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Burt Herman / Associated Press:
North Korea Pledges to Drop Nuke Programs — BEIJING - North Korea agreed Monday to stop building nuclear weapons and allow international inspections in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation and security assurances, a breakthrough that marked a first step toward disarmament after two years of six-nation talks.
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
U.S. Claims Success in Iraq Despite Onslaught — BAGHDAD — Using enemy body counts as a benchmark, the U.S. military claimed gains against Abu Musab Zarqawi's foreign-led fighters last week even as they mounted their deadliest attacks on Iraq's capital. — But by many standards …
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Toothless Taliban — Afghanistan has successfully conduct its second round of elections since its liberation from the Taliban in 2001. Turnout is estimated at over fifty percent. Despite promises to disrupt the election from al Qaeda and the Taliban, the violence on election day was insignificant.
Geir Moulson / Associated Press:
Germany Weighs Next Move After Election — BERLIN - Conservative leader Angela Merkel and the chairman of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats said Monday they both had initiated contacts with potential coalition partners as they wrestled over what government will emerge from Germany's inconclusive parliamentary election.
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Jesse Taylor / Pandagon:
Stupid S**ts — PowerLine may be the dumbest sacks in the history of dumb sackdom. It's not just that they're dumb sacks, it's that they're dumb sacks the threads of whose existence are drawn from high-dumbass worms found in rare and near-impassable mountains, spun by monks of s**theadery trained …
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Michelle Spitzer / Associated Press:
Hurricane Warnings Posted for Florida Keys — KEY WEST, Fla. - Residents were ordered evacuated from the lower Florida Keys on Monday as strengthening Tropical Storm Rita headed toward the island chain, threatening to grow into a hurricane with a potential 8-foot storm surge.
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Jlgolson / StormTrack:They aren't called the Miami Hurricanes for nothing...
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J.D. / evolution:
rino sightings XI: hornitarian jihad — [Editor's note: This post will remain first for the time being. New posts are below this one.] — Feel the point of the horn, infidel extremists! Your Kool-Aid will stain the carpeted halls and Herman Miller walls of your party headquarters!
MSNBC:
An emotional moment and a misunderstanding — Story of a mother's desperate calls from nursing home skewed — WASHINGTON - The Jefferson Parish president's emotional retelling of a mother's desperate calls from a New Orleans nursing home included details that conflict with the timeline of the tragedy.
The Prowler / American Spectator:
That Sinking Feeling — DEAD AGENDA — Publicly, the White House will tell you that it intends to push ahead with two of its big legislative issues throughout the fall: making permanent the first term tax cuts and Social Security reform. — Even privately, with the political …
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US News:
A Different Path for Hurricane Campbell — It's probably the most important story about the media's coverage of Hurricane Katrina that you didn ' t read: Today, Weekend Edition coanchor Campbell Brown 's gutsy and heartfelt reports cemented her position as NBC's top choice to replace the Today show's Katie Couric.
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The Carpetbagger Report, Eschaton, QandO, Taegan Goddard's …, mediabistro and mediabistro
Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
By Hook or by Crook, Surviving Storm — Miss. Officials Used Ingenuity — and the Occasional Misdeed — to Get Job Done — GULFPORT, Miss. — Hurricane Katrina has transformed Mississippi's mayors into car thieves, and senators into blockade runners. Isolated by the initial hit of the storm …
National Review:
An American Hero — When the White House called Corporal Tibor "Ted" Rubin to tell him he was to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor he thought it was one of his friends playing a joke. President Bush has called the 76-year-old Korean War veteran "one of the greatest Jewish soldiers America has ever known."
Cathy Young / Boston Globe:
Muslims and the Holocaust — RECENTLY IN England, four Muslim-staffed committees appointed to advise Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Cabinet on issues related to Islam have come up with a recommendation: Get rid of an official event viewed as offensive to Muslims. What event would that be?
Michelle Caruso / NY Daily News:
'Extreme' tragedy — 'Ugly' mom sues ABC for nixing makeover — LOS ANGELES - The producers of "Extreme Makeover" promised Deleese Williams "a Cinderella-like" fix for a deformed jaw, crooked teeth, droopy eyes and tiny boobs that would "transform her life and destiny."
Jacob Gershman / New York Sun:
Protester Sheehan Presses Clinton To Withdraw Support for War — War protester Cindy Sheehan came to New York last night with a blunt warning for Senator Clinton: End your support for the war in Iraq or else. — Visiting New York City for the first time since leaving her campsite outside …
ABCNEWS:
Clinton Rips Bush Fiscal, Tax Policies — Interviewed on ABC News' 'This Week,' Former President Calls Tax Cuts Combined with Deficit Spending 'Wrong' — Sept. 18, 2005 — Former President Bill Clinton slammed President Bush's fiscal and tax policies in an interview broadcast today on ABC News' "This Week."
