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National Enquirer:
THE PHOTOS EVERYONE'S BEEN WAITING FOR! — The NATIONAL ENQUIRER is releasing the photograph that the world has been waiting for - the first-ever picture of John Edwards and his love child! — The stunning “spy photo” shows the former presidential contender holding his infant daughter Frances Quinn Hunter …
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New York Post:
NOVEL TALE OF POL'S ‘MISTRESS’ — RIELLE Hunter - the woman reported by the National Enquirer to be John Edwards' mistress and mother of his love child - is no stranger to fans of Jay McInerney. The novelist dated the blonde for a few months in the late 1980s and based his book “Story of My Life” on her.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
McCain's Green-Eyed Monster — Not since Iago and Othello obsessed on the comely Cassio, not since Richard of Gloucester killed his two nephews, not since Nixon and Johnson glowered at the glittering J.F.K., has there been such an unseemly outpouring of boy envy.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
MoDo On McCain — When she's on form, she's peerless …
MoDo On McCain — When she's on form, she's peerless …
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Matthew Bigg / Tales from the Trail:
McCain takes air out of tire pressure debate
McCain takes air out of tire pressure debate
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Ben Smith's Blogs, Associated Press, TPM Election Central, Daily Kos, Think Progress, D-Day, The Carpetbagger Report and MyDD
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Bin Laden's Former Driver Found Guilty in Split Verdict — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A panel of six military officers convicted a former driver for Osama bin Laden of one war crime Wednesday but acquitted him of another, completing the first military commission trial here and the first conducted …
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Guardian, Commentary, Los Angeles Times, The Swamp, Reason Magazine, Macsmind and TIME.com
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Bin Laden's Former Driver Convicted by Military Tribunal
Bin Laden's Former Driver Convicted by Military Tribunal
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Center for Constitutional …, ACLU, Firedoglake, Ben Smith's Blogs, Guardian, Flopping Aces, TalkLeft and Stop The ACLU
Massimo Calabresi / Time:
Poll: Trouble Signs in Obama's Lead — After two weeks of sharpened attacks between the campaigns, Barack Obama is maintaining a narrow 5% lead over John McCain in the race for the White House, a new TIME poll shows. Overall, the poll shows Obama leading McCain 46% to 41% when undecided voters …
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The Corner, Marc Ambinder, Pajamas Media, TPM Election Central, TIME.com and Real Clear Politics
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David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Obama stalls in public polling — In the two months since Barack Obama captured the Democratic nomination, he has hit a ceiling in public opinion, proving unable to make significant gains with any segment of the national electorate. — While Obama still leads in most matchups with John McCain …
Pew Research Center:
Obama Fatigue - 48% Hearing Too Much About Him — McCain's Ads Seen As Negative, Obama's as Positive — As he has since January, this week, Barack Obama enjoyed much more visibility as far as the public was concerned than did John McCain. By a margin of 76% to 11% respondents …
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The Swamp, Hot Air, PewResearch.org, www.redstate.com, Hullabaloo, Outside The Beltway, Boston Globe, Macsmind and NewsBusters.org
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Associated Press:
Poll: Nearly half hearing too much about Obama — WASHINGTON - Barack Obama may be the fresh face in this year's presidential election, but nearly half say they're already tired of hearing about him, a poll says. — With Election Day still three months away, 48 percent said they're hearing …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Another stealth ad from Obama: “Original” — For the second time in a week, the Barack Obama campaign has published an ad without releasing it to the media. “Original” goes negative yet again, attacking John McCain for being ... well, Republican: … Maybe Team Obama is so embarrassed …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama really doesn't like a debate — Barack Obama got stung by a challenge from a Las Vegas reporter on his energy policy, and specifically on his efforts to paint John McCain as a lackey of Dick Cheney. Jon Ralston asked Obama about the contradiction inherent in this strategy …
Washington Wire:
An Obama-Bayh Ticket? Not This Week — Christopher Cooper reports from Elkhart, Ind., on the presidential race. — Barack Obama and Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh appeared at a campaign rally together Wednesday, stoking conjecture that the Hoosier senator may be asked to join the ticket as Obama's running mate.
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Damozel / I Don't Like You Either:
A Right Wing Man's Plea: Right Wing Women, Please Stop Blogging — by John Q. Public I've been thinking about this topic for weeks, but have hesitated to publish it. It is a controversial subject. Even my powerful brothers of the far right dare not address it (though they certainly secretly think it).
Asra Q. Nomani / Wall Street Journal:
You Still Can't Write About Muhammad — Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad. Ms. Jones learned Arabic, studied scholarly works about Aisha's life, and came to admire her protagonist as a woman of courage.
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The Jawa Report, Reason Magazine, protein wisdom, NewsBusters.org, Stop The ACLU, Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs and Right Wing News
Steve Gill / Pajamas Media:
Gore Hits the Waves with a Massive New Houseboat — The environment guru has a big house, flies in big planes... and now captains a big boat. — Former Vice President Al Gore, the Nobel-winning self-proclaimed global prophet of green, has made a lot of money from the so-called “crisis” of global warming.
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Milbank's Move — Yesterday, I wrote on Dana Milbank's abrupt departure from “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” which at first seemed to directly follow a disagreement over the Washington Post columnist's July 30 column calling Obama “presumptuous.” — However, Milbank's dissatisfaction …
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Matt Bai / New York Times:
Is Obama the End of Black Politics? — Forty-seven years after he last looked out from behind the bars of a South Carolina jail cell, locked away for leading a march against segregation in Columbia, James Clyburn occupies a coveted suite of offices on the second and third floors of the United States Capitol …
Amanda Carpenter / TownHall Blog:
Who are these Donors the WaPo Found? — There's a curious story about John McCain in the Washington Post today I haven't been able to verify though normal FEC databases. — Take a look at the lede in this story “Bundler Collects from Unlikely Donors”: … Here's the rub.