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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
A Conservative, Yes, but Not a Scalia  —  After two days of often intense questioning of John G. Roberts Jr. by the Senate Judiciary Committee, a new image of President Bush's nominee for chief justice of the United States is coming into focus.  —  Still blurry at the edges …
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Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Senators push Roberts, the man, only so far
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Confirm Them
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
News Flash: Republicans Like Roberts
Discussion: Don Surber
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
'Advise and Consent,' Anyone?
Discussion: Roger L. Simon
Kimberly Hefling / phillyburbs.com:
Architect offers to alter Flight 93 memorial to appease critics  —  WASHINGTON - The architect of the memorial to a plane downed in western Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, said Wednesday he would work to satisfy critics who complained that it honors terrorists with its crescent-shaped design.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Flight 93 Memorial Will Be Modified  —  Our feedback has apparently caused some second thoughts on behalf of the Flight 93 memorial board and its selected designer, Paul Murdoch.  Murdoch has agreed to consider modifications to his design that will address the concerns of his critics, probably by renaming the Crescent of Embrace:
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Blogs for Bush
James Lileks / Newhouse News:
The Sorry State of Modern Civic Memorials  —  How best to memorialize the victims of Katrina?  Some would love a statue of President Bush in a dunce cap, strumming a guitar, with a quote on the plinth from Howard Dean: "He doesn't care about people."  But an actual statue is out of the question …
Washington Post:
Bush to Request More Aid Funding  —  President Bush will call tonight for an unprecedented federal commitment to rebuild New Orleans and other areas obliterated by Hurricane Katrina, putting the United States on pace to spend more in the next year on the storm's aftermath than it has over three years …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
This worries me.  Note the added emphasis.  The clip comes from a piece in tomorrow's Post about yet another huge funding bill the president will roll out tomorrow for Katrina aid, which the Post says will cost more next year than the entire cost of the Iraq war thus far ...  Regain public confidence in who?
Discussion: The Stakeholder
Investor's Business Daily:
It's Better To Give  —  Spending: Having fallen, the federal deficit recently lost its appeal as a political issue.  Now it's back.  Disaster relief expenditures have set off the yammering.  —  The first federal relief package for the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast was $10.5 billion in emergency funds.
Discussion: Mister Snitch! and Gut Rumbles
Patrick / OxBlog:
OH, WHAT THE HECK, I'LL LIVE BLOG IT: 6:57 pm Eastern Time: My enthusiasm about the Hitchens-Galloway grudge match is perhaps best reflected in the fact that it's 1 am where I am, and I'm up blogging.  I'm watching this courtesy of the Democracy Now website, which is quite nobly broadcasting the debate online.
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reformtheun.org:
summit draft outcome document approved in the general assembly  —  New York, 13 September 2005 — After weeks of intense negotiations, mixed sentiments were shared in the GA following the approval this evening of a final draft outcome document that will now be submitted to heads of state …
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Edith M. Lederer / Associated Press:
Annan Seeks to Restore U.N. Credibility
cbc.ca:
Summit opens with Annan appeal to world leaders to restore confidence in UN
Discussion: Coalition for Darfur
Washington Post:
Insurgents Kill 160 in Baghdad  —  Toll From Day-Long Wave of Attacks Is Largest in Iraqi Capital Since Invasion  —  BAGHDAD, Sept. 14 — Insurgents struck the Iraqi capital Wednesday with at least a dozen attacks that targeted Shiite Muslim civilians, Iraqi security forces and American troops …
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New York Times:
Multiple Attacks Kill Nearly 150 in Iraqi Capital
Discussion: TAPPED and Wonkette
Michelle Malkin:
INSIDE AIR AMERICA: THE LOAN SCANDAL DEEPENS  —  Inside Air America: The loan scandal deepens  —  by Brian Maloney and Michelle Malkin  —  Part of a continuing investigative blog series  —  9/14/05  —  If you believe Air America, Al Franken, and their clueless defenders …
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Senate Kills Bid for Katrina Commission  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Wednesday scuttled an attempt by Sen. Hillary Clinton to establish an independent, bipartisan panel patterned after the 9/11 Commission to investigate what went wrong with federal, state and local governments' response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:   House GOP Derails Democratic Inquiries
David Crary / Associated Press:
La. Drawing Up Charges for Flood Deaths  —  The arrest of two nursing-home owners in the deaths of 34 people marked the beginning of what prosecutors said Wednesday is a large- scale investigation into whether New Orleans-area hospitals and other institutions neglected their patients during Hurricane Katrina's onslaught.
Beldar / beldar.blogs.com:
Shorter, more truthful, Russ Feingold  —  Beldar's quasi-fictional paraphrase of Sen. Russell Feingold's questioning on Tuesday of Chief Justice nominee John G. Roberts, Jr. and his answers, if Sen. Feingold had been temporarily stricken with the magic that affected Jim Carey's lawyer-character in the 1997 movie Liar Liar:
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Day 3 of the Roberts hearings.  —  Let's run through Day 3 of the Roberts hearings.  I see we start with the tail end of the first round.  Yesterday I thought I'd missed the last two, Sam Brownback and Cryin' Tom Coburn.  But here they are, starting us off this morning.
Editor and Publisher:
Reuters Photog Captures Bush at U.N. With 'Bathroom Break' Note  —  NEW YORK In what seems destined to become one of the most joked about photos of the month, a well-known Reuters photographer on Wednesday captured President George W. Bush scribbling a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a session at the United Nations.

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thefire.org:
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