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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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TigerHawk, Blogs for Bush, 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??
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Judiciary Committee Votes to Recommend Roberts's Confirmation — John G. Roberts Jr. moved a step closer to becoming chief justice of the United States today as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send his nomination to the full Senate with a recommendation for confirmation.
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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.
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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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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Will / Attytood:
They have learned nothing — MR. McCLELLAN: Sure. A couple of things — one, the President is focused on making sure we have the strongest possible coordination with state and local governments in the path of Hurricane Rita. We hope Rita is not devastating, but we must be prepared for the worst.
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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.
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.
mccannta:
Post-PostModern Moment on Jet Blue #292 — [Video of Landing] Jet Blue flight #292, a transcontinental flight from Burbank Airport to JFK in New York, with a crippled front landing gear, landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport today. Just after take-off from the Southern California …
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Daisy Nguyen / Associated Press:Crippled Jet Lands Safely at L.A. Airport
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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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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 …
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.
Robert Novak / Townhall.com:
Bashing Bush in Aspen — ASPEN, Colo. — For two full days, George W. Bush was bashed. He was taken to task on his handling of stem cell research, population control, the Iraq war and, especially, Hurricane Katrina. The critics were no left-wing bloggers.
Washington Post:
For the Poor, Sudden Celebrity — DALLAS — All of a sudden the poor have emerged from the shadows of invisibility, lifted onto a temporary pedestal by natural disaster. Whether it is because of guilt, pity or the nation's generosity in times of crisis, those who lost everything …
