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Dissidents' Detainee Bill May Face Filibuster — Frist Warns GOP Opponents of Bush's Proposal They Must Accept Two Key Provisions — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist signaled yesterday that he and other White House allies will filibuster a bill dealing with the interrogation and prosecution …
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
White House Drops a Condition on Interrogation Bill — Seeking a deal with Senate Republicans on the rules governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects, the White House has dropped its insistence on redefining the obligations of the United States under the Geneva Conventions, members of Congress and aides said Tuesday.
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Times of London:
Carey backs Pope and issues warning on 'violent' Islam — THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton has issued his own challenge to "violent" Islam in a lecture in which he defends the Pope's "extraordinarily effective and lucid" speech. — Lord Carey said that Muslims must address …
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John L. Allen Jr / New York Times:
A Challenge, Not a Crusade — SEEN in context, Pope Benedict XVI's citation last week of a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who claimed that the Prophet Muhammad brought "things only evil and inhuman" to the world was not intended as an anti-Islamic broadside.
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Doubts Increase About Strength of Iraq's Premier — Senior Iraqi and American officials are beginning to question whether Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has the political muscle and decisiveness to hold Iraq together as it hovers on the edge of a full civil war.
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
'06 Cuts In Iraq Troops Unlikely — General Points to Sectarian Violence In New Assessment — The U.S. military is unlikely to reduce forces in Iraq before next spring because the current contingent of more than 140,000 troops is battling sectarian violence that could prove "fatal" …
Antonio Castaneda / Associated Press:
Young children fight U.S. troops in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite militias are encouraging children — some as young as 6 or 7 — to hurl stones and gasoline bombs at U.S. convoys, hoping to lure American troops into ambushes or provoke them into shooting back, U.S. soldiers say.
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Democrats accuse steele of blending puppies — Well not really. Well as the Hedgehog Report reports … I'll admit, though I'm a Republican I'm not 100% sold on Steele. His distancing himself from President Bush was extremely ham-handed. Still these commercials have the aim of painting …
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Samara Martin Ewing / WUSA-TV:What's Missing From Michael Steele's Latest Campaign Ad?
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McAuliffe to join Clinton — Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe has told business associates and Democratic donors that he will chair Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) presidential campaign next year, according to several Democratic sources.
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Allen Says He Embraces His Jewish Ancestry — Virginia Sen. George Allen (R) said for the first time publicly yesterday that he has Jewish ancestry, a day after responding angrily to an exchange that included questions about his mother's racial sensitivity and whether his family has Jewish roots.
Washington Post:
Georgia Law Requiring Voters to Show Photo ID Is Thrown Out — Judge Says Some Would Be Disenfranchised; State Plans Appeal — A state judge yesterday rejected a Georgia law requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification, writing in his decision, "This cannot be."
Russell Mitchell / Publius Pundit:
BYZANTINE BUDAPEST — In Hungary over the past 48 hours it's the Nika riots all over again. — Sort of. — First, political parties in Hungary do not immediately line up into conveniently-intelligible left-wing/right-wing definitions, though some are easily mappable for Americans (the SZDSZ are basically libertarians).
TigerHawk:
Another fifth anniversary — Today is the fifth anniversary of President George W. Bush's great speech before a Joint Session of the United States Congress following the attacks of September 11, 2001. The speech (transcript and links to video) names the enemy and declares the tactics that will be used against it.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
What Can I Do To Help? — Chris Bowers has a great number-crunching post up on MyDD today that shows the need for some serious GOTV efforts for Democrats for the November election. We have to turn out our base. Period. And we need to do so through the usual — and some new — means of energizing Democratic-leaning voters.
Austin Bay / StrategyPage:
The CBS Ambush — Remember the "Arab street," that riot-in-the-road featuring flammable Israeli flags, Saddam Hussein posters, clenched fists and chants threatening "Death to America"? The street may have lacked pavement and a fire hydrant, but it had beaucoup television cameras.
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New York Times:
Mubarak's Son Proposes Nuclear Program — Gamal Mubarak, the son of Egypt's president, proposed Tuesday that his country pursue nuclear energy, drawing strong applause from the nation's political elite, while raising expectations that Mr. Mubarak is being positioned to replace his father as president.
New York Times:
H.P. Said to Have Studied Infiltrating Newsrooms — Hewlett-Packard conducted feasibility studies on planting spies in news bureaus of two major publications as part of an investigation of leaks from its board, an individual briefed on the company's review of the operation said yesterday.
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New Yorker:
AIR KISS — American Airlines Flight 45—departing Charles de Gaulle at 10:40 A.M., arriving J.F.K. at one each afternoon—is a tourist's delight: timed just right to avoid late checkout, leaving time for one last Kir Royale at Les Deux Magots. On August 22nd, the coach cabin was packed with vacationing New Yorkers.
Washington Post:
Wrong Turn on Eavesdropping — BEFORE WRAPPING up business and sending members home for the fall campaign, both houses of Congress are likely to take up measures to authorize the National Security Agency's program of warrantless surveillance. The two main bills under consideration would both be disasters …
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