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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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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:   "I Will Rebuild With You, Mr. President"
Massimo Calabresi / Time:
Looking for a Corpse to Make a Case  —  Senators look for a wealthy casualty of Katrina as evidence against the estate tax  —  Federal troops aren't the only ones looking for bodies on the Gulf Coast.  On Sept. 9, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions called his old law professor Harold Apolinsky …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Able Danger, The Cole Too, 09/17/05  —  Interesting how much of a chess game is being played around this story this weekend in the news media.  Weldon must be up against some big guns to be (a) challenged by the 9-11 Commission so brazenly and (b) to keep coming out with ever more stunning claims …
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Thanks to Top Dog and his comment to this post, we learn two things in this Fox News story.  The first is the Pentagon is trying to close the hearings - which would be a big PR mistake. … We need to know what happened.  If they need a closed session to go into technical details which are classifed- fine.
Michelle Malkin:
WHAT HAPPENED ON FLIGHT 17?  —  A number of us in the blogosphere have been catching wind of rumors that a surface-to-air missile was fired at an America West flight originating out of New York.  Here's a post at Little Green Footballs, where many commenters are wisely skeptical but wanting more info.
Washington Post:
Confirm John Roberts  —  JOHN G. ROBERTS JR. should be confirmed as chief justice of the United States.  He is overwhelmingly well-qualified, possesses an unusually keen legal mind and practices a collegiality of the type an effective chief justice must have.  He shows every sign of commitment to restraint and impartiality.
Discussion: newsrack blog and Viking Pundit
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Daily Kos:
Bipartisan Opposition to Roberts
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Greg Palast / gregpalast.com:
GALLOWAY: DEADLY ANTI-ABORTION THREATS FROM REPUBLICAN'S FAVORITE "LEFTIST"  —  Note: Palast and Cindy Sheehan will be speaking at the Operation Ceasefire concert sponsored by DC Anti-War Network and United for Peace and Justice — all day and night at the Washington Monument.
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Los Angeles Times:
Louisiana Officials Indicted Before Katrina Hit  —  Federal audits found dubious expenditures by the state's emergency preparedness agency, which will administer FEMA hurricane aid.  —  WASHINGTON — Senior officials in Louisiana's emergency planning agency already were awaiting trial …
Andrew / www.AndrewSullivan.com:
HUGH AND SID:  —  My analogy seems to have hit a nerve.  Powerline provides ten reasons Hewitt isn't as slavishly pro-Bush as Blumenthal was slavishly pro-Clinton.  One is that Sid was on the Clinton pay-roll.  But Hewitt doesn't need to be on the Bush pay-roll.  He does it for free.
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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush Sees 'Bright Dawn' Emerging in Gulf  —  Appealing to God for help with "the difficult work that lies ahead," President Bush on Saturday painted a picture of a hopeful and vibrant future for the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast and the people there who lost family, jobs, communities and everything they own in the storm.
Discussion: Sadly, No! and Presstitutes
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Democracy Now:
The Militarization of New Orleans: Jeremy Scahill Reports from Louisiana  —  Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript  —  Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend Purchase Video/CD  —  We go to Louisiana to speak with Democracy Now! …
Associated Press:
Son of Florida Gov. Bush Arrested  —  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was arrested early Friday and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest, law enforcement officials said.  —  John Ellis Bush, 21, was arrested by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission …
Discussion: PoliBlog and WTF Is It Now??
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Bush's Nephew Arrested
Discussion: Daily Kos
Mark Nickolas / BluegrassReport.org:
Discussion: Daily Kos and Swing State Project
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days:
OF DEVILS AND DETAILS AND JOE BIDEN  —  Senator Joe Biden recently penned an op-ed discussing what he believes our options should be in Iraq.  It is a masterpiece of opaque advocacy: … The commentary is breathtaking.  Understand that Senator Biden is upset over the fact that the Sunnis …
David Adesnik / OxBlog:
BUSH WOULD KILL FOR THAT KIND OF PRESS COVERAGE: I think there is pretty strong agreement across the political spectrum that American journalists always make at least a token effort to ensure that both sides have their say in any given newspaper article.  But actually, that's not that case.
Discussion: alicublog
Jack Army:
Time to restart this festival of fun!  If you sent in a post already and it wasn't put up, send me a reminder email and I'll get it up.  Mare, I have yours ready to go up on Monday.  Sorry, everyone for kinda pooping out for the last few weeks.  The hurricane took a lot of the wind out of my sails, as it were.
Discussion: Jo's Cafe and Outside The Beltway
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