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9:35 AM ET, August 10, 2007

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Behind the scenes at the HRC/LOGO presidential forum... I'm just getting settled into the press area at The Production Group Studios where the The Visible Vote '08: A Presidential Forum, put together by HRC and LOGO. They have us pretty squeezed into a dark room (surrounded by black curtains …

Discussion: AMERICAblog, Greatscat! and Brilliant at Breakfast

Pam / Pam's House Blend:

Liveblogging the HRC/LOGO Visible Vote 08 Forum — Join fellow Blenders in the chat room! — The candidates participating in The Visible Vote '08: A Presidential Forum will be appear in this order: Barack Obama, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Wonkette and Joe. My. God.

Ryan Sager / Latest Politics:
The Gay Debate — Stay tuned here for some liveblogging …

Discussion: CQPolitics.com, Outside The Beltway and Classical Values

Gay Patriot: Live-blogging the Logo Debate

Pam Spaulding / AMERICAblog:
Winners and losers at the HRC/LOGO VisibleVote08 forum

Discussion: Eschaton, Visible Vote 08 and Bark Bark Woof Woof

CNN: Democratic hopefuls pressed on gay issues

Anthony Watts / Watts Up With That?:

1998 no longer the hottest year on record in USA — Here's a story of scientific investigation and discovery I'm proud to have had a small part in. — Regular readers may remember that I posted about a climate station in Detroit Lakes MN last week, surveyed by volunteer Don Kostuch …

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, small dead animals, Coyote Blog, Moonbattery, Outside The Beltway, The Daily Gut, Clayton Cramer's BLOG, michellemalkin.com, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Biased BBC and Macsmind

Steve McIntyre / Climate Audit:

A New Leaderboard at the U.S. Open — There has been some turmoil yesterday on the leaderboard of the U.S. (Temperature) Open and there is a new leader. — A little unexpectedly, 1998 had a late bogey and 1934 had a late birdie. (I thought that they were both in the clubhouse since the turmoil seemed to be in the 2000s.)

Discussion: NewsBusters.org

Michael Asher / DailyTech:
Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data

Discussion: Watts Up With That?, Dean's World, Flopping Aces, Blue Crab Boulevard, Secular Blasphemy, Sister Toldjah, Tim Blair, TigerHawk, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Wake up America and PoliPundit.com

Coyote Blog:
Breaking News: Recent US Temperature Numbers Revised Downwards Today

Discussion: Hot Air, Tim Worstall, American Thinker, A Blog For All and QandO

Agence France Presse:

US public sees news media as biased, inaccurate, uncaring: poll — More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed. — And poll respondents who use the Internet …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Scared Monkeys, The Moderate Voice, Wizbang, Gateway Pundit and digg

Pew Research Center:

Internet News Audience Highly Critical of News Organizations — Views of Press Values and Performance: 1985-2007 — Summary of Findings — The American public continues to fault news organizations for a number of perceived failures, with solid majorities criticizing them for political bias …

Discussion: Hot Air, Connecting.the.Dots, Brendan Nyhan, Blue Crab Boulevard and Prairie Weather

McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Cheney urging military strikes on Iran — WASHINGTON — President Bush charged Thursday that Iran continues to arm and train insurgents who are killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and he threatened action if that continues. — At a news conference Thursday, Bush said Iran had been warned …

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Firedoglake, The Young Turks, Informed Comment and Ezra Klein

Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Just Another Vacation From Reality

Discussion: JoeTrippi.com, The Democratic Daily, Salon, State of the Day, MSNBC and New York Times

Washington Post:

Romney's Cash Beckons Iowans To Straw Poll — As thousands of Republican activists prepare to descend on Ames, Iowa, tomorrow for the straw poll meant to gauge support for the GOP's presidential contenders, the event has all the markings of a historic mismatch.

Discussion: ABCNEWS and Oliver Willis

New York Times: Romney Pushed on Conservative Credentials

Roger Simon / The Politico:
Mike Huckabee's political ministry

Discussion: TIME and eyeon08.com

Eric Lipton / New York Times:

Earlier Terrorist Screening to Begin for Flights Into U.S. — By early next year, passengers on flights bound for the United States will have their names checked against terrorist watch lists before departure, instead of after takeoff, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced Thursday.

Mike Allen / The Politico: Bush to order new crackdown on U.S. border

Robert Pear / New York Times: Bush Plans Immigration Crackdown

Will / Attytood:

UPDATED: Daily (News) Show — the one where, oh. nevermind — The Daily N....oh, heck, I'm just speechless over this. Wow. — OK, I will say on thing in response to Stu's column, which is probably going to crash the Daily News server with angry emails any second.

Discussion: Eschaton and At-Largely

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
At What Price Unity? — Stu Bykofsky thinks he knows …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and JammieWearingFool

New York Times:

Mortgage Losses Echo in Europe and on Wall Street — Turmoil in the home loan market ricocheted from the United States to Europe and back again yesterday as stocks on Wall Street suffered their biggest one-day decline since February, reflecting growing concerns about tightening credit worldwide.

Carl Freire / Associated Press: Asian stocks plummet on credit fears

Matt / Think Progress:

In A Three Minute Monologue, Matthews Gushes Over Bush's 'Great Neo-Conservative Mind' — Immediately following President Bush's press conference today, MSNBC's Chris Matthews spent three unbroken minutes fawning over the president's "powerful rendition" of his "philosophy" without uttering a single critical word.

Discussion: Washington Post, Wake up America and Lawyers, Guns and Money

Media Matters for America:
Matthews: Where have all the "big, beefy" "every-way big guy" Democrats gone?

Discussion: Jules Crittenden, Brilliant at Breakfast, Booman Tribune and Attytood

Ian Austen / New York Times:

Deported Canadian Was No Threat, Report Shows — Canadian intelligence officials anticipated that the United States would ship Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian who was detained in New York in 2002 on suspicion of terrorism, to a third country to be tortured, declassified information released on Thursday shows.

Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan announces candidacy — Citing her son as inspiration, a tearful Cindy Sheehan announced her candidacy Thursday for the U.S. House of Representatives. — The anti-war activist is running as an independent against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco in Congress since 1987.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, PoliPundit.com and QandO

New York Times:

Getting the Rescue Right — Help has been way too slow in coming for the estimated 1.7 million people who will lose their homes to foreclosure this year and next. A modest bill to bolster funds for state, local and nonprofit agencies that help hard-pressed homeowners renegotiate their mortgages …

Discussion: Eschaton and The Crone Speaks

E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:

Why the Democrats Caved — Shortly before noon last Saturday, about 20 House Democrats huddled in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office to decide what to do about a surveillance bill that had been dumped on them by the Senate before it left town. — Many of the Democrats were furious.

Discussion: Washington Monthly