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William Branigin / Washington Post:
Senator Craig Announces Resignation — Embattled Idaho Republican Lawmaker to Step Down Sept 30 — Sen. Larry E. Craig, the Idaho Republican caught in a police crackdown on sexual solicitation in an airport men's room, announced his resignation from the Senate today …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Clearing the Decks — The new GOP formula: purge and elect. — Republicans are so intent on pushing scandal-plagued members of Congress out of office and far from the media spotlight that the entire party—from the White House to congressional leaders to the Republican National Committee …
Washington Post:
GOP Faces Dimming Prospects in '08 — A Senate electoral playing field that was already wide open for 2008 has become considerably more perilous for Republicans with the retirement of Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.) and the resignation of Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho).
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Craig ouster marks new GOP strategy — The rush to judge Idaho Sen. Larry Craig this week was most severe among his own Republican colleagues. — Craig officially ended his 17-year tenure in the Senate on Saturday after party leaders abandoned him in the midst of a sex scandal …
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William Yardley / New York Times:
Idaho Senator to Step Down Over Sex Sting
Idaho Senator to Step Down Over Sex Sting
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Craig resigns — BOISE, Idaho (CNN) — Sen. Larry Craig …
Craig resigns — BOISE, Idaho (CNN) — Sen. Larry Craig …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Grim Panel — Indeed, it is very grim. — And while the Senate Leader is technically Harry Reid, the real leaders of the Democratic party at the moment are Senators Obama and Clinton. They can get press (if not always fair and accurate press) any time they want.
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Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Withdrawal Predictions — There was a high powered panel …
Withdrawal Predictions — There was a high powered panel …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Thompson Plans to Crash This Party — Fred D. Thompson, the soon-to-be-official presidential contender, has come under a good deal of criticism in New Hampshire this week for scheduling his formal announcement for next Thursday morning and thus skipping the Republican debate in Manchester on Wednesday night.
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Politico Partners / The Politico:
State of the States: Fred's coming to town
State of the States: Fred's coming to town
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Joy Powell / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
19 bicyclists arrested after rally turns into melee — Officers watching the event in downtown Minneapolis say they were attacked, escalating the confrontation. — Police arrested 19 bicyclists, including three juveniles, after a protest ride took an ugly turn in downtown Minneapolis Friday night.
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Tina Susman / Los Angeles Times:
Iraqi civilian deaths climb again — War-related fatalities rose in August, the second month in a row, suggesting that the U.S. troop increase has had little effect. — BAGHDAD — Bombings, sectarian slayings and other violence related to the war killed at least 1,773 Iraqi civilians in August …
Turkishdailynews:
The Koran and non-Muslims - myths versus facts — Religious militants go angry and violent not because they read their religious texts, but because they focus on the harsher parts of those texts since they are already angry and violent for a myriad of reasons. — Mustafa Akyol
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Making Light:
Hugo! — Patrick's won the Hugo! —for Best Editor (long form), that is. He just phoned from Japan to tell me. I'll give you more news as it happens—the ceremony is still going on. — Yay, Patrick! — Rocket rocket rocket rocket rocket!
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Free Republic:
Don't frighten the horses: What Larry Craig tells conservatives about ourselves. — Don't frighten the horses; what Larry Craig tells conservatives about ourselves. — Seems to me that confusing politics and Law has led many posters into a welter of contradictions.
New York Times:
Bush Fights Back on Iraq Debate — President Bush, appearing confident about sustaining support for his Iraq strategy, met at the Pentagon on Friday with the uniformed leaders of the nation's armed services and then pointedly accused the war's opponents of politicizing the debate over what to do next.
Martin Fletcher / Times of London:
Welcome to the new US embassy — It's bigger than Saddam's palace and, with a cinema, gym and pool, is the safest and smartest place to live in Iraq... Baghdad is a city of ruins - of burnt-out homes, of shops wrecked by suicide bombs, of the crumbling shells of Saddam-era palaces …
Michelle Malkin:
Geraldo Rivera unhinged — The Boston Globe has a fawning Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-ish profile of Fox News Channel's Geraldo Rivera. In between musing about his favorite pair of soft Uggs ("I've worn these in Tora Bora and Somalia," he says, admiring the suede slip-ons with the sheepskin lining.