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Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
A Portrait of Bush as a Victim of His Own Certitude — In Bob Woodward's highly anticipated new book, "State of Denial," President Bush emerges as a passive, impatient, sophomoric and intellectually incurious leader, presiding over a grossly dysfunctional war cabinet and given …
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Brad DeLong's Semi …, american footprints, NO QUARTER, Matthew Yglesias, The Enigmatic Paradox and Mia Culpa
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Editor and Publisher:
Woodward Excerpt Appears in 'Post' With New 9/11 Bombshell — NEW YORK After being scooped by The New York Times, '60 Minutes' and New York's Daily News, The Washington Post comes out with its first excerpt/digest of Bob Woodward's upcoming blockbuster, "State of Denial," …
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
STATE OF DENIAL — In May, President Bush spoke in Chicago and gave a characteristically upbeat forecast: "Years from now, people will look back on the formation of a unity government in Iraq as a decisive moment in the story of liberty, a moment when freedom gained a firm foothold …
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Taylor Marsh, Amygdala, Don Surber, Norwegianity, The Political Pit Bull and War and Piece
Associated Press:
Police in India Say Pakistan's Spy Agency Planned Train Blasts — MUMBAI, India (AP) — The police officer leading the investigation into train bombings that killed more than 200 people in the Indian city of Mumbai in July accused Pakistan's spy agency on Saturday of masterminding the attack.
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BBC:
Pakistan 'role in Mumbai attacks' — Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind the train blasts in Mumbai in July that killed 186 people, Indian police say. — The attacks were planned by the ISI and carried out by the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, based in Pakistan, Mumbai's police chief said.
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Secular Blasphemy
Washington Post:
Rep. Foley Quits In Page Scandal — Six-term Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned yesterday amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit e-mails to at least one underage male former page. — Foley, who was considered likely to win reelection this fall, said in a three-sentence letter of resignation …
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Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Baghdad under curfew. — The situation in Baghdad calmed down soon after we made the previous post. — Saturday has been so quiet so far, never a single explosion happened as far as I know and there was hardly any sound of gunfire in or around our district in Baghdad.
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Ammar Karim / Agence France Presse:Baghdad under curfew as suicide bombers prowl
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Healing Iraq
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
With Senate Vote, Congress Passes Border Fence Bill — The Senate gave final approval last night to legislation authorizing the construction of 700 miles of double-layered fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, shelving President Bush's vision of a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration laws in favor of a vast barrier.
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Captain's Quarters, Scared Monkeys, Never Yet Melted, Rox Populi, The Corner and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Skip Navigation / clerk.house.gov:
Office of the Sixteenth Congressional District of Florida Formerly the Office of Representative Mark Foley — The Washington, D.C. office and the district offices of the Honorable Mark Foley will continue to serve the people of the Sixteenth Congressional District of Florida under the supervision …
Brendan Montague / Daily Mail:
China's 'cruelty olympics' causes international outrage — A bear struggles to retain its balance while gripping the two metal hoops, which look more like shackles than acrobatics equipment, as a wildlife park worker looks on and laughs. — This is just the latest shocking picture to emerge …
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Ed Driscoll.com
Investor's Business Daily:
97 Reasons Democrats Are Weak On Defense And Can't Be Trusted To Govern In Wartime — Today's Democrats are nothing like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, who with courage and decisive action kept on top of their jobs and aggressively confronted one national defense crisis after another.
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Macsmind
Balkinization:
Does the Military Commissions Act apply to citizens? — Many people have been asking about whether the new MCA applies to citizens. The answer seems pretty straightforward. — (1) Yes, a few parts of the MCA do apply to citizens; and — (2) the MCA is probably unconstitutional in many of its applications to citizens; and
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Teacher in Hiding After Attack on Islam Stirs Threats — A French high school philosophy teacher and author who carried out a scathing attack against the Prophet Muhammad and Islam in a newspaper commentary says he has gone into hiding under police protection after receiving a series of death threats …
Guardian:
How one of the biggest rows of modern times helped Danish exports to prosper — One year on, protagonists have few regrets despite deaths of more than 139 people — Luke Harding in Copenhagen — For years Denmark's Muslim community had been trying to get its own graveyard.
Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
Al Qaeda Increasingly Reliant on Media — AMMAN, Jordan — On the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Abu Omar received the call to jihad. Literally. — "There's a present for you," a voice on the other end of the phone said that morning, he recalled.
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Blue Crab Boulevard
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