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1:35 PM ET, September 14, 2007

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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
BUSH'S APPALLING IRAQ SPEECH.  —  President Bush's TV address tonight was the worst speech he's ever given on the war in Iraq, and that's saying a lot.  Every premise, every proposal, nearly every substantive point was sheer fiction.  The only question is whether he was being deceptive or delusional.
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New York Times:
Text of the President's Address  —  Following is the prepared text of President Bush's address on Iraq, as provided by the White House:  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good evening.  In the life of all free nations, there come moments that decide the direction of a country and reveal the character of its people.
New York Times:
No Exit, No Strategy  —  This was the week in which Americans hoped they would get straight talk and clear thinking on Iraq.  What they got was two exhausting days of Congressional testimony by the American military commander, hours of news conferences and interviews, clouds of cut …
Washington Post:
The Least Bad Plan  —  PRESIDENT BUSH'S explanation of his latest plans for Iraq last night was marred by a couple of important omissions.  First, the president failed to acknowledge that, according to the standards he himself established in January, the surge of U.S. troops into Iraq has been a failure …
Sonya Geis / Washington Post:
Scholars Decry Law School's About-Face on New Dean  —  Scholars across the political spectrum protested what they called an assault on academic freedom after the University of California at Irvine withdrew a job offer from a liberal professor who wrote an op-ed criticizing the Bush administration.
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Michael V. Drake / Los Angeles Times:
Why I let Chemerinsky go  —  I made a management decision — not an ideological or political one — to rescind the job offer, says the UC Irvine chancellor.  —  T he University of California at Irvine over the last several months has conducted a nationwide search for the founding dean of our school of law.
The Corner:
Hire Back Chemerinksy  —  I don't know why or how UC Irvine could get away with the almost instantaneous hiring and firing of Professor Chemerinsky on apparently political grounds.  No one has questioned either his competence or the conditions under which he was first hired (he wasn't passed over in the selection process).
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
A WORD ON ERWIN CHEMERINSKY  —  Fifteen years ago when John Hinderaker and I started representing University of Minnesota students and teachers with First Amenment claims against the university, we didn't quite know what we were getting into.  Before an aggrieved plaintiff …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX News Poll: Rudy Giuliani Preferred President Over Hillary Clinton If Terrorists Attack America  —  NEW YORK — A majority of Americans say they would feel more comfortable with Rudy Giuliani in the White House than Hillary Clinton if another terrorist attack were to happen in the United States, according to a new FOX News poll.
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Eric Johnston / New York Times:
Anti-Roe and Pro-Rudy  —  TO the disbelief of the political class …
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:   Voters Trust Giuliani over Hillary in Handling Terrorist Attack
Las Vegas's source for breaking news …:
Police Say O.J. Simpson Questioned In Hotel Theft  —  Las Vegas Police Say Hotel Break-In Involved Sports Memorabilia  —  LAS VEGAS — Metro police confirmed early Friday morning that O.J. Simpson was questioned in connection to a theft at the Palace Station Casino.
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The Prowler / American Spectator:
The New York Times MovesOn  —  The New York Times in the past has rejected "advocacy" ads from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, as well as from the National Right to Life Committee, despite the fact that both would have qualified for the same "special advocacy, stand by" rates that the radical …
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Martin Kady II / The Politico:
MoveOn rolls out second provocative ad
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
More Than Ever, Impeachment Is the Cure  —  Last night we heard the President of the United States declare that he would refuse to allow US troops to come home from Iraq until they achieved "success" as he and only he defined success.  "Return on success," he told the troops, adding that …
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
RIA Novosti:
U.S. develops 14-ton super bomb, bigger than Russian vacuum bomb  —  The U.S. has a 14-ton super bomb more destructive than the vacuum bomb just tested by Russia, a U.S. general said Wednesday.  —  The statement was made by retired Lt. General McInerney, chairman of the Iran Policy Committee …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: A Surge, and Then a Stab  —  President Bush's actions have been what you'd expect from a man whose plan is to keep up appearances for the next 16 months.
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Sunnis: "al-Qaeda is the enemy of Allah"  —  al-Qaeda has broken the faith with Muslims. al-Qaeda propaganda and the attacks on the US in the 90's and culminating with 9-11 made it seem to be a force to take on America and Western values.  It promised to return the Arab world to the pinnacle of world power.
 
 
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