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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 …
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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.
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
War Puts Focus on McCain's Hard Line on Russia — HARRISBURG, Pa. — The intensifying warfare in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has put a new focus on the increasingly hard line that Senator John McCain has taken against Russia in recent years, with stances that have often gone …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Russia's Power Play — Asked in 1957 what would determine his government's course, Harold Macmillan, Britain's new prime minister, replied, “Events, dear boy, events.” Now, into America's trivializing presidential campaign, a pesky event has intruded — a European war.
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Glenn Reynolds / Pajamas Media:PROF. KENNETH ANDERSON fact-checks The New York Times' C.J. Chivers on Georgia.
Gregory / The Belgravia Dispatch:MCCAIN: LET'S COMPOUND THE BLUNDER!
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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.”
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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 …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Harmony and the Dream — The world can be divided in many ways — rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian — but one of the most striking is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a collectivist mentality. — This is a divide that goes deeper …
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James Fallows:
David Brooks from Chengdu: my lord — Some of his pensees: … This is the kind of thing you can say only if you have not the slightest inkling of how completely different a billion-plus people can be from one another. Beijingers from Shanghainese, Guangdong entrepreneurs from farmers in Sichuan …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Mukasey: No prosecutions in Justice hiring scandal — NEW YORK - Former Justice Department officials will not face prosecution for letting improper political considerations drive hirings of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday.
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Mark J. Penn / The Politico:
Negative ads: They really do work — Clever negative advertising works. That is reality. — The tactic meets with media and pundit disapproval and spawns accusations of negativity, but the reality is that a clever negative ad can be devastatingly effective.
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Learfield / Radio Iowa:
Jim Leach endorsing Obama — According to a source in the Obama campaign, former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach — a Republican — will be endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama this morning. Leach, as you may recall, lost his bid for re-election in 2006 after three decades …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Edwards affair began early: Hunter friend — Former Sen. John Edwards' extramarital affair started well before the former candidate for president and nominee for vice president has admitted, according to Pigeon O'Brien, a friend of Edwards' campaign videographer and mistress, Rielle Hunter.
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Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
In a Changing Corner of Pa., a Glimpse of Obama's Age Problem — LANCASTER, Pa. — When Gene Rutherford, 65, tries to make sense of the meteoric rise of Barack Obama, and the rampant enthusiasm for him among younger Americans, he thinks of the local mall, where as director of operations he often deals with teenagers.
Michelle Malkin:
Foreclosure sob story of the morning — Nope, the MSM has learned nothing from the subprime debacle, stimulus-palooza, and the foreclosure frenzy. They are still printing sob stories to elicit sympathy for borrowers who don't deserve it. — Check this out from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Richard T. Cullen / The Politico:
Enthusiasm gap plagues GOP convention — While excitement is building for a Democratic Party convention capped by Barack Obama's historic acceptance speech before a sold-out, 75,000-seat football stadium, the GOP convention the following week is shaping up to be a considerably more staid affair …
Brent Budowsky / Editor and Publisher:
Target Obama: Why The Press Must Fact-Check Campaign Claims — What is the responsibility of reporters, editors and publishers when a candidate is the target of a campaign of attack and personal destruction employing the systematic use of lies, smears, innuendo and character assassination?
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Indiana Senator Offers Obama Risks and Rewards — Evan Bayh's advocacy for the Iraq war could hurt his prospects for getting on the Democratic ticket.
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