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9:55 AM ET, August 29, 2006

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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
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
The President and His Critics Mark Anniversary Along Coast
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.
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Rumsfeld: Terrorists manipulating media
Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
U.S. Blocks Men's Return to California From Pakistan
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
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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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: GOP Bloggers
Deb Price / Detroit News:
Black representatives aim for House power  —  WASHINGTON — If Democrats retake control of the U.S. House, black lawmakers, including Michigan's John Conyers, will chair three of its most powerful committees, dramatically raising their collective clout and ability to shape the nation's political agenda.
Discussion: The Corner and Sister Toldjah
 
 
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New Orleans District Attorney Bristles at Criticism, Walks Out of Interview
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
What-Ifs of a Media Eclipse
Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Voters Find Some Machines Harder to Use
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
Lee Smith / Weekly Standard:
The Real Losers  —  WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH SAID that the world …
William J. Stuntz / Weekly Standard:
Will We Choose to Win in Iraq?
CTB Special / Counterterrorism Blog:
Hezbollah's propaganda exposed during Annan's visit
Jerusalem Post:
Column One: Terrorist theater tricks
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Everything is always good for the Republicans
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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