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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Hearings Tempest Downgraded to Topical Storm  —  Hurricane Katrina is having a gale-force impact on the John Roberts confirmation hearings.  —  When the Senate hearings begin this morning, the cable news networks plan to dip in and out after carrying some opening statements.
Discussion: Eschaton, War and Piece and mediabistro
Deacon / Power Line:
YEARNING FOR A CARTERESQUE WAR ON TERROR  —  The only thing worse than an MSM piece that's plainly devoid of analysis is an MSM piece that contains its illusion.  A case in point is this shockingly bad article by Newsweek's Michael Hirsh that appeared in today's Washington Post.
Discussion: Pandagon and Daily Pundit
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Gaijinbiker / Riding Sun:
The amazing success of George W. Bush  —  NOTE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!  And thanks for the link, Prof. Reynolds.  —  Shortly after the attacks of 9-11, George W. Bush announced a new focus for his adminstration and for America: … Four years later, terrorism remains a problem around the world …
Michael Hirsh / Washington Post:
9/11 — and Counting  —  On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the Pearl Harbor attack, Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the American people in a fireside chat.  In tone and manner, FDR's words were not very different from the rhetoric of George W. Bush three generations later …
Discussion: INTEL DUMP
Michael Kinsley / Los Angeles Times:
The fetid aroma of hindsight  —  Recriminations are all the rage today.  But really, does anyone ever pay attention to the prophets of doom until it's too late?  —  AS A GOOD AMERICAN, you no doubt have been worried sick for years about the levees around New Orleans.
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Robert Novak / realclearpolitics.com:
Replacing O'Connor Could Get Ugly  —  WASHINGTON — With Senate confirmation of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. as chief justice virtually assured, the struggle for the Supreme Court returns to replacing retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.  The belief in legal and political circles is that President Bush …
Discussion: Power Line and Decision '08
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Article III Groupie / Underneath Their Robes:
Breaking News: Clerkly Clues to the Justices' Plans!
Discussion: ACSBlog
Toby Helm / Telegraph:
Jews and Freemasons controlled war on Iraq, says No 10 adviser  —  Tony Blair decided to wage war on Iraq after coming under the influence of a "sinister" group of Jews and Freemasons, a Muslim barrister who advises the Prime Minister has claimed.  —  Ahmad Thomson, from the Association of Muslim Lawyers …
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Melanie / Melanie Phillips's Diary:   The monster in Britain's midst
David A / In Search Of Utopia:
Newsflash - Kool Aide Rations Running Low Across America! … Meanwhile rumors spread of Massive Kool Aide stores being horded by Paul at Wizbang, who slams the poor people of New Orleans and boast of his own independence, just a week or so after his compatriots at Wizbang were passing the hat for him.
Discussion: The American Mind and Wizbang
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Paul / Wizbang:   DEMS ANSWER TO KATRINA? MORE GOVERNMENT OF COURSE
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Katrina Darkens the Outlook for Incumbents
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Border Wars V - Operation Cyclone in Rutbah, Tal Afar, and more  —  With simultaneous offensives occurring in Qaim, Tal Afar, and Rabiah, Coalition forces launch Operation Cyclone in the southern town of Rutbah, which sits astride roads at the southern-most border crossing with Syria and the northern-most border crossing with Jordan.
Discussion: The Belmont Club
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Jacob Silberberg / Associated Press:
Battle Eases in Sweep for Iraq Insurgents
Discussion: Winds of Change.NET
Associated Press:
NBC's Williams: Journalists' gloves off  —  NEW YORK (AP) — NBC's Brian Williams says the lasting legacy of Hurricane Katrina for journalists may be the end of an unusual four-year period of deference to people in power.  —  There were so many angry, even incredulous …
Washington Post:
At 9/11 Walks, Remembrances Stream Forth  —  Thousands in D.C. and Va. Honor Victims, U.S. Troops  —  On a Sept. 11 as sunny and warm as that earth-shattering date four years ago, thousands of people yesterday remembered the terrorist attacks by walking in the nation's capital.
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Steve Clemons:   "Freedom Walk" Not So Free
Sadie / fistfuloffortnights.net:
RINOs Without A Hero?  —  Inspired by Vanity Fair by William Makepiece Thackeray (LONDON, June 28, 1848)  —  As the Commissar of the RINOs sits before the curtain on the boards and gazes into the political arena, a feeling of profound melancholy washes over his haggard and weary face.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Katrina Leads a Lobbyist to Reevaluate His Priorities  —  Frederick L. Webber, a longtime denizen of Washington's lobbying corridor, showed up at work one day last week and found on his desk a dozen fundraising requests from members of Congress.  —  He threw them all in the trash.
Chris Gaither / Los Angeles Times:
Chat From the War Zone  —  With the hiring of blogger-journalist Kevin Sites, Yahoo is set to compete with TV news.  —  Yahoo Inc. has been talking like a major media company.  Today it will start acting like one.  —  Ten months after Lloyd Braun, former chairman of the ABC television network …
MSNBC:
Transcript for September 11  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday...  (Videotape):  —  Unidentified Man: Residents of New Orleans, we're here to help you.  —  MR. RUSSERT: Hurricane Katrina, day 13.  How goes the recovery?  With us: the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin.
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
What If Blanco & Nagin Had Been Replaced By Competent Politicians Before Katrina? … Since Katrina hit, the partisan mainstream media has spent a great deal of time trying to exploit the hurricane to attack the Bush administration.  So, while Kathleen Blanco & Ray Nagin …
Discussion: Lifelike Pundits

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Wall Street Journal:
Why Levee Breaches In New Orleans Were Late-Breaking News
Discussion: Poynter Online and Attytood
Mike Allen / Time:
Living Too Much in the Bubble?  —  A bungled initial response …
Discussion: Wonkette
DefenseLINK:
Mississippi Guard Provides Relief to State's Citizens
Discussion: QandO and Sister Toldjah
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Mary Landrieu Bobs, Weaves, Implodes
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Theodore B. Olson / Opinion Journal:
John Roberts Deserves a Dignified Process
Jim Lynch / bRight & Early:
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Confusion at Crunch Time  —  After 9/11, a master plan for disasters was drawn.
John Hinderaker / orlandosentinel.com:
End focus on Iraq war death tally
Discussion: Daily Kos

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Reuters:
Cheney backed removing FEMA boss from Katrina duty
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Bush's Katrina dawdling should offend conservatives
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Ceremonies mark 9/11 anniversary
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