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After Mixed U.S. Messages, a War Erupted in Georgia — WASHINGTON — One month ago, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia, for a high-profile visit that was planned to accomplish two very different goals. — During a private dinner on July 9, Ms. Rice's aides say …
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While Aide Advised McCain, His Firm Lobbied for Georgia — Campaign Dismisses Timing of Phone Call, Contract — Sen. John McCain's top foreign policy adviser prepped his boss for an April 17 phone call with the president of Georgia and then helped the presumptive Republican presidential nominee prepare …
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Before the Gunfire, Cyberattacks — Weeks before bombs started falling …
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The Moderate Voice, Bits, Washington Post, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Sophos, Salon, Zero Day, Danger Room, www.redstate.com and Pajamas Media
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Russia Halts Military Operations, Agrees to French-Brokered Cease-Fire
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Washington Monthly, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Hot Air, Wonkette, The Campaign Spot and Extreme Mortman
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SEX, MORE LIES & VIDEOTAPE — The ENQUIRER has uncovered bombshell new details about the John Edwards sex scandal after the former presidential candidate finally admitted he'd cheated on his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth! — Edwards' headline-making admission confirmed …
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Limbaugh: “Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk” — On the August 12 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh said of former Sen. John Edwards' recent disclosure of an extramarital affair: “I've got a theory about the motivations.
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EDWARDS SCANDAL'S NEW TRYST — RENEWED AFFAIR WITH LOVER: MAG — Disgraced ex-presidential candidate John Edwards secretly rekindled his steamy affair with his campaign videographer after confessing his infidelity to his cancer-stricken wife, according to an explosive new report.
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Yes, She Can — While Obama was spending three hours watching “The Dark Knight” five time zones away, and going to a fund-raiser featuring “Aloha attire” and Hawaiian pupus, Hillary was busy planning her convention. — You can almost hear her mind whirring: She's amazed at how easy it was to snatch Denver away from the Obama saps.
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Eight Strikes and You're Out — John McCain recently tried to underscore his seriousness about pushing through a new energy policy, with a strong focus on more drilling for oil, by telling a motorcycle convention that Congress needed to come back from vacation immediately and do something about America's energy crisis.
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Reverend Wright Plans An October Surprise — New York Magazine has done a special issue this week on race and the US election. There's lot of good stuff in the package but this line from John Heilemann's cover story stood out to me: … This is a huge problem for Obama.
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FCC Commissioner: Return of Fairness Doctrine Could Control Web Content — McDowell warns reinstated powers could play in net neutrality debate, lead to government requiring balance on Web sites. — Business & Media Institute — There's a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts …
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Book on Obama Hopes to Repeat Anti-Kerry Feat — In the summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the best-seller lists as co-author of “Unfit for Command,” the book attacking Senator John Kerry's record on a Vietnam War Swift boat that began the larger damaging campaign …
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Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands — He was 17 when he came to New York from Hong Kong in 1992 with his parents and younger sister, eyeing the skyline like any newcomer. Fifteen years later, Hiu Lui Ng was a New Yorker: a computer engineer with a job in the Empire State Building …
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Lieberman: Obama Has Not Always Put Country First — YORK, Pa. - One of the McCain campaign's new themes, that Senator John McCain has always put his country first, has been seem by some analysts as a subtle suggestion that his opponent, Senator Barack Obama, has not.
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Dem cameraman is evicted from Dino Rossi event — Off-duty police officers last week forcibly removed a Democratic Party cameraman from a news conference where the Seattle Police Officers'... Off-duty police officers last week forcibly removed a Democratic Party cameraman from a news conference …
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Chasing the Mythical ‘Obamacan’ Masses — Barack Obama is no Chris Rock, but there's one story he likes to tell on the trail that always makes me laugh. According to the Democratic nominee, there's a particular breed of Obamaniacs who approach him after events to confess their Obamania—sotto voce.
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The Unknown Future Rolls Toward Us — I'm always surprised by the popularity of things like this Freakonomics colloquium on the future of the suburbs. Rising gas prices and various other considerations have prompted this increased round of speculation on whether the suburbanization of America will reverse …
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What Is the Future of Suburbia? A Freakonomics Quorum
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DANGEROUS AND UNSTABLE — I know I've made this point in various ways in several posts over the last day or so. But watching John McCain speak about the Georgian crisis in the video below should deeply worry anyone interested in a sane US foreign policy — or the safety of their children.