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7:05 AM ET, July 22, 2008

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Human Events:
ENPR Special: Sources say McCain Veep Pick to Come This Week  —  Sources close to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign are suggesting he will reveal the name of his vice presidential selection this week while Sen. Barack Obama is getting the headlines on his foreign trip.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
McCain To Meet With Jindal  —  John McCain will huddle with vice presidential aspirant Bobby Jindal during a trip to New Orleans later this week, sources close to the campaign confirm to The Fix.  —  McCain's trip to Louisiana on Wednesday was the cause of much head scratching in the political world …
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain closes in on VP  —  John McCain has narrowed his vice-presidential possibilities to the point where he considered a decision this week — but he's likely to hold off, say sources close to the campaign.  —  The prospect of stepping on Barack Obama's much-anticipated overseas trip …
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Andrea on Obama Trip: ‘What Some Would Call Fake Interviews’  —  Andrea Mitchell might be a doyenne of the liberal media, but she has her reporter's pride and principles, both of which have been trampled by the way the Obama campaign has managed the media during the candidate's current trip to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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ABCNEWS:
Obama Won't ‘Rubber Stamp’ Military Decisions  —  In Exclusive ‘Nightline’ Interview, Senator Says He Still Doesn't Support Surge  —  After meeting with top U.S. military commanders and members of the Iraqi government, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today said his opposition to the surge …
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Ben Smith's Blogs
Marc Ambinder:
Obama Concedes That Surge Didn't Go As He Expected  —  Sen. Barack Obama said it was “fair” to notice that he did not anticipate that the surge of U.S. troops into Iraq would be coincident with the so-called Sunni Awakening and the decisions of Shia militias to reduce their footprints …
Discussion: Hot Air and Sister Toldjah
Gateway Pundit:
Pathetic!  Obama Says He Would Still Oppose the Surge …
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
CNN:
McCain's rejected New York Times op-ed piece  —  Here is the op-ed piece written by Sen. John McCain that the New York Times declined to run.  The piece was released to CNN by the McCain campaign:  —  In January 2007, when General David Petraeus took command in Iraq, he called the situation “hard” but not “hopeless.”
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New York Times:
Bosnian Serb Under Arrest in War Crimes  —  PARIS — Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted war criminals for his part in the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995, was arrested Monday in a raid in Serbia that ended a 13-year hunt.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
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Associated Press:
Serbian judge orders Karadzic to UN tribunal  —  BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia's war crimes prosecutor says a judge has ordered ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's transfer to the U.N.'s war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.  —  Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic says Karadzic has three days to appeal the ruling.
Gary Gensler / The Huffington Post:
Hillraisers Donated Less Than $20,000 To Obama In June  —  By now, most political junkies know that Barack Obama raised a lot of money in June.  —  But his campaign's $52 million dollar take for the month becomes all the more impressive when considering the utter lack of help he received …
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Matthew Weaver / Guardian:
New Yorker's plane snub over Obama ‘terrorist’ cartoon
Discussion: Don Surber, Salon and Gawker
Hillary Clinton / The Huffington Post:
An Outrageous Attempt by the Bush Administration to Undermine Women's Rights  —  The Bush administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly putting ideology before science and women's health.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put in place new barriers …
Bill Vlasic / New York Times:
Ford to Make Broader Bet on Small Cars  —  DEARBORN, Mich. — The Ford Motor Company, which devoted itself for nearly 20 years to putting millions of Americans into big pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles, is about to drastically alter its focus to building more small cars.
New York Times:
For Obama, a First Step Is Not a Misstep  —  BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government on Monday left little doubt that it favors a withdrawal plan for American combat troops similar to what Senator Barack Obama has proposed, providing Mr. Obama with a potentially powerful political boost on a day he spent …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
WHY IT'S WORTH TALKING ABOUT MEAT.  —  I've been struggling with exactly the right statistic to encapsulate why it's worthwhile to elevate meat into the energy conversation, but I think this, from the PB&J Campaign, might do the trick: … And it's much easier.
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Primetime Politics:
Our Illegal Immigrant Problem  —  Here is just another, albeit very poignant, example of why we need to be more vigilant in our exposing of sanctuary cities.  —  San Francisco provides another tragic example of what happens when a known felon is not deported and is left in our country to prey …
Felix Gillette / observer.com:
Would ‘Rathergate’ Make a Good Movie?  Hollywood Insiders Working on Screen Adaptation  —  The Media Mob has learned that a team of Hollywood insiders is currently working on a screen adaptation of Truth And Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power—the 2005 book …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Culture of Debt  —  On the front page of Sunday's Times, Gretchen Morgenson described Diane McLeod's spiral into indebtedness, and now a debate has erupted over who is to blame.  —  Some people emphasize the predatory lenders who seduced her with too-good-to-be-true credit lines and incomprehensible mortgage offers.
Discussion: TPMCafe and Economist's View
 
 
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Pete Yost / Associated Press:
McCain adviser lobbied for Stephen Payne
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Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Women Are Now Equal as Victims of Poor Economy
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Is media playing fair in campaign coverage?
Aaron Klein / wnd.com:
Terrorists' assignment: Protect Barack Obama
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
A.C.L.U. Sues Alabama on Ballot Access
Discussion: TalkLeft
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Iran Offers 2 Pages and No Ground in Nuclear Talks
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
McCain insists he was right, Obama wrong on Iraq
Rasmussen Reports:
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 Earlier Items: 
Michele Bachmann / National Review:
Drill Here.  Drill Now.  —  This past weekend, I had the privilege …
Elizabeth Goodwin / New York Sun:
Upper East Side Church Hosts a Holocaust Denier
Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News:
Poll: Obama, McCain locked in tight battle for Michigan
Discussion: The Next Right
Neel Shah / RADAR:
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Todd Gitlin / CJR:
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Discussion: Open Left, Hullabaloo and MSNBC
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

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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