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Russ Buettner / New York Times:
For Giuliani, Ground Zero as Linchpin and Thorn — As Rudolph W. Giuliani campaigns around the country highlighting his stewardship of New York City after the Sept. 11 attacks, he is widely hailed for bringing order to a traumatized city. But he has also raised the hackles of rescue …
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Peter Hecht / Sacramento Bee:
Race for '08: Clinton widens her lead in California — New survey shows Clinton dominating the Democratic field in California - Obama said to be losing his luster — Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A4 — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is expanding …
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Christopher Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
Edwards, Foreclosure Critic, Has Investing Tie to Subprime Lenders — As a presidential candidate, Democrat John Edwards has regularly attacked subprime lenders, particularly those that have filed foreclosure suits against victims of Hurricane Katrina. But as an investor …
Anne Marie Kilday / Houston Chronicle:
Short of Purple Hearts, Navy tells vet to buy own — PEARLAND — Korean War veteran Nyles Reed, 75, opened an envelope last week to learn a Purple Heart had been approved for injuries he sustained as a Marine on June 22, 1952. — But there was no medal. Just a certificate and a form stating that the medal was "out of stock."
David Brooks / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: The Ascent of a Common Man — John Edwards is a culturally conservative anti-Washington liberal.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Opinion Journal:
Democrats and Cannibals — The Kos kids try but fail to devour party moderates. — Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar is today fond of quoting a famous Lyndon Johnson line: "You know the difference between cannibals and liberals? Cannibals only eat their enemies."
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Heading Right, Captain's Quarters, Brains and Eggs, Blue Crab Boulevard and Sabato's Crystal Ball
Noah Shachtman / Wired News:
Army Reports Brass, Not Bloggers, Breach Security — For years, the military has been warning that soldiers' blogs could pose a security threat by leaking sensitive wartime information. But a series of online audits, conducted by the Army, suggests that official Defense Department websites …
New York Times:
The Padilla Conviction — It is hard to disagree with the jury's guilty verdict against Jose Padilla, the accused, but never formally charged, dirty bomber. But it would be a mistake to see it as a vindication for the Bush administration's serial abuse of the American legal system in the name of fighting terrorism.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
What Did We Learn From Padilla? — The New York Times provides …
What Did We Learn From Padilla? — The New York Times provides …
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Althouse, New York Times, Balloon Juice, Wake up America, Democracy Now, Jules Crittenden and The Heretik
Cenk Uygur / The Huffington Post:
The Media's Accountability Moment — The traditional media has already blown it on the lead up to the Iraq War — which they now admit. They recently blew it on covering the so-called war critics who said the surge was making progress (they weren't war critics at all, in fact, one of them …
John Schwartz / New York Times:
A Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans Still at Risk — NEW ORLEANS — Six inches. — After two years and more than a billion dollars spent by the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild New Orleans's hurricane protection system, that is how much the water level is likely to be reduced …
Federal Reserve:
For immediate release — Financial market conditions have deteriorated, and tighter credit conditions and increased uncertainty have the potential to restrain economic growth going forward. In these circumstances, although recent data suggest that the economy has continued to expand at a moderate pace …
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Associated Press, WSJ.com, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Swamp, The Bonddad Blog, Daniel W. Drezner and Ezra Klein
Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers — Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to an Army base in Texas, U.S. officials said.
Confederate Yankee:
Yet Again: AFP's Photo Woes Continue — Fresh off of being caught trying to pass off unfired civilian ammunition as evidence of soldiers shooting into the home of an elderly Iraqi woman, the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has been caught once again in a photography scandal involving …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Construction Woes Plague U.S. Embassies — The new air-conditioning system in the $66 million U.S. Embassy in Mali broke down in June, sending office temperatures soaring to 100 degrees. An electrical fire erupted in the rehabilitated annex to the embassy in Rome.
Brad Kane / Naples Daily News:
I-75 Blog: Waiting on the Expressway Authority — Lee County Metropolitan Planning Organization meeting today to discuss controversial $10-million federal earmark for interchange at Coconut Road. The Southwest Florida Expressway Authority is meeting afterward to also discuss I-75, although in a more general sense.
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TPMmuckraker
Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly: "I think everybody's got to relax on all this gay stuff" … On the August 15 edition of his Fox News television show, Bill O'Reilly responded to a viewer's email questioning his August 14 remarks about Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM), who had, at a presidential forum the week before …
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The Huffington Post
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Best. Movie. Line. Ever. — "Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto." "Dolores Claiborne", not Hillary's forthcoming campaign slogan.
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Connecting.the.Dots
CNN:
Rescue efforts uncertain after three killed at Utah mine — HUNTINGTON, Utah (CNN) — Three rescue workers were killed and six injured Thursday night during an apparent "seismic bump" at a Utah mine, according to state and hospital officials. — The workers were attempting to reach six miners …
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