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1:45 PM ET, September 5, 2006

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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
USA Today:
Immigration drops off the political calendar
Discussion: Hot Air
David Rogers / Wall Street Journal:
Congress's Fall Agenda Takes Shape
Discussion: rubber hose
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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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 …
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 …
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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 …
Discussion: Say Anything and Blogs for Bush
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Democrats Write A Letter
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
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 …
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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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Sudan's Offensive Comes at Key Time
Discussion: Demagogue
New York Times:
U.S. Strategy Shifts Focus From Al Qaeda  —  The White House today released an updated version of its plan for combating terrorism that focused more on decentralized networks of extremists than on Al Qaeda and that singled out Iran as a potential source of unconventional weapons for terrorist groups.
Discussion: TalkLeft and BobGeiger.com
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.
Discussion: Snapped Shot
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.
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Bush looking to revive Social Security, tax reform  —  President George W. Bush, in private conversation, is talking about trying to revive his tax and Social Security reform proposals after the 2006 elections.  —  Bush emphasized those two issues after his 2004 re-election victory, but neither made progress.
 
 
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Louise Roug / Baltimore Sun:
Killings on rise in Iraqi capital
Discussion: AMERICAblog and PBD
Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iranian president wants to purge profs
Ronald Bailey / Opinion Journal:
The Man Who Fed the World
NY Daily News:
At Bill library, Bush sounds sub-versive
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
WaPo: Do warblogs cause Wahhabism?
Examiner:
Yeas and Nays: Tuesday, Sept. 5
Merrill Hartson / Associated Press:
White House: U.S. safer but not yet safe
BBC:
Deadly blast in southern Lebanon
 Earlier Items: 
Joshua Micah Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
My wife IMed to ask if I was at my desk: "Hold on.  I'm calling."
Associated Press:
Democrats Urge Pentagon Changes
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
David Rohde / New York Times:
Afghan Symbol for Change Becomes a Symbol of Failure
Discussion: The Peking Duck and Needlenose
Robert Fisk / Independent:
'America's aggression is fuelling extremism', says Iran's ex-president
McQ / QandO:
ON LABOR DAY, MORE OF THE MINIMUM WAGE ARGUMENTS
Discussion: Media Blog and Say Anything
Doug Struck / Washington Post:
U.S. Planes Mistakenly Hit Canadians In Afghanistan
Discussion: Rantingprofs and Amygdala
J. Harvie Wilkinson III / Washington Post:
Hands Off Constitutions
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
This Can't Be Love  —  Across the eastern United States …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs

 
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