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Washington Post:
Bush to Request More Aid Funding — President Bush will call tonight for an unprecedented federal commitment to rebuild New Orleans and other areas obliterated by Hurricane Katrina, putting the United States on pace to spend more in the next year on the storm's aftermath than it has over three years …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
This worries me. Note the added emphasis. The clip comes from a piece in tomorrow's Post about yet another huge funding bill the president will roll out tomorrow for Katrina aid, which the Post says will cost more next year than the entire cost of the Iraq war thus far ... Regain public confidence in who?
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Investor's Business Daily:
It's Better To Give — Spending: Having fallen, the federal deficit recently lost its appeal as a political issue. Now it's back. Disaster relief expenditures have set off the yammering. — The first federal relief package for the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast was $10.5 billion in emergency funds.
New York Times:
Support for Bush Continues to Drop, Poll Shows — WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 - A summer of bad news from Iraq, high gasoline prices, economic unease and now the devastation of Hurricane Katrina has left President Bush with overall approval ratings for his job performance and handling of Iraq …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Flight 93 Memorial Will Be Modified — Our feedback has apparently caused some second thoughts on behalf of the Flight 93 memorial board and its selected designer, Paul Murdoch. Murdoch has agreed to consider modifications to his design that will address the concerns of his critics, probably by renaming the Crescent of Embrace:
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Kimberly Hefling / phillyburbs.com:Architect offers to alter Flight 93 memorial to appease critics
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Patrick / OxBlog:
OH, WHAT THE HECK, I'LL LIVE BLOG IT: 6:57 pm Eastern Time: My enthusiasm about the Hitchens-Galloway grudge match is perhaps best reflected in the fact that it's 1 am where I am, and I'm up blogging. I'm watching this courtesy of the Democracy Now website, which is quite nobly broadcasting the debate online.
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reformtheun.org:
summit draft outcome document approved in the general assembly — New York, 13 September 2005 — After weeks of intense negotiations, mixed sentiments were shared in the GA following the approval this evening of a final draft outcome document that will now be submitted to heads of state …
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John Byrne / rawstory.com:
Like Senate, House Committee rejects independent Katrina commission — Republicans on the House Rules Committee unanimously approved a commission to investigate failures surrounding the Hurricane Katrina disaster, refusing a proposal from Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA) which would have created an outside …
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Washington Post:
Insurgents Kill 160 in Baghdad — Toll From Day-Long Wave of Attacks Is Largest in Iraqi Capital Since Invasion — BAGHDAD, Sept. 14 — Insurgents struck the Iraqi capital Wednesday with at least a dozen attacks that targeted Shiite Muslim civilians, Iraqi security forces and American troops …
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Editor and Publisher:
Reuters Photog Captures Bush at U.N. With 'Bathroom Break' Note — NEW YORK In what seems destined to become one of the most joked about photos of the month, a well-known Reuters photographer on Wednesday captured President George W. Bush scribbling a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a session at the United Nations.
New York Times:
Speech Is Expected to Focus on Vision for Reconstruction — WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 - President Bush is to pledge in an address to the nation from New Orleans on Thursday night that the federal government will provide housing assistance to victims of Hurricane Katrina and also help reimburse …
Washington Post:
Bad Start in Gaza — ONLY DAYS after the final withdrawal of Israeli forces, the Gaza Strip is on the verge of anarchy. Despite promises to impose law and order, the Palestinian Authority has allowed mobs of looters and armed extremists to rampage through former Jewish settlements …
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Michelle Malkin:
INSIDE AIR AMERICA: THE LOAN SCANDAL DEEPENS — Inside Air America: The loan scandal deepens — by Brian Maloney and Michelle Malkin — Part of a continuing investigative blog series — 9/14/05 — If you believe Air America, Al Franken, and their clueless defenders …
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Wiretap mosques, Romney suggests — Pushes gathering of intelligence — WASHINGTON — Governor Mitt Romney raised the prospect of wiretapping mosques and conducting surveillance of foreign students in Massachusetts, as he issued a broad call yesterday for the federal government to devote far …
David Crary / Associated Press:
La. Drawing Up Charges for Flood Deaths — The arrest of two nursing-home owners in the deaths of 34 people marked the beginning of what prosecutors said Wednesday is a large- scale investigation into whether New Orleans-area hospitals and other institutions neglected their patients during Hurricane Katrina's onslaught.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Day 3 of the Roberts hearings. — Let's run through Day 3 of the Roberts hearings. I see we start with the tail end of the first round. Yesterday I thought I'd missed the last two, Sam Brownback and Cryin' Tom Coburn. But here they are, starting us off this morning.
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
A Conservative, Yes, but Not a Scalia — After two days of often intense questioning of John G. Roberts Jr. by the Senate Judiciary Committee, a new image of President Bush's nominee for chief justice of the United States is coming into focus. — Still blurry at the edges …