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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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Suzanne Herel / San Francisco Chronicle:
Judge rules Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional 'Under God' reference not appropriate for public schools, he says — Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional, a federal court judge ruled today, saying that the pledge's reference to "under God" …
California Conservative:Federal Judge Rules Against Pledge Of Allegiance In Schools
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Kimberly Hefling / phillyburbs.com:
Architect offers to alter Flight 93 memorial to appease critics — WASHINGTON - The architect of the memorial to a plane downed in western Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, said Wednesday he would work to satisfy critics who complained that it honors terrorists with its crescent-shaped design.
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Michelle Malkin:
FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL: DESIGN WILL BE ALTERED — Despite reports of National Park Service faxes on the fritz and Interior Department e-mails bouncing, the objections of countless numbers of you to the proposed Flight 93 Memorial have been heard. And here, via AP, are the results to prove it:
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James Lileks / Newhouse News:
The Sorry State of Modern Civic Memorials — How best to memorialize the victims of Katrina? Some would love a statue of President Bush in a dunce cap, strumming a guitar, with a quote on the plinth from Howard Dean: "He doesn't care about people." But an actual statue is out of the question …
Washington Post:
Roberts Frustrates Committee Democrats — Democratic senators angrily accused John G. Roberts Jr. yesterday of hiding his views on end-of-life questions, privacy and other contentious issues, but the nominee to be the nation's 17th chief justice refused to be drawn out …
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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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Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Senate Kills Bid for Katrina Commission — WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Wednesday scuttled an attempt by Sen. Hillary Clinton to establish an independent, bipartisan panel patterned after the 9/11 Commission to investigate what went wrong with federal, state and local governments' response to Hurricane Katrina.
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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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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:Baghdad Battles — After Tal Afar, al Qaeda strikes …
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Bush approval at lowest level of his presidency — NBC/WSJ Poll: Katrina, gas prices and Iraq damage president's support — WASHINGTON — Rocked by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, record-high gas prices, and the continued debate over Iraq, President George W. Bush's public standing …
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 …
Brian M. Riedl / Heritage Foundation:
A "Victory" Over Wasteful Spending? Hardly — House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) today declared "victory" in the battle to eliminate wasteful federal spending. There is simply no fat left to cut from the federal budget, he said. [1] — This comes as quite a surprise to most Americans.
Beldar / beldar.blogs.com:
Shorter, more truthful, Russ Feingold — Beldar's quasi-fictional paraphrase of Sen. Russell Feingold's questioning on Tuesday of Chief Justice nominee John G. Roberts, Jr. and his answers, if Sen. Feingold had been temporarily stricken with the magic that affected Jim Carey's lawyer-character in the 1997 movie Liar Liar:
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.
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