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7:25 PM ET, September 21, 2006

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Reuters:
Leading Bush critic at home calls Chavez a "thug"  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of President George W. Bush's fiercest political opponents at home took his side on Thursday, calling Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a "thug" for his remark that Bush is like the devil.
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Emile Milne / house.gov:
CONG.  RANGEL CONDEMNS CHAVEZ'S ATTACK ON BUSH  —  WASHINGTON - I want to express my extreme displeasure with statements by the President of Venezuela attacking U.S. President George Bush in such a personal and disparaging way during his remarks at the United Nations General Assembly.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Rangel warns Chavez not to attack "my president"; Update: Gratuitous DU thread added  —  This would have meant a lot more coming from a guy who hadn't referred to Bush in the past as "our Bull Connor."  —  His point is actually quite weak.  Barack Obama, to his credit …
Darwin Danielson / radioiowa.com:
Harkin defends Venezuelan President's U-N speech against Bush  —  Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat, today defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's United Nations speech in which Chavez called President George Bush the devil.  Harkin said the comments were "incendiary", then went on to say …
WCBS-TV:
Vitriolic Chavez Offers Discounted Oil To NYC Poor
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Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Agreement Is Reached on Detainee Bill  —  Three Republican senators said this afternoon that they had reached an agreement with the Bush administration on legislation to clarify which interrogation techniques can be used against terror suspects and to establish trial procedures for those in military custody.
Discussion: Lean Left, TPMmuckraker and Daily Kos
Little Green Footballs:
Fauxtography at the United Nations  —  Salam Daher, also known as "Green Helmet Guy," the corpse-posing ghoul from Qana photographed by discredited Reuters propagandist Adnan Hajj, makes it to the podium of the UN General Assembly via Hizballah's poodle, Emile Lahoud: … UPDATE at 9/21/06 11:05:53 am:
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Brian C. Ledbetter / Snapped Shot:
FAUXTOGRAPHY IN SEARCH OF A POINT  —  Lebanese President Emile Lahoud is using a photograph from Qana to illustrate a point in his address to the UnTIed Nations.  I'll do my best to pull a transcript of his speech to find out what the context in which he's using it is, but needless to say …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
House bill to require voter ID
Discussion: Say Anything and Blogs for Bush
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
PICTURE IDs....Stephen Bainbridge is unhappy over Democratic opposition …
Discussion: TAPPED
Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press:
Wal-Mart to Sell Generic Drugs for $4  —  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Wal-Mart announced today that it will start a test program in Florida, where it will sell generic prescription drugs for $4 for a 30-day supply.  The test will start tomorrow in 65 Tampa Bay-area stores and is to expand to the whole state by January.
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Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
Bush and GOP Making Gains Among Voters  —  The turnaround is a sign that the election battle in November could be fierce.  But history shows Democrats remain poised to claim seats.  —  WASHINGTON — President Bush's approval rating has reached its highest level since January …
rushlimbaugh.com:
Ahmadinejad Prays for End of World in UN Speech  —  RUSH: Let me go back to Ahmadinejad, his speech last night.  First thing I saw was a couple of wire reports.  One from the Associated Press: Iran Tells UN Nuclear Program Peaceful.  I read the piece, and compared to what Ahmadinejad actually said, they leave it out!
Sam Coates / Times of London:
Assisted suicide bid for the depressed  —  Founder of Swiss clinic that helped 54 Britons to die wants the law widened beyond the terminally ill  —  BRITONS suffering from depression could soon be legally helped to die in Switzerland if a test case in the country's Supreme Court is successful next month.
Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters:
U.S. threatened to bomb Pakistan after 9/1: Musharraf  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said that after the September 11 attacks the United States threatened to bomb his country if it did not cooperate with America's campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Jason Horowitz / New York Observer:
Can Mark Warner Find Some Money Hillary Dropped?  —  Presidential Candidate Attempts to Squeeze Sen. Clinton's Donors; And He's Not Bashful; Trawls at Rattner-Whites With Effron, Holbrooke  —  Like some aspiring small-town actor called back for an audition, Mark Warner returned to New York …
Discussion: TAPPED and The Left Coaster
Matthew Yglesias:
Mahmoun's Style  —  I keep talking about this with people in real life, but it deserves a blog mention as well — Mahmoun Ahmadinejad has a pretty sweet hipster style.  It all starts with a beard not unlike the one I and many of my twentysomething male friends sport.  But it goes deeper.
RADAR:
BILL O'REILLY'S DEATH WISH  —  Bill O'Reilly may be the most fervent flag waver on cable—a patriot who believes in torturing terrorists and profiling all Muslims.  But is that enough to get him targeted by Al Qaeda?  —  The loofah-loving Fox News host is raising plenty of eyebrows around …
Opinion Journal:
Poor-Mouthing Prosperity  —  Does today's free market create too much insecurity?  —  BY BRINK LINDSEY  —  Out of the stagflation and malaise of the 1970s emerged a new and improved American economic system—less regulated and unionized, more globalized and entrepreneurial than the old triumvirate …
Discussion: Political Animal and Coyote Blog
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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