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DeLay declares 'victory' in war on budget fat — House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an "ongoing victory," and said there is simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget. — Mr. DeLay was defending …
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David Kravets / Associated Press:
Judge: School Pledge Is Unconstitutional — SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional Wednesday in a case brought by the same atheist whose previous battle against the words "under God" was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court on procedural grounds.
Knight Ridder:
Chertoff delayed federal response, memo shows — WASHINGTON - The federal official with the power to mobilize a massive federal response to Hurricane Katrina was Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, not the former FEMA chief who was relieved of his duties and resigned earlier this week …
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Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:The Smoking Gun: Memo Shows Chertoff Didn't Act For 36 Hours Even With Authority To Go Around State Officials
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:Last night we noted the new Knight-Ridder article which shows …
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Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com:
Monumental surrender — I am not an architect, but here is my 9/11 architectural philosophy: War memorials should memorialize war. If you want peace and understanding and healing and good will toward all, go build Kabbalah centers. — Please, for the sake of those who have sacrificed …
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
F.A.A. Alerted on Qaeda in '98, 9/11 Panel Said — WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 - American aviation officials were warned as early as 1998 that Al Qaeda could "seek to hijack a commercial jet and slam it into a U.S. landmark," according to previously secret portions of a report prepared last year by the Sept. 11 commission.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Before getting to the meat of this post, let me stipulate that there are some cases where restoring critical infrastructure after a natural disaster is more important than restoring power to civilian neighborhoods, hospitals or even possibly saving lives. — That said, this seems awfully odd.
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Melanie / Melanie Phillips's Diary:
Britain's descent into madness (1) — In the September 11 post below, I wondered how the media would respond to the revelations in Sunday's newspapers of extreme anti-Jewish bigotry and Holocaust denial among Muslim advisers to the government on combating Islamist extremism.
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Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
The Roberts Hearings, Day Three — 3:23 - Roberts became aware of the recusal issue when he saw an article. (Yesterday, he refused to answer this question.) — 3:20 - Feingold comes back to Hamdan. He rehearses the time-table of the interviews and the decisional process.
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Boston Globe:
Time to talk to Al Qaeda? — AS THE WAR between the United States and Al Qaeda enters its fifth year, the nature of the armed, transnational Islamist group's campaign remains misunderstood. With the conflict viewed largely as an open-and-shut matter of good versus evil …
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Slobodan Lekic / Associated Press:
Explosions in Iraq Kill 160, Injure 570 — BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than a dozen explosions ripped through the Iraqi capital in rapid succession Wednesday, killing at least 160 people and wounding 570 in a series of attacks that began with a suicide car bombing that targeted laborers assembled to find work for the day.
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Jay DeFoore / Editor and Publisher:
NYTimes.com To Launch Premium Service Next Monday: Will Fans Pay for Famed Columnists? — NEW YORK Come Monday, Sept. 19, fans of New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, and David Brooks will have to break out their credit cards. Sept. 19 is the launch date of TimesSelect …
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ny1.com:
Weiner To Concede — To Ferrer — VIEW COMPLETE ELECTION RETURNS — Just hours after the polls closed with uncertainty about whether there would be a Democratic primary runoff in the race for mayor, NY1 has learned that second place finisher Anthony Weiner will concede to Fernando Ferrer.
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Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:
Canal May Have Worsened City's Flooding — Disputed Project Was a 'Funnel' for Surge, Some Say — On May 19, Hassan Mashriqui addressed a roomful of emergency planners and warned of a "critical and fundamental flaw" in the coastal defenses for New Orleans.
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John McQuaid / New Orleans Times-Picayune:Mystery surrounds floodwall breaches
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Rex / MNspeak.com:
Trial Of The Century: Keillor V. MNspeak.com — A couple weeks ago, this website received, via the appropriately old-fashioned U.S. Postal Service, a cease and desist letter from Garrison Keillor's attorney. Click inside to read the letter and the unfinished saga of the humorless crank.
USA Today:
Governors handle crisis in own ways — In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco has prayed for the dead, comforted the living and defended her leadership after an abrupt emergence onto the national stage. — How does she cope?
Bigwig / Silflay Hraka:
The Carnival Of The Vanities Turns Three — taThe 156th edition of the Carnival of the Vanities is hosted by...us. Three years ago today, give or take a week or so, the CoTV—and the idea of blog carnivals itself, was born. As with so many blog inventions, its genesis is owed …
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Whose Victory, Exactly? — Last week my son's elementary school raised several thousand dollars for hurricane victims by washing cars. My other son's preschool announced without fuss that a boy from New Orleans would be joining the class. My employer is organizing help …
Washington Post:
Taxes and Transportation Top Va. Debate — Gubernatorial Forums Spark Name-Calling, Accusations — Virginia's candidates for governor engaged in an afternoon of face-to-face recriminations on tax and transportation issues yesterday, clashing during two debates in Fairfax County …
David Burge / iowahawk:
EVERY LITTLE BIT HURTS — Iowahawk Special Guest Commentary — by Joshua Markos Mikos Atrios — For the Angels of Indignation — Two weeks ago, millions of Americans watched in horror as the city of New Orleans was savaged by the relentless, pollution-fueled fury of Hurricane Katrina.