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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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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.
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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:
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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Angry Bear, Pandagon, RAGGED THOTS, Rocky Mountain News, Billmon, danieldrezner.com, Crooks and Liars and AMERICAblog
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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.
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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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:
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 …
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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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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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 …
Joseph R. Chenelly / Army Times:
GEDs no longer required — Army recruiters now have a wider pool to find future soldiers in. The Army is reaching out to a slice of America's youth long ineligible to serve: non-high school graduates who don't have a General Equivalency Diploma — Recruiters can now go after that demographic through …
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Enter Operation Sayaid — The Anbar Campaign continues. The Washington Post reports Operation Sayaid is designed to focus on bolstering the U.S. and Iraqi presence in the western Anbar region from Qaim to Haditha. Sayaid will add several U.S. battalions and Iraqi battalions to the region …
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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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theonion.com:
Bush Braces As Cindy Sheehan's Other Son Drowns In New Orleans — Issue 41 •38 — WASHINGTON, DC—According to White House sources, President Bush is bracing for intensified criticism following Monday's report that the body of Tyler Sheehan, son of outspoken anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan …
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
THE SINGULARITY....And now for something completely different. Really, really different. — A couple of weeks ago the nice folks at Kurzweil Technologies sent me a copy of Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near. Kurzweil's thesis is pretty simple: he believes that the only thing standing …
