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Monday, July 31, 2006
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The Moderate Voice: "The French Foreign Minister calls Iran a 'stabilizing' influence on the mid-east. What did they put in his baguette, I wonder?"
"2008 pres"
6:09:19 PM 
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Political Wire: "At the request of Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN), 'the Hoosier members of the Democratic National Committee plan to vote against a proposed change in the 2008 presidential primary schedule,' according to the Indianapolis Star."
"2008 pres"
5:57:57 PM
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Mark Noonan: "It is because we pretend the stupid are worth listening to - well, really, its not even that: the MSM pretends the stupid are worth listening to, and so we get a lot of stupid people presented in the MSM as if they weren't stupid." [Got that? - ed.]
"2008 pres"
5:54:41 PM
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Bill Richardson: "This is my first diary on Daily Kos and it couldn't have come at a more important time. As the world's only superpower and its greatest hope for the future, America holds incredible promise. The challenges we face offer new opportunities for peace, security and prosperity. Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said, 'We're for staying the course in Iraq and the war on terror.' But as the world faces crises on multiple fronts - from oil prices to Lebanon, Iraq to North Korea - it is time for our country to chart a new course. The threats of nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and international Jihadism grow daily. Our great military, bogged down in Iraq, cannot meet every threat alone."
"2008 pres"
6:32:22 AM
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The Wash Park Prophet has some pretty good evidence proving global warming.
"2008 pres"
6:27:41 AM
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Political Wire: "The Des Moines Register highlights one potential issue for candidates in 2008: cancer research. Lance Armstrong visited Iowa recently to promote funding for cancer research, and the American Cancer Society plans a major lobbying push. President Bush's recent budget calls for a $40 million dollar cut from the National Cancer Institute, and the reduction has already become an issue on the campaign trail - especially since at least four of the candidates, from both parties, have been diagnosed with cancer in the past (Kerry, Giuliani, McCain, and Brownback). Several others have seen family members battle cancer. In fact, John Edwards' wife Elizabeth has a new book coming out about her fight with breast cancer."
"2008 pres"
6:22:33 AM
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Bull Moose: "And the world must also get serious about the ultimate instigator of this war - Iran. Hizbollah is merely a franchise of Tehran and Damascus. At the moment, the mullahs and the tyrant of Syria must be gloating. In Israel, there will be a necessary debate over whether Prime Minister Olmert devised the right strategy by rejecting a large invasion and relying primarily on an air war."
Juan Cole: "Western and Israeli pundits keep comparing Hizbullah to al-Qaeda. It is a huge conceptual error. There is a crucial difference between an international terrorist network like al-Qaeda, which can be disrupted by good old policing techniques (such as inserting an agent in the Western Union office in Karachi), and a sub-nationalist movement. Al-Qaeda is some 5,000 multinational volunteers organized in tiny cells. Hizbullah is a mass expression of subnationalism that has the loyalty of some 1.3 million highly connected and politically mobilized peasants and slum dwellers. Over a relatively compact area. I take sub-nationalism as a concept from Anthony D. Smith. It would be most familiar to Western readers under the rubric of the Irish Catholics of North Ireland, or even the Scots of the UK. Subnationalism, like the larger, over-arching nationalism, is a mass movement."
"2008 pres"
6:06:25 AM
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