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6:25 PM ET, August 27, 2007

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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Gonzales Resigns as Attorney General  —  ­ Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned.  A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.
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Think Progress:
CNN: Bush Plans To Install Inexperienced, Bush Loyalist Clay Johnson At Homeland Security  —  This morning, CNN's Suzanne Malveaux reported that "very senior level sources" inside the administration are telling her that Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff will replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
CNN:
Attorney General Gonzales resigns, officials say  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, senior administration officials told CNN Monday.  —  Many lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have long called for his ouster after the firing of several U.S. attorneys in 2006.
Howard Schneider / Washington Post:
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CNN Political Ticker:
Senior admin. officials: Chertoff may get nod  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush may nominate Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General, senior administration officials told CNN Monday.  —  Chertoff, 53, previously sat on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court …
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Bush: "It's Sad" that Gonzales Resigned
Discussion: Think Progress and Daily Kos
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
RECESS APPOINTMENT  —  Judged by the standards of our history …
Discussion: TalkLeft, MyDD and All Spin Zone
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Meet the (Temporary) New Attorney General
White House:
President Bush Discusses Resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
Discussion: The Politico
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés / The Moderate Voice:   Alberto Gonzales' Resignation Speech: That One Odd Line
Washington Post:   Gonzales-Bush Loyalty a Two-Way Street
Frank James / The Swamp:
White House shopping Homeland Security job?
Discussion: Think Progress
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Father Figure  —  By Jane Hamsher on Mon Aug 27, 2007 at 02:26 pm And Alberto Gonzales did call upon the name of the LORD from the bottom of the pit, and cried "let not your ears be deaf to my lamentations, O LORD!"  And verily the LORD did answer: … Craig is up for re-election next year.
Atrios / Eschaton:
On Raising Money  —  One problem that the "netroots," whatever that is, has is that there's tendency by Democrats to see it as just another player in the interest group checklist politics game.  So, sometimes "this will piss off the blogs" is a consideration, and a similar one to …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Poll: Young voters disenchanted with Republican party  —  Two larger-than-life politicians, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan, charged into the California governor's office with the help of young voters, many of whom were drawn to the Republican Party by a message of sunny optimism.
New York Times:
Unauthorized Enjoyment of Song Irks Law Firm  —  It sounds like the setup for a joke: a law firm picks a fight with a legal blogger over the leak of an internal song celebrating — well, itself.  —  First, the song: after the law firm Nixon Peabody was named to Fortune magazine's 2007 list …
sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov:
Lunar Eclipse Diagrams  —  The following diagrams show the Moon's path through Earth's shadows (higher resolution versions of the above figure).  The times of major stages of the eclipse are given for a number of time zones in North America.  Please choose the diagram for your own time zone.
Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST
Martin Lewis / The Huffington Post:
"Let's Twist Again": Right-wing Bloggers Smear HuffPost  —  A much wiser person than I once asked rhetorically "How do you explain bad taste to people who haven't got ANY taste?"  —  I have been reminded of that question as I watch with bemusement the right-wing blogosphere getting its knickers …
Catherine Donaldson-Evans / Fox News:
Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won't Run 'Opus' Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam  —  A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over the weekend because this time it took a humorous swipe at Muslim fundamentalists.
Beldar / beldar.blogs.com:
Sen. Kerry permits last statute of limitations for defamation to lapse, forever barring any defamation claim against SwiftVet authors O'Neill and Corsi  —  When I first brought it to his attention in September 2005, I reminded Sen. John F. Kerry that — based on the publication date on or about August 25 …
thelocal.se:
Iran protests over Swedish Muhammad cartoon  —  Iran summoned a Swedish diplomat to its foreign ministry on Monday to protest against a cartoon in a Swedish newspaper depicting the head of Prophet Muhammad on a dog's body, Sweden's foreign ministry said.  —  "Gunilla von Bahr …
Reuters:
France's Sarkozy raises prospect of Iran airstrikes  —  In his first major foreign policy speech, French president says diplomatic push by world's powers to rein in Tehran's nuclear program is only alternative to 'Iranian bomb or bombing of Iran'  —  French President Nicolas Sarkozy …
 
 
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The Atlantic Online:
What price labor?  —  Chris Hayes of In These Times …
Discussion: EconLog
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Firefighters to endorse Dodd
Telegraph:
US could be heading for recession
Richard Roeper / Chicago Sun Times:
Facing a draft, Nugent bravely wet his pants
Des Moines Register:
Candidates' PACs stream cash to Iowa
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Perry, not Blunt, to Chair RGA in 2008
Confederate Yankee:
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 Earlier Items: 
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Democrats Reject Earlier Arguments on Iraq
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
No way Chertoff should get the AG job: Remembering Katrina
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
More Staff Trouble in Thompson Campaign
Opinion Journal:
The 'Blue Dog' Moment
Discussion: Government Bytes and QandO
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
The Outsider's Insider  —  Sen. Barack Obama had hired Pete Rouse for just such a moment.
Discussion: TIME and BeldarBlog
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
U.S. sponsors Islamic convention