| 8:33 PM: | Obama without his script. Judging by his reaction to the Georgia-Russia crisis, Obama's make-believe presidency isn't ready for prime time. LA Times. | |
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| 8:07 PM: | John McCain, Internet dunce. Why the Arizona senator, who can barely Google, is not the chief that an increasingly technological world requires. Salon. | |
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| 8:06 PM: | Spokesman: Hagel won't endorse McCain or Obama. Sen. Chuck Hagel, a leading Republican voice on international affairs and an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, won't endorse either major-party presidential candidate in 2008, a spokesman said Tuesday. CNN. | |
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| 8:05 PM: | Phelps becomes greatest Olympian. US swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first Olympic athlete to win 10 gold medals with victory in the 200m butterfly. BBC. | |
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| 8:05 PM: | U.S. may seek ways to punish Russia. Furious over Russia's invasion of Georgia, the United States and its allies are weighing steps to diplomatically isolate Moscow as punishment for the conflict, senior administration officials said Tuesday. CNN. | |
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| 5:38 PM: | Oy. Scheunemann's 'policy' was to get the Georgians ginned up on the idea that we were their close military allies and that we'd come to their rescue if their brinksmanship with the Russians went bad. TPM. | |
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| 5:32 PM: | Support for Third-Party Candidates Appears Limited Thus Far. A new Gallup Poll finds only 2% of registered voters naming a third-party candidate when asked in an open-ended fashion whom they will vote for this fall. Gallup. | |
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| 5:31 PM: | Gallup Daily: Obama Leads 47% to 42% Barack Obama leads John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily tracking by five percentage points among national registered voters, 47% to 42%. Gallup. | |
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| 3:25 PM: | With Georgia, Russia at war, where's Condoleezza Rice? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a former Stanford professor specializing on the Soviet Union, is oddly absent from public view. LA Times. | |
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| 10:04 AM: | McCain camp dismisses plagiarism rap. McCain aides countered that there are only so many ways to state basic historical facts and dates and that any similarities to Wikipedia were only coincidental. But they wouldn't say outright that it wasn't consulted. Politico. | |
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| 9:09 AM: | US trade deficit shrank in June. The weaker dollar boosted US exports in June and helped to shrink the US trade deficit, official figures show. BBC. | |
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| 9:07 AM: | Obama unwinds on Hawai'ian holiday. How do you spend your time in a state famous for its sunny tropical skies? You spend your afternoon in a movie theater. CNN. | |
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| 9:04 AM: | Two Thirds of Corporations Paid No Income Taxes from 1998 to 2005. The GAO found that even more foreign-controlled corporations doing business in America, slightly more of which paid no income taxes. The Hill. | |
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| 3:40 AM: | Russian president calls halt to war. Russia's president has ordered an end to military operations against Georgia, the official Russian news agency Interfax has reported. "I have reached a decision to halt the operation to force the Georgian authorities to peace," President Dmitry Medvedev said, according to the agency. CNN. | |
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| 2:26 AM: | The Bush administration's feckless response to the Russian invasion of Georgia. If the Europeans had let Bush have his way, we would now be obligated by treaty to send troops in Georgia's defense. That is to say, we would now be in a shooting war with the Russians. Those who might oppose entering such a war would be accused of "weakening our credibility" and "destroying the unity of the Western alliance." Slate. | |
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