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Austin Bay Blog:
A big victory in The War On Terror — And an information victory at that. Today Jordan put a captured "would be suicide terrorist" on tv. (Link is to an AP report.) — Why is this a victory? Because the harsh evil of Al Qaeda is front and center in Sunni Arab media.
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Shafika Mattar / Associated Press:
Iraqi Woman Confesses on Jordan TV — AMMAN, Jordan - Strapped with a disabled explosives belt, an Iraqi woman arrested Sunday confessed on television to trying to blow herself up with her husband in one of three suicide attacks earlier this week that killed 57 people.
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Secular Blasphemy, CNN, In the Bullpen, Roger L. Simon, Stop The ACLU, Media Lies and Clarity & Resolve
Robin Toner / New York Times:
An Opening for Democrats, However Slim — ACROSS the political landscape, there are signs the nation may be headed toward a sweeping anti-incumbent election next year. The Republican Congressional majority is staggering from one setback to another, the voters seem uneasy about problems …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Cold Water, But Not Enough — The NY Times tackles the question of whether the Democrats can realistically hope to re-capture the House in 2006. They are not hopeful: … They eventually get to some numbers sure to spread gloom across Team Reality:
Daniel J. Solove / Concurring Opinions:
Does Yale Law School Owe Anything to Alito? — A New York Times article queries whether Yale Law School has been institutionally too harsh to its former professors and alumni who are nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. Robert Bork was a former Yale Law School faculty member and Justice Thomas was a Yale Law School alumni.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
DECLARATION OF WAR....On Friday, George Bush said that, based on the intelligence known at the time, "more than a hundred Democrats in the House and the Senate...voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power." In tomorrow's Washington Post, one of those Democrats, John Edwards, says this:
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NewsHog, Donklephant, Rathergate.com, The Original Blog, Bark Bark Woof Woof and AMERICAN FUTURE
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Drudge Report:
HOWARD THE DUCK: DEAN DODGES NBC APPEARANCE WITH REPUBLICAN — Dem Chair Dean Ducks Last Second Joint MEET THE PRESS Appearance With GOP Chair Mehlman — The DRUDGE REPORT has learned from exclusive sources that Democrat Party Chair Howard Dean turned down Republican Party Chair Ken Mehlman's …
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WorldNetDaily:
Anti-Christian rampage by 2,000 India Muslims — Organized vandals in buses burn churches, convent, schools, homes of pastors, priests — They came in buses to the small village of Sangla Hill in the Nankana district of Punjab in India. — Some 2,000 organized Muslims first vandalized three churches …
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Forbes:
CIA allegedly hid evidence of detainee torture - report — WASHINGTON (AFX) - CIA interrogators apparently tried to cover up the death of an Iraqi 'ghost detainee' who died while being interrogated at Abu Ghraib prison, Time magazine reported today, after obtaining hundreds of pages of documents …
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Donklephant
The Brussels Journal:
All Quiet on the European Front — The state is dead, but we are not allowed to know. Hence the following official statement released this morning by the Belgian Ministry of the Interior: "On Saturday night the Brussels police detained about fifty people. Here and there cars were set alight.
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Samantha Bordes / Associated Press:Rioters Attack Police in Lyon; Paris Calm
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Super Fun Power Hour
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
SO, AT THE GYM they were for some reason running Face the Nation this morning where they usually show CNN or FoxNews. But that means I caught this very interesting statement from John McCain: … I think the "Bush lied us into war" meme is in trouble, and the GOP pushback seems to be a general effort, not a one-off.
Jamal Halaby / Associated Press:
1,100 Lawyers Leave Saddam Defense Team — AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Some 1,100 Iraqi lawyers have withdrawn from Saddam Hussein's defense team, citing insufficient protection following the slayings of two peers representing co-defendants of the ousted Iraqi leader.
Justin Stares / Telegraph:
EC declared us mad so it could sack us, claim staff — The European Commission has been accused of trying to have troublesome staff declared mentally ill in order to provide an excuse for giving them the sack. — Critics claim that the commission has resorted to tactics "worthy of the KGB" …
Nico / Think Progress:
Sen. Roberts Questions Bush Claim That Congress Saw "Same Intelligence" On Iraq — On Friday, President Bush claimed that members of Congress who voted for the 2002 Iraq war resolution "had access to the same intelligence" as his administration. ThinkProgress has published information debunking that claim.
Liza Porteus / Fox News:
Bush Fires Back Against Iraq War Critics — President Bush on Friday shot back at critics claiming his administration misconstrued or lied about pre-war intelligence showing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, saying "it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began."
Eugene Volokh / Opinion Journal:
Free Speech Libertarian — Judge Alito has an expansive view of the First Amendment. — What would Samuel Alito's confirmation mean for First Amendment law? It's impossible to be sure, but his appeals court opinions give us some clues. A Justice Alito would likely take a pretty broad view …
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
More Frivolity: Now With Human Mops! — (Eighth in a series arguing against the Graham Amendment/for the Bingaman Amendment regarding habeas corpus at Guantanamo Bay. If you agree, please call your senators, and ask them to vote for Jeff Bingaman's S. AMDT 2517 to bill S. 1042.
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Discourse.net
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David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Wrestling With History — Sometimes you have to fight the war you have, not the war you wish you had — If only he could show us the memo. — "It's still classified, I suppose?" says Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, looking toward his assistant.
