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Jonathan Finer / Washington Post:
Iraqi Forces Show Signs Of Progress In Offensive — TALL AFAR, Iraq — The Iraqi soldiers had already searched the house, according to a sticker plastered across its front gate. — But when their commanding general and a U.S. colonel arrived one afternoon last week to praise their performance …
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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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Jalal Talabani / Opinion Journal:
We Need American Troops — Thank you for liberating my country. Please don't leave before the job is done. — BAGHDAD—There is no more important international issue today than the need to defeat the curse of terrorism. And as the first democratically elected president of Iraq …
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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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Air America: Blanche DuBois Returns — Brian Maloney extends the excellent blog-coverage that he and Michelle Malkin have provided on the Air America financial scandal. Today he looks at the desperation strategy that Air America has adopted — begging for cash from its listeners:
Tim Chapman / Townhall.com:
Will the GOP take the bridge to nowhere? — Americans get it. A national crisis like Katrina requires sacrifice. — Since Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast over three weeks ago, Americans have donated over $1 billion in relief funds. At the rate of current giving …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:PORK UPDATE: … Nancy Pelosi is! … But Tom Delay (same story) isn't:
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Able Danger: Hide In Plain Sight? — The Pentagon has decided to play games with the Able Danger story, virtually confirming the worst suspicions of just about everybody by first acknowledging that five of its team members recall identifying Mohammed Atta as a potential AQ terrorist a year prior …
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The MinuteMan / JustOneMinute:Able Danger - The Senate Non-Hearing
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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.
Washington Post:
Next Nominee to Court Could Face More Heat — Republicans and Democrats warned President Bush yesterday that his next pick for the Supreme Court will face much tougher scrutiny in the Senate, as Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter lobbied the White House to delay the nomination until next year to defuse tension.
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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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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Defense Spending Is Overstated, GAO Report Says — The Pentagon has no accurate knowledge of the cost of military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan or the fight against terrorism, limiting Congress's ability to oversee spending, the Government Accountability Office concluded in a report released yesterday.
Bryan Woods / StormTrack:
Hurricane Rita reaches Category 5 — This has been an absolutely incredible hurricane season, and we are still near the peak. Hurricane Rita has continued her explosive growth and has finally reached Category 5. The 4:00pm CDT advisory lists Hurricane Rita at 914 mb with sustained winds of 165 mph!
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White House:
President's Remarks at Republican Jewish Coalition 20th Anniversary — Washington, D.C. — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. (Applause.) Thanks for the warm welcome. Thank you. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm honored to join you in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Tina Brown / Washington Post:
Bill Clinton, Beyond the White House — The big surprise of Bill Clinton's Global Initiative conference at the Sheraton Hotel in New York last week was how strangely calming it was. You would expect to emerge begging for mercy from a three-day talkathon on the world's most intractable problems emceed …
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Official Google Blog:
Putting crowd wisdom to work — At Google, we're constantly trying to find new ways to organize the world's information, including information relevant to our business. Building on the ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Iowa Electronic Markets, a few Googlers (Doug Banks, Patri Friedman …
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Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:
Abramoff Probe May Threaten Leading Republicans as It Expands — Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) — The widening investigation of lobbyist Jack Abramoff is moving beyond the confines of tawdry influence-peddling to threaten leading figures in the Republican hierarchy that dominates Washington.
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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