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10:40 AM ET, August 21, 2007

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Robert Pear / New York Times:
White House Acts to Limit Health Plan for Children  —  The Bush administration, continuing its fight to stop states from expanding the popular Children's Health Insurance Program, has adopted new standards that would make it much more difficult for New York, California and others to extend coverage to children in middle-income families.
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Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
New Bush Policies Limit Reach of Child Insurance Plan  —  The Bush administration, engaged in a battle with Congress over whether a popular children's health insurance program should be expanded, has announced new policies that will make it harder for states to insure all but the lowest-income children.
Gene Sperling / PittsburghLIVE.com:
'Compassionate' Bush fails children on health
Discussion: The Right's Field
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Bush Administration Escalates War Against Middle Income Children's …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Cheney's Office Says It Has Wiretap Documents  —  Vice President Cheney's office acknowledged for the first time yesterday that it has dozens of documents related to the administration's warrantless surveillance program, but it signaled that it will resist efforts by congressional Democrats to obtain them.
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Senator Threatens to Charge White House With Contempt  —  A leading Democrat threatened on Monday to pursue contempt charges against the White House next month over its response to a subpoena for internal documents on the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program.
Jules Crittenden:
Party of Rage  —  Can't we all just get along? … OK.  Sounds like it could be pre-traumatic stress syndrome.  —  In other congressional violence: … And … Those are special cases.  The representative from Rhode Island may have encountered a security guard not up on his DYKWIA* …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Senator Calls for Maliki's Ouster  —  Declaring the government of Iraq "non-functional," the influential chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said yesterday that Iraq's parliament should oust Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his cabinet if they are unable to forge a political compromise …
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The Daily Green:
Hurricane Dean: 1 Of 10 Most Intense Atlantic Hurricanes Ever Measured  —  Early this morning Hurricane Dean, after mercilessly intensifying over deep warm waters in the western Caribbean, slammed the Yucatan Peninsula around Chetumal as a Category 5 hurricane with winds upwards of 165 miles per hour …
Nellie Andreeva / Reuters:
Time right for Garofalo on "24"  —  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The political left and the political right will join forces on Fox's "24" this coming season.  Janeane Garofalo, an outspoken liberal, is set to co-star on the conservative-leaning real-time drama, whose co-creator/executive …
Brian C. Mooney / Boston Globe:
Michigan set to send slate of primaries into revision  —  N.H. mulls way to remain first  —  Michigan appears poised to crash the party of early states seeking to influence the 2008 presidential nominating process, leapfrogging the other interlopers, Florida and South Carolina, and further scrambling the electoral calendar.
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Michigan Weighs Moving Primaries To Mid-January
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Congress Approval Rating Matches Historical Low  —  Just 18% approve of job Congress is doing  —  PRINCETON, NJ — A new Gallup Poll finds Congress' approval rating the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Swamp
Jose Luis Jiménez / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Wilkes gets use of attorney for the indigent at trial  —  DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO - Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes, charged with fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars in government contracts, will have an attorney paid for by taxpayers.  —  U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns …
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and The Next Hurrah
Kelly Anne Moore / New York Times:
Take Al Qaeda to Court  —  AS the need to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility becomes more urgent, the question that derails all conversation on the subject is, "Yes, but what do we do with the detainees?"  Some have proposed a new national-security court …
Discussion: TigerHawk, The Corner and TalkLeft
Confederate Yankee:
Misfire: AP's Bogus Ammo Shortage Story  —  An Associated Press report published late Friday afternoon stated that ammunition shortages in some law enforcement agencies around the nation were to be blamed on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: … The damning narrative was grasped quickly …
Discussion: Hyscience and Blue Crab Boulevard
KTVX-TV:
Federal mine safety official's credentials questioned  —  SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - The families of the Crandall Canyon miner's aren't the only ones raising questions about the handling of the rescue effort.  —  Many news organizations and blogs are also now asking questions …
Discussion: WorkingForChange
 
 
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Kevin Diaz / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Bush visit means cash, tightrope walk for Coleman
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Roy / alicublog:
ANNALS OF LIBERTARIANISM. …
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Poison clothes add to China export scares
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Huckabee finally breaks out fightin' words
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 Earlier Items: 
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Clinton and McCain Differ on Iraq at Veterans' Meeting
William McCall / Associated Press:
'Spanking case' ends with apology from boys, judge dismisses charges
Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
U.S. Foreclosures Rise Sharply in July
Teresa Watanabe / Los Angeles Times:
Immigration activist deported to Mexico
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege
NewsMax.com:
Jane Fonda's Radio Network Tanks
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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