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3:40 AM ET, September 14, 2006

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Nico / Think Progress:
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 on the air under the deal …
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NewsMax.com:
Air America Denies Bankruptcy Report  —  Air America Radio, the network that features such liberal mouthpieces as Al Franken and Randi Rhodes, is denying reports that it will declare bankruptcy.  —  The Web site ThinkProgress.org, citing "three independent sources," started a buzz on the Internet …
John Cook / RADAR:
AIR AMERICA STIFFS FRANKEN  —  Is Air America Radio filing for bankruptcy on Friday?  That's what Think Progress, citing three sources, reported today.  Calls to Air America executives weren't returned, but star talk-show host Al Franken confirms that, once again, the troubled network is facing a serious cash crunch.
Discussion: USS Neverdock
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Air America Radio Bankruptcy, Sale Possible
Discussion: Wizbang, Macsmind and Ace of Spades HQ
Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Senate Committee Approves Wiretap Legislation  —  A Senate committee today approved a bill supported by President Bush that would enable the administration to continue a warrantless wiretapping program that the White House launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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David Stout / New York Times:
Democratic Effort to Limit Surveillance Bill Is Blocked  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee today endorsed a bill backed by the White House to have a secret court review the constitutionality of the Bush administration's eavesdropping program.  —  By a party-line vote of 10 to 8 …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Stop The ACLU
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Specter bill much closer to being enacted today  —  (updated below)  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today on various proposals relating to the Specter FISA bill, as well as the other competing FISA bills pending before the Committee.  This report from the AP's Laurie Kellman …
New York Times:
Panel in Senate Backs Bush Plan for Eavesdropping  —  Senators John McCain, John W. Warner and Lindsey Graham, all Republicans, Wednesday at the Capitol.  They have voiced opposition to a White House plan to reinterpret a provision of the Geneva Conventions.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and TalkLeft
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Real story behind Armitage story  —  When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did.  I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.
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Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Novak Changes His Story—a Fourth Time
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?
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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: DownWithTyranny! and MyDD
rules.house.gov:
SUMMARY AND TEXT OF H. RES. 1000, PROVIDING FOR EARMARKING REFORM IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES  —  Earmark Reform: How the New Rule Works  — In order for the House to consider a bill, the Committee of jurisdiction must list all earmarks included in the bill and committee report along …
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.
Michael Yon / CBS News:
Afghanistan's Other War  —  National Review Online: Drug Profits Are Fueling The Taliban  —  (National Review Online) This column was written by Michael Yon.  —  In Afghanistan, heroin has become the Devil's cocktail.  "Smack" is already one of the most addictive and destructive drugs on Earth …
Discussion: New York Post, Hot Air and BLACKFIVE
Washington Post:
In R.I., a Model for Voter Turnout  —  Employing Senate Primary Strategy May Give GOP an Edge  —  The turnout campaign that Republican operatives used to help pull Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee to victory in the Rhode Island primary was a potent demonstration of how money and manpower can transform …
Front Page Magazine:
The ISM-Terror Connection  —  As a front group for Palestinian terrorists, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) sends young people from all over the world to the training fields of the West Bank and Gaza to learn from terrorists and to aid them logistically.
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
With No Ideas, The GOP Seeks to Scare  —  Wasn't it just a couple of years ago that Republicans were boasting that they were the party of ideas?  They would privatize the commonwealth and globalize democracy, while Democrats clung to the tattered banner of common security in both economics and national defense.
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Grim Report Out of Anbar Is Disputed by General  —  The senior Marine commander in Iraq said Tuesday that he had sufficient forces to carry out his mission but that the mission did not include defeating the insurgency.  —  "For what we are trying to achieve out here I think our force levels are about right …
 
 
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Christine Donnelly / Star Bulletin:
Web videos mock U.S. war deaths
Kelley Shannon / Associated Press:
Ex-Texas Gov. Ann Richards dies
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Dems seem likely to pick up midterm seats
CNN:
Police: Gunman killed after college shooting
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
ABC's 'Path' Not Taken
Liz Sly / Chicago Tribune:
Sectarian violence flares in Iraq
Henry M. Paulson / treas.gov:
Treasury Department Cash Room
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Fall of Waziristan: An Online History
Discussion: The Belmont Club
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
Muslims urged to buy influence in world media
Avi Rubin / avi-rubin.blogspot.com:
My day at the polls - Maryland primary '06
Discussion: MyDD, MaxSpeak, Election Law and ACSBlog
zenit.org:
ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan
Insight:
Baker surfaces as key adviser to Bush on Iraq
New York Times:
The Lonelygirl That Really Wasn't  —  A nearly four-month-old …
Discussion: Blinq, Gawker, Althouse and Boing Boing
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Young Anger Foments Jihad
Amit Paley / Washington Post:
At Least 62 Bodies Found in Baghdad
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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