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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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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 …
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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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Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
Katrina a poor model for terrorism response — There has been a lot of discussion about the federal military becoming closer to first responder in domestic disasters. President Bush said last night in his national address that it should be so. … A lot of the criticism the administration …
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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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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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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 …
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 …
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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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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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.
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.
Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:
More Speech Reaction — From the thread below, this is my favorite comment on the speech so far tonight: … UPDATE: I couldn't quite put my finger on the reason one part of the speech sounded weird to me, but Michelle Malkin did: … Other than that, I thought the speech was one of Bush's best.
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Media Matters for America:
Bill O'Reilly's continuing obsession with inter-species marriages — On his September 14 radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly insisted that the secular progressive movement "would like to have marriage abolished ... because it is not diverse enough." He explained, "That's what this gay marriage thing is all about."
Nicholas Riccardi / Los Angeles Times:
After Blocking the Bridge, Gretna Circles the Wagons — Long wary of next-door New Orleans, the town stands by its decision to bar the city's evacuees. — GRETNA, La. — Little over a week after this mostly white suburb became a symbol of callousness for using armed officers to seal …