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9:55 AM ET, August 22, 2007

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Washington Post:
Democrats Refocus Message on Iraq After Military Gains  —  Democratic leaders in Congress had planned to use August recess to raise the heat on Republicans to break with President Bush on the Iraq war.  Instead, Democrats have been forced to recalibrate their own message in the face …
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CNN:
Bush to invoke Vietnam in arguing against Iraq pullout  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — As he awaits a crucial progress report on Iraq, President Bush will try to put a twist on comparisons of the war to Vietnam by invoking the historical lessons of that conflict to argue against pulling out.
USA Today:
Bush's Iraq speech to hit on Vietnam  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Bush plans to argue today that a hasty "retreat" from Iraq would lead to the kinds of bloodbaths that followed U.S. withdrawals from Vietnam and Cambodia in the 1970s.  —  In a speech he is to deliver here at the Veterans …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   OSAMA IS MY SHEPHERD I SHALL NOT WANT
Katrin Bennhold / International Herald Tribune:
France shifts its stance on the conflict in Iraq  —  PARIS: After years of shunning involvement in a war it said was wrong, France now believes it may hold the key to peace in Iraq, proposing itself as an "honest broker" between the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish factions.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
French Plan Engagement In Iraq
Discussion: Fausta's blog
Matthew Yi / San Francisco Chronicle:
Field Poll shows Californians lean toward dividing electoral votes  —  (08-21) 04:00 PDT Sacramento —  California voters are inclined to support a proposed ballot initiative that would change how the Golden State allocates its electoral votes in presidential campaigns …
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Dan Morain / Los Angeles Times:
California Democrats push popular vote measure
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and MSNBC
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
One in four read no books last year  —  WASHINGTON - There it sits on your night stand, that book you've meant to read for who knows how long but haven't yet cracked open.  Tonight, as you feel its stare from beneath that teetering pile of magazines, know one thing — you are not alone.
Reuters:
Now dirty chopsticks picked up in China scare  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest is a string of food and product safety scares.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Gulf Times
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Federal No-Bid Contracts On Rise  —  Under pressure from the White House and Congress to deliver a long-delayed plan last year, officials at the Department of Homeland Security's counter-narcotics office took a shortcut that has become common at federal agencies: They hired help through a no-bid contract.
Discussion: MoJoBlog and Prairie Weather
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Politics Seen in Nasty Call to Spitzer's Father  —  Lawyers representing Gov. Eliot Spitzer's father, Bernard Spitzer, say a prominent political consultant who has been working for State Senate Republicans threatened the elder Mr. Spitzer this month in an anonymous, invective-laced phone message.
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Sub-Standard  —  IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE that, not so long ago, neoconservative foreign policy thinking overflowed with ideas and idealism.  The descent has been steep, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the pages of The Weekly Standard—particularly in William Kristol's editorials …
Discussion: Power Line and Hot Air
Now Magazine:
TERRORIST VIDEO THREATENS DAVID BECKHAM AND JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE  —  Becks and JT are targets of fanatics  —  David Beckham and Justin Timberlake are the targets of an alleged Al-Qaeda murder plot.  —  A chilling internet video, which has been posted on YouTube, brands Becks, 32, and JT, 26, as criminal influences on young Muslims.
Discussion: Central Sanity
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters  —  Not that they're worried or anything.  But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president.  As in, it doesn't want any.  —  A White House manual that came …
Telegraph:
David Cameron: Scrap the Human Rights Act  —  David Cameron last night called for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped outright for the first time amid mounting anger that the controversial law had allowed the killer of the head teacher Philip Lawrence to escape deportation.
 
 
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Luke Harding / Guardian:
Russia steps up military expansion
Discussion: The Raw Story and ParaPundit
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
So You Think You Can Be President?
Hamid Ahmed / Associated Press:
14 U.S. troops die in Iraq copter crash
John Stossel / Real Clear Politics:
Why the U.S. Ranks Low on WHO's Health-Care Study
Los Angeles Times:
Not so fast, Christian soldiers
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Aksa Martyrs Brigades: Truce over
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
The Atlantic Online:
Respect Versus Compassion
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Brendan Nyhan
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Thompson, Giuliani start trading shots
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Romney's rhetoric glosses Mass. years
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Daniel Finkelstein / Times of London:
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Turkishdailynews:
Gül wasn't elected but won anyway
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
The Atlantic Online:
The morality of health care finance
Joan Walsh / Salon:
Are Democrats really so lame?
Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:
CIA Report Blames Tenet for 9/ll Failure
Brian Rokus / CNN:
Muslim women: My headscarf is not a threat
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Monitoring the Monitor  —  After reviewing the latest critique …
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

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Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

 
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