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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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Washington Post:
Karr Won't Be Charged In Death of JonBenet — Prosecutor Says DNA Samples Did Not Match — Prosecutors dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the decade-old killing of JonBenet Ramsey on Monday, abruptly ending a 12-day whirlwind that reached halfway around the globe …
New York Times:
Bush Cites Progress in Gulf Coast Visit — On the eve of the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush returned to the devastated Gulf Coast today promising to continue federal assistance, and eagerly pointing out signs of progress. — "It's amazing, isn't?" he told a gathering under a sweltering sun.
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True Blue Liberal
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Michael Chertoff / Washington Post:
A Tool We Need to Stop the Next Airliner Plot — Imagine that our troops in Afghanistan raided an al-Qaeda safe house and captured a computer containing the cellphone numbers of operatives in Europe. Wouldn't it be important to know whether one of those cellphone numbers was used to book a transatlantic flight?
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CTB Special / Counterterrorism Blog:
Hezbollah's propaganda exposed during Annan's visit — Editor's Note: Karim is a special correspondent for the Counterterrorism Blog (he posted on July 24) and is currently in Lebanon. — Hezbollah's staged mini-demonstration in the southern suburb of Beirut has been exposed by unauthorized media footage.
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Paul / Wizbang:
THE KATRINA VIDEO CONGRESS DIDN'T WANT YOU TO SEE — I'm going to warn you now. If you've only heard the news from the mainstream media, everything you think you know about Katrina flooding New Orleans is wrong. If you think you already know everything there is to know about Katrina, then you can safely ignore this post.
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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.
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com:
Is Stabenow the Secret Holder? — Someone's still got a secret hold on the Obama/Coburn legislation, which would create a searchable online database for government spending. — Is it Debbie Stabenow? If so, I'm doubting that will play well in her fight against Bouchard. — Update: Hee.
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David Corn:
Bush-backers, Armitage and HUBRIS — White House defenders are chortling. For some reason, they believe that the news from HUBRIS that Richard Armitage was the original leaker means there was nothing to the CIA leak case. — On the National Review site, Byron York writes
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James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Roll the Tape — Go to the link above …
Best of the Web — Roll the Tape — Go to the link above …
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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 …
Pete Du Pont / Opinion Journal:
Trash the 'Compact' — An attempt to circumvent the Electoral College is really an urban power grab. — For more than 200 years America has chosen its presidents as the Constitution provides: through the Electoral College. Traditionally, each state has cast its electoral votes …
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Celia W. Dugger / New York Times:
Clinton Makes Up for Lost Time in Battling AIDS — Bill Clinton spoke with a girl at a treatment center in Lesotho in July. The Africa trip was his fifth since 2001. More Photos > — RWINKWAVU, Rwanda — Bill Clinton worked the crowd of AIDS survivors, clasping the outstretched hands …
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Iraqi Troops Battle Shiite Militiamen In Southern City — With American combat aircraft providing cover, U.S.-backed Iraqi troops battled radical Shiite militiamen Monday in the southern city of Diwaniyah in one of the first major clashes between the two forces.
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.
New York Times:
Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity — With the economy beginning to slow, the current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period of economic growth since World War II that fails to offer a prolonged increase in real wages for most workers.
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Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
A GOP Terror Bump — There seems to have been a change in the political winds. They've been blowing pretty strongly against George W. Bush and the Republicans this spring and early this summer. Now, their velocity looks to be tapering off or perhaps shifting direction.
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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.
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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.
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