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Washington Post:
Senate To Start Roberts Hearings — Nominee's Views Could Shape Court for Years — The Senate convenes the first confirmation hearing for a chief justice nominee in nearly two decades today, starting a week of admonitions and questions for John G. Roberts Jr. certain to probe deeply …
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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.
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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Michelle Malkin:
THE DEMOCRATS' KATRINA PROFITEER — From the "Bias? What liberal bias?" files... On Saturday, CNN.com had a piece [9/12 clarification carried by Reuters] titled "Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts:" … The Baton Rouge-based Shaw Group, CNN tells us …
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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Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Katrina Darkens the Outlook for Incumbents — Public Dismay Could Shape 2006 Elections — Hurricane Katrina has the potential to foment change in Washington like the terrorist strikes did four years ago, altering the government's priorities for the foreseeable future and darkening the mood …
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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.
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Jacob Silberberg / Associated Press:Battle Eases in Sweep for Iraq Insurgents
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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.
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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 …
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Dusting Off The Manual — Kevin reports that Time magazine says the Republicans have a three point plan for a comeback after Katrina: … There's one other little way to gin up base conservative voters that we can already see developing on the shout fest and gasbags shows.
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japantimes.co.jp:
Koizumi's LDP wins big — Party on track for 300 seats; DPJ gets drubbing — Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party cruised to victory Sunday, handily winning a majority in the 480-seat House of Representatives and giving him a mandate to push ahead with postal privatization.
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mailonsunday.co.uk:
We had to kill our patients — Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. — With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city …
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 …
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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grandforks.com:
Poll shows Hoeven would be tough challenger for Conrad — FARGO, N.D. - A new poll shows that a race pitting Gov. John Hoeven as the challenger for Sen. Kent Conrad's seat would be a close battle. — Conrad's office called the poll "flawed," while Hoeven declined comment. The matchup is hypothetical.
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