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Friday morning (power) line — I am duty-bound to report the talk of the New Orleans warehouse district last night: there was rejoicing (well, there would have been without the curfew, but the few people I saw on the streets were excited) when the power came back on for blocks on end.
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Jerry Mitchell / Clarion-Ledger:
E-mail suggests government seeking to blame groups — Federal officials appear to be seeking proof to blame the flood of New Orleans on environmental groups, documents show. — The Clarion-Ledger has obtained a copy of an internal e-mail the U.S. Department of Justice sent out this week …
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Report: Feds documenting environmentalist opposition on levees — JACKSON, Miss. - The federal government is trying to find evidence of any past efforts by environmental groups to block work on New Orleans' levees, according to a published report. — The Clarion-Ledger said Friday it obtained …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Let's see. What was the problem with Michael Brown exactly? Let's see. No expertise or experience for the job. Got the gig because he was pals with Bush's political fixer. Also a political loyalist. — So to learn the lesson and get back on track, to run the recovery, President Bush picks Karl Rove.
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La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Bush the Sugar Daddy — I didn't listen to George Bush's speech last night, but I'm told he plans to do what he does best: spend, spend, spend other people's money. True? — And he didn't sufficiently address the rampant Hurricane Katrina race-baiting. If he didn't, that's his fault.
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Brent Baker / NewsBusters.org:To ABC's Surprise, Katrina Victims Praise Bush and Blame Nagin
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Vaughn Ververs / CBS News:
Outside Voices: Jay Rosen's Open Letter To CBS — Each week we'll invite someone from the outside to weigh in with their thoughts about CBS News and the media at large. We asked Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New York University and author of the widely-read blog Pressthink, to get things started.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A Bid to Repair a Presidency — The main text of President Bush's nationally televised address last night was the rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, but the clear subtext was the rebuilding of a presidency that is now at its lowest point ever, confronted by huge and simultaneous challenges …
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Deborah Mathews / 198.65.14.85:
Camp Casey Memorial Stolen — Casey Sheehan's Boots Are Gone — CRAWFORD — The Camp Casey Memorial on Prairie Chapel Road was removed by thieves earlier today. Not a single item is left at the memorial site. — Crew members working for McLennan County said they witnessed items …
David Usborne / Independent:
Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate — Christopher Hitchens, vocal supporter of the Iraq war, against George Galloway, indefatigable enemy of the war — The George Galloway Tour had arrived in town and things were running a little late. The queue to get into the 1,000-seat auditorium …
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Mary Ann Glendon / Opinion Journal:
Judicial Tourism — What's wrong with the U.S. Supreme Court citing foreign law. — References to foreign law in Supreme Court opinions have become controversial. Nevertheless, it was startling when Sen. Tom Coburn suggested in the Roberts confirmation hearings that justices who cite foreign authority might deserve impeachment.
Lou Dolinar / realclearpolitics.com:
Katrina, What Went Right — With body recovery teams in New Orleans finding far fewer than the expected 10,000 to 25,000 dead, despite the flooding of 80 percent of the city, it is time to ask: What went right? — Largely invisible to the media's radar, a broad-based rescue effort by federal …
Jillian Bandes / dailytarheel.com:
DTH not transparent about controversial termination — TO THE EDITOR: — I was fired because my editors said that I implied that the three sources I quoted had agreed to be characterized as agreeing with the statement, "Yes, we want to be stripped naked and sexed up in an airport."
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James Pinkerton / Tech Central Station:
Tony Blair Pulls the Plug on Kyoto at Clinton Summit — NEW YORK - Kyoto Treaty RIP. That's not the headline in any newspaper this morning emerging from the first day of the Clinton Global Initiative, but it could have been — and should have been. — Onstage with former president Bill Clinton …
Jeff / Trub. The sediment of life.:
The 57th Carnival of Recipes. — I've been racking my mind all week in an attempt to come up with some clever theme that would befit the previous works. Well since this started out as a beer blog before it became a food blog I figured I'd organize the recipes in relation to the stages of making beer.
Washington Post:
Some of the Uprooted Won't Go Home Again — HOUSTON, Sept. 15 — Fewer than half of all New Orleans evacuees living in emergency shelters here said they will move back home, while two-thirds of those who want to relocate planned to settle permanently in the Houston area …
Lester Haines / The Register:
NZ finds Black Cocks hard to swallow — It was a bloody silly idea in the first place, but New Zealand's badminton world may finally have to concede that calling the national team the "Black Cocks" really is a bit too strong, the New Zealand Herald reports.
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