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Radio Blogger:
Don't get stuck on stupid  —  New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin held a press conference a little bit ago, and started losing control to a media pool assembled that was showing signs of panic, due to the previous incompetence in the region by the local and state government.  Lt. Gen. Russel Honore stepped in and literally took over.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:   STUCK ON STUPID, AND NOT TOO BRITE
Kevin / SoCalPundit:   Let's All Do The "Stuck On Stupid" Dance
Buckley F. Williams / Political Satire Fake News:
Unable To Use "Stupid", Press Conference Breaks Up Early
Discussion: basil's blog
Associated Press:
NY Times Cutting 500 Jobs, 4 Percent Of Work Force  —  NEW YORK — The New York Times Co. said Tuesday it would cut about 500 jobs, or about 4 percent of its work force, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce costs.  The reductions come atop another 200 jobs that were cut earlier this year.
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Editor and Publisher:
'Black Tuesday' Continues: NYT Co. Cutting 500 Jobs  —  NEW YORK The New York Times Co. announced a staggering staff reduction plan Tuesday that will likely mean some 500 job loses at the company's many properties, including an expected 45 newsroom positions at The New York Times newspaper and 35 at The Boston Globe.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
NEWSPAPERS SLASH JOBS AS READERS LEAVE, PROFITS FALL  —  These are dark days in the newspaper industry.  The New York Times Company announced today that it is cutting 500 jobs, on top of 200 cut earlier this year.  Some of the cuts relate to the Times itself, others to the Boston Globe, which is also owned by the Times company.
Washington Post:
Words That Will Haunt  —  IN ANNOUNCING his opposition yesterday to the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to be chief justice of the United States, Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) made a remarkable statement: "The president is not entitled to very much deference in staffing …
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:   Baucus Conspires With The Enemy
Washington Post:   Reid Will Oppose Roberts for Chief Justice
Washington Times:
Probing Able Danger  —  Tomorrow's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Pentagon's top-secret military intelligence unit known as Able Danger should be quite a show.  Rep. Curt Weldon, who deserves most of the credit for bringing the formerly forgotten unit to public attention …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Able Danger: Pentagon Spikes Witnesses While Shaffer Reveals New Source  —  The New York Times reports this evening that the Pentagon has blocked its military witnesses from testifying on Able Danger at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings tomorrow.  Senator Arlen Specter registered …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Able Danger, Pentagon Hides, 09/20/05
Discussion: Daily Pundit
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Confederate Yankee:
Just Like Rosa Parks?
Arianna Huffington / huffingtonpost.com:
Plamegate: The John Bolton Connection  —  I'm now hearing that the investigation may be inching closer to never-confirmed UN Ambassador John Bolton.  —  According to two sources, Bolton's former chief of staff, Fred Fleitz, was at least one of the sources of the classified information …
Discussion: mediabistro and The Political Teen
Washington Post:
Katrina's Cost May Test GOP Harmony  —  Some Want Bush To Give Details on How U.S. Will Pay  —  Congressional Republicans from across the ideological spectrum yesterday rejected the White House's open-wallet approach to rebuilding the Gulf Coast, a sign that the lockstep GOP discipline …
Washington Post:
Experts Say Faulty Levees Caused Much of Flooding  —  NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20 — Louisiana's top hurricane experts have rejected the official explanations for the floodwall collapses that inundated much of New Orleans, concluding that Hurricane Katrina's storm surges were much smaller …
Rod Dreher / The Corner on National Review Online:
RE: THE OSTRICH EFFECT  —  I don't at all get this attitude among many on the right that our sworn duty is to back anything President Bush and the GOP choose to do.  We are conservatives before we are Republicans, are we not?  Facts are better than dreams, and the fact is …
Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
Terrorists personnel problems?  —  Here's an interesting datum about suicide bombings in Iraq: … I noted in November 2004 that, … On the other hand, Saudi expatriate Alhamedi profiled a failed Saudi jihadi named Ahmad who went to Iraq and lived through his self-immolation in Iraq.
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adnki.com:
IRAQ: WE ONLY STRIKE CERTAIN SHIITES, SAYS AL-ZARQAWI GROUP
Discussion: Informed Comment
ArrMatey / Stop the ACLU:
Last push for petition on ACLU fees — let's stop the extortion racket  —  As I write this, the online petition to change federal law (specifically 42 USC section 1988) has 16,243 signatures.  The petition is designed to encourage Congress to put an end to the abused and misused mechanism …

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