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7:55 PM ET, September 13, 2006

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Nico / Think Progress:
Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong  —  Air America Radio will announce a major restructuring on Friday, which is expected to include a bankruptcy filing, three independent sources have told ThinkProgress.  —  Air America could remain on the air under the deal …
Amit Paley / Washington Post:
At Least 62 Bodies Found in Baghdad  —  Nearly 100 people were killed or found dead in a series of bloody incidents throughout the Iraqi capital over the past 24 hours, authorities said.  —  At least 62 unidentified bullet-riddled corpses—all bearing signs of torture …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Specter bill much closer to being enacted today  —  (updated below)  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today on various proposals relating to the Specter FISA bill, as well as the other competing FISA bills pending before the Committee.  This report from the AP's Laurie Kellman …
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Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Senate Committee Approves Wiretap Legislation
Discussion: The Left Coaster and Townhall
David Stout / New York Times:   Democratic Effort to Limit Surveillance Bill Is Blocked
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Real story behind Armitage story  —  When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did.  I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.
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Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Novak Changes His Story—a Fourth Time  —  Bob Novak, faced with the evidence that his story is BS, has now changed his story ... a fourth time.  And even while he changes his story, he suggests Armitage is the unreliable one.  —  Novak's Changing Story, Part One
Discussion: Firedoglake
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A Reprise of the Grand Old Party Line  —  House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) was his genial self at a meeting with reporters yesterday morning, showing off his golf-ball-pattern tie and talking of a conversation he once had with Jack Nicklaus about the baby-blue cravat.
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Travis Reed / Associated Press:
Mother of Missing Boy Commits Suicide  —  Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace.  Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: "Where were you?
Discussion: Hit and Run
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Stephen Hudak / Orlando Sentinel:
Show didn't cause suicide, host says
Daily Mail:
Bush to hold talks on Ali G creator after diplomatic row  —  US President George Bush is to host White House talks on British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.  —  Cohen, 35, creator of Ali G, has infuriated the Kazakhstan government with his portrayal of Borat, a bumbling Kazakh TV presenter.
Washington Post:
Cardin Wins Md. Senate Primary  —  U.S. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin beat out former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume to win the Democratic nomination to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, even as chaos at polling sites Tuesday delayed final results and left some other races too close to call.
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Baltimore Sun:
Electronic system beset by problems
Discussion: MyDD and Crooks and Liars
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Tells Group He Sees a 'Third Awakening'  —  President Bush said yesterday that he senses a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as "a confrontation between good and evil."
rules.house.gov:
SUMMARY AND TEXT OF H. RES. 1000, PROVIDING FOR EARMARKING REFORM IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES  —  Earmark Reform: How the New Rule Works  — In order for the House to consider a bill, the Committee of jurisdiction must list all earmarks included in the bill and committee report along …
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
In Setback for Democrats, Incumbent Wins Republican Senate Primary  —  Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island won the Republican primary there on Tuesday, fending off a bid from a populist challenger that the national Republican Party had feared would cost it a seat it had held since 1976 in an overwhelmingly Democratic state.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
MORE TROOPS....The New Republic reports on the state of our military today: … There's nothing all that new in this article, but it's worth reading it to get the big picture.  Two-thirds of active Army units are unready for combat and the situation is even worse in the National Guard.
Ian Bishop / New York Post:
TALIBAN GETS BURY LUCKY  —  FURY AS NICEY-NICE BRASS CALL OFF  —  STRIKE ON FUNERAL  —  Taliban terror leaders who had gathered for a funeral - and were secretly being watched by an eye-in-the-sky American drone - dodged assassination because U.S. rules of engagement bar attacks in cemeteries, according to a shocking report.
Warren Fiske / Virginian-Pilot:
Sen. Allen again apologizes for remark, regrets use of Confederate flag  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. George Allen offered a broad apology Tuesday for failing to grasp how his use of words and symbols, including the Confederate flag, could be offensive to racial minorities.
Reuters:
BMW to roll out hydrogen-powered 7 Series  —  MUNICH (Reuters) - BMW will roll out the world's first hydrogen-burning car in serial production early next year, the German premium automaker said on Tuesday, eager to put its stamp on cars with green credentials.
Avi Rubin / avi-rubin.blogspot.com:
My day at the polls - Maryland primary '06  —  I don't know where to start.  This primary today is the third election that I have worked as an election judge.  The last two elections were in 2004, and I was in a small precinct in Timonium, MD. This time, I was in my home precinct about 1/2 a mile from my house.
Discussion: MyDD, MaxSpeak, Election Law and ACSBlog
Rep. John Murtha / The Huffington Post:
My Resolution Calling for Rumsfeld's Immediate Resignation  —  Today I introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives calling for the immediate resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  —  The President must show the American people and the world that there is accountability …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Smash / The Indepundit:
The Cold Shoulder  —  Welcome Instapundit readers!  For more on my recent history with Code Pink at Walter Reed, including interviews with founders Gael Murphy and Medea Benjamin, start here.  —  ...And while you're here, please check out our book, "The Blog of War," now on sale at Amazon.
 
 
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Jesselee / The Stakeholder:
AZ-08: Oops  —  Yesterday we noted two instances where national …
Reuters:
Muslims urged to buy influence in world media
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
The Sleeping Bear, Redux
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zenit.org:
ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome
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Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Letter across the divide
Richard Williamson / Adweek:
Airline Could Pull Ads From ABC
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Michael O'Brien / campusmagazine.org:
Liberal Libel at The University of Michigan
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Young Anger Foments Jihad
Los Angeles Times:
GOP Senators Seek to Meld Detainee Plan, Geneva Treaty
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