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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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Washington Post:
Confirm John Roberts — JOHN G. ROBERTS JR. should be confirmed as chief justice of the United States. He is overwhelmingly well-qualified, possesses an unusually keen legal mind and practices a collegiality of the type an effective chief justice must have. He shows every sign of commitment to restraint and impartiality.
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Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
The Prediction Stands: Dems Will Filibuster Bush's Second Nominee — And Will Therefore Vote for Roberts — I have predicted all along that the Democrats would not filibuster President Bush's first Supreme Court nomination, no matter who it was — but would filibuster the second one . . . no matter who it was.
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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 …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Able Danger, The Cole Too, 09/17/05 — Interesting how much of a chess game is being played around this story this weekend in the news media. Weldon must be up against some big guns to be (a) challenged by the 9-11 Commission so brazenly and (b) to keep coming out with ever more stunning claims …
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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.
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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Michelle Malkin:
WHAT HAPPENED ON FLIGHT 17? — A number of us in the blogosphere have been catching wind of rumors that a surface-to-air missile was fired at an America West flight originating out of New York. Here's a post at Little Green Footballs, where many commenters are wisely skeptical but wanting more info.
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 …
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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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! …
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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Laddy / MyDD:
NJ GOP lies, NYTimes Bites — The New Jersey Republican party learned how to use a simple database this last week, and the New York Times decided to let the GOP write the story without an attempt to verify the GOP's press release. The story is ominous enough, thousands of dead voters …
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Gateway Pundit
Mark Nickolas / BluegrassReport.org:
GOP Leaders Ignore Fletcher, Keep Brock As Chairman (AP) — I Believe That The Fletcher-Patton-Pence Administration Is On Life Support And Even Their Own Crew Won't Give Them Any More Oxygen — I'm still amazed by this and admit that it caught me by surprise.
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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A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days:
OF DEVILS AND DETAILS AND JOE BIDEN — Senator Joe Biden recently penned an op-ed discussing what he believes our options should be in Iraq. It is a masterpiece of opaque advocacy: … The commentary is breathtaking. Understand that Senator Biden is upset over the fact that the Sunnis …
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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The Evil Emperor Mindstation / Point Five:Open Trackbacks: John Roberts Hearing Edition
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