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Daisy Nguyen / Associated Press:
Crippled Jet Lands Safely at L.A. Airport — LOS ANGELES - The airliner circled Southern California for hours, crippled by a faulty landing gear, while inside its cabin 140 passengers watched their own life-and-death drama unfolding on live television. — While satellite TV sets aboard …
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Los Angeles Times:
Crippled JetBlue Airliner Makes Emergency Landing at LAX — Despite flames while on the runway and faulty landing gear, which was turned at a 90-degree angle, the pilot of Flight 292 safely guided the craft to a successful stop. — A JetBlue flight with 145 passengers and crew …
Associated Press:
JetBlue Flight Lands Safely — LOS ANGELES — A JetBlue (search) airliner with faulty landing gear touched down safely Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport (search) after circling the region for three hours with its front wheels turned sideways, unable to be retracted into the plane.
Discussion:
Scared Monkeys
Reuters:
Rita may be 'national disaster': oil CEO — SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp. (VLO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Chairman and Chief Executive Bill Greehey said Hurricane Rita's impact on U.S. crude oil production and refining could be a "national disaster."
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Roger Runningen / Bloomberg:
Specter Urges Delay in Replacement of O'Connor at Supreme Court — Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he urged President George W. Bush today to delay nominating a replacement for retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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ww2.scripps.com:
OIL FIRMS APPLY FOR FEDERAL PERMITS, LOOK TO SIMPLIFY EXTRACTION — Page: 1B — Memo: chakrabartyg@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-892-2976 — Banner p.1A - OIL SHALE HEATS UP / 23 years after boom went bust, eight companies seek Colorado leases. — SEE END OF TEXT FOR INFOBOX — Edition: Final
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Jonah Goldberg / Townhall.com:
Hurricane coverage veers off course — The press was blindsided again. As Hurricane Rita barreled toward Key West, television news executives were unprepared to deal with the lamentable divide this storm would undoubtedly reveal between gay America and straight America.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Recent Iraq Operations - A Flash Presentation — Created by Steve Schippert, Marvin Hutchens and Bill Roggio — The pace and tempo of operations in western Iraq have been increasing over the past month, indicating the Anbar Campaign is moving forward. The disclosure of Operation Sayaid signals …
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Douglas Berman / Sentencing Law and Policy:
Will the next SCOTUS nominee have any criminal law background? — As evidenced by articles at Slate and from the AP, the beltway buzz over the possible next Supreme Court nominee is starting to grow. And if past is prologue, we should expect a nominee from the White House soon …
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Chris Clarke / Creek Running North:
It's Lurker Day! — I happen to know, from seeing the site statistics for this here blog, that I have a number of regular readers who - to my knowledge, anyhow - have never made comments or otherwise gotten in touch. — And that's fine. Nothing wrong with that.
Reuters:
Indonesia says bird flu outbreak an epidemic — JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia called an outbreak of bird flu in its teeming capital an epidemic on Wednesday as health and agricultural experts from around the world converged on Jakarta to help control the virus.
Associated Press:
Condoms Are Named for Clinton, Lewinsky — BEIJING - A rubber company in China has begun marketing condoms under the brand names Clinton and Lewinsky, apparently seeking to exploit the White House affair that led to the impeachment of America's 42nd president.
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Chris Christner's Blog
interesting-people.org:
Subject: [IP] Cops scheme to frame journalist who criticized photo radar program [priv] — From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> — Begin forwarded message: — From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> — To: politech@politechbot.com — Subject: [Politech] Cops scheme to frame journalist …
Marshall Auerback / prudentbear.com:
Neither compassionate, nor conservative — "Couple a multi-state disaster of Katrina's magnitude, (including some of the poorer and less well-governed states in the union), add on a dysfunctional federal bureaucracy that had deteriorated in recent years, and a chief executive whose motto seemed to be …
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Hullabaloo
Jonathan Allen / The Hill:
Gregg open to Katrina tax increase — The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee refused to rule out increasing taxes yesterday as he and many of his GOP colleagues called for offsets to temper the effect of the next round of federal spending for disaster relief in the Gulf Coast.
Washington Post:
Panel Briefed by Spy Manager Who Quit — Senators in Private Session Hear From Robert Richer, Critic of CIA Chief Goss — Robert Richer, the outgoing No. 2 official in the CIA's clandestine service, made an unusual appearance at a closed session of the Senate Select Committee …
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Brad DeLong's Semi …
Washington Post:
Frist Stock Sale Raises Questions on Timing — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has maintained for years that his stock holdings in the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain posed no conflict of interest for a policymaker deeply involved in health care matters.
