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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The media's sudden intense interest in the House Intelligence Committee — The New Republic's Michael Crowley last night noticed something about Jane Harman that has evaded most Beltway commentators, including those who have suddenly developed such a bizarre and uncharacteristic interest …
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Washington Post:
Civil War in Iraq Near, Annan Says — The Iraq Study Group began two days of intensive behind-closed-doors deliberations yesterday as the White House conceded that Iraq has moved into a dangerous new phase of warfare requiring changes in strategy. In a sign of the growing global concern about Iraq's fate …
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
NBC Declares 'Civil War' In Iraq, McCaffrey: WH Rejection of Term 'Nonsense' — My antenna went up when Matt Lauer opened this morning's "Today" with these words: "Good morning. Civil war. A bloody weekend of sectarian clashes in Iraq and no sign it's letting up." — "Civil war"?
Washington Post:
Anbar Picture Grows Clearer, and Bleaker — The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda's rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months …
SeeDubya / JunkYardBlog:
Does AP Iraqi writer Qais al-Bashir have super powers? — It's looking like AP Baghdad correspondent Qais al-Bashir is the only one who can see this mysterious, non-existent "Captain Jamil Hussein". Well, it's not for certain yet, but al Bashir is the common element in four stories involving Captain Snuffleupagus.
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Confederate Yankee:
Drugs are Bad... Apparently, even nominal quantities of over-the-counter cold medications can cause you to see the most interesting things. — I know this, because this Reuters picture has all the earmarks of a crudely-edited PhotoShop, from the rather odd smudges and apparent artifacts around …
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Lawyers, Guns and Money
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Will / Attytood:
Who's unhinged now? — You could have seen this coming a mile away.
Who's unhinged now? — You could have seen this coming a mile away.
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Jesus' General
Saeed Ahmed / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Informant in shooting says he never bought drugs at house — Says he was asked to lie — The confidential informant on whose word Atlanta police raided the house of an 88-year-old woman is now saying he never purchased drugs from her house and was told by police to lie and say he did.
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Captain's Quarters, Reason Magazine, Patterico's Pontifications, QandO, First Draft, The Agitator and The Volokh Conspiracy
Louis Uchitelle / New York Times:
Lure of Great Wealth Affects Career Choices — A decade into the practice of medicine, still striving to become "a well regarded physician-scientist," Robert H. Glassman concluded that he was not making enough money. So he answered an ad in the New England Journal of Medicine from a business consulting firm hiring doctors.
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Althouse, Chronicle of the Conspiracy, Don Surber, Greg Mankiw's Blog, The American Scene and EconLog
The Blotter:
U.S. Embassy Asks Bush Twins to Leave Country — Joe Goldman and Rhonda Schwartz Report: — Amid a growing barrage of front-page headlines, U.S. embassy officials "strongly suggested" President Bush's twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush, cut short their trip to Buenos Aires because of security issues …
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Reuters, AMERICAblog, Wonkette, Taylor Marsh, World-O-Crap, TPMmuckraker, CorrenteWire, The Political Pit Bull, The News Blog and The Democratic Daily
Patrick J. Buchanan / Human Events:
Is Putin Being Set Up? — PARIS—Whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko had two goals: a long and lingering death for the KGB defector and pointing a finger of accusation for his killing right in the face of Vladimir Putin. — Which leads me to believe Putin had nothing to do with it.
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Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:
Attack Sparks Fire at Iraq Oil Facility — A mortar attack ignited a huge fire Monday night at an oil facility in northern Iraq, shutting the flow of crude oil to a major refinery, and a U.S. Air Force jet with one pilot aboard crashed in Anbar province, a hotbed of the Sunni-Arab insurgency, officials said.
Mohammed / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Rough days... The past four days during which we were under siege were long and rough for Baghdadis. Anxiety and fear haunted us at our homes and a flow of horrible news made the prison feel even tighter...it was a material and psychological siege that will not be easy to forget.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
CENTRISM....Yes, centrism can be a tic. Yes, it's often favored by DC pundits who automatically assume that bipartisanship is an inherent good regardless of its outcome. Yes, it can sometimes be a substitute for real thought. — That said, I hope the liberal blogosphere doesn't get into the habit …
New York Times:
Hezbollah Said to Help Shiite Army in Iraq — A senior American intelligence official said Monday that the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah had been training members of the Mahdi Army, the Iraqi Shiite militia led by Moktada al-Sadr. — The official said that 1,000 to 2,000 fighters …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. to Examine Its Use of NSA Wiretaps — Review Won't Address Program's Legality — The Justice Department's inspector general yesterday announced an investigation into the department's connections to the government's controversial warrantless surveillance program …
Star Bulletin:
Motorcycle officer dies of injuries — Steve Favela was badly hurt in a crash while escorting Bush's motorcade — Alexandre Da Silva and Rosemarie Bernardo adasilva@starbulletin.com — Honolulu motorcycle police officer Steve Favela died yesterday, five days after he was critically injured …