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Hindrocket / Power Line:
DELAY INDICTED — Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle has indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in connection with the same campaign finance investigation that Earle has been conducting for a long time. Earle is a notorious Democratic Party hack whom we've written about before.
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Media Blog on National Review Online:
DeLay Indictment — Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Tom DeLay, for reasons that have entirely to do with the expansion of entitlement spending under his watch (see Bruce Bartlett's excellent piece on NRO today for details). But having said that, this indictment is totally phony. Here's why:
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Michelle Malkin:
TOM DELAY INDICTED — ***scroll down for updates...statement from Earle's office...press conference details...Dreier recommended as replacement...Smear attack on Dreier...NRCC statement...legal analysis and background on Earle...235pmEDT blogging the Earle press conference...Ileana Ros-Lehtinen …
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Jesselee / The Stakeholder:
Now We Know — Now we know where most Republicans stand, including the White House and the NRCC. They care about nothing but money and power. It's not complicated. — trevino at RedState spares himself this self-condemnation: … Plenty of links in there that I didn't take.
B. Preston / JunkYardBlog:DELAY INDICTED — There's a good discussion about it going on in The Corner.
The Corner on National Review Online:MOVE ON [Jonah Goldberg ] — Despite his well-known penchant …
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Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:On The Delay Indictment And Dreier Smear
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Washington Post:
Attempt to Pick Successor Is Foiled — Blunt Temporarily Takes Reins as Conservatives Reject Dreier — As the legal troubles mounted for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in recent weeks, he and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert talked repeatedly to craft a detailed strategy for the Republican leadership …
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
It's Time For Tom DeLay To Go — As most of you undoubtedly already know, Tom DeLay has been indicted on dubious charges by a prosecutor with a history of politically motivated prosecutions. Even setting aside frivolous prosecutions past, Ronnie Earle, the prosecutor …
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:Let's be Blunt — All indications were the Rep. David Dreier …
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Amy Westfeldt / Associated Press:
Museum Dropped From WTC Site for Now — NEW YORK — Bowing to pressure from furious Sept. 11 families, Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday removed a proposed freedom center from the space reserved for it near the planned World Trade Center memorial, saying the museum project had aroused "too much opposition, too much controversy."
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Turks Challenge Hughes on Iraq — Envoy Faces Angry Audience of Women's Rights Activists — ISTANBUL, Sept. 28 — A group of Turkish women's rights activists confronted Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes on Wednesday with emotional and heated complaints about the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq …
U.S. Newswire:
Justice Department Releases List of Pardons Granted by President Bush — WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ — President George W. Bush granted pardons to the following 14 individuals: — Gene Armand Bridger, Elkhart, Ind. — Offense: Conspiracy to commit mail fraud, and mail fraud; 18 U.S.C. 2, 371, and 1341.
Media Matters for America:
Bill Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down" — Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve Social Security's solvency …
Newsweek:
The 'Second' Man — The slain Abu Azzam may not have been Zarqawi's top deputy after all. Will his death have any effect on the Iraq insurgency? — Sept. 28, 2005 - U.S. intelligence officials and counterterrorism analysts are questioning whether a slain terrorist …
Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
Why can't the Democrats capitalize? — With the White House on the ropes after Katrina, Dems waffle and wheeze — WASHINGTON - With George W. Bush's presidency mired in the muck of hurricanes and doubts about the war, you'd think Democrats would be bursting with energy, eagerly expecting to regain power.
Joseph L. Galloway / Knight Ridder:
Military higher-ups get to the bottom of abuse scandals — WASHINGTON - Well, they finally got to the bottom of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal this week. An Army court martial convicted Pfc. Lynndie England and sentenced her to three years in prison and a dishonorable discharge …
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Barry Moody / Reuters:
Reuters says U.S. troops obstruct reporting of Iraq — LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The conduct of U.S. troops in Iraq, including increasing detention and accidental shootings of journalists, is preventing full coverage of the war reaching the American public, Reuters said on Wednesday.
