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3:35 PM ET, September 13, 2006

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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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New York Times:
New Wave of Violence Flares Across Baghdad  —  Violence flared across Baghdad today, as 60 bodies were reported found and at least 18 people died in attacks on the police, a day after Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki traveled to Iran to seek support in quelling the conflicts that threaten to fracture his country.
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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A Reprise of the Grand Old Party Line
Discussion: Sirotablog and The Heretik
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House GOP Leaders Fight Wiretapping Limits
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.
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."
Joel Seidman / MSNBC:
Armitage to be added to CIA leak civil suit  —  Claim former deputy secretary of State comments damaged covert career  —  WASHINGTON - Lawyers for former Ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, tell NBC they plan to file court papers Wednesday in their civil suit …
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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.
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.
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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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Thoughts On The September 12th Meeting  —  This was an amazing day for me.  I felt a tremendous swelling of patriotic pride and love for America when I attended this meeting.  Here I was, with a group of my friends and colleagues, meeting with one of our nation's Presidents because our small …
Karen Hughes / USA Today:
Where's the outrage?  —  A united world must resolutely condemn terror  —  Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, one essential ingredient is still lacking in our international response to terrorism: the concerted moral outrage of everyday citizens of every faith and country.
Michael O'Brien / campusmagazine.org:
Liberal Libel at The University of Michigan  —  The left-leaning campus paper here at the University of Michigan, The Michigan Daily, published an article today essentially libeling the College Republicans here at the University of Michigan.  —  In a stunning story published in today's paper …
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Redstate
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Letter across the divide  —  We've begun this conversation across the great rift that is dividing our country, as I've begun staking out my positions.It is a conversation full of suspicion, jibes and bitterness.  It's hard to avoid that when tensions are as high as they are, when there is so much at stake.
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.
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.
Baz Bamigboye / Daily Mail:
Watch the video of George Bush being assassinated  —  Web exclusive: This is the video that's outraged America, showing the moment of George Bush's violent assassination.  —  The shocking footage, which you can preview exclusively here, is from a new Channel 4 movie to be broadcast on More4 in October …
Discussion: Reuters and Little Green Footballs
Richard Williamson / Adweek:
Airline Could Pull Ads From ABC  —  DALLAS American Airlines is prepared to pull its advertising from ABC in order to protest its portrayal in the network's recently aired movie The Path to 9/11, according to a source.  The carrier also said it is considering legal action against the network.
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The Lonelygirl That Really Wasn't  —  A nearly four-month-old …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Young Anger Foments Jihad
Los Angeles Times:
GOP Senators Seek to Meld Detainee Plan, Geneva Treaty
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Correction: Report of Hekmatyar's Capture Incorrect
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
U.S. Can't Protect All Targets, Chertoff Says
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Harvey Mansfield / Boston Globe:
At universities, little learned from 9/11
Reuters:
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Iran steps back from the brink
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CBS' Couric slides to No. 3
Avi Issacharoff / Haaretz:
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Times of London:
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Top Aide to Sadr Outlines Vision of a U.S.-Free Iraq
 

 
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