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7:25 PM ET, September 3, 2006

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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Why abduct us?  We cede our values for free  —  Did you see that video of the two Fox journalists announcing they'd converted to Islam?  The larger problem, it seems to me, is that much of the rest of the Western media have also converted to Islam, and there seems to be no way to get them to convert back to journalism.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Will the real cowards please stand up?  —  (updated below)  —  In his new column today, admired warrior Mark Steyn follows in the footsteps of David Warren by mocking (from a safe distance, as always) the willingness of Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig to participate in a conversion ceremony in order to save their own lives.
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda Leader Arrested in Iraq  —  Iraqi armed forces have arrested the No. 2 leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the country's national security leader said Sunday.  —  The leader, Hamed Jumaa Faris Juri al-Saaydi, was captured within the past few days near Baqubah, along with 20 other senior members …
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Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:
I Am a Reality-Based Center-Left Technocrat...  Eric Rauchway writes: … I am, as I said above, a reality-based center-left technocrat.  I am pragmatically interested in government policies that work: that are good for America and for the world.  My natural home is in the bipartisan center …
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
THE TWO T'S....The New York Time reports today on Karl Rove's strategy …
Discussion: unfutz
Atrios / Eschaton:   Technocracy  —  This statement by Brad DeLong disturbed me on so many levels and
TalkLeft:
The Value of Political Populism
Discussion: unfutz and The Left Coaster
TigerHawk:
Armitage and Powell: Looking at PlameGate retrospectively  —  The indefatigable "Larwyn" sent around a link at some god-awful hour last night to an editorial in today's New York Post calling for "Justice for Scooter."  It is not one of that great newspaper's finer efforts.
Discussion: Dinocrat
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MSNBC:
Transcript for Sept. 3  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Only 65 days until the midterm elections.  The Democrats must gain six seats to take control of the U.S. Senate.  This fall we will once again present debates between the candidates in some of the hottest Senate races across the country …
Jay Deshmukh / Agence France Presse:
Iraqi PM orders Kurds to hoist national flag  —  BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has set himself on a collision course with Kurdish separatists by ordering public buildings across Iraq to fly the national flag.  —  Earlier in the week, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region …
Discussion: IRAQ THE MODEL
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Agence France Presse:
Gunmen kill aide of Iraqi Shiite cleric
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraqi Arabs See Unlikely Haven With Old Foes
Discussion: Needlenose
Associated Press:
Klan holds rally at Gettysburg  —  GETTYSBURG, Pa. - About 30 Ku Klux Klan members proclaimed hatred for blacks, Jews, gays and Latinos as they stood behind barricades at the Civil War battlefield where Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.  —  Gordon Young of the World Knights …
Nicholas Eberstadt / Washington Post:
Why Poverty Doesn't Rate  —  The Census Bureau last week released its latest estimate of the U.S. poverty rate — the country's most important official statistic on domestic want and deprivation.  The figure was sobering, signaling short-run stagnation and deterioration over the past generation.
Discussion: MaxSpeak and The Bullwinkle Blog
David W. Chen / New York Times:
G.O.P. Hopeful Says Rumsfeld Should Resign  —  State Senator Thomas H. Kean Jr., the Republican nominee for United States Senate in New Jersey, says he is so frustrated with the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq that he is pushing for something that few Republicans have supported …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   New Jersey's GOP Senate Candidate Kean Calls For Rumsfeld's Resignation
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
2 U.S. Reports Seek to Counter Conspiracy Theories About 9/11  —  Faced with an angry minority of people who believe the Sept. 11 attacks were part of a shadowy and sprawling plot run by Americans, separate reports were published this week by the State Department and a federal science agency insisting …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Futility Of Applying Reason To Insanity
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Walid Phares / counterterrorismblog.org:
The "Azzam" Threat: A prelude to Future Jihad in America  —  PS: This is a short version posting.  The longer version will be posted later.  —  The video tape issued by al Qaeda's "as-sahhab" production, in which Ayman Zawahiri introduces Jihadist Adam Gahdan to the world as a senior speaker …
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Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:
Making 'em Feel Small...  Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal  —  A Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Look at Economics and Many Other Topics  —  September 03, 2006  —  Making 'em Feel Small...  I wrote that one reason that America's rich today live the expensive and ostentatious lifestyles they do …
Craig Murray / Washington Post:
Her Majesty's Man in Tashkent  —  The courtroom provided a telling introduction.  I had recently arrived as British ambassador in Uzbekistan's old Silk Road capital of Tashkent, where I was watching the trial of a 22-year-old dissident named Iskander Khuderbegainov.
Mary Beth Sheridan / Washington Post:
Hardball Tactics in an Era of Threats  —  To the government, they were a terrorist risk in the Washington area.  To local Muslims, they were unfairly singled out for prosecution and severe sentences in a post-9/11 world.  —  The crowd was so big it spilled out of the Alexandria courtroom …
Glenn Greenwald / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon — Conservatives Without Conscience, Week 2  —  John Dean's book is one of the most important books of the year.  It has obviously resonated across the country, as it has remained on The New York Times Best-Seller list since the first week it was released …
Jonathan Rauch / New York Times:
No Middle Ground  —  My friends Jenny and Greg were still digesting the news that Jenny was pregnant with triplets when, only moments later, their fertility doctor sat them down.  After recounting the many things that might go wrong in a triple pregnancy, he said, "You really should consider reducing."
Discussion: Political Animal
Times of London:
Hezbollah wants to swap soldiers for child killer  —  'Most hated man in Israel' at centre of deal to bring prisoners back home  —  IN his Israeli jail cell Samir Qantar, who is serving four life sentences for murder and terrorism, dreams about an exchange of prisoners that might allow him to go home to Lebanon.
Discussion: Yourish.com
 
 
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Guess who got arrested yesterday in Britain
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Video: Outrageously outrageous 9/11 outrage!
IAN / Hot Air:
Video: Maher mocks kidnapped Fox News journos, suggests converting to Islam
Associated Press:
Khatami: US policies trigger terrorism
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New book alleges Rove held secret Abramoff meetings;
Francis Elliott / Independent:
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Endurance Meets Doubt in Iraq
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Wall Street Journal:
Wrong Door  —  The Supreme Court ruled this June that evidence seized …
Matthew Warren / The Australian:
Science tempers fears on climate change
Khalid Al-Odah / Washington Post:
Put My Son on Trial — or Free Him