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6:30 PM ET, September 13, 2006

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Nico / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong  —  Air America Radio will announce a major restructuring on Friday, which is expected to include a bankruptcy filing, three independent sources have told ThinkProgress.  —  Air America could remain …
Amit Paley / Washington Post:
At Least 62 Bodies Found in Baghdad  —  Nearly 100 people were killed or found dead in a series of bloody incidents throughout the Iraqi capital over the past 24 hours, authorities said.  —  At least 62 unidentified bullet-riddled corpses—all bearing signs of torture …
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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.
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," …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / New York Times:
How to Win by Losing  —  CONSERVATIVES are dreading the November elections.  The Republican capture of the House of Representatives in 1994 was one of modern conservatism's signal political accomplishments.  Now the Democrats are poised to take back the House.
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Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Novak Changes His Story—a Fourth Time  —  Bob Novak, faced with the evidence that his story is BS, has now changed his story ... a fourth time.  And even while he changes his story, he suggests Armitage is the unreliable one.  —  Novak's Changing Story, Part One
Discussion: Firedoglake
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.
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Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Senate Committee Approves Wiretap Legislation
Discussion: Townhall
Daily Mail:
Bush to hold talks on Ali G creator after diplomatic row  —  US President George Bush is to host White House talks on British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.  —  Cohen, 35, creator of Ali G, has infuriated the Kazakhstan government with his portrayal of Borat, a bumbling Kazakh TV presenter.
Travis Reed / Associated Press:
Mother of Missing Boy Commits Suicide  —  Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace.  Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: "Where were you?
Discussion: Hit and Run
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Stephen Hudak / Orlando Sentinel:
Show didn't cause suicide, host says
Washington Post:
Cardin Wins Md. Senate Primary  —  U.S. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin beat out former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume to win the Democratic nomination to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, even as chaos at polling sites Tuesday delayed final results and left some other races too close to call.
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Debbi Wilgoren / Washington Post:
Wynn Leads Edwards in a Close Race
Discussion: MyDD and DownWithTyranny!
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."
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.
Ian Bishop / New York Post:
TALIBAN GETS BURY LUCKY  —  FURY AS NICEY-NICE BRASS CALL OFF  —  STRIKE ON FUNERAL  —  Taliban terror leaders who had gathered for a funeral - and were secretly being watched by an eye-in-the-sky American drone - dodged assassination because U.S. rules of engagement bar attacks in cemeteries, according to a shocking report.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Correction: Report of Hekmatyar's Capture Incorrect  —  Initial report of Hekmatyar's capture was a case of mistaken identity  —  On 9-11, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported "the commander of the Hizb-i-Islami militia in Hafezan in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar …
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.  —  ...And while you're here, please check out our book, "The Blog of War," now on sale at Amazon.
Rep. John Murtha / The Huffington Post:
My Resolution Calling for Rumsfeld's Immediate Resignation  —  Today I introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives calling for the immediate resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  —  The President must show the American people and the world that there is accountability …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Warren Fiske / Virginian-Pilot:
Sen. Allen again apologizes for remark, regrets use of Confederate flag  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. George Allen offered a broad apology Tuesday for failing to grasp how his use of words and symbols, including the Confederate flag, could be offensive to racial minorities.
Avi Rubin / avi-rubin.blogspot.com:
My day at the polls - Maryland primary '06  —  I don't know where to start.  This primary today is the third election that I have worked as an election judge.  The last two elections were in 2004, and I was in a small precinct in Timonium, MD. This time, I was in my home precinct about 1/2 a mile from my house.
Discussion: MyDD, MaxSpeak, Election Law and ACSBlog
 
 
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Jesselee / The Stakeholder:
AZ-08: Oops  —  Yesterday we noted two instances where national …
Reuters:
Muslims urged to buy influence in world media
David Plotz / Slate:
Frank Rich Is Wrong About That 9/11 Photograph
Discussion: CBS News, Gawker and Hot Air
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
The Sleeping Bear, Redux
Discussion: MyDD and LamontBlog
Brian Beutler / The Raw Story:
High-level Verizon exec. is ex-official who long-argued for more surveillance
Discussion: TAPPED and Ezra Klein
zenit.org:
ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Letter across the divide
Richard Williamson / Adweek:
Airline Could Pull Ads From ABC
Discussion: The News Blog and AMERICAblog
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
The Lonelygirl That Really Wasn't  —  A nearly four-month-old …
Discussion: Gawker, Althouse and Boing Boing
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Young Anger Foments Jihad
Los Angeles Times:
GOP Senators Seek to Meld Detainee Plan, Geneva Treaty
Baz Bamigboye / Daily Mail:
Watch the video of George Bush being assassinated
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
U.S. Can't Protect All Targets, Chertoff Says
Harvey Mansfield / Boston Globe:
At universities, little learned from 9/11
Steve Kornacki / New York Observer:
Jersey Turns, Dems Panic; Torricelli, Anyone?
 

 
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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

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

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

 
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