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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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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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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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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 …
Pam Easton / Associated Press:
Rita, Now Category 4, Heads for Gulf Coast — GALVESTON, Texas — Residents of this island city packed up mementoes and pets and started evacuating Wednesday as Hurricane Rita intensified into a Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds and threatened to devastate the Texas coast or already-battered Louisiana by week's end.
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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 …
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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 …
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mars.jpl.nasa.gov:
Orbiter's Long Life Helps Scientists Track Changes on Mars — New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand dune. — That's just one of the surprising discoveries that have resulted from the extended life of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which this month began its ninth year in orbit around Mars.
Jonathan M. Katz / Associated Press:
Senator Sold Stock Before Price Dropped — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, sold all his stock in his family's hospital corporation about two weeks before it issued a disappointing earnings report and the price fell nearly 15 percent.
Kristen Lombardi / villagevoice.com:
Cindy Sheehan Takes on the Democrats, Hillary Clinton … Cindy Sheehan, the rising star of the anti-war movement, remembers when people used to think of her as one of those crazy activists, speaking out for a cause, inconveniencing all who stumbled onto her path.
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Radio Blogger:
Ted Turner's never met a communist he didn't love. — Sometimes I really feel for Wolf Blitzer. Not only does CNN make him work on camera 60 hours a week, they still only let him have a chair about one segment an hour. Anyway, on The Situation Room today on Wolf-TV, the founder was interviewed.
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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 …
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 …
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John Tierney / Tallahassee Democrat:
Let Wal-Mart take over emergency management — SLIDELL, La. - I don't think Washington needs any more czars. But if President Bush feels compelled to put someone in charge of rebuilding the Gulf Coast, let me suggest a name: Lee Scott. — Scott is the chief executive of Wal-Mart …
Eric / Is That Legal?:
The Next Abu Ghraib? — n a couple of places, the Geneva Conventions forbid the ill-treatment of enemy dead and require respect for their remains. (Specifically, Articles 15 and 17 of the First Geneva Convention and Article 34 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 …
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Ker Than / livescience.com:
Hurricane Center May Run Out of Names — BREAKING NEWS: Hurricane Rita Goes Category 2 — Before the 2005 hurricane season is done, you might read about Hurricane Alpha. — Each year, 21 common names are reserved for Atlantic Basin hurricanes, with the list arranged alphabetically and skipping certain letters.
