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New York Times:
Rushing Off a Cliff — Here's what happens when this irresponsible Congress railroads a profoundly important bill to serve the mindless politics of a midterm election: The Bush administration uses Republicans' fear of losing their majority to push through ghastly ideas about antiterrorism …
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
House Approves Bill on Detainees — 253 to 168 Vote Backs Bush on Prosecution Of Terrorism Suspects — The House approved an administration-backed system of questioning and prosecuting terrorism suspects yesterday, setting clearer limits on CIA interrogation techniques but denying access …
Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:House approves bill on terror detainees
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Kennedy v. The Machine, Brilliant at Breakfast, News Hounds, The Jawa Report and Don Surber
Barry Schweid / Associated Press:
Poll: Iraqis back attacks on U.S. troops — WASHINGTON - About six in 10 Iraqis say they approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces, and slightly more than that want their government to ask U.S. troops to leave within a year, a poll finds. — The Iraqis also have negative views of Osama bin Laden …
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Fouad Ajami / Opinion Journal:
Infidel Documents — Intelligence, jihadists and the Iraq war debate. — The scaffolding of the Iraq war is under renewed attack. So there had been no meeting between Mohamed Atta and Iraqi intelligence operative Ahmad al-Ani in Prague; and Saddam's regime was "intensely secular" while al Qaeda was steeped in religious doctrine.
History News Network:
Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer — POLL: AL QAEDA LOST IN IRAQ — Al Qaeda has desicively lost the Iraqi battlefield. … Iraqi confidence in Iraqi forces (as opposed to militias) is increasing while its confidence in US forces is decreasing. Given US policies there can be little doubt …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Cleric Said to Lose Reins of Parts of Iraqi Militia — The radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr has lost control of portions of his Mahdi Army militia that are splintering off into freelance death squads and criminal gangs, a senior coalition intelligence official said Wednesday.
Robin Toner / New York Times:
New Hope for Democrats in Bid for Senate — Six weeks before Election Day, the Democrats suddenly face a map with unexpected opportunities in their battle for control of the Senate. — In Virginia, a state that few expected to be seriously competitive, Senator George Allen, a Republican …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com: TENNESSEE SENATE UPDATE: One thing that everyone in Washington asked …
Rachel Kapochunas / CQPolitics.com:Ford Pulls Even With Corker in Tennessee Senate Contest
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TPMmuckraker
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow — White House Conference Center Briefing Room — MR. SNOW: Good morning. Welcome. A couple of opening notes. The President, today, or this evening, will be making brief remarks on the way to dinner. I know a lot of you are interested in what's going to be happening.
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:Clinton Defends Husband's Tack, Adding That All Democrats Should Take a Hint
William M. Arkin / Early Warning:On the NIE, the Right and the Left Are Both Wrong
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Political Animal, american footprints, Opinion, The Moderate Voice, AMERICAblog, Hullabaloo and Blue Crab Boulevard
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:Keith Olbermann takes a "look back" …
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Brilliant at Breakfast
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Iraq war was terrorism 'recruiting sergeant' — The Iraq war has acted as a "recruiting sergeant" for extremists in the Muslim world, according to a paper prepared for a Ministry of Defence thinktank, which also said the British government sent troops into Afghanistan "with its eyes closed".
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Anne Gearan / Associated Press:Bush urges bickering allies on terrorism
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The Jawa Report
Associated Press:
Chairman seeks review, possible removal of memorial inscriptions — PHOENIX — A state commission that authorized placement of the Arizona 9-11 Memorial in Wesley Bolin Plaza will review controversial laser-cut inscriptions "and see if some of them could be removed," the panel's chairman said Wednesday.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Webb Denies Ever Using Word as Epithet — Racial Slur Overshadowing All Else in Contest — Democratic Senate candidate James Webb on Wednesday sought to explain remarks he had made a day earlier, in which he refused to say whether he had used the "N-word," but he insisted he has never used it as a racial epithet aimed at anyone.
labour.org.uk:
News and speeches: Speech by Tony Blair MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party — I'd like to start by saying something very simple. — Thank you. — Thank you to you, our Party, our members, our supporters, the people who week in, week out do the work, take the flak but don't often get the credit.
wnbc.com:
Jeanine Pirro Under Criminal Investigation — ALBANY, N.Y. — NewsChannel 4's Jonathan Dienst has learned Jeanine Pirro, the Republican candidate for New York Attorney General, has been under state and federal criminal investigation. — Images: Pirro Probed For Alleged Spy Plan
Daily Mail:
Opera featuring Mohammed's head may take place after German leader intervenes — Germany's conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday led political and arts world uproar at the scrapping of a Mozart opera that features the head of the prophet Mohammed rolling across the stage.
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Hyscience
Nico / Think Progress:
Musgrave: Gay Marriage 'Is The Most Important Issue That We Face Today' — Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), the lead sponsor of the constitutional ban on gay marriage in the House, spoke this weekend at the Family Research Council's "Values Voter Summit." (Other virulently anti-gay speakers were featured at the event.)
Dean / Dean's World:
Question for Michelle Malkin: Does the Conscience of a Conservative Still Exist? — I'm publicly calling out Michelle Malkin, someone whom I often disagree with but usually respect. I hope she will think about it and respond thoughtfully and not angrily or flippantly.
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Muslims' Complicity With Violence — Unless it clamps down vigorously on fanaticism, the Islamic world risks validating its worst caricatures. — EVER SINCE 9/11, a dark view of Islam has been gaining currency on what might be called the Western street. This view holds that …
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