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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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grandforks.com:
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 …
MSNBC:
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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michaelmoore.com:
A Bright Spot in Bush World — Amid the Miserable Failures on the Same Planet — It has been one month and one week since I sat in a ditch in Crawford, Tx. I can hardly believe it when I think of it myself. So much has happened in that time, and really, so little.
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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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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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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
The Net Knows More Than You: An Open Letter to the People of CBS News — It's the anniversary of the big collapse at CBS over the National Guard Memos. "People of CBS News, you've had a year to think about it. How, if you are dedicated to truthtelling, could you have permitted …
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The Nation:
MAX BLUMENTHAL — On the first day of hearings on Judge John G. Roberts Jr.'s nomination to Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, before a Russell Senate Office Building Caucus Room overflowing with members of the media and Congressional staffers, with klieg lights shining and flashbulbs popping all around …
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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 …
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush Rules Out Tax Hike to Fund Recovery — President Bush on Friday ruled out raising taxes to pay for Gulf Coast reconstruction, saying other government spending must be cut. "You bet it will cost money, but I'm confident we can handle it," he said. — "It's going to cost whatever it's …
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 …
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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Philip Johnston / Telegraph:
Clarke bungle reveals his doubts over terror law — Sweeping new powers to hold terrorist suspects for three months without charge and crack down on extremist preachers who glorify atrocities were published yesterday. — But the hopes of Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary …
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La Shawn / La Shawn Barber's Corner:
Bush the Sugar Daddy — Update (12:42 p.m.): Someone just e-mailed and said my comments about Bush's speech were on MSNBC just now. Can anyone verify when and where? (Update: Got the info I needed. Thanks.) — I didn't listen to George Bush's speech last night …
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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 …
Scot Lehigh / Boston Globe:
Severin's phony Pulitzer — OCCASIONAL LISTENERS to ''Extreme Games" on WTKK are accustomed to host Jay Severin admiring himself in the mirror of his own imagination, a glass so vast and glittering as to rival the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. — But last Friday, the talkmaster positively outdid himself …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Social Security Legislation Could Be Shelved — National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Thomas M. Reynolds will recommend to the House Republican leadership that the party drop its effort to restructure Social Security, at least for this year, House Republican aides confirmed yesterday.