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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.
Jalal Talabani / Opinion Journal:We Need American Troops
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Blogs for Bush, TigerHawk, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, Cox & Forkum Editorial … and A Large Regular
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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Tom Finnigan / cagw.org:CAGW Names Reps. Tom DeLay and Don Young Co-Porkers of the Month
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WTF Is It Now??
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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Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:
Abramoff Probe May Threaten Leading Republicans as It Expands — Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) — The widening investigation of lobbyist Jack Abramoff is moving beyond the confines of tawdry influence-peddling to threaten leading figures in the Republican hierarchy that dominates Washington.
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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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The Corner on National …
Washington Post:
Next Nominee to Court Could Face More Heat — Republicans and Democrats warned President Bush yesterday that his next pick for the Supreme Court will face much tougher scrutiny in the Senate, as Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter lobbied the White House to delay the nomination until next year to defuse tension.
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White House:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan — MR. McCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everyone. The President continues to work closely with Congress to accelerate response and recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Yesterday, the President signed two bills, and this morning he signed three more.
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:Undoing the Gulf Coast Wage Cut — now, with momentum
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Talking Points Memo
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.
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.
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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PoliBlog, California Conservative, AMERICAblog, Los Angeles Times, Outside The Beltway, Balloon Juice and Michelle Malkin
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
'Whatever It Takes' — Is Bush's big spending a bridge to nowhere? — George W. Bush, after five years in the presidency, does not intend to get sucker-punched by the Democrats over race and poverty. That was the driving force behind his Katrina speech last week.
John J. Miller / The Corner on National Review Online:
MCCAIN ABLE — I probably share every criticism NR has ever made of John McCain. Heck, I criticized him on NRO just a few days ago. Having said that, three quick thoughts on his dinner presentation last night: — 1. If wasteful spending continues to grow as a major internecine issue among Republicans …
White House:
President's Remarks at Republican Jewish Coalition 20th Anniversary — Washington, D.C. — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. (Applause.) Thanks for the warm welcome. Thank you. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm honored to join you in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Tina Brown / Washington Post:
Bill Clinton, Beyond the White House — The big surprise of Bill Clinton's Global Initiative conference at the Sheraton Hotel in New York last week was how strangely calming it was. You would expect to emerge begging for mercy from a three-day talkathon on the world's most intractable problems emceed …
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Prairie Weather
Official Google Blog:
Putting crowd wisdom to work — At Google, we're constantly trying to find new ways to organize the world's information, including information relevant to our business. Building on the ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Iowa Electronic Markets, a few Googlers (Doug Banks, Patri Friedman …
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Catallarchy
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Phil Donahue vs Bill O'Reilly — Phil Donahue vs Bill O'Reilly — Falafel Bill's head explodes! — Phil goes on the offensive immediately telling Billy that he's leading the pack to marginalize Cindy Sheehan. — Video-WMP Bittorrent-WMP — Video-QT Bittorrent-QT
