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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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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.
Washington Post:
Bush Says Spending Cuts Will Be Needed — Tax Increase Not Part Of His Gulf Relief Plan — One day after pledging to undertake one of history's largest reconstruction efforts, President Bush served notice yesterday that rebuilding the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast will require spending cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.
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David Stout / New York Times:Bush Rules Out Tax Increases to Pay for Hurricane Recovery
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Jailed Reporter Is Distanced From News, Not Elite Visitors — Locked in the Alexandria Detention Center for the past 11 weeks, New York Times reporter Judith Miller is cut off from the world. She has no Internet access and precious little opportunity to view CNN. Her phone calls are limited, friends say.
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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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Michelle Malkin:
DRIVING MISS ARIANNA — Reader Doug, who posts at FreeRepublic.com, sent this photo, which he took while covering the Sierra Club's national summit in San Francisco last weekend. The handsome, full-size sport utility vehicle pictured above is a Chevy Suburban.
Wayne Slater / wfaa.com:
Lawyer was fired after Rove called — Bush aide talked to secretary of state about residency controversy — AUSTIN - White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove personally called the Texas secretary of state about a newspaper story quoting a staff lawyer about whether Mr. Rove was eligible to vote in the state.
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Associated Press:
Student Arrested After Pilot Uniform Found — MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A university student from Egypt was ordered held without bond after prosecutors said they found a pilot's uniform, chart of Memphis International Airport and a DVD titled "How an Airline Captain Should Look and Act" in his apartment.
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Donna Brazile / Washington Post:
I Will Rebuild With You, Mr. President — New Orleans is my hometown. It is the place where I grew up, where my family still lives. For me, it is a place of comfort and memories. It is home. — Now my home needs your help, and the help of every American. Much of my city is still underwater.
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Fox News:
Sources: Pentagon Wants 'Able Danger' Hearings Closed — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is pressuring the Senate Judiciary Committee to close to the public next week's hearings on a former secret military intelligence unit called "Able Danger," two congressional sources have confirmed to FOX News.
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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 …
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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Hullabaloo:
Boondoggle Part Deux — Yesterday morning a friend sent me the following article from the Wall Street Journal: … Then last night Bush gave a speech which many liberals are lauding, and conservatives are decrying, as a capitulation to liberal ideals. They seem to be convinced that our man Bush …
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.