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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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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
CNN:
Katrina's official death toll tops 1,000  —  Louisiana prepares for Rita, but levees still vulnerable  —  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — The number of deaths in Louisiana blamed on Hurricane Katrina has risen to 799, the state's Department of Health and Hospitals said Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll to 1,033.
Discussion: The Bad Hedgehog
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Bryan Woods / StormTrack:
Hurricane Rita reaches Category 5
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Reuters:
Rita may be 'national disaster': oil CEO
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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Wretchard / The Belmont Club:   Presentation at the Fourth Rail
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.
Discussion: Pandagon and World O'Crap
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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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.
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 …
Discussion: Confirm Them and SCOTUSblog
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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.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Sirotablog
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Boing Boing and Daily Pundit
Deacon / Power Line:
AN EVENING TO REMEMBER  —  This evening, I had the privilege, along with about 40 others, of attending a dinner with John McCain.  As I have said before, I agree with Senator McCain little more than half the time these days, but I have tremendous admiration for him, and consider him a great American.
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
Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
RE: ABLE DANGER STONEWALLING  —  John, I watched the hearing this morning, and that is not gonna wash.  —  Both DOD and the 9/11 Commission put out numerous statements casting aspersions on the Able Danger people who came forward on the ground that no documentary information corroborated the claim …

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