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Paula Reed Ward / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Flight 93 memorial decried as Islam symbol — Memorial's crescent shape criticized as inappropriate — There's a growing outcry that one element of the newly chosen Flight 93 National Memorial represents Islam and is a slap in the face to the passengers and crew members who died on the hijacked plane four years ago.
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Reuters:
Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts — FEMA taps Halliburton subsidiary, Shaw Group, Bechtel for cleanup — WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief …
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Ian / The Political Teen:
9/11 - Never Forget — The people who committed these acts are clearly determined to try to force the United States of America and our values to withdraw from the world. Or to respond by curtailing our freedoms. If we do that, the terrorists will have won. And we have no intention of doing so.
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Gordon Russell / Times-Picayune Breaking News Weblog:
Mayor Nagin speaks out — In a stark reminder of how drastically Hurricane Katrina has impacted the lives of New Orleanians, Mayor Ray Nagin has purchased a home for his family in Dallas and enrolled his young daughter in school there. — Nagin, who spoke with The Times-Picayune by telephone from Dallas …
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Will Lester / Associated Press:
President's Approval Rating Dips Below 40 — WASHINGTON - President Bush's job approval has dipped below 40 percent for the first time in the AP-Ipsos poll, reflecting widespread doubts about his handling of gasoline prices and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
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truthout.org:
Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans — New Orleans - Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the mercenaries say they have been "deputized" …
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Sealing Them In — A couple of days ago I wrote about the "single worst decision" that was made in the wake of the hurricane. I was wrong; there were actually two horrible decisions that created one horrible Catch-22. — The first part of the catch was the decision to keep relief workers with food and water out of the city.
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Anbar Campaign Intensifies — The final assault on Tal Afar has commenced. The joint U.S. and Iraqi strike force has begun searching homes door-to-door after targeted airstrikes in the center of town. It is estimated over one-third of the city has been swept by Coalition forces.
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Associated Press:
Lawyer Is Fired After Talking About Rove — AUSTIN, Texas - A lawyer with the Texas secretary of state was fired after she spoke to a reporter about presidential adviser Karl Rove's eligibility to vote in the state. — Elizabeth Reyes, 30, said she was dismissed last week for violating …
rawstory.com:
SIXTY-SIX PERCENT DISSATISFIED WITH DIRECTION OF COUNTRY — SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT OF MINORITIES BELIEVE RACE WAS THE REASON FOR SLOW RESPONSE: 47 PERCENT SAY 'MAJOR REASON;' — 64 PERCENT OF WHITES SAY IT WAS NOT A REASON AT ALL — New York-President George W. Bush's approval ratings …
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Atlas Shrugs:
SHOTGUN SEAN - POSTERBOY FOR NRA/SECOND AMENDMENT — I don't even have a category for this moron. Thank G-d for the New York Post though, they run images the MSM wouldn't dare. — "Actor Sean Penn lugs a shotgun through the flooded streets of New Orleans as if he is starring in an action thriller - but he is not.
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Anita Kumar / St. Petersburg Times:
'Average' past trails troubled FEMA chief — WASHINGTON - In 2002, a pair of FBI agents showed up at a small, well-known law firm near Oklahoma City, asking questions about Mike Brown, a former employee being considered for a job at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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William L. Taylor / New York Review of Books:
John Roberts: The Nominee — The most intriguing question about John Roberts is what led him as a young person whose success in life was virtually assured by family wealth and academic achievement to enlist in a political campaign designed to deny opportunities for success to those who lacked his advantages.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Nick Coleman: The new American experiment: No heart — Everyone is playing the blame game on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, and we at the top end of the Mississippi River can join the fun by pointing fingers close to home. — Part of what drowned New Orleans is a political ideology determined …
Bruce Thornton / victorhanson.com:
The Forbidden History — A Review of The Legacy of Jihad. Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims edited by Andrew G. Bostom. — Private Papers — Four years after 9/11 the postmortem of that disaster continues to focus on the institutional failures of our intelligence agencies and government bureaucracies.
Jack Shafer / Slate:
Chief Justice Rehnquist's Drug Habit — The man in full. — As we usher the 16th chief justice of the United States to his celestial reward, let us remember him in full. He labored successfully to return power to the states, treated colleagues with warmth and respect …