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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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Tony Batt / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
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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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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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
FOOT TAPPING AND BATHROOM CRUISING....Yesterday one of my readers emailed to say he was annoyed by all the ignorant blog commentary emanating from straight young whippersnappers on the subject of Larry Craig's restroom shenanigans in Minnesota: … Today, non-whippersnapper blogger …
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Unfogged
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 …
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Firedoglake
Amanda / Think Progress:
Conservative 'Homophobic Hypocrisy' In Craig Scandal
Conservative 'Homophobic Hypocrisy' In Craig Scandal
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Capitol Briefing
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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
White House Is Gaining Confidence It Can Win Fight in Congress Over Iraq Policy
White House Is Gaining Confidence It Can Win Fight in Congress Over Iraq Policy
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The Carpetbagger Report
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.
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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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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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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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 …
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 …
New York Times:
Locked, Loaded and Looney — As the Army's suicide rate hits record levels in the Iraq war, there's small wonder practically everyone in Congress wants to deal with the parallel emerging crisis of depressed veterans tempted to take their own lives. Everyone, that is, except Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma.
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Thompson announcement date likely today — Fred Thompson's campaign-in-waiting will hold a 4 p.m. conference call today with supporters to brief them on plans for the former Tennessee senator's presidential announcement next week, according to an e-mail obtained by Politico.com.
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.