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10:40 PM ET, July 14, 2008

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The New Republic:
Flipping Out  —  So Obama will listen to his generals and consider the facts on the ground before fully withdrawing from Iraq.  OMG!  WTF?  Rick Klein of ABC News exclaimed, “There's been lots of speculation this week about whether Barack Obama has an Iraq problem.  He does now.”
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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.
Jim Lindgren / The Volokh Conspiracy:
JAMIE GORELICK'S TIES TO FANNIE MAE AND WHAT SHE'S DOING NOW— In reading this article about Crony Capitalism at Fannie Mae (tip to Instapundit), I noticed that Jamie Gorelick was one of the Fannie executives who benefited from inflated bonuses based on Enron-style accounting.
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Conn Carroll / The Foundry:
Morning Bell: The Left's Crony Capitalism Exposed
Discussion: protein wisdom and The Mahablog
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Nationalization: A Solution for Housing
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
UNIVERSAL THEORY OF BAMBOOZLEMENT?  —  Earlier today we noted the possible role of AP Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier is turning the AP's campaign coverage into complete crap.  Now from the just released Tillman Report, it seems Fournier was also one of the reporters exchanging emails …
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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 …
CNN:
Ventura: I'm not running for Senate  —  (CNN) — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura has decided not to run for U.S. Senate in that state, he told CNN's “Larry King Live” Monday night.  —  Ventura, a former professional wrestler, had said last week he was weighing whether to run.
Discussion: TIME.com
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Minnesota Senate  —  Ventura Has Already Shaken Up Senate Race, Will He Run?  —  Jesse Ventura has selected CNN's Larry King Show as the vehicle to announce a decision on whether to enter the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.  Mere speculation about Ventura's intent has already shaken up the race.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
ONE DOWN, ONE TO GO  —  This morning President Bush rescinded the executive order that has prohibited drilling on the outer continental shelf since 1990.  Many of us have wondered why he didn't do that some time ago.  Rescinding the order will not, of course, allow exploration to go forward …
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Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Bush lifts oil drilling ban, wants Congress to act
Discussion: Let Freedom Ring and The Foundry
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
McLaughlin takes heat for ‘Oreo’ comment  —  (CNN) — Longtime Washington talk-show host John McLaughlin is facing fire Monday for referring to Barack Obama as an “Oreo” during a segment on his Sunday political program, “The McLaughlin Group.  —  The veteran Washington journalist was discussing …
Discussion: protein wisdom, Macsmind and Wonkette
Bradley Keoun / Bloomberg:
Citigroup's $1.1 Trillion of Mysterious Assets Shadows Earnings  —  At an investor presentation in May, Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit said shrinking the bank's $2.2 trillion balance sheet, the biggest in the U.S., was a cornerstone of his turnaround plan.
Scott Horton / Harper's:
Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side  —  In a series of gripping articles, Jane Mayer has chronicled the Bush Administration's grim and furtive dealings with torture and has exposed both the individuals within the administration who “made it happen” (a group that starts …
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 …
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Randall Mikkelsen / Reuters:   U.S. terrorism watch list tops 1 million
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Surprising Closeness of the Contest  —  Despite a general sentiment that John McCain's campaign has gone through an extremely difficult — and disorganized — past month, a series of recent polls suggest that the Arizona senator remains within striking distance of Barack Obama with less …
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 …
Washington Wire:
McCains to Profit on Anheuser, InBev Deal  —  T. W. Farnam reports on the presidential race.  —  Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, is set to get a huge payout from the sale of Anheuser-Busch Cos., brewer of Budweiser and hundreds of other brands, to Belgian beverage giant InBev NV.
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.
Discussion: Newshoggers.com and Taylor Marsh
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Keli Goff / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Perez Hilton Problem  —  It's no secret that last week was not a good one for John McCain.  His old friend, Phil Gramm, demonstrated such a sad case of foot in mouth disease with his “mental recession” line that it was almost as though Gramm was acting as an Obama campaign covert operative.
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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.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
New Yorker  —  Since it's the controversy of the day, let me make my views more clear.
New York Times:
Taliban Breached NATO Base in Deadly Clash  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban insurgents who attacked a remote American-run outpost near the Pakistan border on Sunday numbered nearly 200 fighters, almost three times the size of the allied force, and some breached the NATO compound …
Christopher Bateman / Vanity Fair:
POLITICS AND POWER  —  Yet another member of John McCain's presidential campaign is stepping down after coming under scrutiny for shady business dealings.  McCain finance co-chair and former New Jersey congressman Jim Courter, chief executive of telecom corporation IDT …
Discussion: Think Progress and RADAMISTO
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Clinton supporters want floor vote  —  It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.  — Dan Cook  —  Operation Chaos may not yet have finished, according to CQ Politics.  While Hillary Clinton negotiates for a place of honor at the convention, some of her followers have a more important role in mind for her.
 
 
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