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10:55 AM ET, September 13, 2006

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MSNBC:
Football makes strange bedfellows  —  Sept. 12: TomKat gets into the football spirit, and love of the Bears costs one fan more than $300,000.  "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann talks to Bears fan Randy Gonigam.  —  MSNBC TV  —  MORE FROM 'COUNTDOWN'  —  • Video: Where are we now?
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
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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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:   Dems criticize NSA over talking points
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
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger / Rasmussen Reports:
California: Schwarzenegger by 8  —  Feinstein (D) 58% Mountjoy (R) 35%  —  In California's competitive gubernatorial race, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger now leads Democratic challenger Phil Angelides 47% to 39% (see crosstabs).  He has thus added a couple points to what had been a six-point lead in August.
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Laura Kurtzman / Associated Press:
Rival admits leaking Schwarzenegger tape
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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Washington Post:
Federalism Plan Dead, Says Iraqi Speaker
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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 …
Discussion: Power Line, Townhall and Norwegianity
Smash / The Indepundit:
The Cold Shoulder  —  IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT, and I'm trolling for interviews at the Code Pink protest outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.  But this time, Bruce "The Bouncer" Wolf makes it clear that I am persona non grata.  —  (Click here for audio)
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, The News Blog and Eschaton
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 …
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.
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," …
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."
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."
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 …
Discussion: Daimnation! and NewsBusters.org
Washington Post:
Cardin Far Ahead in Senate Primary; Leggett Has Big Lead in Montgomery  —  Attorney General Nod to Gansler; Mishaps at Polls Slow the Returns  —  Maryland's Democratic primary voters gave Baltimore Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin a commanding lead over former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume last night …
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: Macsmind
 
 
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Massimo Calabresi / Time:
Tortured Negotiations  —  White House officials, potentially vulnerable …
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