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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Air America's Odd Pledge Drive — PANHANDLING NEXT? — AAR Seeking 'Gifts', Limbaugh, O'Reilly Won Election — In what appears just short of outright panhandling, a desperate Air America Radio is now begging listeners for cash donations. — From a mass email pitch sent Wednesday afternoon …
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Daisy Nguyen / Associated Press:
Crippled Jet Lands Safely at L.A. Airport — LOS ANGELES - The airliner circled Southern California for hours, crippled by a faulty landing gear, while inside its cabin 140 passengers watched their own life-and-death drama unfolding on live television. — While satellite TV sets aboard …
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California Conservative, AMERICAblog, Outside The Beltway, Balloon Juice and Michelle Malkin
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Associated Press:
JetBlue Flight Lands Safely — LOS ANGELES — A JetBlue (search) airliner with faulty landing gear touched down safely Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport (search) after circling the region for three hours with its front wheels turned sideways, unable to be retracted into the plane.
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Scared Monkeys
Chester / The Adventures of Chester:
Reflections on the Flash Presentation on The Anbar Campaign — Bill Roggio, Marvin Hutchens, and Steve Schippert from The Word Unheard (who is revealing his name for the first time) have created a Flash presentation of recent operations in Iraq, specifically in the West, along the Syrian border.
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The Belmont Club
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CNN:
Katrina's official death toll tops 1,000 — Louisiana prepares for Rita, but levees still vulnerable — NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — The number of deaths in Louisiana blamed on Hurricane Katrina has risen to 799, the state's Department of Health and Hospitals said Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll to 1,033.
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Washington Post:
Frist Stock Sale Raises Questions on Timing — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has maintained for years that his stock holdings in the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain posed no conflict of interest for a policymaker deeply involved in health care matters.
Jonah Goldberg / Townhall.com:
Hurricane coverage veers off course — The press was blindsided again. As Hurricane Rita barreled toward Key West, television news executives were unprepared to deal with the lamentable divide this storm would undoubtedly reveal between gay America and straight America.
Tom Doggett / Reuters:
FTC investigating gas price profiteering — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether gasoline price profiteering has occurred and if oil companies have constrained refinery capacity to manipulate fuel prices, an agency official said Wednesday.
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
RE: ABLE DANGER STONEWALLING — John, I watched the hearing this morning, and that is not gonna wash. — Both DOD and the 9/11 Commission put out numerous statements casting aspersions on the Able Danger people who came forward on the ground that no documentary information corroborated the claim …
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Douglas Berman / Sentencing Law and Policy:
Will the next SCOTUS nominee have any criminal law background? — As evidenced by articles at Slate and from the AP, the beltway buzz over the possible next Supreme Court nominee is starting to grow. And if past is prologue, we should expect a nominee from the White House soon …
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Jonathan Allen / The Hill:
Gregg open to Katrina tax increase — The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee refused to rule out increasing taxes yesterday as he and many of his GOP colleagues called for offsets to temper the effect of the next round of federal spending for disaster relief in the Gulf Coast.
Washington Post:
Panel Briefed by Spy Manager Who Quit — Senators in Private Session Hear From Robert Richer, Critic of CIA Chief Goss — Robert Richer, the outgoing No. 2 official in the CIA's clandestine service, made an unusual appearance at a closed session of the Senate Select Committee …
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Brad DeLong's Semi …
Roger Runningen / Bloomberg:
Specter Urges Delay in Replacement of O'Connor at Supreme Court — Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he urged President George W. Bush today to delay nominating a replacement for retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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Associated Press, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog and Confirm Them
Associated Press:
Condoms Are Named for Clinton, Lewinsky — BEIJING - A rubber company in China has begun marketing condoms under the brand names Clinton and Lewinsky, apparently seeking to exploit the White House affair that led to the impeachment of America's 42nd president.
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Chris Christner's Blog
Deacon / Power Line:
AN EVENING TO REMEMBER — This evening, I had the privilege, along with about 40 others, of attending a dinner with John McCain. As I have said before, I agree with Senator McCain little more than half the time these days, but I have tremendous admiration for him, and consider him a great American.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Phil Donahue vs Bill O'Reilly — Phil Donahue vs Bill O'Reilly — Falafel Bill's head explodes! — Phil goes on the offensive immediately telling Billy that he's leading the pack to marginalize Cindy Sheehan. — Video-WMP Bittorrent-WMP — Video-QT Bittorrent-QT
