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8:15 PM ET, August 30, 2006

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Rebecca Carr / Palm Beach Post:
STEVENS IS SMOKED OUT  —  After much speculation, a staffer to Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, admitted to Cox Newspapers today that the senator is the lawmaker who placed a "secret hold" on legislation that would open up the obscure world of government contracting to public scrutiny.
Discussion: Caerdroia and Redstate
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CNN:
Sen. Stevens is 'the secret senator'  —  From Andrea Koppel, Ted Barrett and Abbi Tatton  —  Adjust font size:  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The identity of the blogosphere's "secret senator" has been revealed.  —  CNN has confirmed that Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Bill's Cost Troubled Me, Pork King Says  —  Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) held up a bill that would create a free, searchable database of government contracts and grants because he was worried about the proposal's price tag, his spokesman told me this afternoon.  Its cost has been estimated at $15 million.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
BILL FRIST FOR PRESIDENT?  —  I spent part of the day today with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.  He is, of course, a very impressive guy: a physician, a heart and lung transplant surgeon, an upstart politician, a hands-on doctor in places like Sudan and New Orleans, and one of the most powerful people in our government.
Discussion: Blogometer, TBogg and Ace of Spades HQ
Associated Press:
CBS magazine slims down Couric in photo  —  NEW YORK - No, Katie Couric didn't suddenly lose 20 pounds.  The incoming "CBS Evening News" anchor appears significantly thinner in a network promotional magazine photo thanks to digital airbrushing.  —  The touched-up photo of Couric dressed …
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Don Kaplan / New York Post:
WEIGHING ANCHOR  —  CBS PHOTO TRICKERY TAKES A LOAD OFF  —  'SLIMMER' COURIC  —  Talk about a miracle diet - Katie Couric has become the Incredible Shrinking Anchorwoman.  —  Thanks to a computer "slight" of hand, the Tiffany network has made the new face of "CBS Evening News" instantly drop about 20 pounds.
Discussion: Gawker, Scared Monkeys and Don Surber
Brian Williams / MSNBC:
President Bush talks to Brian Williams  —  An exclusive conversation on the one-year anniversary of Katrina landfall … BRIAN WILLIAMS: You have apologized for the damage, but what about the damage to your presidency?  And Mr. President, here's what I mean, most call it your low point.
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USA Today:
Gasoline prices could keep falling  —  Gasoline prices are falling fast and could keep dropping for months.  —  "The only place they have to go is down," says Fred Rozell, gasoline analyst at the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS).  "We'll be closer to $2 than $3 come Thanksgiving."
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
NYT suckers KP by carving up Rumsfeld's speech  —  So I was over at Kirsten Powers's blog, pining away, when I stumbled upon this bit of unwarranted snarkiness.  Emphases mine: … Yeah, it's not nice.  It's also not what he said.  Here's the transcript.  Quote:
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Tomlinson Cited For Abuses at Broadcast Board  —  CPB Ex-Chief Put Friend On Payroll, State Dept. Says  —  A year-long State Department investigation has found that the chairman of the agency that oversees Voice of America and other government broadcasting operations improperly used his office …
Confederate Yankee:
Armored Vehicle Experts: Reuters News Vehicle Not Hit By Israeli Missile  —  There has been quite a bit of debate in the blogosphere surrounding this story (note: link has been deactivated) of several days ago: … Despite the Israeli acknowledgement that they did fire on a "suspicious vehicle …
Barney Frank / Boston Globe:
Afghanistan ignored  —  A WAR is missing.  Sadly, it is not missing from the physical location in which it is taking place, and people continue to die as it is waged.  But it has largely disappeared from our national debate, and that debate has been sorely distorted as a consequence.
Washington Post:
D.C. Suburbs Top List Of Richest Counties  —  Nationwide Data on Health Coverage Bleak  —  The three most prosperous large counties in the United States are in the Washington suburbs, according to census figures released yesterday, which show that the region has the second-highest income …
Jason Szep / Reuters:
Americans back anti-terrorism racial profiling: poll  —  BOSTON (Reuters) - Most Americans expect a terrorist attack on the United States in the next few months and support the screening of people who look "Middle Eastern" at airports and train stations, a poll showed on Tuesday.
Bruce Kluger / USA Today:
Lieberman, 'Snakes' and the seductive mythology of the blogosphere  —  If ever America needed a wake-up call about the mythology of blogging, we got it this month.  —  On Aug. 8, Connecticut businessman Ned Lamont defeated U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary …
Mark Steyn / macleans.ca:
Call me crazy.  I blame terrorists.  —  Who is A. K. Dewdney?  He's an adjunct professor of biology at the University of Western Ontario, and he has pieced together the truth about what happened on 9/11.  You may be familiar with the official version: "To account for the events of Sept. 11 …
 
 
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Parsing the Polls: Hurricane Katrina
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Garrison Keillor / Salon:
America eats its young
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Matthew Yglesias / Talking Points Memo:
The Iran debate has really become rather surreal.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
The Right Wing Attacks the Just Released FOX News Journalists
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Iraqi hospitals are war's new 'killing fields'
Discussion: Hullabaloo and NewsHog
Stevenhart / The Opinion Mill:
Cheer up!  It's Bushtemberfest!  August 29th, 2006
Discussion: WTF Is It Now??
Matthew Yglesias:
A New Hope  —  So...as you may have noticed I write a bunch of blogs.
San Francisco Chronicle:
DRIVER'S RAMPAGE THE HUMAN TOLL
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Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lieberman Ad Focuses On The `Good Stuff'
Michelle Krupa / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Records are examined in an effort to finish list of the dead
BBC:
Olmert firm on Lebanon blockade
Rainer Buergin / Bloomberg:
Germans Leave in Record Numbers, Fleeing Unemployment (Update2)
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Washington Post:
For Congress in Maryland  —  Our choices: two worthy incumbents and one fresh face
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Iran Enriching More Uranium
Ynetnews:
Journalists blame Israel for war coverage
 

 
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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

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

 
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