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11:15 AM ET, September 14, 2006

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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.
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John McWhorter / New York Sun:
I Love My Think Tank  —  For eight years after I got my P.h.D, I was a professor of linguistics.  I first found myself involved with the media in 1996 when the Ebonics controversy hit.  I happened to be the black linguist working closest to Oakland where the issue arose (I was at UC Berkeley), and so the media called me.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Kelley Shannon / Associated Press:
Ex-Texas Gov. Ann Richards dies  —  AUSTIN, Texas - Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said.  She was 73.  —  She died at home surrounded by her family, the spokeswoman said.
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Rick Lyman / New York Times:
Ann Richards, Former Governor of Texas, Dies at 73  —  Ann W. Richards, the silver-haired Texas activist who galvanized the 1988 Democratic National Convention with her tart keynote speech and was the state's 45th governor until upset in 1994 by an underestimated challenger named George W. Bush, died Wednesday at her home in Austin.
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 …
Asher Susser / Jerusalem Post:
Lebanon - a reassessment  —  Anyone following the war in Lebanon in the Israeli media could not but come away engulfed in deep depression.  Israelis and their media tend to focus obsessively on themselves, their own losses and failings, remaining largely oblivious to what is happening on the other side of the divide.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Arabs Increasingly See Lebanon As A Loss  —  At the imposition of the UN Security Council cease-fire resolution, the West almost unanimously considered the war in Lebanon a disaster for Israel.  Most analysts insisted that Israel's failure to destroy Hezbollah amounted to a humiliation …
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Daily Pundit
New York Times:
Panel in Senate Backs Bush Plan for Eavesdropping  —  Senators John McCain, John W. Warner and Lindsey Graham, all Republicans, Wednesday at the Capitol.  They have voiced opposition to a White House plan to reinterpret a provision of the Geneva Conventions.
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John Harwood / Wall Street Journal:
Bush Gets a Lift From Emphasis On Terror, Iraq  —  Poll Shows Uptick in Support  —  For President, War Effort;  —  Overall Approval Still Weak  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush's efforts to explain and win support for his policies on Iraq and terrorism appear to be paying some initial dividends …
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
GOP foe Fine says Ellison's unfit  —  DFL victor Keith Ellison is getting national attention on the chance that he could become the first Muslim member of Congress.  —  Keith Ellison's GOP foe attacked sharply Wednesday, calling him unfit for Congress and saying he was …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE WRONG STUFF  —  For the past three months, we have used …
Discussion: Townhall and MN Publius
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Gay Groups Renew Drive Against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'  —  MADISON, Wis. —The three young men who tried to enlist at an Army recruiting station here appeared to be first-rate military material.  —  Two were college students, and the other was a college graduate.  They had no criminal records.
Discussion: Air America Radio
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Ask. Tell. Enlist.
Christopher Buckley / Washington Monthly:
Let's quit while we're behind  —  "The trouble with our times," Paul Valéry said, "is that the future is not what it used to be."  —  This glum aperçu has been much with me as we move into the home stretch of the 2006 mid-term elections and shimmy into the starting gates of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Washington Post:
In R.I., a Model for Voter Turnout  —  Employing Senate Primary Strategy May Give GOP an Edge  —  The turnout campaign that Republican operatives used to help pull Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee to victory in the Rhode Island primary was a potent demonstration of how money and manpower can transform …
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Democrats Form New Group for Fund-Raising and Ads  —  Sensing both political danger and opportunity, a top Democratic operative and a group of major party donors have banded together to deliver a barrage of late advertising and on-the-ground action to secure Democratic victories in November.
Slate:
It's Me in That 9/11 Photo  —  WALTER SIPSER WAS IN THAT PICTURE FRANK RICH WROTE ABOUT.  HERE'S WHAT HE THINKS OF RICH'S COLUMN.  —  Yesterday, Slate posted this piece criticizing Frank Rich's New York Times column about the 9/11 photo shown here.  The picture was taken …
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Grim Report Out of Anbar Is Disputed by General  —  The senior Marine commander in Iraq said Tuesday that he had sufficient forces to carry out his mission but that the mission did not include defeating the insurgency.  —  "For what we are trying to achieve out here I think our force levels are about right …
Bill Cummings / Connecticut Post:
Lieberman camp says Lamont not really a teacher  —  On the campaign stump, Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont often tells audiences that he teaches at Harding High School in Bridgeport.  —  On his Web page, Lamont states, "I teach in a 50-year-old inner-city public school," referring to Harding.
 
 
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