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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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oudaily.com:
OU releases more information — UPDATE: OU releases information at ou.edu — 6:45 p.m. — OU released information from the FBI and an open letter to OU students on its Web site, ou.edu. — The FBI investigation statement can be viewed here. The letter from OU President David L. Boren can be viewed here.
Curt / Flopping Aces:
Oklahoma Bombing — Now I know why I have so many new visitors, I've been Malkinized. Welcome Michelle Malkin reader. — Just updated the timeline of comments left on Free Republic up to this moment. Obviously many of you know already that the bomber has been identified as Joel Henrichs, a 21 year old engineering student.
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Politechnical
Associated Press:
U. of Oklahoma Blast Is Apparent Suicide — NORMAN, Okla. - One person was killed in an explosion near a packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma on Saturday night in what authorities said appeared to be a suicide. — The blast, in a traffic circle about 100 yards …
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The Politburo Diktat
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 — "Notice how it affects what the New York Times, a great institution, can tell the public, and yet Judy's decision was hers: personal when she made it (her conditions weren't met), personal when she changed it (her conditions were met.) That's what I mean by Miller's Times."
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 …
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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.
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
Judd / Think Progress:
Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal — Near the end of a round table discussion on ABC's This Week, George Stephanopoulos dropped this bomb: … This would explain why Bush spent more than an hour answering questions from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal
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The Washington Monthly
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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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 …
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.
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The Washington Monthly
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 …
Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Finding His Floor — The new NEWSWEEK Poll finds President Bush's support holding steady despite the DeLay indictment. But even the party faithful are starting to question the GOP. — Tough times: House Speaker Dennis Hastert (left) and interim Majority Leader Roy Blunt at a press conference last week after DeLay's indictment
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Adam Entous / Reuters:
Bush 'encouraged' despite report on Iraqi troops — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush sought on Saturday to dispel concerns about the readiness of U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces, declaring himself "encouraged" even though his top generals say the number of battalions that can fight insurgents without help has dropped.
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Seeing the Forest
TigerHawk:
Lt. Gen. David Petraeus speaks at Princeton — The festivities surrounding the 75th anniversary of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School For Public and International Affairs continued yesterday with a speech by Lt. General David Petraeus (M.P.A. '85, Ph.D. '87).
