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Matt Rustler / Stop the Bleating!:
"SPINNING THE PROTESTS" REDUX  —  Glenn Reynolds proposed that readers Google the names mentioned in this WaPo article on the upcoming anti-war rallies in D.C., entitled "Antiwar Rally Will Be First for Many: Focused Message Draws Protestors of All Stripes."
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Gateway Pundit:
War Protesters Converge on DC
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John Little / Blogs of War:
Looters Strike in Advance of Rita - Armed Citizens Patrol Midtown  —  Well I just found out why the media was in my parking garage.  Looters struck last night and trashed 12 cars.  We usually have very tight security but the gates were left open by management due to fears of power outages.
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khou.com:
Police: Looters arrested in The Heights  —  HOUSTON — When Houston-area residents heeded warnings to flee Hurricane Rita, they left behind nearly abandoned neighborhoods and stores.  —  And a potential playground for thieves.  —  By Friday morning at least three people had been arrested on charges of looting.
hughhewitt.com:
Memo to DSCC Staffers  —  Didn't get much sleep last night, did you?  —  That sure went from zero to sixty in a day, and now a Washington Post editorial?  And Michelle Malkin?  —  Don't let the Post editorial calm you down.  You know that the phrase a "pair of twenty something operatives" …
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Michelle Malkin:
THE NYTIMES OMBUDSMAN IS TOTALLY WORTHLESS  —  You're going to love this.  This morning, I posted a follow-up item on DemCreditScam, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's dirty trick against Maryland GOP Lt. Gov. Michael Steele.  (Send your suggestions for naming the scandal to Hugh Hewitt).
nraila.org:
Major Victory For Firearms Owners And Freedom In Louisiana  —  (Fairfax, VA) — The United States District Court for the Eastern District in Louisiana today sided with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and issued a restraining order to bar further gun confiscations from peaceable …
Adam Zagorin / Time:
Pattern of Abuse  —  A decorated Army officer reveals new allegations of detainee mistreatment in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Did the military ignore his charges?  —  The U.S. Army has launched a criminal investigation into new allegations of serious prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan …
Kris Alexander / Alexander the Average:
H-12: Friction  —  We're roughly thirteen hours away from tropical force winds hitting the coast.  That's "H" hour at which point evacuations are supposed to be over.  I'm not sure if we're going to get there or not.  We're being overcome by friction.  —  Army guys are fond of quoting old dead Germans.
Ed Campbell / freenewmexican.com:
Lannan speaker delayed in Canada  —  U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver.  Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance …
Discussion: Booman Tribune ~ Boo!
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Doug Ireland / DIRELAND:   U.S. BARS ROBERT FISK FROM ENTERING COUNTRY
The Anchoress:
Naughty dreams and Rush Limbaugh  —  Filed under: It's all about me!  Me!  ME!  —  Just got reminded of this and thought I'd share it with you, because it's pretty funny, and I am having one of those sleepless nights.  —  I had a friend who was also struggling with insomnia.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Diana West / Washington Times:
War-time leadership  —  Let's take a look at this portrait of presidential leadership, as painted by the Associated Press: "Sitting in [the USS Iwo Jima] mess hall, the president watched large screens beaming to him via videoconference the images of three federal officials …
Discussion: Power Line
Meghan Clyne / New York Sun:
President Bush Is 'Our Bull Connor,' Harlem's Rep. Charles Rangel Claims  —  WASHINGTON - Comparing President Bush to the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner whose resistance to the civil rights movement became synonymous with Southern racism, Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday of the president: "George Bush is our Bull Connor."
Los Angeles Times:
Limiting Government's Role  —  WASHINGTON — Two days after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced plans to issue emergency vouchers aimed at helping poor storm victims find new housing quickly by covering as much as $10,000 of their rent.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Clashes in Ramadi  —  The city of Ramadi currently appears to be the focus of a Coalition operation.  Four soldiers were killed in the city on Monday, and today two Marines were killed in separate attacks.  Capt. Nasir Al-Alousi of the Ramadi police reports fighting has broken …
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Washington Post:
President Struggles to Regain His Pre-Hurricane Swagger  —  COLORADO SPRINGS, Sept. 23 — President Bush flew here ahead of Hurricane Rita on Friday to show command of a federal disaster response effort that even supporters acknowledge he fumbled three weeks ago.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Able Danger Foxtrot V: The Pentagon Backstep  —  The Pentagon has reversed itself — again — in the Able Danger soap opera playing out in Washington DC.  After agreeing to provide witnesses to the Senate Judiciary Committee, then forbidding them to testify on the eve of the hearings …

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