Top Items:
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.
RELATED ITEMS:
CNN:
Bush: NK nuke deal positive step — Pyongyang agrees to drop nuclear program, including weapons — (CNN) — U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday called North Korea's decision to abandon its nuclear program a positive step, but he questioned whether all parties would "adhere to the agreement."
Steve Clemons:
North Korea Breakthrough? — At 2:00 p.m. today, I will be discussing the potential major breakthrough in the Six Party Talks with North Korea on the Al Franken Show with hosts Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher. — Here are some points that need to be kept in mind.
Discussion:
democracyarsenal.org
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 …
RELATED ITEMS:
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.
RELATED ITEMS:
John Fund / Opinion Journal:Der Stillstand — German voters get a chance for reform but choose gridlock instead.
Bertrand Benoit / Financial Times:Germany slides into political chaos after election
Discussion:
Captain's Quarters, PoliBlog, GOP Bloggers, Clayton Cramer's BLOG, Six Meat Buffet and Ex-Donkey Blog
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 …
RELATED ITEMS:
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!
Juan / Informed Comment:
One to Two Billion Dollars Missing at Ministry of Defense — Hannah Allam of Knight Ridder broke the story this past summer that a billion dollars was missing at the ministry of defense, according to a government audit. — Patrick Cockburn of the Independent now confirms that report based …
Discussion:
Daimnation!
RELATED ITEM:
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.
Discussion:
The Carpetbagger Report, QandO, Taegan Goddard's …, Eschaton, mediabistro and mediabistro
Stephen Moore / Opinion Journal:
The GOP's New New Deal — The bill for Katrina may fall due next November. — There's an old adage that no one in Washington can tell the difference between $1 million and $1 billion. Seldom has that Beltway learning disability been more vividly demonstrated than in the weeks since Katrina.
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."
Robert A. George / RAGGED THOTS:
Why Am I (Still) A Republican? — That's a good question. — The president finally spoke to the country Thursday to outline his plans for rebuilding the Gulf region — at a cost of well over $200 billion: "As emergency expenditures soar — with new commitments as high as $2 billion a day …
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
'Whatever It Costs' — It's hard to say what's worse: The incompetence of the administration's initial hurricane response or the cowardice of its follow-up. Faced with a small hit to his ratings, the president who once boasted of ignoring polls is rushing to spend billions of other people's dollars on saving his political skin.
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."
Discussion:
BLACKFIVE
