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11:35 AM ET, September 13, 2006

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Washington Post:
Moderate GOP Senator Beats Conservative Challenger in R.I.  —  Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee, a moderate who has frequently clashed with the Bush administration, beat back a strong conservative challenger Tuesday night in the GOP primary in Rhode Island.  —  The victory came amid heavy turnout …
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Chafee BEATS Right Wing Laffey in RI Primary: Bolton Stance Supported  —  Lincoln Chafee has triumphed in his primary vote count tonight.  While many will groan about Chafee's victory because it makes the Rhode Island contest a greater hurdle for the Democratic challenger, I am pleased that Chafee has knocked out the far-right Laffey.
Discussion: MyDD and Talking Points Memo
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Primaries Offer Few Surprises
Discussion: Hot Air, Townhall and Big Lizards
Mary Dalrymple / Associated Press:
GOP, Dems Spar Over Bush Speech on 9/11  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans and Democrats tore into each over war policy Tuesday, set off by a presidential speech the White House insisted was nonpolitical.  A GOP leader said Democrats seemed "more interested in protecting the terrorists" than shielding fellow Americans.
Discussion: New York Times and Brendan Nyhan
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Ramesh Ponnuru / New York Times:
How to Win by Losing  —  CONSERVATIVES are dreading the November elections.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A Reprise of the Grand Old Party Line
Discussion: Sirotablog
Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:
Violence rages in Iraq; 65 bodies found  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Police found the bodies of 65 men who had been tortured, shot and dumped, most around Baghdad, while car bombs, mortar attacks and shootings killed at least 30 people around Iraq and injured dozens more.
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Zilmer: U.S. 'stifling' Iraq insurgency
Discussion: The News Blog
Washington Post:
Federalism Plan Dead, Says Iraqi Speaker
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Helen Pidd / Guardian:
Reborn  —  We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as painless as possible.  But is that really the truth?  Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill.
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Dean / Dean's World:   Terri Schiavo & Persistent Vegetative States & Ambien
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Democrats Call NSA's Input To Senate Panel Inappropriate  —  Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee are complaining that the National Security Agency has played politics in support of the secret program to intercept phone calls between alleged terrorists in the United States and abroad.
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
In Fifth District DFL race, Ellison outran opponents  —  The party's endorsed candidate captured 41 percent of the votes in the DFL primany.  Sabo's choice, Mike Erlandson, finished second.  —  State Rep. Keith Ellison overcame setbacks and questions about his past to win the DFL nomination …
Steve Kornacki / New York Observer:
Jersey Turns, Dems Panic; Torricelli, Anyone?  —  A powerful clue that U.S. Senator Robert Menendez might ultimately be forced to withdraw from his bid for a full term in New Jersey emerged last Friday, when he addressed the question head-on just hours after the world learned that he is the subject of a federal criminal investigation.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Macsmind
Smash / The Indepundit:
The Cold Shoulder  —  Welcome Instapundit readers!  For more on my recent history with Code Pink at Walter Reed, including interviews with founders Gael Murphy and Medea Benjamin, start here.  —  IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT, and I'm trolling for interviews at the Code Pink protest outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Tells Group He Sees a 'Third Awakening'  —  President Bush said yesterday that he senses a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as "a confrontation between good and evil."
William Branigin / Washington Post:
Fenty Wins D.C. Mayoral Primary  —  Adrian M. Fenty won the Democratic nomination for mayor of the District of Columbia tonight, decisively defeating his closest competitor, Council Chairman Linda W. Cropp, in a primary that sets the stage for him to become the youngest chief executive of the nation's capital.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House GOP Leaders Fight Wiretapping Limits  —  House leaders moved yesterday to temper many of the controls that a bill headed toward rapid passage would have imposed on the Bush administration's program for wiretapping terrorism suspects without court approval.
Discussion: Donklephant and The Heretik
Times of London:
You must do a lot more to pull your weight, Nato chief chides refuseniks  —  THE political head of Nato appealed yesterday for alliance members to provide hundreds more troops for the mission in southern Afghanistan.  —  With most of the fighting burden falling on the shoulders of the British …
Redstate:
Name the Earmarkers  —  REDSTATE WELCOMES THE MAJORITY LEADER … Last January, I warned of the need for action in Congress to combat the growing perception among Americans that their government is for sale.  I singled out the ancient congressional practice of "earmarking," …
Michael Calderone / New York Observer:
Times Studies How to Shake Feds: Disposable Phones, Erasable Notes: "Act Like a Drug Dealer"  —  Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has taken his place among the spirits permanently haunting West 43rd Street.  "The basic goal," New York Times reporter David Barstow said, "is to make it more difficult …
Reuters:
BMW to roll out hydrogen-powered 7 Series  —  MUNICH (Reuters) - BMW will roll out the world's first hydrogen-burning car in serial production early next year, the German premium automaker said on Tuesday, eager to put its stamp on cars with green credentials.
Discussion: QandO, Secular Blasphemy and Truthdig
David Cameron / Guardian:
David Cameron's speech  —  Conservative party leader's speech on foreign policy and national security  —  "It is an honour to be speaking to the British American Project today, on this sombre anniversary.  —  Your organisation is one of the most illustrious of the countless ties that connect our two countries.
Discussion: Samizdata.net and The Belmont Club
Mike Wilkinson / Toledo Blade:
Noe gets 27 months in federal prison for illegal Bush contributions  —  Tom Noe, the GOP fund-raiser at the heart of Ohio's biggest political scandal in a generation, was sentenced today to 27 months in a federal prison for illegally funneling money into President Bush's re-election campaign.
 
 
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
U.S. Can't Protect All Targets, Chertoff Says
Discussion: TalkLeft
Harvey Mansfield / Boston Globe:
At universities, little learned from 9/11
Joel Seidman / MSNBC:
Armitage to be added to CIA leak civil suit
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
War Planning
The Blotter:
Exclusive: New U.S. Government Videotape Simulates Terrorist Attacks
Independent:
Peter Singer: You Ask The Questions
Massimo Calabresi / Time:
Tortured Negotiations  —  White House officials, potentially vulnerable …
Peter Johnson / USA Today:
CBS' Couric slides to No. 3
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Washington Post:
Cardin Far Ahead in Senate Primary; Leggett Has Big Lead in Montgomery
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger / Rasmussen Reports:
California: Schwarzenegger by 8  —  Feinstein (D) 58% Mountjoy (R) 35%
Washington Post:
Top Aide to Sadr Outlines Vision of a U.S.-Free Iraq
David Leigh / Guardian:
BBC did not know of 9/11 film's link to religious right
Bradley A. Smith / Examiner:
Yes, senator, McCain-Feingold does censor political speech
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Pimping the Greatest Generation
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Fear Factor  —  HOW DID WE SURVIVE ARI FLEISCHER'S REIGN OF TERROR?
Wall Street Journal:
Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?
 

 
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Reuters:
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Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
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