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3:10 PM ET, September 30, 2006

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Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
A Portrait of Bush as a Victim of His Own Certitude  —  In Bob Woodward's highly anticipated new book, "State of Denial," President Bush emerges as a passive, impatient, sophomoric and intellectually incurious leader, presiding over a grossly dysfunctional war cabinet and given …
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Editor and Publisher:
Woodward Excerpt Appears in 'Post' With New 9/11 Bombshell  —  NEW YORK After being scooped by The New York Times, '60 Minutes' and New York's Daily News, The Washington Post comes out with its first excerpt/digest of Bob Woodward's upcoming blockbuster, "State of Denial," …
Discussion: AMERICAblog, TalkLeft and Eschaton
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
STATE OF DENIAL  —  In May, President Bush spoke in Chicago and gave a characteristically upbeat forecast: "Years from now, people will look back on the formation of a unity government in Iraq as a decisive moment in the story of liberty, a moment when freedom gained a firm foothold …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Disputes Book's Report of Anti-Rumsfeld Moves
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Booman Tribune
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
'State of Denial' Lands Early And Hits Harder
Discussion: Democrats.com and TPMCafe blogs
Washington Post:
Rep. Foley Quits In Page Scandal  —  Six-term Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned yesterday amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit e-mails to at least one underage male former page.  —  Foley, who was considered likely to win reelection this fall, said in a three-sentence letter of resignation …
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Greg Hilburn / thenewsstar.com:   Congressman resigns because of e-mail to Monroe teen
Rick Hasen / Election Law:
THE REP. MARK FOLEY REPLACEMENT AND THE ELECTION LAW ISSUES
Discussion: Club for Growth
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
With Senate Vote, Congress Passes Border Fence Bill  —  The Senate gave final approval last night to legislation authorizing the construction of 700 miles of double-layered fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, shelving President Bush's vision of a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration laws in favor of a vast barrier.
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Reuters:
Senate backs fence along Mexico border
Discussion: ParaPundit
New York Times:
Senate Passes Bill on Building Border Fence
Discussion: TalkLeft and A Blog For All
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Senate approves fence for border
Discussion: Power Line
Associated Press:
Police in India Say Pakistan's Spy Agency Planned Train Blasts  —  MUMBAI, India (AP) — The police officer leading the investigation into train bombings that killed more than 200 people in the Indian city of Mumbai in July accused Pakistan's spy agency on Saturday of masterminding the attack.
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BBC:
Pakistan 'role in Mumbai attacks'  —  Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind the train blasts in Mumbai in July that killed 186 people, Indian police say.  —  The attacks were planned by the ISI and carried out by the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, based in Pakistan, Mumbai's police chief said.
Discussion: Secular Blasphemy
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Has Pakistan Changed Sides?
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Baghdad under curfew.  —  The situation in Baghdad calmed down soon after we made the previous post.  —  Saturday has been so quiet so far, never a single explosion happened as far as I know and there was hardly any sound of gunfire in or around our district in Baghdad.
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Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Teacher in Hiding After Attack on Islam Stirs Threats  —  A French high school philosophy teacher and author who carried out a scathing attack against the Prophet Muhammad and Islam in a newspaper commentary says he has gone into hiding under police protection after receiving a series of death threats …
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Martin Arnold / Financial Times:
Teacher in hiding after attacking Islam
Discussion: The American Thinker
resiliencetv.fr:
Redeker, tel Socrate, menacé après avoir publié …
Discussion: ¡No Pasarán! and USS Neverdock
Skip Navigation / clerk.house.gov:
Office of the Sixteenth Congressional District of Florida Formerly the Office of Representative Mark Foley  —  The Washington, D.C. office and the district offices of the Honorable Mark Foley will continue to serve the people of the Sixteenth Congressional District of Florida under the supervision …
Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
Webb's Fundraising Strength Puts VA-Sen Clearly on the Map  —  Even as freshman GOP Sen. George Allen of Virginia began to implode two months ago and his Democratic challenger, former Reagan Navy Secy.  Jim Webb, began to dramatically narrow Allen's lead in the polls, many were still incredulous …
Investor's Business Daily:
97 Reasons Democrats Are Weak On Defense And Can't Be Trusted To Govern In Wartime  —  Today's Democrats are nothing like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, who with courage and decisive action kept on top of their jobs and aggressively confronted one national defense crisis after another.
Discussion: Macsmind
Brendan Montague / Daily Mail:
China's 'cruelty olympics' causes international outrage  —  A bear struggles to retain its balance while gripping the two metal hoops, which look more like shackles than acrobatics equipment, as a wildlife park worker looks on and laughs.  —  This is just the latest shocking picture to emerge …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Paul Berman / New York Times:
The Watchdog … Does the memory of the independent-minded, hearing-impaired, liberally leftist, reliably humorous, ever quizzical and wonderfully prolific journalist I. F. Stone have anything to offer to us today?  Myra MacPherson has written a biography under the Stone-quoting title " …
Discussion: The Corner and NewsBusters.org
CNN:
Al Qaeda No. 2: Bush a liar, 'spiller of Muslim blood'  —  (CNN) — Calling President Bush "the murderer and spiller of Muslim blood," al Qaeda's top deputy released a videotape Friday accusing the U.S. president of being a "deceitful charlatan" who has lied to the American people.
 
 
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Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
Al Qaeda Increasingly Reliant on Media
Guardian:
How one of the biggest rows of modern times helped Danish exports to prosper
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Big $$ for Progressive Politics
Discussion: The Corner
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
KEITH ELLISON FOR DUMMIES
Lawrence Kudlow / Townhall.com:
Facts over Democrat fantasy
Discussion: The Mahablog
whitehouse.gov:
Testimony of Edward P. Lazear Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers …
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Matthew Cardinale / atlantaprogressivenews.com:
Diebold Added Secret Patch to Georgia E-Voting Systems in 2002, Whistleblowers Say
Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Gonzales cautions judges on interfering
Agence France Presse:
Pig's head dumped outside mosque at start of Ramadan
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Does the Military Commissions Act apply to citizens?
Randy Hall / CNSNews:
Sen. Clinton: 'Incalculable Damage Done to Our Country'
 

 
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