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California Conservative:
"Peace Movement" Is Not So Peaceful: Photos From San Francisco — Bush is the symptom. Capitalism is the disease. — Revolution is the cure. — So read a sign that we saw carried around by one of yesterday's parading moonbats. Actually, to be honest, he was sitting outside of a coffee shop, drinking a tall latte.
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Gay Patriot:If Iraq is like Vietnam, how come the rallies keep getting smaller?
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Wizbang, protein wisdom, Gateway Pundit, Secular Blasphemy, Conservative Thinking, BBC, Daily Pundit, The Wide Awake Cafe and The American Mind
Mark Townsend / Observer:Bush plea for cash to rebuild Iraq raises $600
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Shakespeare's Sister, skippy the bush kangaroo, Left I on the News and Pam's House Blend
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Antiwar Fervor Fills the Streets — Demonstration Is Largest in Capital Since U.S. Military Invaded Iraq — Tens of thousands of people packed downtown Washington yesterday and marched past the White House in the largest show of antiwar sentiment in the nation's capital since the conflict in Iraq began.
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MSNBC:
Your comments obviously... Mr. Broussard: Sir, this... Mr. Russert: Go ahead. — Mr. Broussard: Sir, this gentleman's mother died on that Friday before I came on the show. My own staff came up to me and said what had happened. I had no idea his mother was in the nursing home.
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The National Debate, corrente, Patio Pundit, The Doc Searls Weblog, Mudville Gazette, Althouse and Joho the Blog
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Why we Have to get the Troops Out of Iraq — The hundreds of thousands of protesters who came out throughout the world on Saturday were demanding a US and British withdrawal from Iraq. — The protesters are right that we have to get US ground troops out of Iraq. — The issue is not the rights and wrongs of the war.
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Needlenose, Shakespeare's Sister, The Left Coaster, Prairie Weather and The Blogging of the President
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Times of London:
Andrew Sullivan: Is Bush a socialist? He's spending like one — Finally, finally, finally. A few years back, your correspondent noticed something a little odd about George W Bush's conservatism. If you take Margaret Thatcher's dictum that a socialist is someone who is very good at spending …
Los Angeles Times:
Where Bush Will Ride Out Storm Is as Uncertain as Rita — The hurricane's shifting path throws a wrench in his plan to observe a rescue team in Texas. — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The White House scrambled Friday to find the right place for President Bush to be as Hurricane Rita headed toward the Texas-Louisiana coastline.
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Shakespeare's Sister
Chrissy / fistfuloffortnights.net:
A Little Help, Please — My mom and my best friend's (Susan's) mom are in DeRidder, Louisiana, a small town just above Lake Charles. — I have confirmed with the local electric company they will be out of power for two to three weeks. — Cameron and Lake Charles have been laid to waste.
Observer:
Cruelty spree — We may have a welfare state, but our appetite for watching others humiliate themselves betrays a lack of compassion, says Oliver James — Compassion is putting yourself in the other person's shoes and feeling sympathy. It does not require affection.
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Ed Driscoll.com
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Politicians not giving us much of a choice — American politics seems to have dwindled down to a choice between a big government party and a big permanently-out-of-government party. The Senate Democrats had two months to cook up a reason to vote against John Roberts and the best California's …
Time:
How Many More Mike Browns are out There? — A TIME inquiry finds that at top positions in some vital government agencies, the Bush Administration is putting connections before experience — In Presidential politics, the victor always gets the spoils, and chief among them is the vast warren …
Meryl Yourish / Yourish.com:
Carnival of the Cats #79 — Hulk not been here since girl start new blog. Girl say to be nice to people who read this. Hulk tell girl what to write, but girl tell Hulk what to say. Hulk's head spinning. Girl say welcome to Carnival of the Cats. Hulk like carnivals.
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The Countess
Scott Horton / Balkinization:
Shirking Responsibility — "Command is a sacred trust. The legal and moral responsibilities of commanders exceed those of any other leader of similar position or authority. Nowhere else does a boss have to answer for how subordinates live and what they do after work."
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THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH, Obsidian Wings, Mark A. R. Kleiman, Crooked Timber and King of Zembla
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
DO'S AND DON'TS — Time to take a look at how well the Daily Kos Do's and Don'ts advice went over with this weekend's protest crowd. We're only looking at the "don't" list today. The remainder of the text below is from Daily Kos; the pictures from various reports on the festivities.
Robert Collier / San Francisco Chronicle:
FAMILY DEMANDS THE TRUTH — New inquiry may expose events that led to Pat Tillman's death — The battle between a grieving family and the U.S. military justice system is on display in thousands of pages of documents strewn across Mary Tillman's dining room table in suburban San Jose.
Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
Visualize Industrial Collapse — This afternoon I made an expedition to the main library, and when I got to Charlottesville I discovered to my chagrin that the downtown area was clogged with traffic. A big banner hanging across Market Street informed me that the Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival …
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The Belmont Club
