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Reuters:
Iraq's leaders agree on key U.S. benchmarks — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's top Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders announced on Sunday they had reached consensus on some key laws that Washington views as vital to fostering national reconciliation. — The agreement was the most significant …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Iraqis Reach Agreement On Reforms — It looks like the Iraqi political leadership remained on the job during their August recess. Representatives of all main sects in Iraq announced agreement on the most contentious issues, including a deal to initiate revenue sharing on oil production …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
IRAQI LEADERS ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT ON KEY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES — Five of Iraq's top leaders, including Prime Minister Maliki and representing Shia, Sunni and Kurdish interests, appeared today on Iraqi television and announced that they had reached agreement on several of the key legislative impasses …
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown On NBC: Worst Person In The World - Comedian Rush Limbaugh — Keith Olbermann made the most of the nationwide, broadcast debut of "Countdown." Thankfully, NBC chose not to water down the show for the masses and let Keith be Keith. Tonight's Worst Person In The World winners were as follows …
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Katy / Taylor Marsh:
They Don't Call it Local for Nothin' — **NO KEITH to LATE-LATE KEITH - updated below** — Countdown on tonight! — I know, I'm supposed to be on break, but this just fried me so I wanted to share it. — What am I doing today? Watching Keith and watching football, of course, along with reading and general loafing.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Stop Making Sense — Between 2000 and 2006, a specter haunted the community of fundamentalist Democrats. Members of this community looked around and observed their moral and intellectual superiority. They observed that their policies were better for the middle classes.
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Jim Himes / Firedoglake:FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jim Himes, Drew Westen and The Political Brain
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Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Obama: U.S. can't fail New Orleans again — NEW ORLEANS - Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday the country cannot fail New Orleans again and that as president, he would keep the city in mind every day. — "The words never again cannot be another empty phrase," he said in front …
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Douglas Brinkley / Washington Post:Reckless Abandonment — Over the past two years since Hurricane …
The Corner:
Re: Chertoff for AG — Kathryn — If the Administration could avoid a protracted confirmation bloodletting — a very big if — I think that replacing Alberto Gonzales with Michael Chertoff would be a very positive step. Gonzales' departure is long overdue.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The Obama Doctrine, Take 2 [hilzoy] — Oh dear: it's only my second day as a guest-blogger, and I'm already getting into a disagreement. Jamie links to an article he wrote in the Providence Journal about something he calls the Obama Doctrine. From his article:
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Moshe Ya'alon / Los Angeles Times:
Misinterpreting the Mideast — Until they get past their mistaken assumptions, foreign envoys can do little to calm the region. — After a few years of benign neglect, Israel is back on the itineraries of well-meaning foreign emissaries. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited …
Billy Hollis / QandO:
I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE ASHAMED OF OUR NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY — In the past, I've tried to give some benefit of the doubt to the Washington Post. Compared to the New York Times, I consider the folks at the Post downright sane. — Sane, however, clearly doesn't mean brave.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:Another Brace Of Dhimmitude From American Newspapers
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Associated Press:
Troops Cheer Call For Iraq Withdrawl — Governor's Call For U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq Greeted With Standing Ovation At National Guard Conference — (AP) A call by Puerto Rico's governor for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq earned a standing ovation from a conference of more than 4,000 National Guardsmen.
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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
They wait for us to run again — George W. Bush gave a speech about Iraq last week, and in the middle of it he did something long overdue: He attempted to appropriate the left's most treasured all-purpose historical analogy. Indeed, Vietnam is so ubiquitous in the fulminations of politicians …
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Max / MaxSpeak:
HELLO I MUST BE GOING — With regret I have to announce that my blogging days will end on September 3. New professional responsibilities will preclude any public pontificating. Aside from professional articles, the scope for my publishing activities is not yet clear. There may turn out to be none.
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Associated Press:
British move out of Basra police center, Shiite militia moves it — BASRA, Iraq: Shiite militiamen from the Mahdi Army took over the police joint command center in Basra on Sunday after British soldiers withdrew from the facility and handed control to the Iraqi police, witnesses said.
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Warner may back Dems' bill on withdrawal — WASHINGTON - GOP Sen. John Warner, who wants U.S. troops to start coming home from Iraq by Christmas, said Sunday he may support Democratic legislation ordering withdrawals if President Bush refuses to set a return timetable soon.
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John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Welcome To Bedwetter Nation — We are now officially a nation of hysterics: … This is the real legacy of the last 7 years- a nation so whipped up into a frenzy over terrorism that you, me, anyone could be charged with a felony as long as some hysterical bedwetter somewhere thought …
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