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Beldar / beldar.blogs.com:
Rita and gridlock — A (slightly edited) email I just sent to NRO's Jonah Goldberg, who's presenting "competing views" about the gridlock and gas shortages as folks have been evacuating from the Houston area as Hurricane Rita approaches: — My preliminary impression, In a nutshell …
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Houston Chronicle:
For motorists, all roads lead to frustration — Thousands of furious evacuees sweltering for hours on traffic-choked freeways Thursday put a stain on what had been a generally successful response by state and local governments faced with back-to-back weather emergencies in Texas.
Fox News:
Rita Turns Right, Away From Galveston — HOUSTON, Texas — Hurricane Rita (search) was veering slightly east Friday and directing her 140-winds about 75 miles east of Houston as cars crammed with evacuees jammed major arteries leading away from the Texas coast.
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Matt Crenson / Associated Press:Rita May Cause Tens of Billions in Damage
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Michelle Malkin, The Moderate Voice, StormTrack, NewsHog, One Hand Clapping, Tim Blair, Donklephant and Balloon Juice
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Tyco Exec: Abramoff Claimed Ties to Administration — Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff bragged two years ago that he was in contact with White House political aide Karl Rove on behalf of a large, Bermuda-based corporation that wanted to avoid incurring some taxes and continue receiving federal contracts …
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Paul Sperry / Front Page Magazine:
David Hossein Safavian: From the White House to the Jail House — Last Monday, David Hossein Safavian, a high-ranking White House official and pal of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist, was arrested in a federal corruption case involving lobbying bad boy Jack Abramoff.
MSNBC:
Bus carrying elderly evacuees burns; 24 dead — Fire engulfs vehicle carrying elderly from Houston area nursing home — An emergency crew confers near the charred skeleton of a bus that caught fire and exploded early Friday on northbound Interstate 45 near Dallas. — VIDEO — • Evacuee tragedy
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David Sirota / Sirotablog:
Protecting tax cuts, GOP proposes cuts to military health care — In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush and Republicans in Congress have refused to consider rolling back the $336 billion in new tax cuts that the richest 1 percent are slated to get over the next five years.
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Obsidian Wings, The Stakeholder, Pacific Views, No More Mister Nice Blog, Charging RINO, corrente and Daily Kos
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Joel Brinkley / New York Times:
Saudi Minister Warns U.S. Iraq May Face Disintegration — WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 - Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, said Thursday that he had been warning the Bush administration in recent days that Iraq was hurtling toward disintegration, a development that he said could drag the region into war.
David Sanderson / Times of London:
Bomber's widow says extremists twisted his mind — THE widow of one of the July 7 suicide bombers told how her "innocent and naive" husband had been poisoned by elements in radical mosques as she cradled their new born baby daughter in her arms. — Samantha Lewthwaite said that she …
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Ben Feller / Associated Press:
House OKs Faith as Head Start Hiring Issue — WASHINGTON - Churches and other religious groups are allowed to receive federal money to provide preschool to poor children. Now, the House says, they should be allowed to hire based on religion. — In a broad update of the Head Start program …
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Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Antiwar Rally Will Be a First for Many — Focused Message Draws Protesters of All Stripes — The seasoned protesters who organized tomorrow's antiwar demonstration are well-versed in many other causes. They have marched and rallied against police brutality, racism …
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Washington Post:
Print Media's Hot New Star: Celebrity Mags — Glossies Like Us Weekly Gaining Circulation — NEW YORK — It was 10 minutes past 5 p.m. on Monday and everyone agreed it had been a slow news day. No nannies or strippers alleging affairs with married movie stars. No sightings of celebrity cat fights.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
At Final Day of Roberts Hearings, Hatch Snaps . . . and Snaps — It started around the time Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) observed that the "hearings were dignified." Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) whipped out his camera phone and snapped a photo of Leahy. — Thus began Orrin's Excellent …
Chicago Tribune:
Offer of buses fell between the cracks — WASHINGTON — Two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, as images of devastation along the Gulf Coast and despair in New Orleans flickered across television screens, the head of one of the nation's largest bus associations repeatedly called federal disaster officials to offer help.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Rewrite of Endangered Species Law Approved — House to Vote Soon; Senate Could in 2006 — Setting the stage for the most sweeping restructuring of endangered species protections in three decades, the House Resources Committee yesterday approved legislation that would strengthen the hand …
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Battle For Mosul III: Prelude — Prelude — Deuce Four soldiers receiving Purple Hearts. — "Deuce Four," is on its way home. — I attended their departure ceremony, presided over by the much respected Brigade Commander, Colonel Robert Brown. Purple Hearts were awarded to soldiers wounded in action.
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SoCalPundit
Associated Press:
Poll: Granholm, Stabenow still lead 2006 GOP opponents — LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Jennifer Granholm's job rating this month dipped below 50 percent for the first time since she took office in January 2003, but she still holds a 20-point lead over Republican challenger Dick DeVos.
Washington Post:
Housing the Displaced Is Rife With Delays — Nearly four weeks after Hurricane Katrina displaced more Americans from their homes than any event in at least 60 years, efforts to find housing for 200,000 families from the devastated Gulf Coast are getting bogged down, according to federal, state and private sector officials.
