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Mary Madigan / Exit Zero:
Notes from the Hitchens/Galloway debate — Someone called this a debate between a Trotskyite and a Stalinist. It was a Left vs. Left debate. Neither side was standing up for the Bush administration, although Galloway tried to tar Hitchens with that brush.
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Judith / Kesher Talk:
The rumble in the jungle — I don't have time to post more now, but the NYC Liberal Hawks had a fine time at the Hitchen-Galloway "debate" (one of us said in email today: "Aw, that one's not a debate; it's a dwarf-kicking contest.") and I will post more impressions this evening.
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TigerHawk, Exit Zero, Winds of Change.NET, Abracadabrah, Ace of Spades HQ, Decision '08, Sister Toldjah and dartblog.com
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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Daryl Lang / pdnonline.com:
PDNEWSWIRE — Reuters Explains Photo Of Bush Bathroom Note — Don't blame the photographer. — That's the message from Gary Hershorn, a picture editor for Reuters, about the photo yesterday that shows President George W. Bush writing an all-too-human note during a UN meeting.
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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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The MinuteMan / JustOneMinute:
We Hear From Former FEMA Chief Brown — Brownie, you give a heck of an interview! Former EMA head Michael Brown chats with the NY Times, and blames the debacle in New Orleans on everyone but the weatherman. … Well, fine, the locals were inept. But doesn't that mean that the White House needed to fill the leadership void?
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Robert / Jihad Watch:
Stalinism at CAIR: photo doctored for Islamic correctness — What happens if a woman shows up for a CAIR photo-op without a hijab? No problem! They'll just Photoshop one on! — These photos were kindly sent to me by Jihad Watch reader Ana. Above is a screenshot of CAIR's front page …
Jay / Stop the ACLU:
When The State Becomes God — Just yesterday a lefty judge ruled the pledge of allegiance unconstitutional. It's pretty simple, either we are a nation under God, or a nation without God. I'm not sure the far left know how dangerous it is that they are trying to take God out of our history …
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Ilyka Damen:
I Get Emails — For some time after I wrote this, I got emails. I do not want to quote any of them directly here, as I have not obtained permission from their authors to do so; besides, they could all be fairly paraphrased as below: … No, I would think, it's not just you.
wwltv.com:
A sausage — looted or not — lands elderly church leader in prison — KENNER — Merlene Maten undoubtedly stands out in the prison where she has been held since Hurricane Katrina. The 73-year-old church deaconess, never before in trouble with the law, now sleeps among hardened criminals.
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 …
National Review:
FEMA to the Rescue — [On seeing the suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, a close friend of mine contacted his local FEMA office to offer his services as a volunteer. He was told to report the following morning for an Orientation Class.
Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
Top CIA official to quit sooner over Goss dispute — A senior official in the CIA's espionage branch will leave earlier than announced because of a dispute with CIA Director Porter J. Goss on reforms within the agency's spying branch, Bush administration officials said yesterday.
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 …
THE BRAD BLOG:
EXCLUSIVE! * A DIEBOLD INSIDER SPEAKS! — DIEB-THROAT : 'Diebold System One of Greatest Threats Democracy Has Ever Known' — Identifies U.S. Homeland Security 'Cyber Alert' Prior to '04 Election Warning Votes Can be 'Modified Remotely' via 'Undocumented Backdoor' in Central Tabulator Software!