memeorandum: WHY YOU SHOULD APPLAUD WALMART'S DRUG DISCOUNT (Greg Gutfeld/The Huffington Post)

2:35 PM ET, September 25, 2006

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Iraq Report Rattles Races — Twist Hits Lieberman Before Speech On War — A conclusion by American intelligence agencies that the U.S. invasion of Iraq spawned a new generation of Islamic radicalism threw Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman a curve on the eve of a major campaign speech he intends to deliver today on the war.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Ned Lamont for Senate, Middle Earth Journal, LamontBlog and DownWithTyranny!

Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Lieberman attacks Lamont's Iraq plans

Discussion: tpmcafe.com, LamontBlog and The Bullwinkle Blog

Salon:

Revisiting GOP attacks on President Clinton — The Internet makes it much more difficult than ever before to fabricate history because virtually everything is recorded and so easily discovered. Those developments, however, did not deter Jonah Goldberg from writing this demonstrably false historical claim …

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and QandO

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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:

Who wanted to "cut and run" from Somalia? — My post this morning on Salon concerns the accusation voiced this weekend by Chris Wallace in his Fox News interview with President Clinton (a favorite accusation of neoconservatives) that Clinton "emboldened" Al Qaeda when he withdrew American troops …

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Obsidian Wings, NO QUARTER, The Democratic Daily, Fraters Libertas, Jon Swift, Redstate, Extreme Mortman and The Rosett Report

Newsweek:

The Rise of Jihadistan — Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they—and Al Qaeda's leaders—can operate freely. — You don't have to drive very far from Kabul these days to find the Taliban.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, Alternate Brain, Michelle Malkin, The Agonist and skippy the bush kangaroo

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John Kerry / Opinion Journal:

Losing Afghanistan — We're not adequately fighting the war we should be fighting. — As we marked the fifth anniversary of the worst attack on American soil, there was enormous discussion of the lessons of 9/11. But after the bagpipes stopped, and news coverage turned to other issues …

Discussion: PoliPundit.com, The Strata-Sphere, The Sideshow, The Democratic Daily, JunkYardBlog and Decision '08

Jon Henke / The Allen Blog:

Webb's Dirty Tricksters: Salon — Sadly, the Webb campaign is continuing their attempt to make this Virginia Senate race about lies and rumor-mongering, rather than about issues. In Salon today, an anti-tobacco and environmental activist claims Senator Allen "used "N-word" in college".

Discussion: Riehl World View, Blue Crab Boulevard, Stop The ACLU and Hot Air

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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:

McCain Names Practices Detainee Bill Would Bar — Senator Says 3 Interrogation Methods Are Among the 'Extreme Measures' the Plan Would Outlaw — A Republican senator who played a leading role in drafting new rules for U.S. interrogations of terrorism suspects said yesterday that he believes …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, QandO, The Anonymous Liberal, TPMmuckraker, The Caucus, Balloon Juice, The American Street, Power Line, Gun Toting Liberal, Hit and Run and Hot Air

Robert Burns / Associated Press:

U.S. Army extends Iraq duty for 4,000 — WASHINGTON - In a new sign of mounting strain from the war in Iraq, the Army has extended the combat tours of about 4,000 soldiers who would otherwise be returning home, defense officials said Monday. — The 1st Brigade of 1st Armored Division …

Discussion: All Spin Zone

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David S. Cloud / New York Times:
Unit Makes Do as Army Strives to Plug Gaps

Discussion: AMERICAblog, Thought Theater and The News Blog

Peter Spiegel / Los Angeles Times:

Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short — An extraordinary action by the chief of staff sends a message: The Pentagon must increase the budget or reduce commitments in Iraq and elsewhere. — WASHINGTON — The Army's top officer withheld a required 2008 budget plan from Pentagon leaders …

Discussion: politburo diktat 2.0, driftglass, New York Times, The Mahablog, Andrew Sullivan, Think Progress, Outside The Beltway, State of the Day and The Caucus

David Espo / Associated Press:

Retired officers to criticize Rumsfeld — WASHINGTON - Retired military officers on Monday are expected to bluntly accuse Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld of bungling the war in Iraq, saying U.S. troops were sent to fight without the best equipment and that critical facts were hidden from the public.

Discussion: Firedoglake, All Spin Zone and Blue Crab Boulevard

Washington Post:

Millions of Seniors Facing Medicare 'Doughnut Hole' — Millions of older Americans are confronting a temporary break in their Medicare drug coverage this month that will require them to pay the full cost of their prescriptions or face the painful prospect of going without.

Discussion: TAPPED, Political Animal, Matthew Yglesias, Liberal Values, Ankle Biting Pundits and The Next Hurrah

Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:

Fortress Switzerland — The people of Switzerland seem to have taken an object lesson from the Swedes and the British, and have decided to step back from the brink of the immigration cliff. According to AFP, Swiss voters have strongly approved a tightening of asylum laws:

Discussion: The American Thinker and Noblesse Oblige

Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:

U.N. shows why it's incapable of reform — The last intervention in public affairs Ted Turner made was a month or two back, when he recounted what an agreeable vacation he'd had in Kim Jong Il's North Korea. (I sent him a postcard saying, "Wish you were still there.")

Discussion: Dinocrat and Power Line

Michael Slackman / New York Times:

U.N. Force Is Treading Lightly on Lebanese Soil — Italian soldiers in Lebanon say that for now, they cannot even set up a checkpoint. Instead, they alert the Lebanese Army of any suspicious cars. — One month after a United Nations Security Council resolution ended a 34-day war between Israel …

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Captain's Quarters, Yourish.com, A Blog For All, Secular Blasphemy, Little Green Footballs and Hyscience

William Glaberson / New York Times:

In Tiny Courts of New York, Abuses of Law and Power — Some of the courtrooms are not even courtrooms: tiny offices or basement rooms without a judge's bench or jury box. Sometimes the public is not admitted, witnesses are not sworn to tell the truth, and there is no word-for-word record of the proceedings.

Discussion: Majikthise, TalkLeft and Brendan Nyhan

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Chris Wallace, Caught Off Balance? — Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said that he was stunned when Bill Clinton accused him of a "conservative hit job" after he challenged the former president on his record in fighting terrorism. — "I thought it was a fair, balanced and not especially …

Discussion: Real Clear Politics, CBS News, FishBowlDC, All Things Beautiful, The Jawa Report, The Corner, TVNewser, The Glittering Eye, Power Line, NewsBusters.org and Hot Air

J. Max Robins / Broadcasting & Cable:

A Modified MSNBC? — There has been speculation for months about MSNBC's future as a 24-hour cable news channel—or, maybe more to the point, its lack thereof. But one indication may have come last July, when the 10-year-old network launched a newsmagazine, MSNBC Investigates.

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard

Baseball Crank:

POLITICS: How Wrong Was Josh Marshall? — Plenty Wrong. — Now that it has been revealed that the main source for Bob Novak's column "outing" Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee was Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's right-hand man at the State Department and (like Novak) no fan of the Iraq War …

Discussion: JustOneMinute and Media Blog