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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.
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Washington Times:
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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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:Conservatism, R.I.P. — We've all heard rumors that conservatism …
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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 — You were waiting for the smoking gun that would blow the lid off the right wing lies about Katrina and highlight the Bush Administration's inept and potentially negligent response?
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Swapping Scoops: Every Night the 'NY Times' and 'Wash Post' Exchange Front Pages for the Following Day — NEW YORK When The New York Times on July 16 broke the story of a 2003 State Department memo that had become a key element in the Valerie Plame leak investigation, the paper scored a major exclusive.
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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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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Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
The Roberts Hearings, Day Three — 5:10 - We're back. The break turned into a vote. We just filled basically an hour on NPR. Senator Cornyn is up. — 4:30 - Sorry, I forgot to mention we're on a break. — 4:10 - Schumer has a very good riff on movies.
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Patrick D. Healy / New York Times:
Ferrer Is First in Mayoral Primary; Runoff Is Possible — Fernando Ferrer captured the most votes in the Democratic mayoral primary last night, but a strong possibility emerged that he might have to vie in a runoff for his party's nomination against Representative Anthony D. Weiner.
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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 …
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.
Leonard M. Apcar / New York Times:
Letter From the Editor — On Monday, Sept. 19, NYTimes.com will launch a new subscription service, TimesSelect, an important step in the development of The New York Times. — Subscribers to TimesSelect will have exclusive online access to many of our most influential columnists in Op-Ed, Business, New York/Region and Sports.
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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.
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?
Will / Attytood:
This man almost died because of Bush's FEMA — And he has a name — Edgar Hollingsworth. Remember it. Mr. Hollingsworth is 74 years old, and although he was found by California National Guardsmen at death's door inside his house in the flooded Broadmoor section of New Orleans, the wonderful news is that he is expected to live.
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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 …
John from WuzzaDem / WuzzaDem:
Another Katrina Myth: Aaron Broussard's "Emotional" Appearance on MTP — In yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times, Richard Roeper called Jefferson Parish, LA president Aaron Broussard's tearful outburst, shown September 4th on Meet the Press, "One of the defining media moments of all the hurricane [Katrina] coverage":