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Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:
Second Bin Laden Tape Expected — Brian Ross Reports: — A second tape from Osama bin Laden was recorded in the same location as the video released last week. — People in the intelligence community who have seen the tape feel it is directly related to the 9/11 anniversary since …
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Associated Press:
Al-Qaida promises 9/11 hijacker video — CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida said Monday that it will release a new video of Osama bin Laden presenting the last testament of one of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers, marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks. — The announcement from the terror group's media arm came …
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Another bin Laden Video Expected, Waleed al-Shehri Hijacker "Martyrdom" Video — UPDATE: Video has been released. Here is the image posted by al Qaeda. Stand by for video. Or keep an eye on Laura Mansfield who will probably be first to release. — It looks like OBL just can't keep away from the cameras.
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Delay Decision on Cuts, General Says — The top American commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, has recommended that decisions on the contentious issue of reducing the main body of the American troops in Iraq be put off for six months, American officials said Sunday.
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Pete Hegseth / The Tank:
Will Democrats Denounce MoveOn? — Today - as General David Petraeus provides his Iraq assessment to Congress-the anti-war group, MoveOn.org, is running a full - page advertisement in the New York Times with the headline: General Petraeus or General Betray us? Cooking the books for the White House.
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Bob Owens / Pajamas Media:
ARMY CHECKMATES THE NEW REPUBLIC — Last month Pajamas Media published an in-depth report on the scandal surrounding the "Baghdad Diarist" articles by Scott Thomas Beauchamp in The New Republic. — Now PJM's Bob Owens interviews Major John Cross, who led the U.S. Army's investigation into Private Beauchamp's shocking claims.
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Bryan / Hot Air:
New Vent: Checking up on The New Republic; Update: Foer ducks; Update An interview with the Beauchamp investigator — Michelle interviews The Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb about the Scott Thomas Beauchamp scandal. We also stop by The New Republic's office in Washington to see if editor Franklin Foer will talk with us.
Los Angeles Times:
Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain — Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and conservatives literally think differently, researchers show. — Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.
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Marlowe Hood / Agence France Presse:
Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs
Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs
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Cafe Hayek
BBC:
US surge has failed - Iraqi poll — About 70% of Iraqis believe security has deteriorated in the area covered by the US military "surge" of the past six months, an opinion poll suggests. — The survey by the BBC, ABC News and NHK of more than 2,000 people across Iraq also suggests …
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Iraqis' Own Surge Assessment: Few See Security Gains
Iraqis' Own Surge Assessment: Few See Security Gains
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Libraries — Behind the walls of federal prisons nationwide, chaplains have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were once available to prisoners in chapel libraries. — The chaplains were directed by the Bureau …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
IT'S CLASSIFIED? — We've been hearing a lot about improved security conditions in Iraq and Baghdad. And there's been a lot of talk about percentage declines of deaths of one sort of another. But one thing we're going to be listening for tomorrow and Tuesday is some actual data, some numbers.
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Leila Fadel / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Security in Iraq still elusive
Security in Iraq still elusive
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The Atlantic Online
Philip Sherwell / Telegraph:
Activists take Al Gore to task on his diet — He may be the hero of the environmental movement for his crusade against global warming but Al Gore is about to be targeted by animal rights activists over his carnivorous contribution to greenhouse gases. — Citing United Nations research …
USA Today:
Thompson climbs in GOP poll — WASHINGTON — Former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson has gotten a modest bump in support after finally announcing he's running for the Republican presidential nomination, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds. And Arizona Sen. John McCain may have started to turn around his beleaguered campaign.
Tparty / My Left Nutmeg:
The Last Honest Man Gets Honester — Lieberman drops yet another huge load of manure on the pages of today's Wall Street Journal, with the help of comrade-in-mendacity McCain: … Bull. S**t., Joe: … That was from November 2005, a time period during which Sen. Lieberman is now claiming …
Examiner:
The sleazy tactics of George Soros — WASHINGTON (Map, News) - It appears that lurking in the political shadows with billionaire philanthropist and Democratic financier George Soros is a tar pit of old-fashioned sleaze. It's hard to conclude otherwise in view of two recent election fraud verdicts …
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The Corner
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Democrats Reach Out to Hispanic Voters — Democratic presidential candidates courted the fast-growing Hispanic electorate on Sunday night by debating on a Spanish-language television network, where they promised to swiftly overhaul the immigration system and accused Republicans and President Bush of stoking anti-Hispanic sentiment.
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