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5:36 PM ET, September 13, 2006

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Nico / Think Progress:
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 …
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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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
Discussion: Firedoglake
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.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A Reprise of the Grand Old Party Line
Discussion: Sirotablog and The Heretik
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."
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: MyDD and DownWithTyranny!
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 …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House GOP Leaders Fight Wiretapping Limits
Discussion: The Hill and Donklephant
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?
Discussion: Hit and Run
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.
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.
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 …
Avi Rubin / avi-rubin.blogspot.com:
My day at the polls - Maryland primary '06  —  I don't know where to start.  This primary today is the third election that I have worked as an election judge.  The last two elections were in 2004, and I was in a small precinct in Timonium, MD. This time, I was in my home precinct about 1/2 a mile from my house.
Discussion: MyDD, MaxSpeak, Election Law and ACSBlog
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Young Anger Foments Jihad  —  During Monday's commemorations of the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, I found myself wondering what the world will look like on the 10th anniversary, or the 20th.  Will the catastrophe that began five years ago become a permanent feature of life — a "long war" that won't end for many decades?
 
 
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David Plotz / Slate:
Frank Rich Is Wrong About That 9/11 Photograph
Discussion: CBS News, Gawker and Hot Air
Michael Yon / CBS News:
Afghanistan's Other War  —  National Review Online: Drug Profits Are Fueling The Taliban
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
The Sleeping Bear, Redux
Discussion: MyDD and LamontBlog
Brian Beutler / The Raw Story:
High-level Verizon exec. is ex-official who long-argued for more surveillance
Discussion: TAPPED and Ezra Klein
zenit.org:
ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Letter across the divide
Richard Williamson / Adweek:
Airline Could Pull Ads From ABC
Discussion: The News Blog and AMERICAblog
New York Times:
The Lonelygirl That Really Wasn't  —  A nearly four-month-old …
Discussion: Gawker, Althouse and Boing Boing
 Earlier Items: 
Rep. John Murtha / The Huffington Post:
My Resolution Calling for Rumsfeld's Immediate Resignation
Discussion: Firedoglake
Los Angeles Times:
GOP Senators Seek to Meld Detainee Plan, Geneva Treaty
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
U.S. Can't Protect All Targets, Chertoff Says
Harvey Mansfield / Boston Globe:
At universities, little learned from 9/11
Karen Hughes / USA Today:
Where's the outrage?  —  A united world must resolutely condemn terror
Steve Kornacki / New York Observer:
Jersey Turns, Dems Panic; Torricelli, Anyone?
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger / Rasmussen Reports:
California: Schwarzenegger by 8  —  Feinstein (D) 58% Mountjoy (R) 35%
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Democrats Call NSA's Input To Senate Panel Inappropriate
 

 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street

Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls

 
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