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9:10 AM ET, August 26, 2006

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Russell Shaw / The Huffington Post:
I Hope And Pray We Don't Get Hit Again-BUT.....  I hope and pray we don't get hit again, like we did on September 11.  Even one life lost to the violence of terrorism is too much.  —  If I somehow knew an attack was coming, I wouldn't pause for a second to report it in order to prevent it from occuring.
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Jeff / Caerdroia:
SHAW'S "BUT" PROVES HIM AN ASS  —  Russell Shaw, writing at HuffPo has really, really set me off. … So far, so good. … Oh, no!  Here it comes...  So, basically, as I see it, Shaw has attempted to rhetorically inoculate himself from the further comments of any decent person in two ways.
Discussion: Argghhh!
Ctblogger / ConnecticutBLOG:
NEWSFLASH: Lieberman refuses to back Democratic candidates  —  Oh goodie, I get to use the Drudge light!  —  Okay, lets recap.  —  1. We find out that Joe Lieberman hung out with Jodi Rell and Rob Simmons on Thursday.  —  2. He's been endorsed by Nancy Johnson and Chris Shays.
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Melinda Tuhus / New Haven Independent:
"Non-Combatant" Lieberman Won't Back Democratic Candidates  —  Declaring himself a "non-combatant," U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, in remarks at a New Haven press event Friday, raised anew the question of whether his "independent" candidacy will help Republicans hold onto three Congressional seats …
Associated Press:
Clinton, Lamont meet to discuss Connecticut Senate race
Discussion: Daily Kos and Sirotablog
Confederate Yankee:
The More Things Change...  Acting on a tip yesterday from Jon Ham, I wrote this post, ripping into Editor & Publisher editor Greg Mitchell for his guilty history of staging the news.  —  The story was quickly picked up in the blogosphere, including NRO's Media Blog, Instapundit, and Ace of Spades HQ.
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Jim Stratton / Belleville News Democrat:
Katherine Harris says failure to elect Christians will `legislate sin'  —  ORLANDO, Fla. _Rep.  Katherine Harris said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a "nation of secular laws" and that a failure to elect Christians to political office will allow lawmaking bodies to "legislate sin."
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
neo-neocon:
"Unsatisfactory" is diplomatspeak for bad, bad, bad  —  France gives Iran quite the tonguelashing: Foreign Affairs Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy describes Iran's refusal to halt its uranium enrichment program as "unsatisfactory".  —  "Unsatisfactory" is such a tepid way to describe what Iran …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
In Muted Response to Iran, U.S. and Allies Seek Edge
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Israel gives up on disarming Hizbullah  —  Israel has essentially given up hope of Hizbullah being disarmed, and instead is now concentrating on ensuring that an arms embargo called for in UN Security Council resolution 1701 be implemented, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Discussion: Hot Air, Andrew Sullivan and Power Line
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Ynetnews:   Poll: Majority wants Olmert out
BBC:
Global warming boost to glaciers  —  Global warming could be causing some glaciers to grow, a new study claims.  —  Researchers at Newcastle University looked at temperature trends in the western Himalaya over the past century.  —  They found warmer winters and cooler summers …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Issues Await if Democrats Retake House  —  As the start of the fall campaign looms and House Democrats remain within realistic reach of reclaiming the majority, party leaders are beginning to explore the delicate question of what happens if they win.  —  Rusty from being out of power for 12 years …
New York Times:
New York Man Charged With Enabling Hezbollah Television Broadcasts  —  The Staten Island home of Javed Iqbal, a Brooklyn businessman, has eight satellite dishes in the backyard.  He was arraigned Thursday and held in $250,000 bail.  —  For several years, Javed Iqbal has operated a small company …
Associated Press:
Fundamentalists flog Somali woman in public  —  Strict religious punishment raises fears of Taliban-style regime  —  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Islamic leaders in Mogadishu gave a woman 11 lashes for selling cannabis Thursday, the first female to receive such punishment since the fundamentalist rulers took over the capital in June.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and AMERICAblog
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Steyn on multiculturalism (Update: Q&A added)
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Hitchens curses out Bill Maher's audience  —  Christopher Hitchen's was in top form during Real Time's premiere episode His style usually consists of one part nasty-one part mean and he showcased it well Friday night.  During a segment on Bill Maher's show-he flipped the audience off and cursed them out.
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Sheldon Drobny / The Huffington Post:   Air America Complaint Department
WBBM-TV:
Video Discloses Alleged Plot To Target Sears Tower  —  Federal Judge Denies Request To Ban Video  —  (CBS) MIAMI Undercover video acquired by CBS 2's Miami sister station, WFOR-TV CBS 4, reveals an inside look at a suspected terror group leader accused in a plot to target U.S. landmarks, including the Sears Tower.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
So wrong that it re-defines "wrongness"  —  Mark Steyn is a hero to neoconservatives.  They consider him a true foreign policy genius and run around drooling with praise, like John Hinderaker in the presence of George W. Bush, every time he releases a new column about the Epic Global War of Civilizations We Must Wage.
Philip Johnston / Telegraph:
Islam poses a threat to the West, say 53pc in poll  —  The alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners and last year's terrorist attacks on London have made more people fear Islam as a religion, not merely its extremist elements, a poll for The Daily Telegraph has found.
Discussion: USS Neverdock
McQ / QandO:
THE NEW CLAIM: WAL MART MONOPSONY BAD FOR ECONOMY  —  Ezra Klein takes Jonah Goldberg to task over his "sneering, superficial treatment" of the Democrats obsession with Wal Mart in the LA Times today.  —  Admittedly Goldberg is less than impressed with this obsession and says so in good old plain English on the pages of the Times.
Discussion: Daily Pundit
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
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