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Charles Babington / Associated Press:
House bid to censure Stark falls short — WASHINGTON - Republicans failed in an effort Tuesday to have the House censure Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., who said in a congressional speech last week that U.S. troops are being sent to Iraq "to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Dear Speaker Pelosi — With all of the outrages perpetuated by this administration, with the abject failure of the House under your leadership to do anything that they were elected to do, I guess we'll have to say that this is your crowning achievement — forcing Pete Stark to his knees …
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Single gaffe can derail a message — Last week's vote on overriding President Bush's children's health insurance veto should have been a brief respite from a pretty tough week for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). — After being forced to back away from votes on Armenian genocide …
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Mark Halperin / The Page:
Thompson's Plan to Fight Illegal Immigration — From Thompson campaign: — Thompson Announces Plan to Secure Border, Enforce Existing Immigration Laws — Senator Fred Thompson today unveiled a comprehensive border security and immigration enforcement proposal that would make America safer …
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Michelle Malkin:Shamnesty alert: Dems prepare to ram DREAM Act through with cloture …
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Klaus Marre / The Hill:Tancredo calls immigration police on participants of congressional staff meeting
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Martin Kady II / The Politico:Tancredo: Arrest the immigrant students at press conference
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Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
The Clinton family machine — Union ties one example of couple's joint effort to return to White House — Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton at a September campaign rally at Market Square in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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David Weigel / The American Conservative:
It Takes an Agenda — Conservatives cannot live by Hillary-hate alone. — It's a balmy, beer-drinking evening in the middle of August, and the conservatives trickling in to a meeting of the Robert A. Taft Club can't enjoy it. They're mostly under-30 Washington professionals, and they're fed up with the Republican Party.
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What are memeorandum's top 100 sources? — The ascent of blogs and other independent publishers has expanded and revitalized political dialogue in the United Status. While the "mainstream" media remains the primary source of factural reporting, they no longer own the agenda.
Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Romney slip: another Osama-Obama mix-up — GREENWOOD, S.C. - In a slip of the tongue, Republican Mitt Romney accused Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama of urging terrorists to congregate in Iraq. — In the midst of criticizing Obama and other Democrats on foreign and economic policy Tuesday …
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Aaron Gould Sheinin / The State:Romney polls show S.C. surge
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ABCNEWS:
Giuliani Defends, Employs Priest Accused of Molesting Teens — Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Two Anniversaries To Forget — Today marks two significant anniversaries in American politics. Rick Moran notes that a Mercedes truck drove in front of the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut twenty-four years ago today and gave the Islamists an eventual victory in our retreat from the peacekeeping mission in Lebanon:
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Redstate Bans Ron Paul Supporters — Redstate has made a mistake in dealing with the Ron Paul Internet phenomenon. Instead of dealing quietly with trolls, the excellent conservative blog has announced a blanket policy banning supporting diaries and comments for Ron Paul from the site.
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Charlie Cook: Foreign Policy Errors May Cost Democrats White House — Charlie Cook is one of the nation's leading election analysts and progonosticators. In his latest column (sent by E-mail, with no link currently available), he warns that while everything seems to be going Democrats' way, their streak of good luck is bound to end.
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
MoveOn And Top Bloggers To Launch Campaign Pressuring Hillary And Obama To Back Dodd On FISA — Another interesting twist in the Dodd-FISA story. — In a move that will up the pressure on Hillary and Barack Obama to stand firm against the Senate telecom immunity FISA bill …
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Guardian:
'You can't lump all terrorists together' — Michael Tomasky asks Hillary Clinton about Iraq, the legacy of the Cold War, Mukasey and ceding executive powers — I want to start with some questions about foreign policy and terrorism. If you become president you'll enter the White House …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Limbaugh calls female MSNBC anchor 'wifey' and 'whiney.' — On MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough had on right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh to "talk about the Republican field." But Limbaugh quickly interjected and said he first had a comment about CNBC business analyst Erin Burnett …
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS....Tom Friedman is concerned that 20-somethings today are a little too quiet. "If they are not spitting mad, well, then they're just not paying attention," he says. Courtney Martin responds: … Ezra Klein agrees that kids are overwhelmed today because the scale of our problems is so immense.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Bogus Intel Used in Fight with Islamofascism — Hmmm. I've never been an advocate of kicking a buffoon when he's down. But it seems our friend David Horowitz may be padding his list of colleges and universities participating in Islamofascism Awareness Week (aka "the biggest conservative campus protest ever").
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Scott Lindlaw / Associated Press:
Civility Reigns at San Diego Stadium — SAN DIEGO (AP) - Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled to the NFL stadium here, waiting out the calamity and worrying about their homes.
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Keith L. Alexander / Washington Post:
Judge Set to Lose Job, Sources Say — Panel Reportedly Votes Against Reappointment — Roy L. Pearson Jr., whose $54 million lawsuit against a Northeast Washington dry-cleaning shop was rejected in court, is about to lose his job as an administrative law judge, sources said last night.
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