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Nico / Think Progress:
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 on the air under the deal …
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Air America Radio Bankruptcy, Sale Possible — BANKRUPT? — Air America Out Of Ca$h, Up For Sale — *** 16.59 MAJOR UPDATES: SCROLL DOWN *** — Cash- starved Air America Radio is broke and up for sale, the Radio Equalizer has learned exclusively. — In addition, a liberal website …
Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Senate Committee Approves Wiretap Legislation — A Senate committee today approved a bill supported by President Bush that would enable the administration to continue a warrantless wiretapping program that the White House launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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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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David Stout / New York Times:
Democratic Effort to Limit Surveillance Bill Is Blocked — The Senate Judiciary Committee today endorsed a bill backed by the White House to have a secret court review the constitutionality of the Bush administration's eavesdropping program. — By a party-line vote of 10 to 8 …
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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 — Bob Novak, faced with the evidence that his story is BS, has now changed his story ... a fourth time. And even while he changes his story, he suggests Armitage is the unreliable one. — Novak's Changing Story, Part One
Debbi Wilgoren / Washington Post:
Wynn Leads Edwards in a Close Race — Seven-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Albert R. Wynn (D) was fighting for his political life on Tuesday, leading challenger Donna Edwards by fewer than 3,000 votes with nearly 96 percent of precincts reporting. — The two candidates had been neck and neck earlier …
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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?
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Stephen Hudak / Orlando Sentinel:
Show didn't cause suicide, host says
Show didn't cause suicide, host says
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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.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Primary Recap: A Look at the Winners and Losers — Anytime voters in nine states vote on a single day, there are any number of winners and losers to choose from. — The biggest winner of the Sept. 12 primaries was Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who defeated Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey in a tightly contested Republican primary.
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Los Angeles Times:
GOP Senators Seek to Meld Detainee Plan, Geneva Treaty — The administration's proposal would avoid a key part of the historic protections. But critics say that would send the wrong message. — WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's proposal for handling terrorism prisoners would undercut …
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
MORE TROOPS....The New Republic reports on the state of our military today: … There's nothing all that new in this article, but it's worth reading it to get the big picture. Two-thirds of active Army units are unready for combat and the situation is even worse in the National Guard.
rules.house.gov:
SUMMARY AND TEXT OF H. RES. 1000, PROVIDING FOR EARMARKING REFORM IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — Earmark Reform: How the New Rule Works — In order for the House to consider a bill, the Committee of jurisdiction must list all earmarks included in the bill and committee report along …
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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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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."
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?
Reuters:
Muslims urged to buy influence in world media —Text+RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A Reprise of the Grand Old Party Line — House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) was his genial self at a meeting with reporters yesterday morning, showing off his golf-ball-pattern tie and talking of a conversation he once had with Jack Nicklaus about the baby-blue cravat.
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.