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6:30 PM ET, August 23, 2006

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Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Asking for it: why terrorism vs. Fox TV is not news  —  It's been over a week since Fox TV newsmen Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig were abducted in Gaza.  Until today's terrorist video by the Holy Jihad Brigade, showing them both alive and demanding the release of Muslim prisoners in America …
BBC:
Video shows seized Gaza reporters
CNN:
12 arrested after Northwest Airlines turned back  —  Passengers 'looked into plastic bags, passed cell phones'  —  AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (CNN) — Dutch police said Wednesday that 12 passengers were in custody after a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Mumbai, India, returned to Amsterdam when several people on board aroused concern.
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Toby Sterling / Associated Press:
12 detained after NWA flight returns to Amsterdam
Discussion: ndtv.com and The Agonist
Associated Press:   Dutch Arrest 12 From U.S. Airliner
Walid Phares / Counterterrorism Blog:
Arrest of 12 Passengers on Netherlands-India Flight Merits Further Investigation
Discussion: The Jawa Report and The Anchoress
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Ann Althouse / New York Times:
A Law Unto Herself  —  TO end her opinion in American Civil Liberties Union v. National Security Agency — the case that enjoins President Bush's warrantless surveillance program — Judge Anna Diggs Taylor quoted Earl Warren (referring to him as "Justice Warren," not "Chief Justice Warren," …
Will / Attytood:
"Rockey I": If it sounds too good to be true...  The good news is that CNN seems to have finally stop obsessing over John Mark Karr.  Instead, they've found a new soap opera to go ga-ga over, Katrina survivor Rockey Vaccarella, who drove his FEMA trailer from his home in ravaged St. Bernard Parish …
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Associated Press:
Bush: Katrina recovery will take time  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Wednesday cautioned against placing too much importance on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's Gulf Coast strike, saying it will take a long, sustained effort to rebuild the area.
Discussion: Hit and Run
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
E&P editor attacks bloggers over Reutersgate  —  I was going to make the title, "E&P editor attacks bloggers over Reutersgate, misrepresents pretty much everything," but his article's only the first of two parts.  So perhaps the misrepresentations will be addressed in today's exciting conclusion.
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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
In Defense of War Photographers  —  With most others in the mainstream media silent, I rise here in support of the overwhelming number of press photographers in the Middle East who bravely, under horrid conditions, in recent weeks have sent back graphic and revealing pictures from the war zones …
Discussion: CBS News and Media Blog
Michael Noer / Forbes:
Don't Marry Career Women  —  Guys: A word of advice.  Marry pretty women or ugly ones.  Short ones or tall ones.  Blondes or brunettes.  Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career.  —  Why?  Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage.
WWB / Blog P.I.:
L'Affaire GoldFrisch III: We All Knew This Was Coming  —  This post was co-written with Tim Dreier of The One-Handed Economist; both of us are graduates of the University of Oregon in Eugene, where Deb Frisch now lives.  As a matter of full disclosure, we've had a few scrapes with Frisch of our own …
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
George W. Bush, reader  —  A week ago, we discussed whether the president actually read Camus' "The Stranger," and discussed the origins of existentialism.  It turns out, however, there's a little more to Bush's new-found appreciation of the printed word.
Rhonda Schwartz Reports / The Blotter:
Is the Next Step a Draft?  —  Rhonda Schwartz Reports:  —  An Iraq War veterans group says the call-up of thousands of Marines from the Individual Ready Reserve, announced by the Pentagon today, is "one of the last steps before resorting to a draft."  —  "This move should serve as a wake …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars, CNN and Bitch. Ph.D.
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Iran Sanctions Could Fracture Coalition  —  It was always going to be tough for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to hold together her fragile coalition of world powers trying to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions.  The Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon has made that job harder.
Simon Caldwell / Daily Mail:
Pope sacks astronomer over evolution debate  —  Pope Benedict XVI has sacked his chief astronomer after a series of public clashes over the theory of evolution.  —  He has removed Father George Coyne from his position as director of the Vatican Observatory after the American Jesuit priest …
Norman Podhoretz / Opinion Journal:
Is the Bush Doctrine Dead?  —  The president's critics are wrong.  That includes the neocons.  —  In recent months, we have been bombarded with reports of the death of the Bush Doctrine.  Of course, there have been many such reports since the doctrine was first promulgated at the start …
Senator Joseph Lieberman / Rasmussen Reports:
Connecticut Senate: Lieberman, Lamont Still in a Toss-Up  —  Lieberman (I) 45% Lamont (D) 43%  —  America's two-party system generally marginalizes Independent and third-party candidacies, but every once in a while a contest shows the system is not set in concrete: Ross Perot running for President …
 
 
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