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9:25 AM ET, August 30, 2007

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New York Times:
Clinton Donor Under a Cloud in Fraud Case  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said yesterday that it would give to charity $23,000 it had received from a prominent Democratic donor, and review thousands of dollars more that he had raised, after learning that the authorities in California …
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Clinton to give away fundraiser's cash  —  WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will give to charity the $23,000 in donations she has received from a fundraiser who is wanted in California for failing to appear for sentencing on a 1991 grand theft charge.
Washington Post:
Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals  —  Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report.  The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive assessment …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Terrorism Policies Split Democrats  —  Anger Mounts Within Party Over Inaction on Bush Tactics  —  A growing clamor among rank-and-file Democrats to halt President Bush's most controversial tactics in the fight against terrorism has exposed deep divisions within the party …
Marc / The Van Der Galiën Gazette:
A Study in Cowardice  —  EDITOR's NOTE: This post has been pulled up.  For newer posts, scroll down.  —  The Center for America Progress' (CAP) recent study entitled "How to Redeploy: Implementing a Responsible Drawdown of U.S. Forces from Iraq" (PDF alert) features a quote from Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War:
Discussion: Open Left
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Josh Kraushaar / CBS News:
MoveOn.org Launches Ad Against Baird
Aaron Blake / The Hill:   MoveOn targets pro-surge Democrat
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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Stephen Farrell / New York Times:
Sadr Suspends His Militia's Military Operations  —  The radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr said Wednesday that he was suspending for six months his Mahdi Army militia's operations, including attacks on American troops, only hours after his fighters waged running street battles …
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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 …
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.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Bush's Lost Iraqi Election  —  Ayad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq, hinted in a television interview last weekend at one of the war's least understood turning points: America's decision not to challenge Iranian intervention in Iraq's January 2005 elections.
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.
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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? …
Washington Post:
Tapping Into The Secrets Of the Stall  —  Experts Say Anonymous Sex In Public Places Is A Compulsive Behavior  —  Consider the bathroom stall, that utilitarian public enclosure of cold steel and drab hue.  —  It can be a world of untold secrets, codes and signals as invitations to partake.
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 …
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.
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.
Time:
Edwards On Track in Iowa  —  John Edwards is betting that a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses will catapult him into national contention, and so far his strategy in the state is on track.  A new TIME poll of likely Iowa caucus goers, taken a week after Edwards' seven-day …
Discussion: TIME
 
 
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The Atlantic Online:
In defense of Petraeus-as-author  —  I am sorry to disagree …
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Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
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Associated Press:
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Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
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