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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.
Discussion: Blogs for Bush and Stop The ACLU
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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.
Gay Patriot:
If Iraq is like Vietnam, how come the rallies keep getting smaller?  —  While anti-war activists hoped their rally yesterday would be the "largest peace rally in the nation's capital since the Vietnam War," it doesn't seem they reached their goal.  In order to make the rally seem larger than it was …
RenaRF / dailykos.com:
My Photo Journal of the DC March
Discussion: lgf and baldilocks
California Conservative:
March Of The Moonbats: San Francisco
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
The Sideshow:
Dem Dems  —  Where are they?  The majority of Americans want out of Iraq (whether they march or not), and the Democratic leadership won't even talk about it.  Where are they? … Fear.  What, are they afraid the right-wingers won't respect them?  Too late!
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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.
The Mahablog:
Recap: We Are the Majority  —  I must be doing something right with the protest posts.
Discussion: Rox Populi
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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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Aaron Broussard responds
Discussion: PoliBlog
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.
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
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 …
Mark Townsend / Observer:
Bush plea for cash to rebuild Iraq raises $600  —  An extraordinary appeal to Americans from the Bush administration for money to help pay for the reconstruction of Iraq has raised only $600 (£337), The Observer has learnt.  Yet since the appeal was launched earlier this month …
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Cernig / NewsHog:
Bush USAid Appeal For Iraq Nets $600
Discussion: The Sideshow
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 …
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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strategypage.com:
The Natural Order of Things
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 …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and ACSBlog
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."
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
A Washington Sand Trap  —  A golf outing trips up a widening circle of power brokers.  —  Oct. 3, 2005 issue - David Safavian wasn't expecting visitors.  A relatively senior White House official—he oversaw federal contracts for the Office of Management and Budget—the 38-year-old Safavian …
Discussion: The Left Coaster and corrente
Michael Graczyk / Associated Press:
Perry, Blanco Fly Over Cities Hit by Rita  —  BEAUMONT, Texas - Hurricane Rita's imprint — washed-out towns, wind damage and trapped residents — became ever-more apparent Sunday as authorities took stock of the wreckage and Houston braced for the return of nearly 3 million evacuees.
Discussion: Houston Chronicle and AMERICAblog
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CNN:
Rita growing weaker, slower
Discussion: Charging RINO, Sploid and The Reaction

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