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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S FECKLESS RESPONSE TO THE RUSSIAN INVASION. — It is impossible to think about the Russian assault on Georgia without feeling like a heartless bastard or a romantic fool. Should we just let Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev roll their tanks into Tbilisi in recognition …
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Times of London:
Georgian army flees in disarray as Russians advance — The Georgian Army was in complete disarray last night after troops and tanks fled the town of Gori in panic and abandoned it to the Russians without firing a shot. — As Russian armoured columns rolled deep into central and western Georgia …
Glenn Reynolds / Pajamas Media:
PROF. KENNETH ANDERSON fact-checks The New York Times' C.J. Chivers on Georgia. “Look: what you've offered us is an argument, masquerading as a narrative news story. I'm very interested in arguments, especially on a policy topic as difficult and fraught with risks as this, and I don't doubt that you have important things to say.
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Daily Mail:Georgia ‘overrun’ by Russian troops as full-scale ground invasion begins
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Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:U.S. knew Georgia trouble was coming, but couldn't stop it
Helene Cooper / New York Times:Russia Steps Up Its Push; West Faces Tough Choices
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:BEWARE — You can see the extremely bellicose statements …
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James Gerstenzang / The LA Times President Bush Blog:President Bush to Russia: Back off Georgia
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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Front-Runner's Fall — For all that has been written and said about Hillary Clinton's epic collapse in the Democratic primaries, one issue still nags. Everybody knows what happened. But we still don't have a clear picture of how it happened, or why.
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Xinhua News Agency:
McCain takes hard stance toward Russia — Aimed to consolidate his commander-in-chief credentials, U.S. Republican presidential hopeful John McCain took a hard stance toward Russia Monday in the wake of the Russia-Georgia conflict. — “Russian President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin must understand …
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Taegan Goddard / Political Insider:Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis?
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Pelosi indicates openness to offshore drilling vote — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday night dropped her staunch opposition to a vote on offshore oil drilling in the House. — Republicans, reacting to high gas prices, have demanded a vote on additional oil exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf …
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CNN:
CNN LARRY KING LIVE — Interview with Nancy Pelosi — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, did John Edwards cost Hillary Clinton the nomination? — Her ex-staffer says yes, as fallout from the sex scandal builds.
Garance Franke-Ruta / Washington Post:
Edwards Took Mistress on 2006 Presidential Announcement Tour — Well, you gotta give him one thing: the man has chutzpah. — Photographs distributed by wire services and posted online by technology blogger Robert Scoble show that former North Carolina senator John Edwards took …
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Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
New McCain Web Ad: “Hot Chicks Dig Obama” — The latest McCain Web ad takes the “Celeb” tag to a whole new low — it proclaims that “Hot chicks dig Obama”: — “We know he doesn't have much experience, and isn't ready to lead, but that doesn't mean he isn't dreamy,” says the announcer …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Indiana Senator Offers Obama Risks and Rewards — WASHINGTON — As the Senate debate on the use of force against Iraq neared its climax in October 2002, Senator John McCain turned on the floor to Senator Evan Bayh to ask what had led him to take such “a visible, as well as important” …
Sid Lowe / Guardian:
Olympics: Spain's eye-catching faux pas — Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures. The advert for a courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation …
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
More Fun With the Dumbest People on the Internet — It's been a while since I suited up and dumpster-dived in the Obama conspiracyverse. In my absence, I reckon that the average IQ there has dipped by 20-25 points. Take this latest revelation from Larry “Whitey Tape” Johnson. … Incredible!
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Iowa Presidential Election — Race tightens in Iowa, but Obama Still Ahead 46% to 41% — John McCain has cut Barack Obama's lead in Iowa in half over the past month but still trails the Democrat 46% to 41%, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
MCCAIN'S MEMOS — In a sense the revelations of Mark Penn's ‘xenophobia’ memos is old news, a post-mortem on a campaign that was all-consuming three months ago and now part of history. But seeing the memos beyond the message is instructive, highly instructive for another reason.
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