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4:20 PM ET, August 17, 2007

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Christopher Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
Edwards, Foreclosure Critic, Has Investing Tie to Subprime Lenders  —  As a presidential candidate, Democrat John Edwards has regularly attacked subprime lenders, particularly those that have filed foreclosure suits against victims of Hurricane Katrina.  But as an investor …
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Peter Hecht / Sacramento Bee:
Race for '08: Clinton widens her lead in California  —  New survey shows Clinton dominating the Democratic field in California - Obama said to be losing his luster  —  Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A4  —  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is expanding …
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Elizabeth Edwards: Attacker-in-chief
Russ Buettner / New York Times:
For Giuliani, Ground Zero as Linchpin and Thorn  —  As Rudolph W. Giuliani campaigns around the country highlighting his stewardship of New York City after the Sept. 11 attacks, he is widely hailed for bringing order to a traumatized city.  But he has also raised the hackles of rescue …
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National Review:
Credit Democrats Who Visit Iraq, They're Calling It As They See It  —  Day by day, I am more surprised at the turn in the Iraq debate.  I know this is going to sound like pie-in-the-sky optimism, but I wonder if by the time General Petraeus makes his report, there will be something of a consensus …
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Brad Shannon / The Olympian:
Baird sees need for longer U.S. role in Iraq
TerrytheTurtle / Think Progress:
Fashion article peeves Bush.  —  The Washington Post reports, "What really gets George W. Bush riled up?  Calling him a fashion victim."  After Marques Harper of the Austin American- Statesman wrote a short style piece critiquing Bush's choice of clothing while he down's on the Crawford ranch …
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Washington Post:
Jenna and Henry: Now They're Really, Really Official
Discussion: Extreme Mortman
Anne Marie Kilday / Houston Chronicle:
Short of Purple Hearts, Navy tells vet to buy own  —  PEARLAND — Korean War veteran Nyles Reed, 75, opened an envelope last week to learn a Purple Heart had been approved for injuries he sustained as a Marine on June 22, 1952.  —  But there was no medal.  Just a certificate and a form stating that the medal was "out of stock."
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Workouts, Not Bailouts
Discussion: Vox Baby and EconLog
Kimberley A. Strassel / Opinion Journal:
Democrats and Cannibals  —  The Kos kids try but fail to devour party moderates.  —  Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar is today fond of quoting a famous Lyndon Johnson line: "You know the difference between cannibals and liberals?  Cannibals only eat their enemies."
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly: "I think everybody's got to relax on all this gay stuff" … On the August 15 edition of his Fox News television show, Bill O'Reilly responded to a viewer's email questioning his August 14 remarks about Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM), who had, at a presidential forum the week before …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
John Schwartz / New York Times:
A Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans Still at Risk  —  NEW ORLEANS — Six inches.  —  After two years and more than a billion dollars spent by the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild New Orleans's hurricane protection system, that is how much the water level is likely to be reduced …
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Snow to leave White House before Bush  —  WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Tony Snow said Friday he'll leave sometime before the end of the Bush presidency because of financial pressures.  —  He declined to say when he would depart, but that, "I'm going to stay as long as I can."
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs
Think Progress:
On Iraq Regime Change, 2007 Cheney Contradicts 2000 Cheney While Dismissing 1994 Cheney  —  Earlier this week, a video from 1994 of Dick Cheney discussing why the first Bush administration didn't move "into Baghdad" during the Gulf War surfaced on the internet and spread like wildfire.
Federal Reserve:
For immediate release  —  Financial market conditions have deteriorated, and tighter credit conditions and increased uncertainty have the potential to restrain economic growth going forward.  In these circumstances, although recent data suggest that the economy has continued to expand at a moderate pace …
Jeffrey Imm / Counterterrorism Blog:
CAIR Cites Counterterrorism Blog in HLF Legal Filing  —  In the case of United States versus Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), et al, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) clearly doesn't like it when the Counterterrorism Blog and the Investigative Project on Terrorism …
Confederate Yankee:
Yet Again: AFP's Photo Woes Continue  —  Fresh off of being caught trying to pass off unfired civilian ammunition as evidence of soldiers shooting into the home of an elderly Iraqi woman, the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has been caught once again in a photography scandal involving …
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
MICHIGAN TO MOVE UP ITS PRIMARY  —  From NBC News' Chuck Todd  —  According to sources inside both parties, the two state parties in Michigan have agreed to move the state's primary — legislatively — to Jan. 15.  This is a compromise date out of respect for Democratic Sen. Carl Levin …
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Hatred Begins at Home  —  The NYPD looks at what turns young Westerners into jihadis.  —  Whenever I think of war, I think of this: It was 1982 or '83, I was in Northern Ireland, and a local reporter was showing me around Derry, then a center of the Protestant-Catholic conflict.
 
 
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So It Has Come To This  —  Photo: Utah American Energy Inc …
Inside Higher Ed:
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Thompson: Roe 'bad law and bad medicine'
Discussion: NonParty Politics
Washington Post:
Romney, Giuliani Escalate Their Immigration Fight
CNN:
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CNN:
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Huffington Post:
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Construction Woes Plague U.S. Embassies
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