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12:55 PM ET, September 29, 2006

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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Book Says Bush Ignored Urgent Warning on Iraq  —  The White House ignored an urgent warning in September 2003 from a top Iraq adviser who said that thousands of additional American troops were desperately needed to quell the insurgency there, according to a new book by Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter and author.
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William Hamilton / Washington Post:
Card Urged Bush to Replace Rumsfeld, Woodward Says  —  Former White House chief of staff Andrew Card on two occasions tried and failed to persuade President Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to a new book by Bob Woodward that depicts senior officials of the Bush administration …
CBS4Denver:
Bob Woodward: Bush Misleads On Iraq  —  Tells 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace Kissinger Is Regular Visitor To White House  —  CBS News: Facts About Iraq  —  CBS News: Fallen U.S. Solidiers List  —  (CBS News) NEW YORK Veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward tells Mike Wallace that the Bush administration …
White House:
Remarks by the President at Bob Riley for Governor Luncheon  —  Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for coming.  It is a joy to be back in Alabama.  And I appreciate your warm welcome.  I am proud to stand with one of the nation's finest governors …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats See Strength in Bucking Bush  —  The Democratic vote in the Senate on Thursday against legislation governing the treatment of terrorism suspects showed that party leaders believe that President Bush's power to wield national security as a political issue is seriously diminished.
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Bush Attacks 'Party of Cut and Run'
MSNBC:
Senate passes bill on terror detainee trials  —  Bush backs legislation, had gone to Congress to lobby for it  —  WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday endorsed President Bush's plans to prosecute and interrogate terror suspects, all but sealing congressional approval for legislation …
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Susan Schmidt / Washington Post:
Abramoff Put White House Contacts at 400  —  Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his colleagues billed their clients for more than 400 contacts with White House officials between 2001 and 2004, according to a report released yesterday by the House Government Reform Committee.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and Roll Call
Washington Post:
Ugly Words  —  Past and present in the Virginia Senate race  —  DID REPUBLICAN Sen. George Allen use racial slurs years ago?  Did his Democratic challenger, James Webb?  Does it matter, in a race between two candidates with long public records and substantial differences on Iraq, health care, the economy and other critical issues?
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James L. / Swing State Project:
VA-Sen: Say Hello to Spitgate  —  First it was Macacagate.  Then it was Deerheadgate, and, uh, Rugbygate.  The slow drip of questions surrounding George Allen's racist past have turned into an all-out deluge this week with witness after witness stepping out of the woodwork and revealing more incidents of Allen's legacy of racism.
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
James Webb's Sex And N-Bomb-A-Palooza!
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Oberstar Fails The Pork Test  —  The House has considered a new Coast Guard appropriation (HR 5681), but they did so under a suspension of the rules.  This parliamentary manuever allows Representatives to undermine the new rule just created that forces them to identify their earmarks in the Congressional Record.
Discussion: Tapscott's Copy Desk
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Andrew Roth / Club for Growth:
Earmark Rule Evaded?  —  Last night, I learned from a source on the Hill that the new earmark reform rule was already being manipulated by a pork-loving Congressman.  —  The longer version of this story is detailed here by Captain Ed. The shorter version is that a bill was debated …
UPI:
UNIFIL confronts Israeli troops  —  U.N. peacekeeping forces in south Lebanon intervened for the first time Thursday with Israeli forces who arrested journalists in violation of Resolution 1701.  —  Israel has not completed its total withdrawal behind the Blue Line dividing the two countries …
Discussion: EU Referendum and Hot Air
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Wildlife Waste Is Major Water Polluter, Studies Say  —  Does a bear leave its waste in the woods?  —  Of course.  So do geese, deer, muskrats, raccoons and other wild animals.  And now, such states as Virginia and Maryland have determined that this plays a significant role in water pollution.
wmur.com:
Students Start Petition To Remove UNH Professor For 9/11 Views  —  Professor Says Government May Have Had Knowledge Of Attacks  —  DURHAM, N.H. — A small group of students has started a petition to remove a University of New Hampshire professor who believes that Bush administration officials planned …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Beltway Democrats are seriously flawed, but the election is still critically important  —  (updated below)  —  Now that the torture and detention bill will become law, it is necessary to focus on the political implications of what happened yesterday and, more broadly, what has been done …
Michelle Malkin:
Malkin Derangement Syndrome  —  I have blogged before about the obsessed UNC professor Eric Muller.  —  He and his friends at Wonkette have sunk to a new low (Guess insulting me with ping-pong ball jokes wasn't enough).  As a response to my column this week on Charlotte Church …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Wonkette smears Michelle again
Discussion: Wizbang
KNTV-TV:
Squirrels Go On Attack At South Bay Park  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — An aggressive squirrel pounced on a 4-year-old boy in an attack last week in Cuesta Park in Mountain View, Calif.  —  The attack happened as the boy's mother unwrapped a muffin during a picnic.  —  SLIDESHOW: Squirrel Attacks Child
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Media Anarchy Has Its Downside  —  We got freedom but lost standards.  —  We are talking past each other, the left and right in America.  I suppose we always did, but I'm noticing it more.  We have different intellectual styles (rather too emotive, arguably too linear), start with different assumptions, and recognize different data.
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Take UK troops out of Iraq, senior military told ministers  —  Army chiefs wanted to move forces to Afghanistan but were prevented for political reasons  —  Senior military officers have been pressing the government to withdraw British troops from Iraq and concentrate on what they now regard …
New York Times:
Pirro & Pirro, a Partnership of Love, Power and Distrust  —  To hear Jeanine F. Pirro's supporters tell it, she is a wronged woman leg-shackled to a loser, an ambitious and effective wife brought low by her badly behaved husband, Albert.  —  Now her fears about his philandering have set off …
 
 
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David Holman / American Spectator:
Murtha and the FBI: The Director's Cut
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brusselsjournal.com:
Death Threats in Brussels, France (Robert Redeker)
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Fausta's blog
The Sideshow:
The Bill of Rights  —  Congress shall make no law respecting …
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Why Bill Clinton Pushed Back
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Daily Kos
Austin Bay / TCS Daily:
The Sword Is Mightier Than the Pen
Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
TNR'S CLINTON PROBLEM.  What is it that so infuriates the folks …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
House Approves Warrantless Wiretap Law
Guardian:
Taliban attacks double after Pakistan's deal with militants
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
Rumsfeld: No one anticipated insurgency's strength
Discussion: Making Light and Hit and Run
David Bauder / Associated Press:
'Survivor' Ends Segregation Game
Discussion: Althouse
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Senate Approves Broad New Rules to Try Detainees
Discussion: Salon: War Room
William Bender / zwire.com:
Poll: Weldon, Sestak locked in dead heat
Discussion: Daily Kos
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Iraq Contractor's Work Is Further Criticized
The Nation:
Suppressing the Vote  —  With Election Day around the corner …
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill
New York Times:
Iraqi Journalists Add Laws to List of Dangers
 

 
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