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Gateway Pundit:
Bomb Blast at University of Oklahoma! — BOMB BLAST OUTSIDE OF SOONER FOOTBALL GAME — VIDEO HERE — One person said he felt his house shake a mile from the blast. — Police cordoned off an area around the George Lynn Cross Hall, Botony, Microbiology building on the OU campus. (SI)
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
LIKE PULLING TEETH — The New York Times has long furrowed its collective brow over the constant inaccuracies in op-eds by its "star" liberal columnists, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich. The paper has long resisted, however, the obvious solution: printing corrections.
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Editor and Publisher:
'NY Times' Finally Runs Full Correction on Krugman Column, Announces New Policy — NEW YORK Just days after it ran an editors' note—under pressure from outside and within—that sort of admitted it had erred in a blast at Fox News' Gerald Rivera during the Katrina tragedy …
Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
CIA Leak: 'Awkward' Talk Helps Free Miller From Jail — Oct. 10, 2005 issue - New York Times reporter Judy Miller broke her silence and agreed to testify before a federal grand jury last week. This followed tense, often acrimonious negotiations that began after special Justice Department …
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:Judith Miller and Her Times
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David E's Fablog, The Huffington Post, The Next Hurrah and The Blogging of the President
BBC:
Mandela wins BBC's 'global election' — Former South African President Nelson Mandela has topped a BBC poll to find the person most people would like to lead a fantasy world government. — More than 15,000 people worldwide took part in the interactive Power Play game …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
The Next New Big Development In Plamegate Is....? — Think Progress has a tidbit that, if true, could completely change the dynamics of the last three years of President George Bush's term — and note that we said "if" true: … Of course, as we read this today on Oct. 2 …
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Daily Kos
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal
Steve Soto / The Left Coaster:George Drops a Bombshell On "This Week"
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Time Out Of Mind (WaPo, Too) — Neither the Times nor the WaPo seem able to keep certain details of the Wilson/Plame/"16 Words" saga in proper order. — Let's start with the Saturday Times: … And, perhaps relying on the paper of record, the Sunday WaPo gives us this:
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CBS News:
Ike Was Right About War Machine — (CBS) The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. It was first broadcast Oct. 2, 2005. — I'm not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States — our United States — is spending $5.6 billion …
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Gateway Pundit
Charles Murray / Opinion Journal:
The Hallmark of the Underclass — The poverty Katrina underscored is primarily moral, not material. — Watching the courage of ordinary low-income people as they deal with the aftermath of Katrina and Rita, it is hard to decide which politicians are more contemptible …
Opinions:
Whose Fault Is Pork? — THE HUGE EXPANSION of government overseen by the supposed party of small government has provoked a conservative backlash. The Heritage Foundation, which is usually respectful of Republican Party officeholders, recently noted that the party's ascendancy has coincided …
MSNBC:
Transcript for October 2 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: The war in Iraq; 1,935 Americans dead, 14,755 wounded and injured. What have we achieved? What is our military strategy? With us, the head of the U.S. Central Command, General John Abizaid.
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Jesselee / The Stakeholder:Rahm vs. Reynolds on MTP: Clear Cut Victory
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The Huffington Post
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Bush battling to climb out of popularity slump — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush is battling to climb out of a slump caused by the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and soaring gasoline prices, events that have all combined to damage his credibility and deflate Americans' confidence in him.
Kim Sengupta / Independent:
Iraq war delayed Katrina relief effort, inquiry finds — Relief efforts to combat Hurricane Katrina suffered near catastrophic failures due to endemic corruption, divisions within the military and troop shortages caused by the Iraq war, an official American inquiry into the disaster has revealed.
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
Tom DeLay's House of Shame — Congress has always had its share of extremists. But the DeLay era is the first time the fringe has ever been in charge. — Oct. 10, 2005 issue - A decade ago, I paid a call on Tom DeLay in his ornate office in the Capitol. I had heard a rumor about him that I figured could not possibly be true.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Iron Fist Update — The first day of Operation Iron Fist concludes. Eight terrorists are killed during separate engagements and one is captured - a potential source of intelligence on the enemy's infrastructure and defenses in the town. Multiple car bombs are destroyed.
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Shakespeare's Sister:
Progressive Path — Following on the heels of the various discussions that have been going on around here over the past couple of weeks regarding how the progressive net roots can best assert itself within the current political climate (third party? reform the Democratic Party? progressive coalition? …
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The Green Knight
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Drudge Report:
'COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF' SUTHERLAND: BUSH WILL DESTROY OUR LIVES — Choking back tears, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF star Donald Sutherland warned this week: President Bush "will destroy our lives!" — The star of the new ABC drama, which follows the first woman President of the United States …
Pieter Dorsman / Peaktalk:
WHY BALI? — It may be instructive to pause of a second and realize that Bali is not just targeted because it's an attractive place to hit vacationing westerners and disrupt a steady inflow of tourist dollars. — Remember, this is a religious war and while al-Qaeda and its affiliates …
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Billmon:
What a "Secure" Province Looks Like — A standard riff at the modern version of the 5 o'clock follies — military press briefings in Baghdad or at the Pentagon — is that the insurgency in Iraq is limited to "only" four provinces. I say "only" because one of them (Anbar) is the size of North Carolina …
