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Washington Post:
White House Seeks a Way to Keep Bolton at the U.N. — President Bush's nomination of John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations appears increasingly endangered in the Senate, prompting the administration to explore other ways to keep him in the job after his temporary appointment expires in January, officials said yesterday.
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Laurie Kellman / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Powell endorses efforts to block Bush's terrorist plan — WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday endorsed efforts by three Republican senators to block President Bush's plan to authorize harsh interrogations of terror suspects. — The latest sign of GOP division …
Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:
Senate panel defies Bush on terror — WASHINGTON - A rebellious Senate committee defied President Bush on Thursday and approved terror-detainee legislation he has vowed to block, deepening Republican conflict over a key issue in the middle of congressional campaigns.
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Wizbang, Andrew Sullivan, The Left Coaster, The Heretik, Macsmind and Shakespeare's Sister
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Inside the Oval Office — President Bush gives journalists a "heads up" about the mid-term elections, among other things. — WE NOW KNOW WHY the Bush administration hasn't made the capture of Osama bin Laden a paramount goal of the war on terror. Emphasis on bin Laden doesn't fit …
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Bush Tells Barnes Capturing Bin Laden Is 'Not A Top Priority Use of American Resources' — Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes appeared on Fox this morning to discuss his recent meeting with President Bush in the Oval Office. The key takeaway for Barnes was that "bin Laden doesn't fit …
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Air Force Times, Hullabaloo, News Hounds, The Agonist, Angry Bear, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and The Left Coaster
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Barnes explains Bush's 'strategy for combating terrorism'
Barnes explains Bush's 'strategy for combating terrorism'
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DownWithTyranny!
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Iraqi Official Testifies to Links Between Saddam and Al Qaeda — WASHINGTON — A deputy prime minister of Iraq yesterday offered a sharp contradiction of the conventional wisdom here that Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Al Qaeda had no connection before the 2003 war, flatly contradicting a recent report …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
QUICK, SOMEONE TELL THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE!
QUICK, SOMEONE TELL THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE!
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Thomas Joscelyn
Pew Research Center:
Democrats Hold Solid Lead; Strong Anti-Incumbent, Anti-Bush Mood — Terrorism Focus Increases, But No GOP Boost — Summary of Findings — As the congressional midterm campaign begins in earnest, the mood of the electorate is sharply drawn. Voters are disappointed with Congress and disapproving of President Bush.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / galluppoll.com:
Democrats Have Advantage on Party Ratings, Affiliation, and Issues
Democrats Have Advantage on Party Ratings, Affiliation, and Issues
Paul Majendie / Reuters:
Blair attacks Europe's "mad anti-Americans" — LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched a withering attack on Thursday on what he called "mad anti-Americanism" among European politicians. — Blair, U.S. President George W. Bush's closest ally in the so-called war on terror …
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Democracy Project, EU Referendum, Little Green Footballs, The American Thinker and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel — U.N. inspectors investigating Iran's nuclear program angrily complained to the Bush administration and to a Republican congressman yesterday about a recent House committee report on Iran's capabilities, calling parts of the document …
George Will / Real Clear Politics:
Liberalism as Condescension — EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. — This suburb, contiguous with Chicago's western edge, is 88 percent white. A large majority of the customers of the Wal-Mart that sits here, less than a block outside Chicago, are from the city and more than 90 percent of the store's customers are African-American.
Nancy Zuckerbrod / Associated Press:
Frist Targets Internet Gambling — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is trying use a bill authorizing U.S. military operations, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, to prohibit people from using credit cards to settle Internet gambling debts. — Frist, R-Tenn. …
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Will / Attytood:
Santorum ad accusing Casey of corruption features dead man, pols linked to Santorum himself — GOP Pa. Sen. Rick Santorum's flagging re-election campaign has launched a new TV attack ad that can only be described as absurdist theatre, if not out-and-out absurd.
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The Hill:
So we're divided — is that George Bush's fault? — Ask yourself this question: What actions, or series of actions, could President Bush and GOP leaders in Congress have taken in the war on terror that would cause Democratic leaders to say, seven weeks before mid-term elections …
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Alan W. Dowd / TCS Daily:
Help Wanted — Five years after it spawned 9/11 …
Help Wanted — Five years after it spawned 9/11 …
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The Glittering Eye
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Sen. Reid: The Specter bill will NOT be enacted. Period. — (updated below) — Sen. Harry Reid participated in a conference call with a dozen or so bloggers this afternoon. For the first question, I asked him about the Specter bill — specifically, what the Democrats' strategy …
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Daily Kos, Firedoglake, Suburban Guerrilla, ACLU, Taylor Marsh, TalkLeft and LiberalOasis
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Hezbollah war crimes: Amnesty International cries — Heads up! — Amnesty International has introduced a comprehensive report accusing a terrorist group of war crimes.In utter defiance of the predominant American left, European and United Nations view that Israel engaged in gross war crimes …
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Liberty and Justice, Riehl World View, USS Neverdock, Ace of Spades HQ and Blue Crab Boulevard
Politics Central:
AL-DURA: THE TRIAL (PART ONE) — Starting September 14, three Frenchmen go on trial in Paris for questioning the veracity of the 2000 videotape of the putative murder of Palestinian child Mohammed Al-Dura by Israeli soldiers. This tape - promulgated by the French state-run channel France 2 …
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neo-neocon, Augean Stables, Sigmund, Carl and Alfred, Technicalities, Israel Matzav, Mere Rhetoric and Solomonia
Bill Sammon / Examiner:
Meet the Next President: Kerry's Second Shot — KEENE, N.H. - Moments before Sen. John Kerry shows up to campaign for a local politician at a backyard rally here, voter Sue Borden wrinkles her nose at the mention of the man who lost to President Bush. — "You get one chance," the Democrat tells a reporter.
David Warren / Real Clear Politics:
Our Real Enemy is Within Us — Listening to President Bush speak, on Monday's anniversary of 9/11, after a day of distastefully sentimental memorials, my question was not what have we achieved in the last five years, but rather, what have we learned? Bush and Blair — the captain …