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California Conservative:
"Peace Movement" Is Not So Peaceful: Photos From San Francisco — Bush is the symptom. Capitalism is the disease. — Revolution is the cure. — So read a sign that we saw carried around by one of yesterday's parading moonbats. Actually, to be honest, he was sitting outside of a coffee shop, drinking a tall latte.
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MSNBC:
Your comments obviously... Mr. Broussard: Sir, this... Mr. Russert: Go ahead. — Mr. Broussard: Sir, this gentleman's mother died on that Friday before I came on the show. My own staff came up to me and said what had happened. I had no idea his mother was in the nursing home.
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The National Debate, corrente, Patio Pundit, The Doc Searls Weblog, Mudville Gazette, Althouse and Joho the Blog
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Aaron Broussard responds — Aaron Broussard responds — Tim Russert went on the attack today to please the right wing apologists who had the nerve to fact check his impassioned outburst on MTP during the nightmare of Katrina. (Update-fact checking is fine, but to me this was callous) …
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PoliBlog
Times of London:
Andrew Sullivan: Is Bush a socialist? He's spending like one — Finally, finally, finally. A few years back, your correspondent noticed something a little odd about George W Bush's conservatism. If you take Margaret Thatcher's dictum that a socialist is someone who is very good at spending …
Juan / Informed Comment:
Why we Have to get the Troops Out of Iraq — The hundreds of thousands of protesters who came out throughout the world on Saturday were demanding a US and British withdrawal from Iraq. — The protesters are right that we have to get US ground troops out of Iraq. — The issue is not the rights and wrongs of the war.
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Meryl Yourish / Yourish.com:
Carnival of the Cats #79 — Hulk not been here since girl start new blog. Girl say to be nice to people who read this. Hulk tell girl what to write, but girl tell Hulk what to say. Hulk's head spinning. Girl say welcome to Carnival of the Cats. Hulk like carnivals.
Observer:
Cruelty spree — We may have a welfare state, but our appetite for watching others humiliate themselves betrays a lack of compassion, says Oliver James — Compassion is putting yourself in the other person's shoes and feeling sympathy. It does not require affection.
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Ed Driscoll.com
Observer:
Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina — It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Chrissy / fistfuloffortnights.net:
A Little Help, Please — My mom and my best friend's (Susan's) mom are in DeRidder, Louisiana, a small town just above Lake Charles. — I have confirmed with the local electric company they will be out of power for two to three weeks. — Cameron and Lake Charles have been laid to waste.
Los Angeles Times:
Where Bush Will Ride Out Storm Is as Uncertain as Rita — The hurricane's shifting path throws a wrench in his plan to observe a rescue team in Texas. — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The White House scrambled Friday to find the right place for President Bush to be as Hurricane Rita headed toward the Texas-Louisiana coastline.
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Shakespeare's Sister
Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Ex-Communists Ousted in Poland Elections — WARSAW, Poland - Exit polls showed Polish voters ousted the nation's scandal-prone government of ex-communists in parliamentary elections Sunday, giving a broad majority to two center-right parties that have promised tax cuts and clean government.
Scott Horton / Balkinization:
Shirking Responsibility — "Command is a sacred trust. The legal and moral responsibilities of commanders exceed those of any other leader of similar position or authority. Nowhere else does a boss have to answer for how subordinates live and what they do after work."
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THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH, Mark A. R. Kleiman, Obsidian Wings, Crooked Timber, King of Zembla and Balloon Juice
David Brown / Washington Post:
Over-Ruled — The people and agencies responding to Hurricane Rita's ominous approach to Texas and Louisiana appear to be fast learners. — Preparations for this latest weather onslaught, while hardly perfect, went better than they did a month ago in New Orleans. People evacuated earlier.
Arthur C. Clarke / Times of London:
1st floor: haberdashery, curtains. 35,780th floor: satellite in space — WHEN NEIL ARMSTRONG stepped out onto the Sea of Tranquillity in that historic summer of 1969, the science fiction writers had already been there for two thousand years. But history is always more imaginative than any prophet …
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The Daily Brief
Robert Collier / San Francisco Chronicle:
FAMILY DEMANDS THE TRUTH — New inquiry may expose events that led to Pat Tillman's death — The battle between a grieving family and the U.S. military justice system is on display in thousands of pages of documents strewn across Mary Tillman's dining room table in suburban San Jose.
