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2:55 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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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.
New York Times:   New Wave of Violence Flares Across Baghdad
Washington Post:
Federalism Plan Dead, Says Iraqi Speaker
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
General Affirms Anbar Analysis
Discussion: TalkLeft and Air America Radio
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
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 …
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."
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.
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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Rep. John Murtha / The Huffington Post:
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 …
Discussion: Firedoglake
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Huffington Post:   MURTHA TO OFFER RESOLUTION CALLING FOR RUMSFELD'S RESIGNATION...
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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
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.
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.
Reuters:
BMW to roll out hydrogen-powered 7 Series  —  MUNICH (Reuters) - BMW will roll out the world's first hydrogen-burning car in serial production early next year, the German premium automaker said on Tuesday, eager to put its stamp on cars with green credentials.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
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.
Discussion: The Left Coaster and TalkLeft
 
 
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Young Anger Foments Jihad
Los Angeles Times:
GOP Senators Seek to Meld Detainee Plan, Geneva Treaty
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Watch the video of George Bush being assassinated
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
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Harvey Mansfield / Boston Globe:
At universities, little learned from 9/11
Joel Seidman / MSNBC:
Armitage to be added to CIA leak civil suit
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Iran steps back from the brink
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CBS' Couric slides to No. 3
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PA source: EU will lift boycott for unity gov't
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger / Rasmussen Reports:
California: Schwarzenegger by 8  —  Feinstein (D) 58% Mountjoy (R) 35%
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
In Fifth District DFL race, Ellison outran opponents
Washington Post:
Top Aide to Sadr Outlines Vision of a U.S.-Free Iraq
Helen Pidd / Guardian:
Reborn  —  We have always been told there is no recovery …