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G.O.P. Sets Aside Work on Immigration — As they prepare for a critical pre-election legislative stretch, Congressional Republican leaders have all but abandoned a broad overhaul of immigration laws and instead will concentrate on national security issues they believe play to their political strength.
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United House and Senate Democratic Leaders Urge President to Change Course in Iraq; Call for Changes to Iraq Policy — Contact: Jim Manley or Rebecca Kirszner (Harry Reid), 202-255-3736 or 202-281-5425; Brendan Daly (Nancy Pelosi), 202-225-3225 — WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 /U.S. Newswire …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Democrats Write A Letter — Yesterday, the Democrats released an open letter to George Bush demanding a change in policy for Iraq and the war on terror. The letter takes five paragraphs to get to the point, and even then doesn't do much more than present general goals rather than any clear changes to current policy:
CNN:
Voters are anti-incumbent and angry, new poll finds — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Most Americans are angry about "something" when it comes to how the country is run, and they are more likely than in previous years to vote for a challenger this November, a new poll suggests.
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Many Entry-Level Workers Find a Rough Market — This Labor Day, the 45 million young people in the nation's work force face a choppy job market in which entry-level wages have often trailed inflation, making it hard for many to cope with high housing costs and rising college debt loads.
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COUNTERCOLUMN, The Left Coaster, Alabama Liberation Front and Thoughts of an Average Woman
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Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
This Can't Be Love — Across the eastern United States, a gruesome ritual is in full swing. The praying mantis and its relative, the Chinese mantis, are in their courtship season. A male mantis approaches a female, flapping his wings and swaying his abdomen. Leaping on her back, he begins to mate.
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Obsidian Wings
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Sudan's Offensive Comes at Key Time — The Sudanese government has dramatically intensified the war in Darfur in a bid to finish off a tenacious, three-year-old rebellion before a U.N. peacekeeping force can deploy there, say analysts, rebels and officials from the African Union monitoring mission.
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Maria Aspan / New York Times:
New Republic Suspends an Editor for Attacks on Blog — A senior editor at The New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on Friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts. — Lee Siegel, creator of the Lee Siegel …
David Rohde / New York Times:
Afghan Symbol for Change Becomes a Symbol of Failure — LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan — It began last summer. — On a July morning, Taliban gunmen shot dead the province's most powerful cleric as he walked to the main city mosque to lead morning prayers. Five months later …
Doug Struck / Washington Post:
U.S. Planes Mistakenly Hit Canadians In Afghanistan — One Soldier Is Killed In Incident in South — U.S. jets mistakenly strafed Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan on Monday, killing one and bringing to five the number of Canadian troops killed during a major push against the Taliban this weekend.
Stephanie Reitz / Associated Press:
Lieberman marches alone as former allies surround Lamont — HARTFORD, Conn. — U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman continues to go it alone. — While prominent Connecticut Democrats surrounded U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont at an annual Labor Day parade Monday in Newtown, the three-term incumbent …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:I Love a Parade — CT Keith got his moment in the CNN sun today …
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Eschaton
Dave Clark / Middle East Times:
Iraq follows Al Qaeda coup with mass arrests — BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces killed 14 "terrorists" and arrested almost 200 suspects, the government said Monday, in a spectacular follow-up to their earlier capture of an alleged top-level Al Qaeda leader.
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The American Thinker
Washington Post:
'Mortgage Moms' May Star in Midterm Vote — With Wages Stagnant and Debt Growing, Democrats See an Opportunity — BURLINGTON, Ky. — Life is cramped at the Condit household. Dale and Sharon Condit and their two young sons need more room but can't seem to sell their current home — on the market now for three months.
J. Harvie Wilkinson III / Washington Post:
Hands Off Constitutions — This Isn't the Way to Ban Same-Sex Marriage — The chief casualty in the struggle over same-sex marriage has been the American constitutional tradition. Liberals and conservatives — judges and legislators — bear responsibility for this sad state of affairs.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Syria Doubles Down With Another Assassination Attempt — A roadside bomb has seriously injured the lead investigator into the assassination of Rafik Hariri and killed four of his bodyguards near the seaside city of Sidon in Lebanon. The remote-controlled bomb seems very similar to the means used to assassinate Hariri:
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