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Patrick Ruffini / Patrick Ruffini '05:
September Straw Poll: Tag the Vote — You knew it was coming. — Last month's GOP primary straw poll got over 17,000 votes (!) and provided reams of state-by-state and blog-by-blog data to chew over. This month's poll has all the features you know and love — the results by blog referrer …
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A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT, IMAO, Vodkapundit, MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Don Singleton, RedState.org and GOP Bloggers
David Ignatius / Opinions:
A Shift on Iraq — DOHA, Qatar — Posted on a bulletin board at Centcom headquarters here is a 1918 admonition from T.E. Lawrence explaining what he learned in training Arab soldiers: "It is better to let them do it themselves imperfectly than to do it yourself perfectly.
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democracyarsenal.org, Donklephant, The Washington Monthly, QandO, Don Surber and War and Piece
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Los Angeles Times:
Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy — Rumors supplanted accurate information and media magnified the problem. Rapes, violence and estimates of the dead were wrong. — BATON ROUGE, La. — Maj. Ed Bush recalled how he stood in the bed of a pickup truck in the days after Hurricane Katrina …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
GOP Leaders Try to Soothe Conservatives — Drive Planned to Defuse Ire Over Spending — Squeezed between a conservative clamor for spending cuts and the rising cost of hurricane relief, Republican congressional leaders will respond this week with a public relations offensive to win …
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TAPPED, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, The Left Coaster, Charging RINO, Balloon Juice, NewDonkey.com and Wonkette
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Daniel Williams / Washington Post:
Purported al Qaeda Newscast Debuts on Internet — Masked Anchorman Lauds Gaza Pullout, Iraq Attacks, Hurricane Katrina — ROME, Sept. 26 — An Internet video newscast called the Voice of the Caliphate was broadcast for the first time on Monday, purporting to be a production of al Qaeda …
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Winds of Change.NET, Power Line, The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, Outside The Beltway and PrairiePundit
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Matthew Sheffield / NewsBusters.org:
Rather: CBS 'Doesn't Want Me to' Pursue Bush Guard Story — In a televised interview with former CBSer Marvin Kalb, retired CBS anchor Dan Rather stated that his network will not allow him to continue to pursue the story of President Bush's Air Guard service.
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Washington Post:
FEMA Plans to Reimburse Faith Groups for Aid — As Civil Libertarians Object, Religious Organizations Weigh Whether to Apply — After weeks of prodding by Republican lawmakers and the American Red Cross, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said yesterday that it will use taxpayer money …
Washington Post:
Picture This: Ben Affleck, Senator From Va. — If you liked him as Bennifer . . . you'll love him as Benator! — That's the hot new idea being tossed around by Virginia Democrats, who are desperately searching for a big name to challenge the reelection bid of rising GOP star Sen. George Allen next year …
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The Moderate Voice, mediabistro, MyDD, PunditGuy, Wonkette, Running Scared and Taegan Goddard's …
Associated Press:
Brown blames state and local officials for Katrina response — Former FEMA director points to Gov. Blanco, Mayor Nagin — WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FEMA director Michael Brown aggressively defended his role in responding to Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday and put much of the blame …
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Opinions:
Louisiana's Looters — THE NATION is at war. It is mired in debt. It has been hit by floods and hurricanes. In the face of this adversity, congressional leaders have rightly dropped proposals for yet more tax cuts, and some have suggested removing the pork from the recently passed transportation bill.
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
New Home Sales Fall Sharply in August — WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes plunged in August by the largest amount in nine months as the nation's housing industry continued to flash mixed signals about whether the boom is starting to fade. — The Commerce Department reported …
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New York Times:
Corrections — An article on Sept. 19 about refugees in a camp in Romania who fled Uzbekistan after it put down an uprising in the city of Andijon misstated a conclusion by Human Rights Watch. Its report quoted a former detainee who said police officials had told him that the government …
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Power Line, Michelle Malkin, Media Blog on National …, mediabistro, TAPPED, www.AndrewSullivan.com and Gawker
Victor Davis Hanson / Opinion Journal:
Ivory Cower — University presidents have lost their dignity. — Whether or not you agreed with them, university presidents used to be dignified figures on the American scene. They often were distinguished scholars, capable of bringing their own brand of independent thinking to bear …
Associated Press:
Two arrested in gangland-style murder of Suncruz founder 'Gus' Boulis — FORT LAUDERDALE — Two men have been arrested and charged with the mafia-style killing of sandwich chain and gambling fleet founder Konstantinos ``Gus'' Boulis four years ago, a state law enforcement official said Tuesday.
Agence France Presse:
Terror suspects eyeing up Paris metro, airport — PARIS, (AFP) - Terror suspects detained in France had been eyeing up the Parisian metro network, an airport and the headquarters of the domestic intelligence service as possible targets, sources close to the investigation said.
