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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Millions Flee Rita Which Could Also Decimate Refineries  —  Hurricane Rita is storming towards Texas — and Louisiana — and everyone is trying to learn the lessons and avoid the mistakes of Hurricane Katrina....a storm now considered one of the worst natural (and political) disasters in U.S. history:
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Anne Linehan / blogHOUSTON:
It's about leadership, and we got it (updated)
Discussion: Greg's Opinion and Liberty's Blog
Matt Crenson / Associated Press:
Rita May Cause Tens of Billions in Damage
Erwin Seba / Reuters:
Rita weakens as Texans flee
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Tyco Exec: Abramoff Claimed Ties to Administration  —  Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff bragged two years ago that he was in contact with White House political aide Karl Rove on behalf of a large, Bermuda-based corporation that wanted to avoid incurring some taxes and continue receiving federal contracts …
Investor's Business Daily:
Cuts For Katrina  —  Fiscal Policy: Those worried about the costs of Hurricane Katrina — and now possibly Rita as well — have focused on reversing President Bush's tax cuts to pay for the damage.  Why not cut other spending instead?  —  Clearly, Americans have a choice to make.
Discussion: Daily Pundit and PrestoPundit
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David Sirota / Sirotablog:
Protecting tax cuts, GOP proposes cuts to military health care
dlc.org:   Financing the Katrina Recovery
Donna Cassata / Associated Press:
Political Bloggers Demand Speech Freedoms  —  WASHINGTON - Political bloggers who offer diverse views on Republicans and Democrats, war and peace argued on Thursday that they should be free of government regulation.  —  The notion was echoed by some members of the government agency trying …
Discussion: Eschaton and RedState.org
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:   McCain Clueless on Impact of McCain/Feingold
Joel Brinkley / New York Times:
Saudi Minister Warns U.S. Iraq May Face Disintegration  —  WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 - Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, said Thursday that he had been warning the Bush administration in recent days that Iraq was hurtling toward disintegration, a development that he said could drag the region into war.
White House:
President Discusses War on Terror and Hurricane Preparation  —  THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate being back at the Pentagon.  I just finished a briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers, and, obviously, members of my national security team, along with Generals Abizaid and Casey …
Joel Achenbach / Achenblog:
GOP to Audit the Poor?  —  When I go to the Hill later I'll try to ferret out, or weasel my way into, the answer to the burning question of how we are going to pay for Katrina relief.  Give the House Republicans some credit for actually specifying what they'd cut in the way of spending.
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hughhewitt.com:
Schumer's Colson?  —  Before there was a Liddy, in fact, before there was a CREEP, Nixon had Chuck Colson as his political enforcer, and Colson had The Plumbers.  Now we have to ask who is working for Chuck Schumer's brass knucles gang at the DSCC.  —  Katie Barge is one of the names …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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NewsMax.com:
Hillary, McCain to Meet with Cindy Sheehan  —  2008 presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and John McCain have agreed to meet with anti-American war protester Cindy Sheehan when Sheehan travels to Washington, D.C. this weekend to cap her national tour.  —  Sheehan has meetings scheduled …
Discussion: The Anchoress
Beldar / beldar.blogs.com:
Rita and gridlock  —  A (slightly edited) email I just sent to NRO's Jonah Goldberg, who's presenting "competing views" about the gridlock and gas shortages as folks have been evacuating from the Houston area as Hurricane Rita approaches:  —  My preliminary impression, In a nutshell …
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
Iraq's good news chronicle  —  THE FIRST installment appeared on May 19, 2004.  Headlined ''Good news from Iraq — bet you didn't know there was any,'' it offered a respite from the grim litany of insurgent violence, Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, and coalition casualties that the mainstream media's coverage of the war tends to dwell on.
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Hamas To Convert Synagogue to Weapons Museum  —  WASHINGTON - Emboldened by Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and part of the West Bank, Hamas yesterday announced its plan to turn a synagogue in Netzarim into a museum that would display weapons employed by the terrorist group's members against Israeli civilians.
Discussion: The Astute Blogger, SerandEz and lgf
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Speaking Of The Usual Suspects  —  The groups that will gather in Washington DC for a major anti-war protest this weekend have financial ties to major leftist fundraisers like George Soros and Theresa Heinz Kerry, and beyond them to communist organizations and radical left-wing groups, the Washington Times reports today.
Tarek El-Tablawy / Associated Press:
Powerful Cleric Backs Iraq Constitution  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The country's most powerful Shiite cleric endorsed the draft constitution Thursday, rejecting opposition voiced by two popular leaders of Iraq's majority sect and underlining a rift also on display in anti-British violence in the southern city of Basra.
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
House OKs Faith As Head Start Hiring Issue  —  WASHINGTON - The House voted Thursday to let Head Start centers consider religion when hiring workers, overshadowing its moves to strengthen the preschool program's academics and finances.  —  The Republican-led House approved a bill …
Dan / danieldrezner.com:
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE BUDGET CUTS!!  —  So I'm glad that the Porkbusters meme is catching on and all, and that there's some small-government criticism of this administration — even on the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page.  —  This would not be danieldrezner.com, however …

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Discussion: Ezra Klein and Obsidian Wings
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Discussion: Winds of Change.NET and lgf
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