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3:55 PM ET, August 21, 2007

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Jennifer Hunter / Chicago Sun Times:
Michelle gets stronger all the time  —  'I don't want my girls to live in a country based on fear'  —  Barack Obama often says that his wife, Michelle, is smarter than he is, stronger than he is, and gives better speeches than he does.  —  On a trip to Iowa last week, Michelle was a firebrand …
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Obama Spokesman Denies Michelle's Speech Was Attack On Hillary
Discussion: The Corner and The Atlantic Online
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   The Limbo Congress!  —  How low can you go?  Chubby Checker …
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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Gateway Pundit:
Shhh... US Winning Iraq War- Military Plans Troop Reduction
Discussion: protein wisdom
Fred Barnes / Opinion Journal:
Can the GOP Make a Comeback?  —  The recipe for Republicans is to stop acting like, well, Republicans—that is, Republicans of recent vintage.  —  It's not particularly visible at the moment, but there is a road to political recovery for Republicans.  Chances are they won't get far enough …
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
9/11 TRUTHERS GUT PUNCHED BY HISTORY CHANNEL  —  In what will surely be seen as a defining moment for the 9/11 truther movement, the History Channel has delivered a blow for sanity and rationalism by airing a superior documentary entitled 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction.
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
DOD 'Talon' Database Declawed  —  The Quakers can sleep easier.  This morning, the Pentagon announced that it's canceling a database created to monitor threats to Defense Department installations in the U.S. that ended up compiling lists of citizens engaged in peaceful, constitutionally-protected protest speech.
The Rothenberg / The Rothenberg Political Report:
Louisiana Governor: Backlash Anyone?  —  In one of the hardest hitting - Republicans will undoubtedly say "dirtiest" - television ads aired in history, the Louisiana Democratic Party is accusing Rep. Bobby Jindal of being anti-Protestant.  —  The bizarre charge is delivered by an unidentified woman …
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Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
U.S. Foreclosures Rise Sharply in July  —  U.S. Foreclosures Rise Sharply in July With Nev., Ga. and Mich. Accounting for Highest Rates  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Foreclosure filings rose 9 percent from June to July and surged 93 percent over the same period last year, with Nevada …
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Richard Blair / All Spin Zone:
Foreclosures Surge - Who Could Have Predicted?
Discussion: Eschaton and Shakespeare's Sister
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 …
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
For Wall Street's Math Brains, Miscalculations  —  Complex Formulas Used by 'Quant' Funds Didn't Add Up in Market Downturn  —  They are the powerful, cerebral and offstage actors of Wall Street, but the recent turmoil in the financial markets has yanked them into the light.
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Bloomberg says won't run for president  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he cannot win the U.S. presidency and won't run, the strongest statement to date about his intentions for the 2008 presidential race.  —  Bloomberg previously had said he had no plans to run …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Sam Boyd / American Prospect:
The group blog of The American Prospect  —  THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S COLLEGE RANKINGS ARE RIGGED.  As part of TAPPED's continued commitment to counter-counterintuitivism I should point out that the "research" component of the Washington Monthly's much ballyhooed alternative college rankings …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michael J. Totten:
How to Spy in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD - American soldiers arrived in Iraq in 2003 with not much of a plan and little idea what to expect.  The Iraqi government, military, and police were overthrown and disbanded under de-Baathification.  Most Iraqis who knew how to run the country were either sent home or imprisoned.
Discussion: NonParty Politics
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Make Up Your Own Mine  —  An impoverished town strikes gold.  George Soros and foreign environmentalists say, leave it in the ground.  —  The recent tragedy in Utah has brightened the spotlight on mining, already under assault by environmental and anti-globalization activists world-wide.
Faiz / Think Progress:
O'Hanlon: Soldiers Of The 82nd Airborne 'May Have Been Taking A Slight Poke' At Me  —  In his New York Times op-ed, co-authored with Ken Pollack, Michael O'Hanlon wrote in support of the escalation: … This weekend, seven soldiers of the 82nd Airborne responded in kind:
New York Times:
Tenet's C.I.A. Unprepared for Qaeda Threat, Report Says  —  The former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, George Tenet, recognized the danger posed by Al Qaeda well before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but failed to adequately prepare the C.I.A. to meet the threat …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
 
 
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John Podhoretz / The Corner:
New Horror from the Director of 'Silence of the Lambs'
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Guest Post - Who's Killing The Clerics Of Najaf?
Jerry McNerney / Jerry McNerney's Blog:
Setting the record straight on Iraq
Nan Aron / Washington Post:
An Unjust Judge  —  To understand the furor over President …
David Sirota / The Huffington Post:
Bush Threatens "Corrective Action" Against Families Who Receive CHIP
Scott Gutierrez / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
FBI seeks help identifying 2 men seen aboard ferries
Joan Walsh / Salon:
Are Democrats really so lame?
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Caped Crusader From Vermont
Discussion: Daily Kos
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NewsMax.com:
NewsMax/Zogby Iowa Poll: Hillary Clinton Makes Big Move to Lead Democratic Pack
Andrew G. Bostom / Washington Times:
Jihad and dhimmitude  —  Celebrating its 17th birthday in 1961 …
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Thompson Already in Race, Blogger Complains to FEC
Pajamas Media:
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Barack Obama / MiamiHerald.com:
Our main goal: Freedom in Cuba
Jules Crittenden:
Party of Rage
Roy / alicublog:
ANNALS OF LIBERTARIANISM. …
Nellie Andreeva / Reuters:
Time right for Garofalo on "24"  —  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) …