood, Fla. …