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Jonathan Finer / Washington Post:
Iraqi Forces Show Signs Of Progress In Offensive — TALL AFAR, Iraq — The Iraqi soldiers had already searched the house, according to a sticker plastered across its front gate. — But when their commanding general and a U.S. colonel arrived one afternoon last week to praise their performance …
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Chester / The Adventures of Chester:
Reflections on the Flash Presentation on The Anbar Campaign — Bill Roggio, Marvin Hutchens, and Steve Schippert from The Word Unheard (who is revealing his name for the first time) have created a Flash presentation of recent operations in Iraq, specifically in the West, along the Syrian border.
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The Belmont Club
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Air America's Odd Pledge Drive — PANHANDLING NEXT? — AAR Seeking 'Gifts', Limbaugh, O'Reilly Won Election — In what appears just short of outright panhandling, a desperate Air America Radio is now begging listeners for cash donations. — From a mass email pitch sent Wednesday afternoon …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Air America: Blanche DuBois Returns — Brian Maloney extends the excellent blog-coverage that he and Michelle Malkin have provided on the Air America financial scandal. Today he looks at the desperation strategy that Air America has adopted — begging for cash from its listeners:
Michelle Malkin:
AIR AMERICA: GROVELING FOR CASH — Stuff it with cash, please! — Al Franken's liberal radio network, Air America, is now scraping the bottom of the barrel for investors. Having taxed the patience of deep-pocketed liberal sugar daddies, Air America execs have cooked up a new campaign …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Able Danger: Hide In Plain Sight? — The Pentagon has decided to play games with the Able Danger story, virtually confirming the worst suspicions of just about everybody by first acknowledging that five of its team members recall identifying Mohammed Atta as a potential AQ terrorist a year prior …
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The MinuteMan / JustOneMinute:Able Danger - The Senate Non-Hearing
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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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California Conservative, AMERICAblog, Outside The Beltway, Balloon Juice and Michelle Malkin
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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.
Tim Chapman / Townhall.com:
Will the GOP take the bridge to nowhere? — Americans get it. A national crisis like Katrina requires sacrifice. — Since Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast over three weeks ago, Americans have donated over $1 billion in relief funds. At the rate of current giving …
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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.
Bryan Woods / StormTrack:
Hurricane Rita reaches Category 5 — This has been an absolutely incredible hurricane season, and we are still near the peak. Hurricane Rita has continued her explosive growth and has finally reached Category 5. The 4:00pm CDT advisory lists Hurricane Rita at 914 mb with sustained winds of 165 mph!
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Defense Spending Is Overstated, GAO Report Says — The Pentagon has no accurate knowledge of the cost of military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan or the fight against terrorism, limiting Congress's ability to oversee spending, the Government Accountability Office concluded in a report released yesterday.
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.
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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Jalal Talabani / Opinion Journal:
We Need American Troops — Thank you for liberating my country. Please don't leave before the job is done. — BAGHDAD—There is no more important international issue today than the need to defeat the curse of terrorism. And as the first democratically elected president of Iraq …
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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