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3:09 AM ET, August 30, 2007

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David Stout / New York Times:
Idaho Senator Loses Committee Leadership Posts  —  The political career of Senator Larry Craig of Idaho appeared to be collapsing today as fellow Republicans called for his resignation and party leaders ousted him from his committee leadership posts amid the fallout over his arrest and guilty plea …
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
David Shuster Breaks Down President Bush's Bad Week
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Trail
Matt / Think Progress:
BREAKING: Sens. Coleman And McCain Call For Craig To Resign
Gay Patriot:
Senator Craig... For the Love of God... Shut Up!
Discussion: The Corner and The Atlantic Online
Desi / Greatscat!:
Larry Craig's Guide to the Mensroom
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Pam's House Blend
Media Matters for America:
Carlson claimed that after incident in a public bathroom, he assaulted the man who "bothered" him  —  On the August 28 edition of MSBNC Live, hosted by MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams, Tucker Carlson, host of MSNBC's Tucker, asserted, "Having sex in a public men's room is outrageous.
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New York Times:
Clinton Donor Under a Cloud in Fraud Case
Discussion: The Corner
Shannon McCaffrey / Associated Press:
Ex-President Carter welcomes Edwards
Discussion: Liberty Pundit
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Soros-linked group hit with huge fine  —  The Federal Election Commission has fined one of the last cycle's biggest liberal political action committees $775,000 for using unregulated soft money to boost John Kerry and other Democratic candidates during the 2004 elections.
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fec.gov:
FEC To Collect $775,000 Civil Penalty From America Coming Together  —  WASHINGTON -The Federal Election Commission (FEC/Commission) announced today that it has reached a settlement with America Coming Together (ACT) regarding violations of federal campaign finance laws during the 2004 Presidential election.
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Slouching Towards Utopia?  The Economic World of the Twentieth Century: Chapter 7.1: The World in 1900: The View from 1900  —  7.1: The World in 1900: The View from 1900  —  The View from 1900  —  What did the world look like in the last generation of the nineteenth century?
Discussion: The American Scene and Cafe Hayek
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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Slouching Towards Utopia? …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Good news, but not for Democrats  —  IT'S A WAR, and it's the Middle East, so glad tidings can go sour and there are never any guarantees.  But for all the caveats, the news from Iraq has been heartening.  —  For months, observers have been crediting General David Petraeus's "surge" with remarkable progress on the ground.
Faiz / Think Progress:
INTERVIEW: Tauscher Returns From Iraq, Warns Of 'Green Zone Fog'  —  Shortly after returning from Iraq, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) conducted an interview with ThinkProgress.  She said she conveyed three things to Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker: 1) "the American people …
Paul Von Zielbauer / New York Times:
Marines' Trials in Iraq Killings Are Withering  —  Last December, when the Marine Corps charged four infantrymen with killing Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005, the allegation was as dark as it was devastating: after a roadside bomb had killed their buddy, a group …
Karl / protein wisdom:
The Big Picture(s)  —  In the midst of the still-lingering controversy over the truthiness of The New Republic's "Baghdad Diarist," more than a few people suggested that war supporters, unable to discredit the real bad news coming from Iraq, targeted the Scott Thomas Beauchamp stories as a weak link.
Andrew Bolt:
Jesus bin Laden  —  More artists being "brave" in the usually cowardly way: … Strange - I'd have thought a picture of Mohammed morphing into bin Laden would have been far more to the point, but I guess that would have been rude - and, you know, dangerous.
Discussion: Riehl World View
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
MoveOn targets pro-surge Democrat  —  Rep. Brian Baird's (D-Wash.) recent conversion on the Iraq war is beginning to affect more than the national dialogue.  On Wednesday, liberal group MoveOn.org announced an ad campaign against the congressman in his own district.
Discussion: Wake up America
Michael Totten / NY Daily News:
Front-line lessons from the Iraq surge  —  Be Our Guest  —  While American politicians bicker among themselves from eight time zones away about whether the surge led by Gen. David Petraeus is working or not, I returned to Iraq to see for myself.  —  This trip - from which I returned this month …
Discussion: Michael J. Totten
Associated Press:
Former security guard Richard Jewell dies  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Former security guard Richard Jewell, who was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.  —  Jewell, 44, was found dead in his west Georgia home, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said.
Discussion: protein wisdom
Michael Asher / DailyTech:
Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory  —  Comprehensive survey of published climate research reveals changing viewpoints  —  In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change.
 
 
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