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Maura Reynolds / Los Angeles Times:
Security Is Atop GOP's Agenda — In the run-up to the elections, Republican leaders in Congress are planning to highlight issues they believe play to the party's strengths. — WASHINGTON — It's going to be "Security September" on Capitol Hill. — With GOP control of the House …
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Sets Aside Work on Immigration — As they prepare for a critical pre-election legislative stretch, Congressional Republican leaders have all but abandoned a broad overhaul of immigration laws and instead will concentrate on national security issues they believe play to their political strength.
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Jennifer Nix / Firedoglake:
If Only I Had An ABC-Approved Press Pass — ABC is clearly feeling some heat over their fictionalized drama, "The Path to 9/11," set to air on September 10th and 11th. After pulling the public blog from the movie's web site and stonewalling progressive and liberal bloggers late last week …
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Judd / Think Progress:
Richard Clarke Blasts Key Scene In ABC's 9/11 Docudrama
Richard Clarke Blasts Key Scene In ABC's 9/11 Docudrama
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Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
HATEFUL 'MOVE' VS. JOE — SITE'S ANTI-JEWISH SLURS — A string of anti-Semitic rants about Sen. Joe Lieberman have popped up on the liberal MoveOn.org's open forum Web site, drawing criticism from the Anti-Defamation League. — It's the latest flap in the contentious race between Lieberman …
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Bull Moose:
Liberalism of Fools — The Moose objects to the pollution of the blogosphere. — For months, the Moose has observed that if you seek anti-Semitic and anti-Israel filth on the internet, look to the left side. Comment threads and diariists regularly rant against Jews and the Jewish state.
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Condi takes historical analogies to an absurd level — Last week, top administration officials, including Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, equated the war in Iraq with fighting Nazis in World War II. As part of this analogy, the Bush gang made its critics out to be Neville Chamberlain …
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Who Set the Wayback Machine for 1939? — With George W. Bush talking so much about Nazis and fascism, Donald Rumsfeld warning ominously against lily-livered appeasement and Dick Cheney quoting Franklin Roosevelt on the "dirty business" of war, one might worry that this direction-challenged administration …
Washington Post:
'Mortgage Moms' May Star in Midterm Vote — With Wages Stagnant and Debt Growing, Democrats See an Opportunity — BURLINGTON, Ky. — Life is cramped at the Condit household. Dale and Sharon Condit and their two young sons need more room but can't seem to sell their current home — on the market now for three months.
TCS Daily:
Countdown to Genocide — The final countdown for Darfur looms. — Back in April, in a widely commented piece on TCS, we warned both that the impending Darfur crisis was a calamity of overwhelming proportions and that it was intrinsically linked (despite the irony of its victims being Muslims) …
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Maria Aspan / New York Times:
New Republic Suspends an Editor for Attacks on Blog — A senior editor at The New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on Friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts. — Lee Siegel, creator of the Lee Siegel …
U.S. Newswire:
United House and Senate Democratic Leaders Urge President to Change Course in Iraq; Call for Changes to Iraq Policy — Contact: Jim Manley or Rebecca Kirszner (Harry Reid), 202-255-3736 or 202-281-5425; Brendan Daly (Nancy Pelosi), 202-225-3225 — WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 /U.S. Newswire …
CNN:
Voters are anti-incumbent and angry, new poll finds — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Most Americans are angry about "something" when it comes to how the country is run, and they are more likely than in previous years to vote for a challenger this November, a new poll suggests.
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Jerusalem Post:
Abbas confirms deal on Shalit's release — Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas confirmed Tuesday that a deal had been reached to secure the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit. — Abbas told Bahrain-based newspaper El-Halij that Shalit would be transferred to Egypt …
BBC:
Nine held in Danish terror raids — Danish police have arrested nine suspected terrorists, the country's security intelligence service says. — The suspects, believed to be all men under the age of 30, were picked up during overnight raids in Odense, Denmark's third largest city.
McQ / QandO:
ON LABOR DAY, MORE OF THE MINIMUM WAGE ARGUMENTS — According to Bureau of Labor stats, the number of people working in the US (16 or older) is 151,000,000. And the number who earn or are paid minimum wage? — 520,000 . — Yup. . 003 of the work force earns minimum wage.
Agence France Presse:
British hospital introduces burka-style gown for Muslim patients — A hospital in northwest England has introduced a new surgical gown modelled on the burka, allowing female Muslim patients to cover themselves completely in line with their religious beliefs.
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Doug Struck / Washington Post:
U.S. Planes Mistakenly Hit Canadians In Afghanistan — One Soldier Is Killed In Incident in South — U.S. jets mistakenly strafed Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan on Monday, killing one and bringing to five the number of Canadian troops killed during a major push against the Taliban this weekend.
J. Harvie Wilkinson III / Washington Post:
Hands Off Constitutions — This Isn't the Way to Ban Same-Sex Marriage — The chief casualty in the struggle over same-sex marriage has been the American constitutional tradition. Liberals and conservatives — judges and legislators — bear responsibility for this sad state of affairs.