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Donna Brazile / Washington Post:
I Will Rebuild With You, Mr. President — New Orleans is my hometown. It is the place where I grew up, where my family still lives. For me, it is a place of comfort and memories. It is home. — Now my home needs your help, and the help of every American. Much of my city is still underwater.
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Blogs for Bush, PunditGuy, RedState.org, Mark in Mexico, dartblog.com, Don Surber and A Chequer-Board of Nights …
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Massimo Calabresi / Time:
Looking for a Corpse to Make a Case — Senators look for a wealthy casualty of Katrina as evidence against the estate tax — Federal troops aren't the only ones looking for bodies on the Gulf Coast. On Sept. 9, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions called his old law professor Harold Apolinsky …
Greg Palast / gregpalast.com:
GALLOWAY: DEADLY ANTI-ABORTION THREATS FROM REPUBLICAN'S FAVORITE "LEFTIST" — Note: Palast and Cindy Sheehan will be speaking at the Operation Ceasefire concert sponsored by DC Anti-War Network and United for Peace and Justice — all day and night at the Washington Monument.
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The Corner on National …
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Los Angeles Times:
Louisiana Officials Indicted Before Katrina Hit — Federal audits found dubious expenditures by the state's emergency preparedness agency, which will administer FEMA hurricane aid. — WASHINGTON — Senior officials in Louisiana's emergency planning agency already were awaiting trial …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Thanks to Top Dog and his comment to this post, we learn two things in this Fox News story. The first is the Pentagon is trying to close the hearings - which would be a big PR mistake. … We need to know what happened. If they need a closed session to go into technical details which are classifed- fine.
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Captain's Quarters
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Andrew / www.AndrewSullivan.com:
HUGH AND SID: — My analogy seems to have hit a nerve. Powerline provides ten reasons Hewitt isn't as slavishly pro-Bush as Blumenthal was slavishly pro-Clinton. One is that Sid was on the Clinton pay-roll. But Hewitt doesn't need to be on the Bush pay-roll. He does it for free.
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Deacon / Power Line:
IS IT HUGH OR IS IT SID? — Here are the top ten reasons why, contrary to Andrew Sullivan's nasty aside, Hugh Hewitt is not the Sid Blumenthal of the Bush administration: — 10. Hugh has not been called before a grand jury. — 9. Hugh believes in people; Sid believes in conspiracies.
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush Sees 'Bright Dawn' Emerging in Gulf — Appealing to God for help with "the difficult work that lies ahead," President Bush on Saturday painted a picture of a hopeful and vibrant future for the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast and the people there who lost family, jobs, communities and everything they own in the storm.
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Democracy Now:
The Militarization of New Orleans: Jeremy Scahill Reports from Louisiana — Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript — Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend Purchase Video/CD — We go to Louisiana to speak with Democracy Now! …
Associated Press:
Son of Florida Gov. Bush Arrested — AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was arrested early Friday and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest, law enforcement officials said. — John Ellis Bush, 21, was arrested by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Saudi Women To Vote, Hold Office — The Saudi kingdom has begun to offer elections at the local level in order to move towards moderation and limited democracy for the past several months. However, in a major shift for the highly repressive Wahhabist society, the monarchy …
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Gates of Vienna
Hullabaloo:
Boondoggle Part Deux — Yesterday morning a friend sent me the following article from the Wall Street Journal: … Then last night Bush gave a speech which many liberals are lauding, and conservatives are decrying, as a capitulation to liberal ideals. They seem to be convinced that our man Bush …
GM Roper / GM's Corner:
THE EMPRESS OF FIFTEEN MINUTES — he Deceased Gentleman, whose portrait appears to the left of this paragraph is Napoleon II. He isn't much as historical folk go, he didn't last very long as is noted in this from Wikipedia: … For 16 days, Napoleon II was "Emperor" and the equivalent of todays …
Daily Kos:
Bipartisan Opposition to Roberts — Judge Roberts failed to meet the burden of establishing his worthiness to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. So says a Bush Republican: … And so did a Bush opposing Democrat: … Opposition to Judge Roberts is neither a partisan nor inappropriate position for any politician.
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Decision '08
Jack Army:
Time to restart this festival of fun! If you sent in a post already and it wasn't put up, send me a reminder email and I'll get it up. Mare, I have yours ready to go up on Monday. Sorry, everyone for kinda pooping out for the last few weeks. The hurricane took a lot of the wind out of my sails, as it were.
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