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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
SPINNING THE PROTESTS: I recommend that readers google the names of people mentioned in the press accounts of this weekend's antiwar protests. I looked up Brian Becker, who's mentioned in this Washington Post story by Petula Dvorak. To be fair, Dvorak at least mentions the ANSWER connection …
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PostWatch, The Mahablog, Soccer Dad, Media Blog on National …, Kesher Talk, The Daily Brief and Betsy's Page
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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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Silflay Hraka, The Sideshow, The Carpetbagger Report, Outside The Beltway, Don Surber, PostWatch and Chris Christner's Blog
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org:Tired WashPost Publicity Line: "Peace" Rally Draws "Protesters of All Stripes"
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The Corner on National …
Associated Press:
New Orleans Relives Flooding Nightmare — NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans' flooding nightmare.
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John Little / Blogs of War:
Looters Strike in Advance of Rita - Armed Citizens Patrol Midtown — Well I just found out why the media was in my parking garage. Looters struck last night and trashed 12 cars. We usually have very tight security but the gates were left open by management due to fears of power outages.
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khou.com:
Police: Looters arrested in The Heights — HOUSTON — When Houston-area residents heeded warnings to flee Hurricane Rita, they left behind nearly abandoned neighborhoods and stores. — And a potential playground for thieves. — By Friday morning at least three people had been arrested on charges of looting.
Ed Campbell / freenewmexican.com:
Lannan speaker delayed in Canada — U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance …
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Booman Tribune ~ Boo!
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nraila.org:
Major Victory For Firearms Owners And Freedom In Louisiana — (Fairfax, VA) — The United States District Court for the Eastern District in Louisiana today sided with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and issued a restraining order to bar further gun confiscations from peaceable …
Los Angeles Times:
Limiting Government's Role — WASHINGTON — Two days after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced plans to issue emergency vouchers aimed at helping poor storm victims find new housing quickly by covering as much as $10,000 of their rent.
Meghan Clyne / New York Sun:
President Bush Is 'Our Bull Connor,' Harlem's Rep. Charles Rangel Claims — WASHINGTON - Comparing President Bush to the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner whose resistance to the civil rights movement became synonymous with Southern racism, Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday of the president: "George Bush is our Bull Connor."
Kris Alexander / Alexander the Average:
H-12: Friction — We're roughly thirteen hours away from tropical force winds hitting the coast. That's "H" hour at which point evacuations are supposed to be over. I'm not sure if we're going to get there or not. We're being overcome by friction. — Army guys are fond of quoting old dead Germans.
National Review:
Unhappy Warrior — "Cheer up," advised Philander Johnson, "The worst is yet to come." That pretty much sums up my mood of late. — It's not so much that I don't like politics anymore; it's just that it's become such a hard slog. — THIS IS NO FUN — For example, while I'm still hopeful …
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.
Opinion Journal:
Let's Deploy the 'Little Platoons' — A conservative vision of social justice. — For all the differences between the United States and Europe, we share a common challenge: how to improve the social well-being of our citizens without a massive growth in the size and intrusiveness of government.
Kevin Diaz / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Dayton endorses federal peace department … WASHINGTON, D.C. — In what peace activists call a milestone, Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., introduced legislation Thursday supporting a long-shot citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence.
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.
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Eschaton, The Left Coaster, Seeing the Forest, skippy the bush kangaroo, NathanNewman.org and Facing South
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Vote Republican for free lap dancing — Suddenly the party known for fiscal prudence is throwing money about with abandon — MANY PEOPLE think conservatives, especially the American kind, are a mean-spirited, selfish bunch of misanthropists, irredeemably opposed to public spending on anything other than tanks and prisons.
