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1:05 PM ET, September 7, 2007

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Jurassicpork / Pottersville:

Paul Krugman: Time to Take a Stand — Here's what will definitely happen when Gen. David Petraeus testifies before Congress next week: he'll assert that the surge has reduced violence in Iraq — as long as you don't count Sunnis killed by Sunnis, Shiites killed by Shiites …

Discussion: CNSNews, The Moderate Voice, Comments From Left Field, Left in the West, No More Mister Nice Blog, Rasmussen Reports and DownWithTyranny!

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Time to Take a Stand — Gen. David Petraeus has a history of making overoptimistic assessments of progress in Iraq that happen to be convenient for his political masters.

Discussion: FP Passport, Prairie Weather, Middle Earth Journal, Brian Beutler, SWJ Blog, The Peking Duck, Brilliant at Breakfast, INSTAPUTZ, Connecting.the.Dots, Time, Bark Bark Woof Woof and The Atlantic Online

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:

BURIED LEDE ALERT....Fred Kaplan has a good piece in Slate today about the upcoming Petraeus report and what Congress needs to ask about it. But I was more taken by an astonishing statement at the end of the piece from Stephen Biddle, a member of Petraeus's advisory panel.

Discussion: New York Times, The Atlantic Online, Pacific Views, Donklephant, The Peking Duck, Balloon Juice and Think Progress

Faiz / Think Progress:

New Twist In Saga Over 'Petraeus Report': There Will Be No Report — In the latest twist to the ongoing saga over the White House report, a senior military official tells the Washington Times today that there will actually be no report at all: … To recap, first the public was incorrectly led …

Discussion: Washington Times

Fred Kaplan / Slate:
What Congress Needs To Ask Petraeus and Crocker

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, The Newshoggers, The Impolitic, Comments From Left Field, Shakespeare's Sister and Washington Post

Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
'The Bush Report' — Via the Corner, this email from an …

Discussion: Horses Mouth and Captain's Quarters

Daniel Politi / Slate:
Slow Motion — The New York Times and the Washington Post's …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Salon, The Swamp, On Deadline and INTEL DUMP

Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:

New Videotape From Bin Laden; Al Qaeda's No. 1 Still Alive — Brian Ross Reports: — Intelligence sources tell ABC News they believe the expected video message from Osama bin Laden is authentic, recently produced and evidence the al Qaeda leader is still alive.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Hot Air, National Review, CNN, Counterterrorism Blog, The Daily Whim, Gateway Pundit, Riehl World View, QandO, TalkLeft, GINA COBB, The Jawa Report, Wake up America and Stop The ACLU

MSNBC:

U.S. has copy of bin Laden video — Bush administration says it is examining tape for authenticity — WASHINGTON - The White House has obtained a copy of a purported video by Osama bin Laden ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and has begun to analyze its contents, a Bush administration official said Friday.

Discussion: On Deadline, The Belmont Club and Gateway Pundit

Lydia Saad / Gallup Poll:

Gallup Ranks the 2008 Candidates According to a Feeling Thermometer — Obama rated the most positively by Americans; Hillary enjoys broadest partisan support — PRINCETON, NJ — Using a "feeling thermometer" rating scale, Gallup recently tested the public images of several of the Republican …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Swamp, Blue Crab Boulevard, The American Pundit and Pollster.com

Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:

Off to the Races — Surprisingly, the Republican presidential campaign comes into focus. — This week the Republican candidates for the presidency tried to make it new again. Summer's over, autumn's here, they're relaunching. I think they pretty much succeeded. Their debate Wednesday night had sparks and fire.

Discussion: Eunomia, The Atlantic Online and No More Mister Nice Blog

New York Times:
For Thompson, Goal Is to Don Reagan Mantle

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, The Right's Field and TIME

San Francisco Chronicle:

Fugitive fundraiser Hsu captured in Colorado — (09-06) 20:52 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Fugitive political fundraiser Norman Hsu, who skipped out on San Mateo County authorities this week rather than face sentencing for a 1992 fraud conviction, was apprehended Thursday night by federal and local lawmen in Grand Junction, Colo.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Detroit Times, Washington Post, Right Wing Nut House, Classical Values, Macsmind, Captain's Quarters, Don Surber, JammieWearingFool, TalkLeft, Sister Toldjah, Gateway Pundit and The American Pundit

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Norman Hsu captured in Colorado; Update: Hospitalized …

Andrew Norfolk / Times of London:

Hardline takeover of British mosques — Almost half of Britain's mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to "shed blood" for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found.

Discussion: Power Line, Heading Right, Captain's Quarters, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, The Glittering Eye, Jihad Watch, Little Green Footballs, Theo Spark and Telegraph

Jim Moore / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Go 2 Guy: Seahawks duo blitzed by Bush backlash — KIRKLAND — Are you still fans of Matt Hasselbeck and Mack Strong after they visited President Bush last week in Bellevue? Or have their political leanings turned you against them? — The Seahawks quarterback and fullback gave …

Discussion: Don Surber, Sister Toldjah, Gateway Pundit, Outside The Beltway, QandO and Blue Crab Boulevard

Catherine Donaldson-Evans / Fox News:

G.I. Joe to Become Global Task Force in Movie — Say it ain't so, G.I. Joe. — The popular all-American comic-book military man and action figure dating back to the 1940s is undergoing a significant transformation for the Paramount Pictures-distributed "G.I. Joe" film …

Discussion: BLACKFIVE, protein wisdom, Stop The ACLU, Sister Toldjah and NewsBusters.org

Rob / Say Anything:

More On Ed Schultz's Bar Fight — Earlier this evening I wrote a post about North Dakota and national radio personality (and Democrat mouthpiece) Ed Schultz getting into an altercation with Kevin Nagle. Upon first hearing of the story, something just didn't seem right.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Riehl World View

The Big Trunk / Power Line:
HATE TALK FROM THE HEARTLAND

Discussion: IN-FORUM and Captain's Quarters

Andrew Roth / Club for Growth:

Fred Thompson's Record on Economic Issues … Fred Thompson's Generally Pro-Growth Record — Taxes — The Club for Growth is committed to lower taxes-especially lower tax rates- across the board. Lower taxes on work, savings, and investments lead to greater levels of these activities, thus encouraging greater economic growth.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Daily Pundit

Slate:

Giving Away the President's Power — This week and next, Slate is publishing three exclusive excerpts from The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration by Jack L. Goldsmith. Goldsmith served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel from October 2003 to July of 2004.

Discussion: The Next Hurrah and Balkinization

Steve Jobs / Apple:

To all iPhone customers: — I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.