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michaelmoore.com:
A Bright Spot in Bush World — Amid the Miserable Failures on the Same Planet — It has been one month and one week since I sat in a ditch in Crawford, Tx. I can hardly believe it when I think of it myself. So much has happened in that time, and really, so little.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE FRIENDS OF CINDY SHEEHAN — The Summer of Cindy is over, and just in time. The mainstream media have drawn a discreet curtain over the activities of the woman they followed breathlessly for weeks, milked for all the anti-administration propaganda she was worth, and then dropped like a hot potato.
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:Sheehan Calls For An End To The Occupation!
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Rules Out Tax Hike to Fund Recovery — President Bush on Friday ruled out raising taxes to pay for Gulf Coast reconstruction, saying other government spending must be cut. "You bet it will cost money, but I'm confident we can handle it," he said. — "It's going to cost whatever it's …
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David Stout / New York Times:
Bush Rules Out Tax Increases to Pay for Hurricane Recovery — WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 - President Bush ruled out tax increases to pay for hurricane and flood recovery today, saying instead that federal spending would have to be cut to help the Gulf Coast recover.
Beth / MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy:
Weekend Assignment — First-open trackbacks. — If you have something you'd like others to read, link to this post, and send a trackback. If you use Blogger or something else that doesn't send trackbacks, use Kalsey's Simpletracks form. Your link will show up below, in the post …
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John Branston / Memphis Flyer:
TERRORISM TASK FORCE BUSTS BOGUS U of M STUDENT — Was Mahmoud Maawad a University of Memphis student and pilot-wannabe with a passion for flying small planes or an Arab terrorist looking to duplicate the suicide missions of 9/11? — Federal prosecutors in Memphis aren't saying …
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Joseph Braude / The New Republic:
Trivial Pursuit — Newly sworn in as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy last week, Bush confidante Karen Hughes spoke to staffers at Foggy Bottom—about spinning Hurricane Katrina. "There are a lot of things being said about us around the world that aren't true," she said, according to The Washington Post.
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Guardian:
Clarke's draft bill proposes new offence of glorification — · Defendants found guilty could face five years in jail — · Liberty warns loose talk will become a criminal act — The government's proposed anti-terrorism laws published yesterday are so widely drawn that anyone who …
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
WaPo is Distanced From Reality, Not Crap Reporting — There is no pile of vomit so large that it does justice to Carol Leonnig's latest WaPo's tribute to St. Judith of the High Chutzspa. If you listen carefully you can hear the plaintive strains of Threnody For the Victims of Patrick Fitzgerald lilting in the background:
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Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
Katrina a poor model for terrorism response — There has been a lot of discussion about the federal military becoming closer to first responder in domestic disasters. President Bush said last night in his national address that it should be so. … A lot of the criticism the administration …
Tony Snow / Townhall.com:
Fear is a waste of time — WASHINGTON, D.C. — My doctor has tried manfully over the years to talk seriously about important health matters, usually with mixed success. But he really grabbed my attention when he called just before Valentine's Day and said two little words. — "It's cancer."
Knight Ridder:
Key military help for victims of Hurricane Katrina was delayed — WASHINGTON - Two days after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, President Bush went on national television to announce a massive federal rescue and relief effort. — But orders to move didn't reach key active military units for another three days.
Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
FEMA's City of Anxiety in Florida — Many Hurricane Charley Victims Still Unsure of Next Step — PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — "Someone killed my dog," sputtered Royaltee Forman, still livid two weeks later. — "They just threw him out the window and hung him with his own leash," he said …
The Nation:
MAX BLUMENTHAL — On the first day of hearings on Judge John G. Roberts Jr.'s nomination to Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, before a Russell Senate Office Building Caucus Room overflowing with members of the media and Congressional staffers, with klieg lights shining and flashbulbs popping all around …
Media Matters for America:
Bill O'Reilly's continuing obsession with inter-species marriages — On his September 14 radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly insisted that the secular progressive movement "would like to have marriage abolished ... because it is not diverse enough." He explained, "That's what this gay marriage thing is all about."
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Critics Fear Trailer 'Ghettos' — On the sprawling, dusty grounds of Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant and Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, Tex., the recreational vehicles and mobile homes are arriving at a rate of 100 a day before being shipped out to the fringes of Hurricane Katrina's disaster zone.