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3:35 PM ET, September 25, 2006

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Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Iraq Report Rattles Races  —  Twist Hits Lieberman Before Speech On War  —  A conclusion by American intelligence agencies that the U.S. invasion of Iraq spawned a new generation of Islamic radicalism threw Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman a curve on the eve of a major campaign speech he intends to deliver today on the war.
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Hartford Courant:
Getting A Line On Lamont  —  Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont is having trouble moving from the small stage of a primary campaign with its appeal to partisans to the main stage of the general election, which requires the attention of the state's 2.1 million voters.
Jon Henke / The Allen Blog:
Webb's Dirty Tricksters: Salon  —  Sadly, the Webb campaign is continuing their attempt to make this Virginia Senate race about lies and rumor-mongering, rather than about issues.  In Salon today, an anti-tobacco and environmental activist claims Senator Allen "used "N-word" in college".
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Salon:
Revisiting GOP attacks on President Clinton  —  The Internet makes it much more difficult than ever before to fabricate history because virtually everything is recorded and so easily discovered.  Those developments, however, did not deter Jonah Goldberg from writing this demonstrably false historical claim …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Who wanted to "cut and run" from Somalia?  —  My post this morning on Salon concerns the accusation voiced this weekend by Chris Wallace in his Fox News interview with President Clinton (a favorite accusation of neoconservatives) that Clinton "emboldened" Al Qaeda when he withdrew American troops …
Newsweek:
The Rise of Jihadistan  —  Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they—and Al Qaeda's leaders—can operate freely.  —  You don't have to drive very far from Kabul these days to find the Taliban.
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Peter Spiegel / Los Angeles Times:
Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short  —  An extraordinary action by the chief of staff sends a message: The Pentagon must increase the budget or reduce commitments in Iraq and elsewhere.  —  WASHINGTON — The Army's top officer withheld a required 2008 budget plan from Pentagon leaders …
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
U.S. Army extends Iraq duty for 4,000  —  WASHINGTON - In a new sign of mounting strain from the war in Iraq, the Army has extended the combat tours of about 4,000 soldiers who would otherwise be returning home, defense officials said Monday.  —  The 1st Brigade of 1st Armored Division …
Discussion: All Spin Zone
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BBC:
Senior militant 'killed in Iraq'  —  British forces have killed a senior al-Qaeda fugitive in a raid on a house in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, security sources say.  —  Officials named the dead man as Omar Farouq, a top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden in south-east Asia.
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
McCain Names Practices Detainee Bill Would Bar  —  Senator Says 3 Interrogation Methods Are Among the 'Extreme Measures' the Plan Would Outlaw  —  A Republican senator who played a leading role in drafting new rules for U.S. interrogations of terrorism suspects said yesterday that he believes …
David Espo / Associated Press:
Retired officers to criticize Rumsfeld  —  WASHINGTON - Retired military officers on Monday are expected to bluntly accuse Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld of bungling the war in Iraq, saying U.S. troops were sent to fight without the best equipment and that critical facts were hidden from the public.
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:   The Time for Accountability Is Now  —  (Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Air Force Tech.
The Raw Story:
GOP aide busted for fake blog posts on liberal sites  —  Liberal bloggers have uncovered a staff member to Rep. Charles Bass (R-NH) using government computers to make fake posts on liberal blogs in New Hampshire, today's ROLL CALL reports.  —  Heard on The Hill columnist Mary Ann Akers …
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
U.N. Force Is Treading Lightly on Lebanese Soil  —  Italian soldiers in Lebanon say that for now, they cannot even set up a checkpoint.  Instead, they alert the Lebanese Army of any suspicious cars.  —  One month after a United Nations Security Council resolution ended a 34-day war between Israel …
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
U.N. shows why it's incapable of reform  —  The last intervention in public affairs Ted Turner made was a month or two back, when he recounted what an agreeable vacation he'd had in Kim Jong Il's North Korea.  (I sent him a postcard saying, "Wish you were still there.")
Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
Fortress Switzerland  —  The people of Switzerland seem to have taken an object lesson from the Swedes and the British, and have decided to step back from the brink of the immigration cliff.  According to AFP, Swiss voters have strongly approved a tightening of asylum laws:
Washington Post:
Millions of Seniors Facing Medicare 'Doughnut Hole'  —  Millions of older Americans are confronting a temporary break in their Medicare drug coverage this month that will require them to pay the full cost of their prescriptions or face the painful prospect of going without.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Chris Wallace, Caught Off Balance?  —  Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said that he was stunned when Bill Clinton accused him of a "conservative hit job" after he challenged the former president on his record in fighting terrorism.  —  "I thought it was a fair, balanced and not especially …
Baseball Crank:
POLITICS: How Wrong Was Josh Marshall?  —  Plenty Wrong.  —  Now that it has been revealed that the main source for Bob Novak's column "outing" Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's right-hand man at the State Department and (like Novak) no fan of the Iraq War …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Media Blog
J. Max Robins / Broadcasting & Cable:
A Modified MSNBC?  —  There has been speculation for months about MSNBC's future as a 24-hour cable news channel—or, maybe more to the point, its lack thereof.  But one indication may have come last July, when the 10-year-old network launched a newsmagazine, MSNBC Investigates.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Christian Conservatives Look to Re-energize Base  —  Openly anxious about grass-roots disaffection from the Republican Party, conservative Christian organizers are reaching for ways to turn out voters this November, including arguing that recognizing same-sex marriage could also limit religious freedom.
 
 
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Washington Post:
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
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