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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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Matt / 1115.org:
A Victory Lap for Broken Promises … One year ago as Katrina menaced the Gulf Coast, I'm ashamed to admit that selfish thoughts ruled my mind. As I kept up with the news and weather reports, I wondered if I would ever again be able to visit the scene of so many semi-collegiate drunken nights …
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Kristin Roberts / Reuters:
Rumsfeld: U.S. able to take new fight despite Iraq — NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON, Nevada (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned potential adversaries on Monday that the United States remained capable of responding to military threats at home and abroad, despite its troop commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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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?
New York Times:
Details Emerge in British Terror Case — On Aug. 9, in a small second-floor apartment in East London, two young Muslim men recorded a video justifying what the police say was their suicide plot to blow up trans-Atlantic planes: revenge against the United States and its "accomplices," Britain and the Jews.
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 …
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Volcanic Ash — A totally independent, slightly irreverent and hopelessly idealistic view of people and events in Hawai'i and beyond. David Shapiro has covered Hawai'i and national news for 38 years as a reporter, editor and columnist. — Reach David at volcanicash@gmail.com.
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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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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.
Jack Kelly / Real Clear Politics:
Plame and the 'Bush Lied' Meme — A new book by Michael Isikoff, an investigative reporter for Newsweek, and David Corn, who writes for the far left wing magazine The Nation, casts many powerful people in Washington in an unflattering light — but not the people who Mr. Isikoff and Mr. Corn wish to besmirch.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Slowly Sidling To Iraq's Exit — Many GOP Candidates Part Company With Bush — By Election Day, how many Republican candidates will have come out against the Iraq war or distanced themselves from the administration's policies? — August 2006 will be remembered as a watershed in the politics of Iraq.
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CNN:
Iran's leader calls for TV debate with Bush — Adjust font size: — TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on U.S. President George W. Bush to participate in a "direct television debate with us," so Iran can voice its point of view on how to end world predicaments.
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Rumsfeld: Terrorists manipulating media — FALLON NAVAL AIR STATION, Nev. - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday he is deeply troubled by the success of terrorist groups in "manipulating the media" to influence Westerners. — "That's the thing that keeps me up at night," …
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Greg Giroux / CQPolitics.com:
Democrats Now Favored to Take Over DeLay's Old Seat — The Texas Republican Party establishment has rallied around a single candidate, Houston City Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, in their unusual write-in campaign to salvage the 22nd Congressional District seat vacated in June by Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader.
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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