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Plane Terror Plot Thwarted — Police say they have disrupted a major plot to blow up planes in mid-flight with explosive devices smuggled aboard as hand luggage. — Sky News has been told the plan was to hit around a dozen planes over UK and US cities. — Police are said to have arrested 20 people …
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BBC:
'Plot to blow up planes' foiled — A terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight from the UK to the US has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. — It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on aircraft in hand luggage. — Police have arrested about 18 people …
CNN:
UK airport delay after plot foiled — LONDON (CNN) — Major delays are expected at all UK airports after the nation's threat level was raised to "critical" when police disrupted a plot to blow up planes in mid-flight. — The British Home Office on Thursday raised the country's alert level to …
Redstate Network / Redstate:
Michael Moore starts a war for peace — The Democrat fringe has its scalp, and now it wants a stack of casualties. This arrived in my Inbox this morning, and it is replicated on the web site of filmmaker/author/philosopher/ political scientist/media mogul/acrobat/beer taster Michael Moore:
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Mike Allen / Time:
Why the Republicans Are Loving the Lieberman Loss — At a time when the GOP should be back on its heels, Connecticut voters' rejection of a centrist Senator gives the party a potentially powerful new weapon to use against the Democrats this fall — From Washington State to Missouri to Pennsylvania …
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Talking Points Memo, Boston Globe, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, AMERICAblog and Daily Pundit
Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
Dead With Ned — WHY LAMONT'S VICTORY SPELLS DEMOCRATIC DISASTER. — Listen to the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up for Slate's free daily podcast on iTunes. — Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Democrats Back Lamont in Race in Show of Unity — Ned Lamont in Hartford on Wednesday, a day after his Senate primary victory. Democrats were quick to line up to support him as the party's nominee. More Photos > — With promises of both money and personal campaign appearances …
Perry Bacon, Jr / Time:
The Unmaking of a Senator: How Bloggers Pulled It Off
The Unmaking of a Senator: How Bloggers Pulled It Off
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TalkLeft, The Huffington Post, Captain's Quarters, The Moderate Voice, Daily Kos and Blue Crab Boulevard
Brendan Bernhard / laweekly.com:
REUTERS' IMAGE PROBLEM — L.A. blog unmasks Hezbollah propaganda — It's been a good week for Los Angeles' most controversial political Web site, Little Green Footballs, widely reviled by some because it takes global Islamist terrorism more seriously than, say, a Dick Cheney hunting accident.
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New Sisyphus - PDX, Blue Crab Boulevard, Cathy's World, Ace of Spades HQ and Tristram Shandy
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James Poniewozik / Time:
Reuters' Altered Photos: Overhyped? Dangerous? Both — Every time a straight-news journalist alters a fact—even something as picayune as the color of a bomb blast—it convinces people that the media must lie about big things as well — When I saw the doctored Reuters photograph …
Associated Press:
Mike Wallace Says Iranian President an 'Impressive Fellow' — NEW YORK — Twenty-seven years after a chilling sit-down with Ayatollah Khomeini that was one of Mike Wallace's most memorable, the CBS newsman snagged an interview this week with current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.
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Bernard Lewis / Opinion Journal:
Does Iran have something in store?
Does Iran have something in store?
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Reuters:
Iranians among Hizbollah combat dead: TV — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard have been found among Hizbollah guerrillas slain by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, Israel's Channel 10 television reported on Wednesday citing diplomatic sources.
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Captain's Quarters, Whiskey Bar, The Asylum, Vital Perspective, A Blog For All, Minstrel Boy, Power Line and USS Neverdock
Little Green Footballs:
Multi-Use Buildings — Unbelievable. — The building that we saw in two different photos on July 24 and August 5 ... was actually photographed first on July 18: … Here's another July 18 photo. (Hat tip: hcq.) — The two later photos with their captions:
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Power Line, Hot Air, Blue Crab Boulevard, Ace of Spades HQ, USS Neverdock and A Blog For All
Michelle Roberts / Associated Press:
Katrina homeless in search of trailers — CHALMETTE, La. - It has been 11 months since Hurricane Katrina hit and Janice Tambrella still does not have a home. She doesn't even have a trailer of her own. — Tambrella is currently jammed in with 10 other relatives in a single trailer delivered to a luckier relative.
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Editor and Publisher, Washington Post, First Draft, Liberty Street, Pam's House Blend and Facing South
Agence France Presse:
September 11 — what year? 30 percent of Americans don't know — WASHINGTON (AFP) - Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
SORRY, WRONG CAPTION — We wrote yesterday about the New York Times' publication of this pieta-like image from Lebanon: — The caption that accompanied the picture was: "The mayor of Tyre said that in the worst hit areas, bodies were still buried under the rubble, and he appealed …
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Between Joe's Webheads, Stories Differ — I've spoken at length with the two men closest to Sen. Joe Lieberman's ((D/I?) -CT) re-election Web site, joe2006.com, to understand at length what happened to the site yesterday morning. Their versions appear to differ, although it's not immediately clear why.
Bruce Kesler / Democracy Project:
Ned Lamont: Pink Diaper Baby With Silver Spoon In Mouth — MSM reporters repeatedly comment about how the anti-war Ned Lamont, now official Democrat Party candidate for U.S. Senator from Connecticut, is paradoxically a wealthy businessman. — If these MSM reporters had any research skills …
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The New Republic, Kesher Talk, Right Wing News, Unqualified Offerings, Inactivist, The News Blog and Middle Earth Journal
Spiegel Online:
From Russia With Love? — Despite claims to the contrary, leaders in Tehran are apparently still pushing forward with research into uranium enrichment with the aid of laser technology. A Russian engineer recently told SPIEGEL that Iran has received help from his countrymen with a program …
John Batchelor / New York Sun:
Prelude to War — Why is America waiting to be attacked by Iran? Why do we sit on the sidelines while Tehran makes war on our ally Israel in order to provoke America to join the fighting, first against Syria and then against Tehran itself? Why do we listen to the European appeasers …