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9:35 AM ET, August 12, 2008

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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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New York Times:
Russia Says It Has Ordered Halt to Georgia Military Action  —  MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia announced Tuesday that he had ordered a halt to his country's military operation in Georgia, although he did not say that troops were pulling out and he insisted that Russian forces …
Mikhail Gorbachev / Washington Post:
A Path to Peace in the Caucasus  —  MOSCOW — The past week's events in South Ossetia are bound to shock and pain anyone.  Already, thousands of people have died, tens of thousands have been turned into refugees, and towns and villages lie in ruins.  Nothing can justify this loss of life and destruction.
Spengler / Asia Times:
Putin for US president - more than ever  —  If Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin were president of the United States, would Iran try to build a nuclear bomb?  Would Pakistan provide covert aid to al-Qaeda?  Would Hugo Chavez train terrorists in Venezuela?
BJ Bjornson / Newshoggers.com:
“Major Combat Operations Have Ended”  —  Well, Russia has apparently had enough fun beating down the Georgians for now and President Medvedev is ordering an end to military operations.  Despite the increasingly hysterical claims of a full-fledged invasion and take-over of 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.
Discussion: Orion Hood
Xinhua News Agency:
McCain takes hard stance toward Russia
Discussion: NEWS.com.au and The Moderate Voice
Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili / Associated Press:
Dozens of Russian vehicles head toward key gorge
Guardian:
Russian troops close in on Georgian capital
Discussion: The Lede
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:   Salon Radio: Professor Charles King on Russia/Georgia
Helene Cooper / New York Times:   Russia Steps Up Its Push; West Faces Tough Choices
Scott Horton / Harper's:   Georgia on My Mind  —  Today America's media continues …
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.
Discussion: The Corner and Political Punch
Rasmussen Reports:
64% Now Support Offshore Drilling; 42% See it as Best Way to Reduce Oil Prices
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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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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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
News Under Our Noses
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” …
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 …
Washington Post:
‘Snake Oil’  —  Debunking three ‘truths’ about offshore drilling  —  THE NATURAL Resources Defense Council Action Fund has taken out full-page ads in this newspaper and others to decry offshore drilling for oil as “George W. Bush's Gasoline Price Elixir” that is “100% Snake Oil.”
Discussion: Betsy's Page and www.redstate.com
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 …
Discussion: michellemalkin.com and On Deadline
 
 
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