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10:20 AM ET, August 30, 2007

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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 …
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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 …
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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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Clinton to give away fundraiser's cash
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
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.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
When Exactly Did Art Die?  —  At least the latest travesty in the art world comes Down Under rather than the US, but that only shows how global the collapse of art from a meaningful form to an anti-Christian realm of bigots has become.  The latest examples are entrants in the Blake Prize competition …
Discussion: NEWS.com.au
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.
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
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.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
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 …
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
Daniel Chun / The New Republic:
Flower Bauer  —  "24"'s upcoming seventh season appears to mark a different direction for the conservative-leaning action drama.  First, producers cast a female president.  Then they struck a plan to make the show's production more environmentally friendly, leading to a "carbon-neutral" season finale.
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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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 …
 
 
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Musharraf Agrees to Resign as Army Chief
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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David Schraub / The Moderate Voice:
The Moderator's Voice  —  When I joined this blog (middle of 2005) …
Discussion: Stubborn Facts
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Good news, but not for Democrats  —  IT'S A WAR, and it's …
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