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Federal Prosecutor Arrested In Child Sex Sting — DETROIT — A U.S. Justice Department official has been arrested on suspicion of traveling to Detroit over the weekend to have sex with a minor. — John David R. Atchison, 53, an assistant U.S. attorney from the northern district of Florida …
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Paul Egan / Detroit News:Federal prosecutor from Florida caught in child sex sting
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Shakespeare's Sister
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site — The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight tonight. — The move comes two years to the day after The Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect, which has charged $49.95 a year …
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BuzzMachine, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, QandO, The American Mind, Corrente, LA Observed and Romenesko
Scott Horton / Balkinization:
Confirm Michael Mukasey — The president has nominated former federal judge Michael Mukasey to serve as the next attorney general. The Senate will have plenty of questions to ask and issues to raise, and it should take this confirmation seriously. But it should move expeditiously to approval …
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Time:
Will Iraq Kick Out Blackwater? — TIME has obtained an incident report prepared by the U.S. government describing a fire fight Sunday in Baghdad in which at least eight Iraqis were reported killed and 13 wounded. The deadly incident occurred when a convoy of U.S. personnel protected …
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Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
The Iraq Blackwater Test — Depending on whether the Blackwater security firm stays in Iraq will inform us whether Prime Minister Maliki has any power or is just a U.S. puppet. My money is on the puppet. Over the weekend Blackwater contractors escorting a State Department/US Embassy Baghdad convoy got into a shoot out.
TMZ.com:
Barry to Elisabeth: Your "View" is Dangerous — TMZ has learned that legendary singer Barry Manilow has pulled out of his scheduled appearance on "The View" tomorrow — because he strongly disagrees with host Elisabeth Hasselbeck's conservative view! Paging Rosie O'Donnell!
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Ramstad won't run for 10th term in House — U.S. Jim Ramstad is expected to announce his retirement from Congress. He has served nine terms, beginning in 1990. — Veteran congressman will leave seat representing western suburbs he has held for 9 terms.
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Jack Stripling / Ocala Star-Banner:
Student Tasered at Kerry speech — GAINESVILLE - U.S. Sen. John Kerry's speech at the University of Florida came to a dramatic close Monday, shortly after a vocal audience member was hauled off by police and shot with a Taser gun. — The audience member was preliminarily identified …
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michellemalkin.com, The Sideshow, Stop The ACLU, Done With Mirrors, Clayton Cramer's BLOG and Cliff Schecter
Ali / Think Progress:
Dodd, Leahy reintroduce Habeas Corpus Restoration Act. — In an e-mail to supporters, Sens. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced that they were reintroducing the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act as an amendment to a defense authorization bill today.
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Garrett Therolf / Los Angeles Times:
Chemerinsky to return as UC Irvine law dean — UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake and Erwin Chemerinsky have reached an agreement that will return the liberal legal scholar to the dean's post at the university's law school, sources told The Times this morning.
ABCNEWS:
ACLU Backs Sen. Larry Craig — Senator Accused of Soliciting Sex Has an Unlikely Ally in American Civil Liberties Union — Idaho's Republican Senator Larry Craig reads a statement to the media Monday afternoon, Aug. 28, 2007, in Boise, Idaho. He read a statement and took no questions during …
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Ezra Klein:
The Hillary Plan — Let me try and give a quick sketch of the Clinton proposal before I have to run for a meeting. Here's the thumbnail: Clinton's plan is of the "individual mandate" variety, in which universal coverage is achieved by mandating that every American purchase health care.
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Abizaid: World could abide nuclear Iran — WASHINGTON - Every effort should be made to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but failing that, the world could live with a nuclear-armed regime in Tehran, a recently retired commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Monday.
Jerusalem Post:
'600 Iranian missiles pointed at Israel' — Six hundred Iranian Shihab-3 missiles are pointed at targets throughout Israel, and will be launched if either Iran or Syria are attacked, an Iranian website affiliated with the regime reported on Monday. — "Iran will shoot at Israel 600 missiles …
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Bush's Battlefield Envy — President Bush wishes that he could be alongside the troops in Iraq — except that he's too old. — At least that's what he reportedly told a blogger embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq. In the first session of its kind, Bush spent almost an hour on Friday talking …
Discussion:
D-Day, Comments From Left Field, The Carpetbagger Report, TBogg, Hullabaloo and Rook's Rant
Flip / Suitably Flip:
Hsu, Recobbled — I've just uploaded an updated master data set of the contributions made and raised by Norman Hsu from 2003-2007. I've replaced the Google spreadsheet in the same spot, so the old links should take you to the new data. As before, the contributions are organized by recipient …
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Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
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