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4:25 PM ET, August 31, 2006

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Nancy Zuckerbrod / Associated Press:
Frist expected to get medical board fine  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will probably be fined and have to make up for failing to do continuing medical education that Tennessee requires of doctors with active licenses.  —  Additional disciplinary action …
Associated Press:
Boyle Included In Nominees for Appeals Court  —  Bucking opposition in the Senate, President Bush on Wednesday nominated five people for the U.S. Court of Appeals, including one whom Democrats have threatened to block with a filibuster.  —  News that Bush had decided to nominate …
This Is London:
PRESIDENT BUSH 'ASSASSINATED' IN NEW TV DOCUDRAMA  —  This is the dramatic moment when President George Bush is gunned down by a sniper after a public address at a hotel, in a gripping new docudrama soon to be aired on TV.  —  Set around October 2007, President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago.
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Liberal Wet Dream
Discussion: Pajamas Media
George Jahn / Associated Press:
Bolton: Unanimity not necessary on Iran  —  VIENNA, Austria - Iran remained defiant Thursday as a U.N. deadline arrived for it to halt uranium enrichment, and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said unanimity among the Security Council was not needed to take action against Tehran.
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
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New York Times:
U.S. Drafting Sanctions as Iran Ignores Deadline  —  With Iran defying a Thursday deadline to halt production of nuclear fuel, the United States and three European allies are assembling a list of sanctions they would seek in the United Nations Security Council, beginning with restrictions …
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Globalclashes
Los Angeles Times:
State on Verge of Greenhouse Gas Restrictions  —  The Senate votes to slash emissions 25%, the first such action in the nation.  Business groups are angry, but the governor is on board.  —  SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders agreed Wednesday on a plan to cut …
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Wall Street Journal:
California Pact Would Place Cap On Emissions
Discussion: The RBC
Matt Gouras / Associated Press:
Burns says terrorists drive taxis by day  —  BELGRADE, Mont. - Republican Sen. Conrad Burns (news, bio, voting record), whose recent comments have stirred controversy, says the United States is up against a faceless enemy of terrorists who "drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night."
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Associated Press:
Laura Bush hails Burns' record
Discussion: Left in the West
Jim Davenport / myrtlebeachonline.com:
Gingrich: Powerful Pelosi 'would be a disaster'  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. - Ex-U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that the thought of California Rep. Nancy Pelosi becoming the next leader of the House and being third in line to the presidency is frightening.
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 …
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Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Lieberman, Lamont Head to Washington
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Positive Press on Iraq Is Aim of U.S. Contract  —  U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.
John Lehman / Washington Post:
We're Not Winning This War  —  Despite Some Notable Achievements, New Thinking Is Needed on the Home Front and Abroad  —  Are we winning the war?  The first question to ask is, what war?  The Bush administration continues to muddle a national understanding of the conflict we are in by calling it the "war on terror."
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Andrew Rosenthal / New York Times:
There Is Silence in the Streets; Where Have All the Protesters Gone?  —  It was almost painful the other night to hear Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young sing about a war whose purpose Americans never really understood, started by a president who didn't tell the truth and then waged the war ineptly.
Elizabeth Holmes / Wall Street Journal:
No Day at the Beach  —  Bloggers Struggle With What to Do About Vacation  —  A banner stripped across the top of the Daily Dish declares that the popular Web log's host, Andrew Sullivan, has "gone fishing."  Mr. Sullivan declared a two-week vacation and opted to leave his political blog behind.
Mercury News:
Cousin: Rampage driver became enraged after argument with mother  —  The arguments began over the weekend.  Omeed Popal begged his father for permission to return to Afghanistan to be with his new bride.  —  The tension heightened Tuesday morning when his mother, like his father, refused to let him go.
Apostate Rusty / The Jawa Report:
National Guardsman Attacked by Leftist Douchebags  —  Words have consequences and these types of attacks are inevitable given the rhetoric of the increasingly not-so-fringe left .  —  At some point saying "I support the troops" while simultaneously jumping on every allegation …
sltrib.com:
Salt Lake sounds off in protest and support  —  A crowd of thousands cheered Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for calling President Bush a "dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights violating president" whose time in office would "rank as the worst presidency our nation has ever had to endure."
Discussion: Alternate Brain and Think Progress
Opinion Journal:
Back to the Congressional Future  —  Let's think about how the Democrats would govern.  —  With a little more than two months to go before midterm elections, the polls show Democrats well positioned to win the House after 12 years out of power.  So it's not too soon to consider who these Democrats are and how they would govern.
ric.edu:
Laffey Takes Commanding Lead in Republican U. S. Senate Primary  —  U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee may lose his seat to challenger Steve Laffey, according to a new statewide Republican primary voter poll released today by the Bureau of Government Research and Services at Rhode Island College.
Telegraph:
Pinocchio and friends converted to Islam  —  Malcolm Moore in Antalya  —  Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer and other characters have been converted to Islam in new versions of 100 classic stories on the Turkish school curriculum.  —  "Give me some bread, for Allah's sake," Pinocchio says to Geppetto …
Lois Romano / Washington Post:
Tweaking of 'No Child' Seen  —  Education Chief Urges Bigger Role for States in Initiative  —  As schools nationwide open for business, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings took the opportunity yesterday to compare the centerpiece of the administration's education policy to soap.
 
 
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Democrats' Dysfunctional Calendar
David Brown / Washington Post:
Nicotine Up Sharply In Many Cigarettes
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Karl Ritter / Associated Press:
Lebanese PM: Aid won't go to Hezbollah
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Hizbullah: We're arming for second round
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By Any Means Necessary  —  A federal judge plays politics in Michigan.
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Game over on the Plame leak? Maybe not
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Bush Shifting Public Focus to Terrorism and Iraq War
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Hizbullah presents: How to recruit children
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Ohio to Delay Destruction of Presidential Ballots
Justin Logan / American Prospect:
Mind the Gap  —  Democratic voters have unambiguously repudiated the Bush doctrine.
 

 
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