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President Hugo Chavez Delivers Remarks at the U.N. General Assembly — SPEAKER: HUGO CHAVEZ, PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA — CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): ... over our heads. I had considered reading from this book, but for the sake of time, I shall just leave it as a recommendation. It reads easily.
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Meryl Yourish / Yourish.com:
35,000 at a pro-Israel rally is not news — Can you find a news source for the rally against Ahmadinejad at the UN yesterday? Correction: Can you find a non-Jewish media source, or a non-blogger source, for the rally? — I can't. Except for the New York Sun. — I checked AP. Nothing.
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Annie Karni / New York Sun:
Thousands of Israel Supporters Rally for Release of Kidnapped Soldiers — As world leaders convened for the second day of the United Nations General Assembly, tens of thousands of supporters of Israel gathered across the street from United Nations headquarters to protest President Ahmadinejad …
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
House passes bill to make voters show ID — WASHINGTON - The House voted Wednesday to require Americans to show proof of citizenship in order to vote, and the Senate moved to build a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border as Republicans sharpened attacks on illegal immigration before the midterm elections.
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New York Times:
Keep Away the Vote — One of the cornerstones of the Republican Party's strategy for winning elections these days is voter suppression, intentionally putting up barriers between eligible voters and the ballot box. The House of Representatives took a shameful step in this direction yesterday …
CNN:
Bush would send troops inside Pakistan to catch bin Laden — NEW YORK (CNN) — President Bush said Wednesday he would order U.S. forces to go after Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan if he received good intelligence on the fugitive al Qaeda leader's location. — "Absolutely," Bush said.
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Allen's Mother Revealed Jewish Heritage to Him Last Month — Henrietta "Etty" Allen said Wednesday that she concealed her upbringing as a Jew in North Africa from her children, including Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), until a conversation across the dining room table in late August.
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Jon Henke / The Allen Blog:
Jewish Leaders Blast Anti-Semitic Webb Campaign Tactics — The shockingly hateful language emanating from the Webb campaign, Webb allies and Webb fundraisers continues. From Jewish people, to Senator Allen and his family, to Virginians across the state, Webb's allies are trying to be offensive to them...
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New York Times:
Poll Finds Most Americans Displeased With Congress — With the midterm elections less than seven weeks away, Americans have an overwhelmingly negative view of the Republican-controlled Congress, with substantial majorities saying that they disapprove of the job it is doing and that its members …
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Nature:
Libya's travesty — Six medical workers in Libya face execution. It is not too late for scientists to speak up on their behalf. — Imagine that five American nurses and a British doctor have been detained and tortured in a Libyan prison since 1999, and that a Libyan prosecutor called …
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Heather Mac Donald / New York Post:
MIKE GETS HALFWAY RADICAL — PROBLEMATIC ANTI-POVERTY PLAN — MAYOR Bloomberg has broken the most fiercely guarded taboo in the poverty industry. Unfortunately, his own solution to long-term poverty is worse than the ones he proposes to supplant. — The mayor wants to start paying …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Independence Days — American politics reached a critical turn last week. The revolt of several Republican senators against President Bush's insistence on a free hand in treating terrorist detainees signaled the emergence of an independent force in elections and government.
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FactCheck.org:
False Claims About Body Armor — A new group falsely accuses Republicans of voting against body armor for troops. Both sides have misled the public about this issue. — Summary — A new ad claims Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia "voted against giving our troops" modern body armor.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Bombshell: ABC independently confirms success of CIA "torture" tactics — Ace e-mailed me the instant this finished airing on O'Reilly with the subject header "must record". He was right, as you'll see. — Anti-"torture" absolutists like Sullivan adamantly deny that harsh tactics produce reliable information.
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Amends Remark on Torture Case — In an embarrassing turnabout, the Department of Justice backed away Wednesday from a denial by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales of responsibility for the treatment of a Canadian who was seized by American authorities in 2002.
Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
Suits Say U.S. Impeded Audits for Oil Leases — Four government auditors who monitor leases for oil and gas on federal property say the Interior Department suppressed their efforts to recover millions of dollars from companies they said were cheating the government.
Guy Dinmore / Financial Times:
CIA 'refused to operate' secret jails — The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention centre at Guantánamo this month in part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facilities …
Washington Post:
Ehrlich Wants Paper Ballots For Nov. Vote — State Election Chief Says Staff Toiling to Fix Electronic Glitches — A week after the primary election was plagued by human error and technical glitches, Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) called yesterday for the state to scrap …
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