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White House:
President Discusses War on Terror at National Endowment for Democracy  —  Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center  —  Washington, D.C.  —  In Focus: Homeland Security  —  In Focus: National Security  —  Fact Sheet: President Bush Remarks on the War on Terror  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.
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Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Bush Accuses Islamic Militants of Trying to Intimidate World  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush accused Islamic militants on Thursday of seeking to "enslave whole nations and intimidate the world" and charged they have made Iraq their main front.  —  "The militants believe that controlling …
MaryKatharineHam:
Bush Speech on War on Terror
Discussion: Blogs for Bush and A Blog For All
CALIFORNIA YANKEE:
Never Back Down, Never Give In  —  President Bush has given …
Discussion: Instapundit.com
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Bush: Radicals Seek to Intimidate World
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
bbc.co.uk:
God told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers  —  This press release is embargoed until 2230 hours on Thursday 6 October.  Before that time it is only available through the link which you have been sent.  —  President George W. Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told …
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Ryan Welton / channeloklahoma.com:
Norman Police Investigated Hinrichs  —  NORMAN, Okla. — Norman police confirmed Thursday that they ran a routine investigation of a 21-year-old University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up on campus Saturday night.  —  At a 2 p.m. news conference, Norman Police Department spokesman J.D. Younger …
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Islamic Terrorism in Oklahoma Likely  —  As more details become public about suicide bomber Joel Henry Hinrichs III, who blew himself up outside of a University of Oklahoma football game last Saturday, more and more evidence suggests that he may actually have been part of a larger plot.
John Solomon / Associated Press:
Rove Said to Testify in CIA Leak Case  —  Federal prosecutors have accepted an offer from presidential adviser Karl Rove to give 11th hour testimony in the case of a CIA officer's leaked identity but have warned they cannot guarantee he won't be indicted, according to people directly familiar with the investigation.
WorldNetDaily:
This is what 'advice and consent' means  —  I eagerly await the announcement of President Bush's real nominee to the Supreme Court.  If the president meant Harriet Miers seriously, I have to assume Bush wants to go back to Crawford and let Dick Cheney run the country.
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John Dickerson / slate.com:
Gods vs. Geeks  —  GOP evangelicals fight intellectuals over Harriet Miers.  —  The debate within the Republican Party over Harriet Miers has quickly devolved into a simple question: Is the nominee qualified because of her religious faith, or unqualified by her lack of intellectual heft?
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Drudge Report:
FBI FREEH UNLOADS ON CLINTON: 'CLOSETS WERE FULL OF SKELETONS'  —  Louis Freeh Speaks for the First Time About his Terrible Relationship with the President  —  Former FBI Director Louis Freeh says publicly for the first time that his relationship with President Bill Clinton …
Stanley Kurtz / The Corner on National Review Online:
MIERS & STEINEM  —  Although I would have chosen differently, I've tried to give the president the benefit of the doubt on the Miers nomination.  Having said that, I note a worrisome report in today's Chronicle of Higher Education.  It seems that Miers was a key figure behind the establishment …
Discussion: Billmon and The Washington Monthly
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Peter Schmidt / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Supreme Court Nominee Helped Set …
Discussion: firedoglake
Associated Press:
Text of Gore Speech at Media Conference  —  Here is the text of former Vice President Al Gore's remarks at the We  —  Media conference on Wednesday in New York:  —  I came here today because I believe that American democracy is in grave danger.  It is no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse .
Guardian:
Breaking America's grip on the net  —  After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish control of the internet to a coalition of governments  —  Kieren McCarthy  —  You would expect an announcement that would forever change the face of the internet to be a grand affair …
Discussion: Kesher Talk and Silent Running
Associated Press:
DeLay, Successor Blunt Swapped Donations  —  WASHINGTON - Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes.
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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Associated Press:
Key Events in DeLay-Blunt Donation Swaps
Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose  —  I was engaged in a bit of multi-tasking, so I wasn't listening as closely to the President's speech as I might have, on the theory I'd read it later, but here's my initial thinking:  —  I've argued before that during a time of war, one of the President's key responsibilities …
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Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
The Battle For Mosul IV  —  Soldiers, Spies, and Sheep  —  Charles Ford and "Jeff" at the sheep market  —  They fled.  It was all over the news.  When the bullets flew, they fled.  Leaving stations, abandoning posts, forgetting duties, hundreds of police fled.
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
The Miers Misstep  —  What was President Bush thinking?  —  It all depends on the hearings.  —  Barring a withdrawal of her nomination, it's going to come down to Harriet Meirs's ability to argue her own case before the Senate Judiciary Committee.  If the American people decide she seems …
Michael J. Totten:
Hezbollah: First Contact  —  I got the phone number for Hezbollah's press and propaganda office.  So I called them.  —  (Ring ring.)  —  Hezbollah: Alloe?  —  Me: Yes, hello sir, may I please speak with Mr. Hussein ________?  —  Hezbollah: He is not here.  —  Me: Do you know when he will be in, please?

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