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1:55 AM ET, August 29, 2006

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CNN:
Attorney: Karr won't be charged with JonBenet's murder  —  Adjust font size:  —  BOULDER, Colorado (CNN) — Schoolteacher John Mark Karr will not be charged with the murder of 6-year-old beauty pageant competitor JonBenet Ramsey, Karr's attorney said Monday.
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Paula Woodward / KUSA-TV:
Sources: Karr's DNA not a match, charges won't be filed  —  KUSA - 9NEWS has confirmed from two sources that the DNA taken from John Mark Karr does not match the DNA samples taken from the crime scene in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case.  —  9NEWS has also confirmed from different sources …
Jon Sarche / Associated Press:
John Mark Karr freed in JonBenet case  —  BOULDER, Colo. - Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case Monday against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the scene despite his repeated insistence he killed the 6-year-old beauty queen.
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web  —  Roll the Tape  —  Go to the link above to see our latest WSJ.com video, in which we discuss that frivolous antiwiretapping decision, the Democrats' war on Wal-Mart, and Hezbollah's counterfeiting.  —  Eternal Plame  —  Or at least it seemed that way.
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Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Voters Find Some Machines Harder to Use  —  With New York State facing a looming deadline to modernize its election technology, a new report offers evidence that one of the two major types of voting machines being considered has a higher rate of unrecorded votes, suggesting that it is too confusing for many people.
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
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Washington Post:
Watch Out For Voting Day Bugs
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
Hotline On Call:
72 Hour Program Activated In RI....  Democrats were right in 2004: the Republicans have adopted a draft.  It only applies, however, to party workers employed by state victory committees in the east of the Mississippi.  For many it will be worse than boot camp.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Credit Where Credit is Due  —  If you'd asked me six months ago …
Discussion: Eschaton
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Blogosphere Unites in Pursuit of Masked Senator  —  Who's trying to stop the government from telling its citizens where their tax dollars are being spent?  Help find out.  —  Just before the August recess, the Senate was set to vote on a bill co-sponsored by Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) …
NY Daily News:
Moneymen missing  —  Dem rips weak $upport  —  Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel, who leads the Democrats' efforts to retake the House and Senate, is criticizing two of his party's leading allies - George Soros and MoveOn.org - for spending too little on the midterm elections.
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Whiner of the Cycle: Rahm Emanuel
Discussion: WILLisms.com
Faiz / Think Progress:
Cheney Chooses Chief Propagator of False Iraq-9/11 Link To Be Official Biographer  —  Vice President Cheney — "the man running the country" — is now working on an official biography.  —  But don't hold out any hope that the biography will offer any revealing insight into "Dick Cheney's dark, secretive mind-set."
Ben Grossman / Broadcasting & Cable:
'Chris Matthews' Turns 5  —  Chris Matthews' syndicated political talk show has its fifth anniversary next month.  His MSNBC program Hardball may get more buzz, but The Chris Matthews Show, from NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution, is a force as well.
Discussion: PoliBlog
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
FauxPhotography: The NYT cheesecake shot isn't photoshopped  —  Four different people have sent me this alleging that the mike cord has been photoshopped out:  —  Yeah, it looks weird, but there's an innocent explanation.  And the site we owe our thanks to for getting to the bottom of it is ... no, I can't say it.
CNN:
Oops: Impostor scams Louisiana officials  —  Adjust font size:  —  KENNER, Louisiana (CNN) — A man who pulled a hoax on Louisiana officials and 1,000 contractors by presenting himself as a federal housing official said Monday he intended to focus attention on a lack of affordable housing.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
The President and His Critics Mark Anniversary Along Coast  —  A year after Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi and Louisiana, President Bush and Democratic leaders are converging on the Gulf Coast this week to commemorate the losses while continuing the political argument over the federal response …
Solomon Moore / Los Angeles Times:
Deaths Drop in Iraqi Capital  —  Even as the nation's toll climbs by at least 80, including 6 U.S. soldiers, officials credit a military sweep for Baghdad's lower tally this month.  —  BAGHDAD — An ambitious military sweep appears to be dramatically reducing Baghdad's homicide rate …
Washington Times:
Israeli general plots war with Iran  —  JERUSALEM — Israel has appointed a top general to oversee a war against Iran, prompting speculation that it is preparing for possible military action against Tehran's nuclear program.  —  Maj. Gen. Elyezer Shkedy, Israel's air force chief …
Geneive Abdo / Washington Post:
America's Muslims Aren't as Assimilated as You Think  —  If only the Muslims in Europe — with their hearts focused on the Islamic world and their carry-on liquids poised for destruction in the West — could behave like the well-educated, secular and Americanizing Muslims in the United States, no one would have to worry.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Pronouncing Blame on the Israel Lobby  —  It was quite a boner.  —  University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer was in town yesterday to elaborate on his view that American Jewish groups are responsible for the war in Iraq, the destruction of Lebanon's infrastructure and many other bad things.
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Democrats See Victory in U.S. House Races, Senate Within Reach  —  Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Chairman Charles Rangel and Chairman — again — John Dingell.  Those titles will soon sound familiar.  —  Barring an unexpected and big event, Democrats will win control …
Discussion: QandO and Clayton Cramer's BLOG
 
 
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Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
A GOP Terror Bump
Discussion: GOP Bloggers
New York Times:
Radical Militia and Iraqi Army in Fierce Battle
Discussion: TBogg and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Pete Du Pont / Opinion Journal:
Trash the 'Compact'  —  An attempt to circumvent the Electoral College …
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Local Republicans May Begin to Back Lieberman
Discussion: LamontBlog
David R. Francis / Christian Science Monitor:
Numbers show a second-rate US
William J. Stuntz / Weekly Standard:
Will We Choose to Win in Iraq?
Jerusalem Post:
Column One: Terrorist theater tricks
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John Hooper / Guardian:
Pope prepares to embrace theory of intelligent design
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Everything is always good for the Republicans
Telegraph:
Sir Alfred Sherman
Robert J. Samuelson / Newsweek:
Wal-Mart's A Diversion  —  On any list of the nations major concerns …
Russell Roberts / Cafe Hayek:
Catering to Ignorance  —  I suppose it's a dog bites man story …
Opinion Journal:
Hostage Crisis  —  What is Kofi Annan doing for the kidnapped Israeli soldiers?
Media Research Center:
Election In The Streets  —  How The Broadcast Networks Promote Illegal Immigration
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Ohio Governor: Strickland Lead Widens to 25 Points
 

 
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