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Dear WSJ's Stephens, You Might Wanna Return the $100: Thousands of Iraqi Refugees Flooding U.S.

By Debbie Schlussel In today's Wall Street Journal, columnist Bret Stephens--with whom I usually agree--has a column claiming we've won the war in Iraq and that it's over. As evidence, he cites a bet he made with respected writer Francis Fukuyama in May 2003 for $100. Fukuyama bet that Iraq would be a mess five years after the invasion. Stephens says that Fukuyama wrote him a $100 check to settle the debt. But here's the thing. We haven't won. We put our Shi'ite enemies in power. We completed th...

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Mercedes-Benz Cars Division of Daimler AG Reports a 25 Percent Increase in the U.S. Sales for July 2008

• Total of 23,292 Units of Mercedes-Benz Cars Division Sold in U.S. • Mercedes-Benz USA Records 12 Percent Sales Growth for the Month with 20,733 New Vehicles Sold. • smart USA Records 2,559 Sales in July. Photos: In a Road Trip from Los Angeles to Detroit earlier this year, smart and Mercedes-Benz demonstrated high environmental friendliness in a real-world test. Daimler AG (NYSE:DAI) today reported sales for the Mercedes-Benz Cars division (Mercedes-Benz and smart combined) of 23,292 uni...

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Rafa salutes strike duo replied by omgukilledkenny @ Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:54:43 +0800

Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez praised fledgling strike partnership Fernando Torres and Robbie Keane after the pair started their first game together in a 4-0 win over Rangers. The Reds dominated from start to finish with Torres grabbing the first in a four-goal rout of the Glasgow side. And Kop boss Benitez declared himself satisfied with the movement of his £40 million strikeforce, who he described as key to The Reds retaining possession at Ibrox. "Both players showed good movement and so did (...

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Short-sighted Immigration Study Misses the Point

The Center for Immigration Studies has released a new report claiming that the numbers of undocumented immigrants have shrunk by as much as 11 percent, or by 1.3 million. They assert that stepped-up enforcement has encouraged many undocumented people to self deport. While the numeric methodology has been criticized today in the New York Times, CIS will likely stick by it. Jeffrey Passel of the Pew Hispanic Center, widely considered the leading demographer on undocumented immigration, says that ...

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Tim Boal reacts after he lost to Nathaniel Curran during the Men's Final at the US Open of Surfing near the Huntington B...

AP - Tim Boal reacts after he lost to Nathaniel Curran during the Men's Final at the US Open of Surfing near the Huntington Beach Pier Sunday, July 27, 2008, in Huntington Beach, Calif.

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RedLasso Suspends Open Access To its Site, For Now; Appeals To Bloggers

So the lawsuit has had the desired effect: RedLasso, the controversial online video clip and sharing service, is suspending its open service for now. "It has no alternative but to suspend blogger access to its video search and clipping Beta site for the immediate future. The company will continue to operate and provide services to its business and Radio To Web clients such as Greater Media and XM Satellite Radio," according to an e-mailed release. Earlier this week, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), Fox...

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OSonOS 2008 underway (with kids!)

San Francisco OSonOS 2008 has begun with Lisa Heft opening up space in a beautiful building at San Francisco’s Presidio this morning for 120 of us from more than 15 countries to get into what Open Space is all about. This is my third worldwide OSonOS and I love these gatherings because I get to hang [...]

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Bobby's Corner Market Open 7.22.2008

Good Morning: The US dollar traded within familiar ranges. Negative results from Wachovia and American Express today may add to the concerns that the US economies troubles continue. read more

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Open Mic Friday--Meet Ovens to Betsy

Good food is an entitlement to runners. But most of us reach for a loaded pizza or a handful of cookies. Not our guest at Open Mic Friday. Instead, she's a runner who just happens to be a professional chef....

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Updated: Yahoo Lays Out The Case For Its Board? All Over Again

If you're a Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) shareholder, but you don't obsessively follow the twists and turns of the Yahoo-Microsoft-Icahn drama the way some of us do, then Yahoo has put out a letter just for you. Basically it's: here's our argument, one more time, for why you should elect the existing board. Real quickly now, here's a summary: -- We're moving forward on a plan to be a global internet leader, including dominating in ads and working with Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Also, it's possible we may look a...

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