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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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CNN:
Rita grows to Category 4 hurricane
Bryan Woods / StormTrack:
Models shift Hurricane Rita north
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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.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
GLOBAL WARMING ON MARS
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
WHY IS THE PENTAGON BARRING ITS WITNESSES FROM TESTIFYING ABOUT ABLE DANGER?  —  The NYTimes confirms this morning what we noted here late yesterday: the Defense Department is preventing its military officers and intelligence analysts from testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee …
Discussion: Power Line
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Jonathan M. Katz / Associated Press:
Frist Sold Hospital Shares Before Drop  —  WASHINGTON - 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.
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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Jonathan Allen / The Hill:
Gregg open to Katrina tax increase
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Ian / The Political Teen:
General Honore: "You are stuck on stupid" (VIDEO)
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 …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Tech Central Station:
Is This the Right Way to Return to the Moon?  —  President George W. Bush has called for Americans to return to the moon by 2020.  Now NASA has come out with a more detailed presentation, reported in Space.com, of what they have in mind:  —  NASA briefed senior White House officials Wednesday …
Discussion: The Daily Brief
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 …
Jack Shafer / Slate:
Media criticism.  —  Weasel-Words Rip My Flesh!  —  Spotting a bogus trend story on Page One of today's New York Times.  —  How many "many's" are too many for one news story?  —  Like its fellow weasel-words—some, few, often, seems, likely, more—many serves writers who haven't found the data to support their argument.
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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 …
Nico / Think Progress:
The School Safavian and Abramoff Built  —  The FBI complaint filed against David Safavian yesterday accuses him of lying to ethics officers at the General Services Administration, where he served as chief of staff.  Safavian informed the officials that Jack Abramoff, who had invited Safavian …
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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 …
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.
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 …

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