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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 …
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Air America Radio Bankruptcy, Sale Possible
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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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General Affirms Anbar Analysis
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House GOP Leaders Fight Wiretapping Limits — House leaders moved yesterday to temper many of the controls that a bill headed toward rapid passage would have imposed on the Bush administration's program for wiretapping terrorism suspects without court approval.
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Name the Earmarkers — REDSTATE WELCOMES THE MAJORITY LEADER
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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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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.

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."

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.
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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.
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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 …
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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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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.

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.


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.

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.

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.


U.S. Can't Protect All Targets, Chertoff Says — Congress and the American public must accept that the government cannot protect every possible target against attack if it wants to avoid fulfilling Al Qaeda's goal of bankrupting the nation, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate committee Tuesday.

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 …
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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.