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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Breaking: GOP Senate Leader McConnell Says Craig Won't Resign If Cleared — Crazier and crazier. Now GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell has gone and said at a press conference and said that Larry Craig won't be resigning if he's ultimately exonerated of the charges against him.
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Bathroom Sex Senator Hires Vick's Lawyer — BOISE, Idaho — Sen. Larry Craig says he may still fight for his Senate seat, a spokesman says — if the lawmaker can clear his name with the Senate Ethics Committee and a Minnesota court where he pleaded guilty after his arrest in an airport men's room sex sting.
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Duff Wilson / New York Times:
Craig Moves to Block Senate Ethics Complaint — Lawyers for Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho delivered a letter to the Senate ethics committee today asking the committee to reject a complaint relating to his guilty plea in an airport sex sting operation. The move opens a potentially ugly battle between …
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Fox News:
Dems Dirty Donor Norman Hsu Fails to Show for Bail Reduction Hearing Leading to Speculation He's On the Run — DEVELOPING STORY: California businessman Norman Hsu, a former New York apparel executive and major contributor to Democratic candidates and causes, failed to appear …
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Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
Staging Nukes for Iran? — Why the hubbub over a B-52 taking off from a B-52 base in Minot, North Dakota and subsequently landing at a B-52 base in Barksdale, Louisiana? That's like getting excited if you see a postal worker in uniform walking out of a post office.
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USA Today:
Nuclear warheads mistakenly flown on B-52 — A B-52 bomber mistakenly loaded with at least five nuclear warheads flew from Minot Air Force Base, N.D, to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., on Aug. 30, resulting in an Air Force-wide investigation, according to three officers who asked not to be identified …
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Don't count the man out: President — John Howard and George Bush yesterday. The US envoy to Australia, Robert McCallum jnr, and his Australian counterpart in the US, Dennis Richardson, are at left. — THE US President, George Bush, has rallied to the cause of John Howard by backing …
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National Review:
The Fallout From Jim Mills' Departure May Really Hurt Thompson — Jim Mills' departure from the Thompson campaign is actually even bigger than it looks. Not that Thompson couldn't function without Mills — he only been in the office for a week, I understand — but the aftershocks are huge.
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Fred Thompson / The Trail:
More Departures For Thompson Team — On the eve of his big day, Fred Thompson has let another staffer go. — Jim Mills, the former Fox News producer who joined the campaign only weeks ago, has resigned due to "strategic differences." This from campaign manager Bill Lacy in a memo to the staff …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Fred Thompson finally announces run — At 7:57 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, while taping "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" for broadcast later in the evening, Fred Thompson finally said: "I'm running for president of the United States." — The studio audience gave him thunderous applause.
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Rep. Gillmor dies — Rep. Paul Gillmor (R-Ohio) passed away suddenly Tuesday night, according to his office. He was 68. — According to an inter-conference email obtained by The Hill, Gillmor did not show up to the office this morning causing his staff to become concerned.
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Gillmor found dead in apartment — Rep. Paul Gillmor (R-Ohio), a 10-term congressman from northwest Ohio, has died at the age of 68. — Gillmor, who just returned to Washington after the monthlong recess, did not show up at his office today. His staff went to check in at his apartment and found that he had died.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Terrorist Training Camps in Iran — Should they be safe havens? — Here's an official statement this morning from the U.S. military in Iraq: … It's great that the military is having success in capturing "affiliates" of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Iraq.
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Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:
Megachurch Leader D. James Kennedy Dies — MIAMI — The Rev. D. James Kennedy, a pioneering Christian broadcaster and megachurch pastor whose fiercely conservative worldview helped fuel the rise of the religious right in American politics, died Wednesday. He was 76.
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Pam Spaulding / AMERICAblog:
Ohio U.S. Rep. Gillmor and anti-gay megachurch pastor D. James Kennedy …
Ohio U.S. Rep. Gillmor and anti-gay megachurch pastor D. James Kennedy …
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The Atlantic Online:
Travel Much — Richard Cohen sure is weird. In the course of a totally unfunny satirical column, one item is "A survey of political bloggers showed that 94 percent of them had never been out of the country or read anything other than a Harry Potter book." — This seems like a curious premise for a joke.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Former Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn dies at 66 — Jennifer Dunn, a former six-term member of Congress, former chairwoman of the Washington State Republican Party and one of the state GOP's most respected members, died Wednesday, her family announced. She was 66.
Amanda / Think Progress:
Bush 'Still Believed Saddam Possessed WMD' In April 2006 — In Oct. 2004, President Bush finally admitted that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction: "Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there." — Yet according to former White House chief of staff Andy Card …
Gretel C. Kovach / New York Times:
Musician Is Killed for Banging on a Door — A Texas rock musician was shot to death here early Monday by a neighbor who fired through a closed door, thinking he was scaring off a burglar. — The incident occurred just three days after a new law took effect strengthening the right of Texans …
Washington Post:
New Book Details Cheney Lawyer's Efforts to Expand Executive Power — Vice President Cheney's top lawyer pushed relentlessly to expand the powers of the executive branch and repeatedly derailed efforts to obtain congressional approval for aggressive anti-terrorism policies for fear …
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