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3:45 PM ET, July 14, 2008

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Barack Obama / New York Times:
My Plan for Iraq  —  THE call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity.  We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated …
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Michael Yon Online Magazine:
Success in Iraq  —  The war continues to abate in Iraq.  Violence is still present, but, of course, Iraq was a relatively violent place long before Coalition forces moved in.  I would go so far as to say that barring any major and unexpected developments (like an Israeli air strike on Iran …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
BBC: Maliki's remarks misreported
The Huffington Post:
David Remnick On That New Yorker Cover: It's Satire, Meant To Target “Distortions And Misconceptions And Prejudices” About Obama  —  Earlier today, the New Yorker released its cover for the July 21, 2008 issue — and the reaction was swift and furious.  —  The cover by Barry Blitt, called …
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Ta-Nehisi Coates:
Maybe white folks shouldn't draw pictures of Michelle Obama...  At this very moment, me and Kenyatta are debating New Yorker cover.  She's a little more pissed than me—particularly about the Michelle Obama pic and the Afro.  I think the problem is that it's very hard to satirize the rumors around Michelle and Barack.
Discussion: Megan McArdle
Pareene / Gawker:
Remnick Defends Obama Cover, Idea That Readers Aren't Retards  —  This is the problem with being an editor or publisher or writer or cartoonist or even blogger and having some small lingering trace of a sense of irony—sometimes you accidentally assume that the Vast and Mysterious “Audience” shares that subversive French sense.
Discussion: Swampland and The Campaign Spot
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Covers and Beholders
Discussion: alicublog
Tanta / Calculated Risk:
Krugman on the GSEs  —  Paul Krugman has a new column on Fannie and Freddie which I think is important.  I'm going to take issue with a fair amount of it, but not with the basic argument that the uproar over the GSEs is “overblown.”  That, I think is a point worth making.
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Conn Carroll / The Foundry:
Morning Bell: The Left's Crony Capitalism Exposed
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
ACLU:
Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million Names  —  ACLU launches online watch list complaint form  —  Contact: (202) 675-2312 or media@dcaclu.org  —  WASHINGTON, DC - The nation's terrorist watch list has hit one million names, according to a tally maintained by the American Civil Liberties Union based upon …
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
What The New York Times Won't Tell You About Joe Lieberman  —  There are two facts about Joe Lieberman that the big news orgs simply can't bring themselves to tell their readers and viewers.  —  The first is that during the 2006 campaign against Ned Lamont, Lieberman and his aides vowed multiple times …
Discussion: The Sideshow
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Lieberman Finds Middle a Tricky Path  —  WASHINGTON — Joseph I. Lieberman, lapsed Democrat of Connecticut, strolled into the weekly lunch of the Senate Democrats last Tuesday, unaccompanied by a food taster.  —  He greeted his colleagues, including some who felt he should not have been there.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DO YOUR JOB: STOP IGNORING SCHEUNEMANN'S PAST  —  As you can see, the McCain campaign is moving ahead with a new stab-in-the-back style attack on Obama over Iraq.  But as Team McCain is raising the volume on these slash-and-burn style attacks, it's time for some coverage of the guy who's McCain's brain on Iraq.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama: Immigration enforcement = terror  —  Barack Obama spoke to the National Council of La Raza and in one sentence managed to do what most Hot Air readers would consider the impossible — he put distance between himself and John McCain on immigration.  Calling the ICE terrorists …
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Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Remarks to La Raza
Discussion: Right Wing News, QandO and The Corner
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Is Fournier saving or destroying the AP?  —  Ron Fournier says he regards Sandy Johnson, his predecessor as head of The Associated Press's Washington bureau, as “a mentor.”  —  Johnson, though, regards Fournier, who replaced her in a hard-feelings shake-up in May, as a threat …
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Bush lifts executive ban on offshore drilling  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Putting pressure on congressional Democrats to back more exploration for oil, President Bush on Monday lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling that his stood since his father was president.
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
AP Stringer Stands by as Taliban Murder 2 Women, Gets Snuff Footage [UPDATE: Worse than Bilal Hussein!]  [UPDATE: Confirmed: Took Video of Murder]  —  AP photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder.  The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle.
Discussion: On Deadline
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
McCain Needs Crash Course in Basic Economics: Albert R. Hunt  —  The American presidential campaign this week was fought on economic terrain, and John McCain was the New York Yankees battling in Boston's Fenway Park or Liverpool playing at Manchester United's Old Trafford: the visiting team with a decided disadvantage.
Mike Allen / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain meets the press  —  From the pool report on Senator McCain's stop and remarks in Phoenix today, by Adam Aigner-Treworgy of NBC News & National Journal Group:  —  “John McCain arrived at the Eggery in Central Phoenix with his wife Cindy at around 9 a.m. Decked out in French Country decor …
Michelle Malkin:
Grow a pair, Obama  —  So, you found this satirical New Yorker cover art “tasteless and offensive.”  —  Welcome to public life.  —  Guess what?  In Washington, political cartoonists and caricaturists spare no one.  —  Here's a reminder of the crap Condi Rice has had to deal with over the years:
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
McCain's Hillary Problem  —  He's running her same campaign.  And she lost.  —  Feel free to tell me I'm nuts for asking the question, but doesn't it seem that, more and more, the McCain campaign is turning into the Clinton campaign?  —  The comparison smacked me upside the head last week …
Discussion: Spin Cycle and Wonkette
 
 
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Tina Moore / NY Daily News:
Care-home grannies blast billionaire whose firm put their rents through roof
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
In the Obama press shop
Discussion: TIME.com
Washington Wire:
McCains to Profit on Anheuser, InBev Deal
Discussion: TIME.com
LATimes / Top of the Ticket:
Sounds like Schwarzenegger would accept an Obama Cabinet post
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Washington Post:
The McCain Budget Plan
Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
FLIP-FLOP FLAP  —  One of the World Wide Web's most distinguished …
Discussion: Swampland and MSNBC
Kathy G. / The G Spot:
Veepstakes-o-rama  —  Note: an edited version of this post can be found here.
Megan McArdle:
A challenge to drivers who are angry at bikers for selectively …
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Marc Ambinder:
Obama's Michigan Campaign Will Be 2x The Size Of Kerry's
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On Immigration, Poison Pills Or Booster Shots?
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John Atlas / The Huffington Post:
Acorn Under The Microscope
Daily Mail:
BBC Bonekickers drama blasted for showing images of a Muslim being beheaded
Discussion: Right Wing News and QandO
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Obama leaps to early Iowa start; McCain slowly digs in
Discussion: TIME.com
Right Wing News:
RWN's Dennis Avery Interview #2: Say Good-Bye To Global Warming …
Discussion: Moonbattery
Ron Moreau / Newsweek:
Why Vietnam Loves McCain
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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