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11:45 AM ET, September 19, 2006

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Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
Suicidal Hand-Wringing  —  When you enter a boxing ring, you agree to abide by the rules of boxing.  But when you are attacked from behind in a dark alley, you would be a fool to abide by the Marquis of Queensbury rules.  If you do, you can end up being a dead fool.
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Torture Is Torture  —  Bush's 'Program' Disgraces All Americans  —  I wish I could turn to cheerier matters, but I just can't get past this torture issue — the fact that George W. Bush, the president of the United States of America, persists in demanding that Congress give him the right …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Los Angeles Times:
McCain Stand Comes at a Price
Discussion: Political Animal and The News Blog
Brendan Miniter / Opinion Journal:
When Miranda Met Osama
Discussion: The Corner and Blue Crab Boulevard
Doug Struck / Washington Post:
Canadian Was Falsely Accused, Panel Says  —  After Tip From Ally, U.S. Sent Muslim to Syria for Questioning  —  Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria …
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
Canadians Fault U.S. for Its Role in Torture Case  —  A government commission on Monday exonerated a Canadian computer engineer of any ties to terrorism and issued a scathing report that faulted Canada and the United States for his deportation four years ago to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured.
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Reuters:
Bush approval rating rebounds in new poll  —Text+WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's approval rating has rebounded to 44 percent, the highest level in a year, in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the newspaper reported on Tuesday.  —  Bush's approval rating jumped five points …
Joseph Carroll / Gallup Poll:
Bush Job Approval Up to 44%
Associated Press:
Republican Bloomberg to help Lieberman  —  HARTFORD, Conn. - Republican New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will host a fundraiser for Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., at the mayor's Manhattan town house, Lieberman's campaign announced Sunday night.  —  Lieberman, who lost the Democratic primary …
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Union That Backed Lieberman in Primary Now Endorses Lamont
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and LamontBlog
Senator Joseph Lieberman / Rasmussen Reports:
Connecticut Senate: Lieberman (I) 45% Lamont (D) 43%
Discussion: First Draft
Claus Christian Malzahn / Spiegel Online:
Rushdie, Hirsi Ali, the Pope — Who's Next?  —  The pope has apologized for the outrage amongst Muslims sparked by his recent comments.  But the episode proves once again that criticizing Islam is dangerous.  —  Twenty years ago in the German city of Bremen, Dutch comedian Rudi Carrell's life depended on police protection.
Discussion: Peaktalk
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MSNBC:
Bush owes us an apology  —  Sept. 11: A special comment about 9/11 five years after the terrorist attacks.  —  MSNBC TV  —  • Have you no sense of decency, sir?  —  Sept. 5: Keith Olbermann says Bush will regret following in the footsteps of Donald Rumsfeld in comparing war critics to Nazis.
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Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Olbermann: "The President of the United States owes this country an apology"
John Lichfield / Independent:
Chirac calls for threat of Iran sanctions to be lifted  —  President Jacques Chirac has broken ranks with the US and Britain by calling for the suspension of UN Security Council action against Iran during negotiations over its nuclear programme.  —  In a radio interview yesterday before flying …
Discussion: Hot Air and The Corner
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Benny Avni / New York Sun:
Chirac Threatens a Separate Peace With Iran Regime
Discussion: Power Line and Atlas Shrugs
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The Senator's Gentile Rebuke  —  First came Sen. George Allen's Macaca Moment.  Then we learned of challenger Jim Webb's thoughts on the "horny" women of the Naval Academy.  —  Now, just when you thought Virginia's U.S. Senate race couldn't get any weirder, the Jews of Tunis are making a cameo.
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Enough Apologies  —  Already, angry Palestinian militants have assaulted seven West Bank and Gaza churches, destroying two of them.  In Somalia, gunmen shot dead an elderly Italian nun.  Radical clerics from Qatar to Qom have called, variously, for a "day of anger" or for worshipers to "hunt down" the pope and his followers.
Des Moines Register:
Warner: Kerry wrong on tax cuts  —  The ex-Virginia governor claims Democrats could appeal to more voters if they'd stop alienating the wealthy.  —  Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner said in Iowa on Monday that Democrats have taken the wrong approach in arguing against tax cuts enacted under President Bush …
Discussion: TAPPED and Ezra Klein
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Surge in Anti-Muslim Incidents Reported  —  Md., Va. and D.C. Among Top 10 Locations for Harassment  —  A national Muslim advocacy organization yesterday blamed a "negative and politically charged" environment on the Internet and talk radio for the 30 percent jump in anti-Muslim incidents reported to the group last year.
Conor Clarke / American Prospect:
School's Out  —  The latest fight over homework only underscores the basic futility of debates about education policy.  —  Ah, the start of a new school year.  No better time for an all-out assault on that perennial threat to 11 and 12 year-olds everywhere: homework.
Michael Powell / Washington Post:
Gore Unveils Global-Warming Plan  —  Cutting Emissions, Restructuring Industry and Farming Urged  —  Former vice president Al Gore laid out his prescription for an ailing and overheated planet Monday, urging a series of steps from freezing carbon dioxide emissions to revamping the auto industry, factories and farms.
Discussion: Redstate
Guardian:
Revealed: the tough interrogation techniques the CIA wants to use  —  Ed Pilkington in New York and Clare Dyer  —  Details emerged yesterday about the seven interrogation techniques the CIA is seeking to be allowed to apply to terror suspects.  Newsweek magazine reported that a New York lawyer …
 
 
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Philip Shenon / New York Times:
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Writer of 'Path to 9/11' Movie Hits Back at Media Coverage
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Capitol cops: Armed intruder had crack cocaine
BBC:
Budapest clashes as protest grows
Senator Bill Frist:
Americans Deserve Secure Borders
 

 
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