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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Troubled Year Gets Worse for the GOP  —  Bad news often comes in bunches, but for a Republican Party that not long ago looked ahead to an unfettered period of growth and expansion, yesterday's indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) represented one of the most significant blows …
Discussion: Betsy's Page, Pandagon and firedoglake
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The DeLay Indictment  —  YESTERDAY'S indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on charges of conspiring to violate Texas campaign finance laws won't come as a surprise to anyone who's watched the Texas Republican operate over the years.  In his drive to consolidate Republican power …
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 …
Larry Margasak / Associated Press:   Blunt Hired Consultant Who's Also Indicted
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
DeLay Indicted By Partisan DA
Scott Shields / MyDD:
Media Finally Sees Through Bush's 'Number 2 Man' Myth  —  Ever notice how many times the Bush administration and the Pentagon tout the killing or capture of high level al Qaeda operatives?  Just how many 'Number 2,' 'Number 3,' and 'Number 4' men can bin Laden and Zarqawi possibly have, anyway?
Discussion: Presstitutes
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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 …
White House:   President Meets with Generals Abizaid and Casey, Discusses War on Terror
Evan Kohlmann / The Counterterrorism Blog:
"Abu Azzam": Is He Really Al-Qaida's No. 2 in Iraq?
Discussion: Secular Blasphemy
New York Times:
Fear Exceeded Crime's Reality in New Orleans  —  NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 25 - After the storm came the siege.  In the days after Hurricane Katrina, terror from crimes seen and unseen, real and rumored, gripped New Orleans.  The fears changed troop deployments, delayed medical evacuations …
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.
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Bombings in Tal Afar, Baghdad, Najaf  —  Iraq is not World War II
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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 …
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Juliette Kayyem / tpmcafe.com:
America Abroad
Discussion: TAPPED
Washington Times:
Gov. Blanco gets no Katrina questions  —  Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, blamed by the former leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin for many of the city's post-hurricane problems, was given no questions about her response to Hurricane Katrina …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The Althouse comments persona.  —  Here at Althouse, there's the Althouse of the front page posts and the Althouse of the comments.  Things are a little more experimental and brainstormy in the comments.  I'm used to having my posts linked, but it's surprising to get something I toss out in the comments linked.
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Associated Press:
Bush narrows Supreme Court list  —  Judges, lawyers being considered, analysts say  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, nearing the end of his search for a successor to retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has whittled his list to a handful of candidates and could announce his decision by week's end.
Discussion: King of Zembla
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Will / Attytood:
UPDATED: New Supreme Court frontrunner's ties to Bush's National Guard scandal
Discussion: Running Scared and TalkLeft
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Operation Rhma: Final Mission  —  Much world travel has convinced me that the "average American" is a good person.  But even a good person needs information in order to act effectively on their best impulses.  Oftentimes, good things do not happen simply because information does not make it to the right people.
Discussion: Democracy Project
Ann Gerhart / Washington Post:
The Unforgettable Work of Art  —  For Buchwald's Birthday, Friends Celebrate His Gift  —  "What was going on in there tonight?" said Hudnik, the taxi driver.  —  I was leaving the French Embassy.  —  "A party for the Brady Center," I said.  —  "Marcia?" asked Hudnik.  "No, Jim," I said.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and mediabistro
NY Daily News:
As Corzine lead wilts, Clinton gets call  —  WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton is being called in to help rescue the slumping New Jersey gubernatorial campaign of Jon Corzine, who has given up a double-digit lead and is just 4 points ahead of Republican Doug Forrester in a new poll.
BBC:
Hero's return for Labour heckler  —  An 82-year-old activist thrown out of the Labour party conference for heckling Jack Straw has returned to the venue to a hero's welcome.  —  Walter Wolfgang, from London, was cheered as he held up his security pass - confiscated by stewards on Wednesday.
Discussion: Hit and Run
David Michael Green / commondreams.org:
George Bush in Hell  —  You would not want to be George W. Bush right now.  —  Not that you ever would anyhow, but especially not now.  Indeed, there are indications that not even George W. Bush wants to be George W. Bush right now.  —  That second term in office, the one that just a year …

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