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Nick Schulz / Tech Central Station:
Bill Bennett's Reality-Based Defenders — Former Drug Czar and Secretary of Education Bill Bennett's comments over skin color, crime and abortion have lots of folks howling, from Nancy Pelosi to Howard Dean to the NAACP to Ted Kennedy to the White House (go figure). What prompted this bipartisan outrage?
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Deacon / Power Line:
NO PHILOSOPHICAL DEED GOES UNPUNISHED — While Robert Bennett is drawing insufficient criticism for blaming Scooter Libby for Judith Miller's stay in prison, his brother Bill Bennett is taking unjustified heat for comments he made on the subject of abortion.
Garance Franke-Ruta / TAPPED:
OUTRAGE VERSUS CLEVERNESS. One of the reasons the left has such a difficult time moving public opinion is that, all too often, it reacts with cleverness to situations where outrage would be a more appropriate response. Bill Bennett yesterday offered left bloggers a golden opportunity to make political hay, and what do we have?
CNN:
Bennett under fire for remarks on blacks, crime — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Congressional Democrats blasted former Education Secretary William Bennett on Thursday for saying that aborting "every black baby in this country" would reduce the crime rate, and demanded their Republican counterparts do the same.
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The Heretik, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Ravenwood's Universe, Running Scared, Outside The Beltway and ScrappleFace
Don Surber:
Clooney's Next Movie — I see where George Clooney is doing a movie on Edward R. Murrow vs. Joe McCarthy. Good project. It is about time someone in Hollywood has the guts to stand up to this McCarthy fellow. Good story. Little guy (if one can call the nation's No. 1 newscaster little) …
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Fausta / The Bad Hair Blog:
Condoleezza Rice's Princeton speech, and Associated Press Deficit Disorder — Yesterday I and a few thousand others listened to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's address at the inagural of the 75th anniversary celebration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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Jason / COUNTERCOLUMN:
Intellectual Honesty in Electric Loveladyland — Steve Lovelady, editor of the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review, loves to dish it out. For instance, when Mark Yost, the editorial page director of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press published an article criticizing the performance …
Wahjoe Boediwardhana / Associated Press:
Bali Bombings Leave 8 Dead, 13 Injured — BALI, Indonesia - Bombs exploded almost simultaneously Saturday in two tourist areas of the Indonesian resort island of Bali, killing at least eight people and wounding 13 others, police and hospital officials said. — The victims included foreign tourists.
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David Corn:
A CIA-Did-It Defense for Scooter Libby? /Was Judy Miller a Martyr for a Mistake? — I just posted this in my "Capital Games" column at www.thenation.com. Do visit that site when you can. If you've already this, please peruse other items below. — When you already have a fall guy, use him—especially if he's a dead man.
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Steve / Steve the Pirate:
Carnival of Comedy XXII!! — Disclaimer: It's spacemonkey's fault for the twenty-four hour delay. However, it's better late than never! — So, the Carnival of Comedy turns twenty-two today and I'm still stuck trying to think of an interesting topic to tie it in with. — Pirates, perhaps?
Tunku Varadarajan / Opinion Journal:
Westchester Housewife — Meet Debra Burlingame, who won a battle at Ground Zero. — Rage renders some people incoherent and others blind. It causes some to flare up—fiercely, but briefly—and then to burn out. In others, it does no more than instill sadness, and paralysis.
Associated Press:
Hamas Claims Election Results Distorted — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Hamas militant group accused the Palestinian Election Committee on Saturday of distorting the results of a round of municipal voting to make it appear that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party — which came out ahead — had swept the poll.
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Auditi Guha / Boston Herald:
Tipsy FSU fan loses Senate job — An allegedly foul-mouthed Florida State football fan arrested after the Boston College game has lost her job with a Florida senator. — Amanda Schweitzer, 25, of Winter Park, Fla., resigned from the office of U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Florida), the senator's spokesman announced yesterday.
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Tom Paine / Silent Running:
Podcast flees to Pacific island following Labour win — In this week's edition of Shire Network News, the official podcast of Silent Running, Laurence Simon imagines himself as a latter-day Francis Scott Key, inspired by...well, lets just say it aint a flag and let you find out.
Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
OPPOSITION TO IRAQI CONSTITUTION WANING — While the most over-reported story (and the most debunked) story in the press this past August was the drafting of and the opposition to the Iraqi constitution, the most under-reported story in September is how ongoing negotiations have moderated large portions of the document's opposition.
Barack Obama / dailykos.com:
Tone, Truth, and the Democratic Party — Update [2005-9-30 10:38:41 by Armando]: From the diaries by Armando. … I read with interest your recent discussion regarding my comments on the floor(1, 2, 3) during the debate on John Roberts' nomination. I don't get a chance to follow blog traffic …
Donna Miles / DefenseLINK:
Casey Cites Continued Progress in Iraq Despite Challenges — WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2005 - The enemy is likely to "pull out all the stops" to disrupt the upcoming Iraqi constitutional referendum and election, but won't succeed, the commander of Multinational Force Iraq told Pentagon reporters today.
