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2:10 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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Peter Wehner / Commentary:
Obama on the War  —  In his New York Times op-ed today on Iraq, Barack Obama makes several claims worth examining.  —  In his opening paragraph, Obama writes … A phased redeployment of combat troops can now be done in the context of a victory in Iraq, whereas when Obama first called …
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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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Covers and Beholders  —  What I find interesting about the New Yorker cover is that it's almost exactly the sort of cover you could expect to find on the front of National Review.  Roman Genn could do wonders with that concept.  Of course, if we ran the exact same art …
Discussion: Eschaton and alicublog
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THAT NEW YORKER COVER....I blogged a few hours ago about Ryan Lizza's Obama piece in the current issue of the New Yorker, but at the time I hadn't seen the cover that went along with it.  Now I have, because when I browsed through my RSS feed after dinner it turned out that the entire (liberal) …
Editor and Publisher:
‘New Yorker’ Cover With Obama as Muslim “Terrorist' Draws Heat
Discussion: The Fix
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Bush to Lift Executive Ban on Offshore Drilling  —  President Bush to lift executive ban on offshore drilling, urge Congress to act as well  —  The White House says President Bush is planning to lift an executive ban on offshore oil drilling.  —  In a Rose Garden statement on Monday, the president plans to lift the ban.
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Bush Lifts Drilling Moratorium, Prodding Congress
Discussion: Hot Air
CBS News:
Bush To Lift Ban On Offshore Drilling
Discussion: TalkLeft
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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ACLU:
ACLU Watch List Counter
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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.
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Aaron Deslatte / Orlando Sentinel:
No fuzzy math: State Dems sign up voters 7-1 over GOP
Discussion: MSNBC
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
What The New York Times Won't Tell You About Joe Lieberman
Discussion: The Sideshow
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: The Corner, Right Wing News and QandO
Mike Allen / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain on Obama's Iraq week
Discussion: The Swamp
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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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.
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:
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 …
Ron Moreau / Newsweek:
Why Vietnam Loves McCain  —  They jailed him for five years.  Now they want him in the White House.  —  Photos: Jonathan Torgovnik / Getty Images  —  Let Freedom Ring: Nurse Thanh remembers; Duyet at home in Haiphong  —  John McCain might not recognize Nguyen van Sy, but they used to be neighbors.
Right Wing News:
RWN's Dennis Avery Interview #2: Say Good-Bye To Global Warming And Hello To Global Cooling!  —  On Feb of 2007, RWN released an interview with Dennis Avery, the co-author of Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years.  —  The first interview with Dennis Avery was one of my all-time faves …
Discussion: Moonbattery
 
 
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John Atlas / The Huffington Post:
Acorn Under The Microscope
CNN:
Interview With Mowaffak al-Rubaie; Interviews With Senators Kyl, Dodd
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Michelle R. Smith / Associated Press:
RI Sen. Reed denies interest in vice presidency
Matthew Yglesias:
Zoning is Key  —  Supreme Court ruling aside, it actually seems …
Daily Mail:
BBC Bonekickers drama blasted for showing images of a Muslim being beheaded
Discussion: QandO and Right Wing News
Washington Post:
Bridging the Gap on Climate Change
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
John McCain ‘technology illiterate’ doesn't email or use internet
Discussion: Reason Magazine
New York Times:
Pakistan Marble Helps Taliban Stay in Business
 Earlier Items: 
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Obama leaps to early Iowa start; McCain slowly digs in
Amanda / Think Progress:
Despite Aversion To Golfing During The War, Bush Will Attend …
Discussion: Examiner
Washington Post:
McCain Math  —  A budget-balancing plan that won't work
Jerusalem Post:
Obama backtracks on an undivided J'lem
Discussion: TalkLeft and Commentary
Elizabeth Aguilera / The Politico:
Denver businesses stiffed by DNC
Discussion: Hot Air
Susan Page / USA Today:
Hopes on race relations are high, poll shows
Wall Street Journal:
Foreign Courts Take Aim at Our Free Speech
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Obama backers on the left are doing the wincing now
Discussion: pandagon.net
 

 
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Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Ad software company Mediaocean buys Innovid, an ad tech company focused on CTV, for $500M; Innovid had a market cap of ~$240M at market close on November 20

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

 
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