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Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals — Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive assessment …
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Porter ties U.S. withdrawal from Iraq to $9 gasoline — Lawmaker reports on his trip to country — WASHINGTON — Gasoline prices could rise to about $9 per gallon if the United States withdraws troops from Iraq prematurely, Rep. Jon Porter said he was told on a trip to Iraq that ended this week.
Faiz / Think Progress:
INTERVIEW: Tauscher Returns From Iraq, Warns Of 'Green Zone Fog' — Shortly after returning from Iraq, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) conducted an interview with ThinkProgress. She said she conveyed three things to Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker: 1) "the American people …
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Michael Asher / DailyTech:
Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory — Comprehensive survey of published climate research reveals changing viewpoints — In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Terrorism Policies Split Democrats — Anger Mounts Within Party Over Inaction on Bush Tactics — A growing clamor among rank-and-file Democrats to halt President Bush's most controversial tactics in the fight against terrorism has exposed deep divisions within the party …
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New York Times:
Clinton Donor Under a Cloud in Fraud Case — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said yesterday that it would give to charity $23,000 it had received from a prominent Democratic donor, and review thousands of dollars more that he had raised, after learning that the authorities in California …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
When Exactly Did Art Die? — At least the latest travesty in the art world comes Down Under rather than the US, but that only shows how global the collapse of art from a meaningful form to an anti-Christian realm of bigots has become. The latest examples are entrants in the Blake Prize competition …
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Daimnation!
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
For Idaho Paper And Reporter, Craig Story Posed a Moral Dilemma — Dan Popkey, the Idaho Statesman reporter who spent eight months digging into allegations that Larry Craig had engaged in gay sexual encounters, recalls a recent stroll around the Republican senator's childhood ranch with a couple who have known him for decades.
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David Ehrenstein / Los Angeles Times:
Our (not so) private Idahos — Sen. Larry Craig's arrest shows …
Our (not so) private Idahos — Sen. Larry Craig's arrest shows …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Bush's Lost Iraqi Election — Ayad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq, hinted in a television interview last weekend at one of the war's least understood turning points: America's decision not to challenge Iranian intervention in Iraq's January 2005 elections.
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The Atlantic Online:
The Ignatius Cycle — David Ignatius says that in retrospect we should have done more to cheat on Iyad Allawi's behalf in the January 2005 elections. Atrios seems to think he can debunk this talking point by simply noting that, in fact, the US intervened massively on his behalf …
Time:
Edwards On Track in Iowa — John Edwards is betting that a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses will catapult him into national contention, and so far his strategy in the state is on track. A new TIME poll of likely Iowa caucus goers, taken a week after Edwards' seven-day …
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Tova Andrea Wang / Washington Post:
A Rigged Report on U.S. Voting? — After the 2000 Florida election debacle, Congress established a body called the Election Assistance Commission to improve voting and democracy in this country. Two years ago, the commission approached me about doing a project that would take a preliminary look …
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The Next Hurrah
209.157.64.200:
We'll Sue Murtha, Chessani Lawyer Vows — If Marine Col. Jeffrey Chessani is exonerated of the charges against him he may haul Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman John Murtha, into court, suing him for libel, one of his lawyers told NewsMax.com. — Brian Rooney, one of the attorneys …
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Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Pentagon won't make surge recommendation to Bush — WASHINGTON — In a sign that top commanders are divided over what course to pursue in Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday that it won't make a single, unified recommendation to President Bush during next month's strategy assessment …
Michelle Malkin:
Mystery at Goose Creek update: Federal grand jury investigates — Remember the accused pipe bomb boys arrested on the road to Goose Creek Naval Weapons Station in South Carolina? Here's a new update. The Tampa Tribune reports today that a federal grand jury investigating the case has asked …
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The Jawa Report
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Associated Press:
Smoking Gun from the Future: — On 8/26 at about 1200 hours I was working a plainclothes detail involving deviant conduct in the men's room at the Pepsi Center during the Democratic Convention. We had received civilian complaints of disorderly persons using this particular facility and had made several arrests.
Washington Post:
Tapping Into The Secrets Of the Stall — Experts Say Anonymous Sex In Public Places Is A Compulsive Behavior — Consider the bathroom stall, that utilitarian public enclosure of cold steel and drab hue. — It can be a world of untold secrets, codes and signals as invitations to partake.
Greg Palast:
"They wanted them poor niggers out of there." — New Orleans two years after … It wasn't a pretty statement. But I wasn't looking for pretty. I'd taken my investigative team to New Orleans to meet with Malik Rahim. Pretty isn't Malik's concern. — We needed an answer to a weird, puzzling and horrific discovery.
Kyle Teamey / Washington Post:
The Washington Clock Runs Down — In early 2005, Americans still seemed interested in the war in Iraq. If I mentioned that I had been a soldier there, they wanted to learn more about the country and how our troops were faring. By the end of 2005, as the violence continued to rise …
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The Atlantic Online