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12:45 AM ET, August 28, 2006

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Jeffrey McMurray / Associated Press:
Comair Plane Took Off From Wrong Runway  —  LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A commuter jet mistakenly trying to take off on a runway that was too short crashed into a field Sunday and burst into flames, killing 49 people and leaving the lone survivor - a co-pilot - in critical condition, federal investigators said.
Discussion: Althouse
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CBS News:
U.S.: Comair Jet Used Wrong Runway  —  Pilots Made 'Fatal' Error In Crash That Killed 49, CBS News Learns  —  (CBS/AP) Pilots of the Comair commuter jet that crashed with 50 people aboard near Lexington, Ky., used the wrong runway, CBS News has learned.  —  Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard were killed.
IAN / Hot Air:
Video: Emmy Parodies Planecrash Hours After Kentucky Accident  —  This looks like a case of awful timing more than awful taste (and yes, we're aware it's a Lost parody); nevertheless, it's going to be a night to remember for NBC, the Emmys and Conan O'Brien.
CNN:
NTSB: Crashed jet used shorter runway
Discussion: BluegrassReport.org
Jeffrey McMurray / Associated Press:
Ky. plane crash kills 49 of 50 on board
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and NewsHog
Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Hezbollah head didn't foresee such a war  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a TV interview aired Sunday that he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.  —  Hezbollah guerrillas killed three Israeli soldiers …
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BBC:
Nasrallah sorry for scale of war  —  Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has said he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.  —  "Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this …
Jerusalem Post:
Nasrallah: Contacts underway for possible prisoner swap
Discussion: Power Line and Liberty and Justice
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Nasrallah: Oops! Our Bad
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Lieberman's Run Shadows House Campaigns in Connecticut  —  As Senator Joseph I. Lieberman begins to mount a vigorous and well-financed re-election campaign as an independent, many Connecticut Democrats say they are worried that his bid could jeopardize their party's ability to win in three hotly contested House races this fall.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:   Slow and Low
The Raw Story:
Lieberman aide tells NY Times Senator endorsed all Connecticut …
Discussion: LamontBlog and ConnecticutBLOG
Tim McGirk / Time:
The High Price of the Fox Kidnapping Release  —  The Hamas-led government won the freedom of the two journalists, but the deal may make it harder to gain the release of a captured Israeli soldier  —  Two Fox News journalists were freed on Sunday in Gaza after a complex deal was hammered …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Centanni, Wiig freed (Update: Conversion video added) (Update …
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Kidnapped Fox News Journalists Freed
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The 'Hubris' Of Richard Armitage  —  Newsweek sneak previews an upcoming Isikoff/Corn book confirming the non-news that then-deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was Bob Novak's primary source for the Plame leak.  We certainly believe Armitgae was Novak's primary source for the Plame leak …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Just A Plame Waste Of Time  —  Michael Isikoff and David Corn …
Chuck McCutcheon / Seattle Times:
Experts warn U.S. is coming apart at the seams  —  WASHINGTON — A pipeline shuts down in Alaska.  Equipment failures disrupt air travel in Los Angeles.  Electricity runs short at a spy agency in Maryland.  —  None of these recent events resulted from a natural disaster or terrorist attack …
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RJ Eskow / Crooks and Liars:
The Third-World-ization of the USA
Discussion: Night Bird's Fountain
Nancy Pelosi / Time:
"Anybody knows not to mess with me"  —  Nancy Pelosi leads the Democrats with a fiery style that could make her the first woman Speaker of the House  —  Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House, portrays herself as a polite, grandmotherly lady.
Dan Gordon / The American Thinker:
Contrary to what is now the accepted wisdom in the media, Hezb'allah in its recent offensive against Israel neither "badly bloodied the Israel Defense Force," nor "fought it to a standstill" in Southern Lebanon.  In fact, the opposite is the case.  By any legitimate measure Hezb'allah was handed …
Telegraph:
Compliant and subservient: Jimmy Carter's explosive critique of Tony Blair  —  Tony Blair's lack of leadership and timid subservience to George W Bush lie behind the ongoing crisis in Iraq and the worldwide threat of terrorism, according to the former American president Jimmy Carter.
Patricia Leigh Brown / New York Times:
California Seeks to Clear Hemp of a Bad Name  —  STRATFORD, Calif. — Charles Meyer's politics are as steady and unswerving as the rows of pima cotton on his Central Valley farm.  With his work-shirt blue eyes and flinty Clint Eastwood demeanor, he is staunchly in favor of the war in Iraq …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Truthdig
Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
The Cheney presidency  —  GEORGE W. BUSH has been faulted in some quarters for taking an extended vacation while the Middle East festers.  It doesn't much matter; the man running the country is Vice President Dick Cheney.  —  When historians look back on the multiple assaults …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
REUTERS ALLEGES ISRAELI AIR STRIKE  —  Given Reuters's coverage of the conflict in Lebanon, it would perhaps be understandable if the Israelis started firing on Reuters vehicles.  Which is what Reuters now says they did: … As Israeli missile may well have struck the vehicle, under the circumstances:
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Little Green Footballs:
Reuters Urges Investigation of Airstrike
Discussion: Snapped Shot
David Cracknell / Times of London:
10m want to quit 'over-taxed' UK  —  ONE in five Britons — nearly 10m adults — is considering leaving the country amid growing disillusionment over the failure of political parties to deliver tax cuts, according to a new poll.  —  The extensive survey conducted by ICM, the polling company …
 
 
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