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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.
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Transcript for September 25 — 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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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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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.
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STREISAND DECLARES 'GLOBAL WARMING EMERGENCY' — THE SUPERSTAR SONGSTRESS SERENADED SAWYER WITH STORM SEASON ASSERTIONS. BUT TO SOME SHE'LL SOUND MORE LIKE A WINDSOCK SINGING LIBERALISM'S GOLDEN OLDIES! — NEW YORK — This summer's back to back superstorms are proof positive we have entered …
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 …
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.
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 …
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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.
Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
Visualize Industrial Collapse — This afternoon I made an expedition to the main library, and when I got to Charlottesville I discovered to my chagrin that the downtown area was clogged with traffic. A big banner hanging across Market Street informed me that the Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival …
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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, King of Zembla, Crooked Timber and Balloon Juice
Maria McClintock / winnipegsun.com:
'Bigger fraud than AdScam' — Auditor's next report could be a bombshell — Critics of the gun registry are eagerly awaiting Auditor General Sheila Fraser's "Canadian Firearms Program" audit which is scheduled to be released in February — if we're not in the midst of a federal election campaign.
Franklin Foer / The New Republic:
Swimming with Sharks — Everyone who watched this summer's race for College Republican National Committee (CRNC) chair with any detachment has a favorite moment of chutzpah they admire in spite of themselves. Leading the count are the following: speaking sotto voce of your opponent's …
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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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Reuters:
China sets new rules on Internet news — BEIJING (Reuters) - China set new regulations on Internet news content on Sunday, widening a campaign of controls it has imposed on other Web sites, such as discussion groups. — "The state bans the spreading of any news with content …
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Brian Brady / Scotsman:
Scrap Basra police and start again orders MoD — DEFENCE Secretary John Reid is planning to scrap the 25,000-strong police force in southern Iraq and replace it with a new military-style unit capable of maintaining law and order. — Reid ordered a root-and-branch review of security …
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strategypage.com:
The Natural Order of Things — September 23, 2005: American casualty rates for September are less than what they were the last few months. Attacks on infrastructure (including oil facilities) and civilians are down as well. Combat operations along the Syrian border …
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