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5:55 PM ET, August 31, 2006

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This Is London:
PRESIDENT BUSH 'ASSASSINATED' IN NEW TV DOCUDRAMA  —  This is the dramatic moment when President George Bush is gunned down by a sniper after a public address at a hotel, in a gripping new docudrama soon to be aired on TV.  —  Set around October 2007, President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago.
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Liberal Wet Dream
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
ASSASSINATING BUSH AND OTHER OCCASIONS FOR HUMOR
White House:
President Bush Addresses American Legion National Convention  —  Fact Sheet: Winning the Struggle Between Freedom and Terror in the Middle East  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much.  Please be seated.  Thanks for the warm welcome.  It's great to join you here in one of America's most beautiful cities.
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Rebecca Carr / Palm Beach Post:
BYRD ADMITS HE PLACED A HOLD, NOW LIFTS IT  —  West Virginia Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd admits that he placed a "secret hold" on legislation that would make uncovering the Byzantine world of federal contracting as easy as typing a Google search.  —  Tom Gavin, spokesperson for Byrd …
Jim Davenport / myrtlebeachonline.com:
Gingrich: Powerful Pelosi 'would be a disaster'  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. - Ex-U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that the thought of California Rep. Nancy Pelosi becoming the next leader of the House and being third in line to the presidency is frightening.
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Associated Press:
Boyle Included In Nominees for Appeals Court  —  Bucking opposition in the Senate, President Bush on Wednesday nominated five people for the U.S. Court of Appeals, including one whom Democrats have threatened to block with a filibuster.  —  News that Bush had decided to nominate …
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Nancy Zuckerbrod / Associated Press:
Frist expected to get medical board fine
Associated Press:
Laura Bush hails Burns' record
Discussion: Left in the West
Jamie Frevele / The Huffington Post:
Olbermann vs. Rumsfeld: Defining the Real "New Fascism"  —  MSNBC's Keith Olbermann reminded us why it is so great to be an American.  Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's insulting rhetoric reminded us why we are allowed to disagree with the government.  Being a great American means having …
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sltrib.com:
Salt Lake sounds off in protest and support  —  A crowd of thousands cheered Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for calling President Bush a "dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights violating president" whose time in office would "rank as the worst presidency our nation has ever had to endure."
Discussion: Alternate Brain and Think Progress
Los Angeles Times:
State on Verge of Greenhouse Gas Restrictions  —  The Senate votes to slash emissions 25%, the first such action in the nation.  Business groups are angry, but the governor is on board.  —  SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders agreed Wednesday on a plan to cut …
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ric.edu:
Laffey Takes Commanding Lead in Republican U. S. Senate Primary  —  U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee may lose his seat to challenger Steve Laffey, according to a new statewide Republican primary voter poll released today by the Bureau of Government Research and Services at Rhode Island College.
George Jahn / Associated Press:
Bolton: Unanimity not necessary on Iran  —  VIENNA, Austria - Iran remained defiant Thursday as a U.N. deadline arrived for it to halt uranium enrichment, and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said unanimity among the Security Council was not needed to take action against Tehran.
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Vital Perspective:   IAEA Reports on Iran's Continued Defiance; UNSC Must Swiftly Enact Sanctions
Andrew Rosenthal / New York Times:
There Is Silence in the Streets; Where Have All the Protesters Gone?  —  It was almost painful the other night to hear Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young sing about a war whose purpose Americans never really understood, started by a president who didn't tell the truth and then waged the war ineptly.
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Positive Press on Iraq Is Aim of U.S. Contract  —  U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.
Opinion Journal:
Back to the Congressional Future  —  Let's think about how the Democrats would govern.  —  With a little more than two months to go before midterm elections, the polls show Democrats well positioned to win the House after 12 years out of power.  So it's not too soon to consider who these Democrats are and how they would govern.
Michael D. Tanner / Cato-at-liberty:
More Welfare, More Poverty  —  News that the poverty rate remained at 12.6 percent last year, statistically unchanged from the year before, has set off a predictable round of calls for increased government spending on social welfare programs.  —  Yet, last year, the federal government spent …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Angry Bear
Elizabeth Holmes / Wall Street Journal:
No Day at the Beach  —  Bloggers Struggle With What to Do About Vacation  —  A banner stripped across the top of the Daily Dish declares that the popular Web log's host, Andrew Sullivan, has "gone fishing."  Mr. Sullivan declared a two-week vacation and opted to leave his political blog behind.
Alan Dershowitz / Jerusalem Post:
Amnesty Int'l redefines 'war crimes'  —  The two principal "human rights" organizations are in a race to the bottom to see which group can demonize Israel with the most absurd legal arguments and most blatant factual mis-statements.  Until last week, Human Rights Watch enjoyed a prodigious lead …
Discussion: GOP Bloggers
 
 
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Bull Moose:
Regime Change  —  The Moose suggests a tough approach to Iran …
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LAW: Is Requiring Basic Competence by Teachers Racially Discriminatory?
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Democrats' Dysfunctional Calendar
Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Lieberman, Lamont Head to Washington
David Brown / Washington Post:
Nicotine Up Sharply In Many Cigarettes
Discussion: Air America Radio and Truthdig
Mercury News:
Cousin: Rampage driver became enraged after argument with mother
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Lebanese PM: Aid won't go to Hezbollah
Lois Romano / Washington Post:
Tweaking of 'No Child' Seen
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Ynetnews:
Hizbullah: We're arming for second round
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William M. Welch / USA Today:
Pentagon sees risk in troops' loan debt
Jeff Greenfield / CNN:
Game over on the Plame leak? Maybe not
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Bush Shifting Public Focus to Terrorism and Iraq War
Ynetnews:
Hizbullah presents: How to recruit children
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Ohio to Delay Destruction of Presidential Ballots
Telegraph:
Pinocchio and friends converted to Islam