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5:30 AM ET, September 13, 2006

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Steve Peoples / beloblog.com:
Flash: Laffey concedes to Chafee at 10:40 p.m.  —  Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey conceded the Republican nomination to Sen. Lincoln Chafee tonight.  —  At 10:45 p.m. U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee had a growing lead when Laffey acknowledged that he had lost.  —  With 81 percent of the votes counted …
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Robert Tanner / Associated Press:
Chafee wins in closely watched R.I race  —  Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee (news, bio, voting record) of Rhode Island, who bucked President Bush on tax cuts and the war in Iraq, defeated a conservative challenger Tuesday in a contest crucial to the larger fight for control of Congress.
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Scared Monkeys
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Spitzer and Cuomo Win in N.Y. Primary
Discussion: Hotline On Call
TalkLeft:
Bill Clinton Meets Bloggers  —  Why would I fly to New York for a day?  Because former President Bill Clinton invited a group of progressive, Democrat bloggers in for a 2 hour roundtable meeting at his Harlem office.  It was awesome.  More later, including a list of all the bloggers there …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Seeing the Forest and PSoTD
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John / AMERICAblog:
We just had lunch in NYC with a real president  —  We just finished a two hour blogger lunch with President Clinton at his NY office in Harlem.  He had reached out to a group of us a few weeks ago, before the Disney/ABC blow up, simply because he wanted to meet some bloggers.
New York Times:
President Bush's Reality  —  Last night, President Bush once again urged Americans to take terrorism seriously — a warning that hardly seems necessary.  One aspect of that terrible day five years ago that seems immune to politicization or trivialization is the dread of another attack.
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Bin Laden's Victory
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U.S. Newswire:   Pelosi and Reid Urge Networks to Devote Fair Coverage to House and Senate Democrats
USA Today:
'Blogosphere' spurs government oversight  —  WASHINGTON — When watchdog groups that monitor federal spending wanted more information on 1,800 "pork barrel" projects buried in a House appropriations bill, they listed them on the Internet and asked readers to dig deeper.  Within days, details began pouring in.
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David Leigh / Guardian:
BBC did not know of 9/11 film's link to religious right  —  The BBC broadcast a controversial docu-drama, The Path to 9/11, this week without realising that it had been made by a member of the US religious right.  —  The three-hour programme, shown over two nights on BBC2 to commemorate …
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Washington Post:
Montgomery to Extend Voting Hours After Election Glitches  —  County Polling Places to Stay Open Until 9 P.M.  —  Polling stations in Montgomery County will remain open until 9 tonight—an hour later than usual—to accommodate voters who were turned away from the polls this morning …
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Washington Times:   Poll problems reported in Maryland
Wall Street Journal:
Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?  —  Wikipedia, the community-edited online encyclopedia, has blossomed.  It has thousands of volunteers that have created more than five million entries in dozens of languages on everything from the Elfin-woods warbler to Paris Hilton.
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.
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall:
Rosie O'Moral Equivalence (Update: It's Equivalence Tuesday on Today!) … Update: I gots video of the political genius herself.  I love how she acts like Elisabeth Hasselbeck is the dumb one, when she's spouting this crap: "Afghanistan never threatened to kill us...We will never bring peace at the hands of war."
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Pimping the Greatest Generation  —  The president seemed a little confused last night.  For the last two weeks he's been evoking images of WWII, talking about islamic fascists and the like.  Last night he seemed to be adding the Cold War into the mix.  Apparently, he wants people to believe …
Discussion: Attytood, Eschaton and The News Blog
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.
Michael Muskal / Los Angeles Times:
'Girls Gone Wild' Cuts Plea Deal  —  The Santa Monica-based company failed to maintain age and identity documents for performers in sexually explicit films.  —  The California company responsible for the successful "Girls Gone Wild" series of videos has pleaded guilty to violating …
Bradley A. Smith / Examiner:
Yes, senator, McCain-Feingold does censor political speech  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., takes issue with The Examiner's editorial criticism of the McCain-Feingold bill and its "ban" on certain broadcast ads.  The indignant senator responds that the law "doesn't ban or censor any speech."
Discussion: The RCP Blog
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.
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Fear Factor  —  HOW DID WE SURVIVE ARI FLEISCHER'S REIGN OF TERROR?  —  And there it was again, in Frank Rich's column (TimesSelect subscription required) in the New York Times of Sunday, Sept. 10, recalling the alleged pall of fear that fell over Americans five years ago this month:
 
 
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Walid Phares / Counterterrorism Blog:
US embassy: Assad allows attack, offer "protection" and aim at confusion
David Cameron / Guardian:
David Cameron's speech
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
Updating Prescriptions for Avoiding Worldwide Catastrophe
Agence France Presse:
Six militants killed, 21 arrested in Afghanistan
Alexander Zaitchik / splcenter.org:
Congressman addresses hate group
Discussion: Right Wing News
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Dean, Emanuel Reach Deal
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
One Million Ways to Die
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Variety:
Toronto fest on 'Death' watch
Discussion: LIBERTAS and Los Angeles Times
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
TDS on ABC's 9/11 series and a forgotten man named Osama
Greg Palast:
Palast Charged with Journalism in the First Degree
Discussion: NewsHog and Mercury Rising
Joe Scarborough / Washington Monthly:
And we thought Clinton had no self-control
Newsweek:
Patriotism or Politics?  —  President Bush called for unity …
Emilio Karim Dabul / New York Post:
ONE ARAB'S APOLOGY  —  WELL, here it is, five years late …
James B. Meigs / New York Post:
CONSPIRACY CRANKS  —  CREATING CRAZED '9/11 TRUTH'