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7:01 AM ET, September 17, 2007

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Washington Post:
Ex-Judge Is Said to Be Pick At Justice  —  Democrats Likely To Accept Him as Attorney General  —  President Bush has selected retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey as his new attorney general, sources said yesterday, moving to install a law-and-order conservative at the Justice Department …
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Sources: Mukasey to Accept AG Position  —  White House sources said Sunday night Michael Mukasey has accepted President Bush's offer to be our next Attorney General.  —  What's up with Sen. Charles Schumer?  First he touts Mukasey to Bush for both the Supreme Court and the Attorney General's position …
Discussion: CNN
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
President Reaches Out to a Friendly Circle in New Media  —  The day after his prime-time speech on Iraq, President Bush sat down for a round-table interview not with traditional White House reporters but with bloggers who focus on military issues, including two participating by video link from Baghdad.
New York Times:   Bush to Name Ex-Judge as Successor to Gonzales
Philip Shenon / New York Times:   Bush Expected to Name Judge as Gonzales's Successor
thinkprogress.org:
Fox censors Sally Field's anti-war speech at Emmy's.  —  At tonight's Emmy Awards show, the audience cheered Sally Field's acceptance speech, which the recognized mothers of U.S. troops.  "Surely this [award] belongs to all the mothers of the world," she stated.  "May they be seen, may their work be valued and raised.
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Tomoneil / Los Angeles Times:
Gold Derby by Tom O'Neil  —  Wow!  They censored Sally Field!  —  "If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god -" Emmy winner Sally Field said before the Emmycast cut off her sound and pointed the camera away from the stage so viewers would be distracted.
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Greenspan: Ouster Of Hussein Crucial For Oil Security  —  Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said in an interview that the removal of Saddam Hussein had been "essential" to secure world oil supplies, a point he emphasized to the White House in private conversations before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Krishna Guha / Financial Times:
Greenspan alert on US house prices  —  US house prices are likely to fall significantly from their present levels, Alan Greenspan has told the Financial Times, admitting that there was a bubble in the US housing market.  —  In an interview ahead of the release on Monday of his widely-anticipated memoirs …
Ian Welsh / Firedoglake:
No, Greenspan Doesn't Get To Rehabilitate His Reputation
CNN:
Police: O.J. Simpson held in isolation without bail  —  LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) — Hall of Fame running back and one-time murder defendant O.J. Simpson will be held without bail after his arrest in connection with an alleged sports-memorabilia heist, Las Vegas police said Sunday.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Steve Weizman / Associated Press:
Madonna: I'm an 'ambassador for Judaism'  —  JERUSALEM - Madonna toasted the Jewish new year with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an "ambassador for Judaism," local newspapers reported Sunday.  —  The singer, who is not Jewish, arrived in Israel Wednesday on the eve …
Discussion: Yourish.com and AMERICAN DIGEST
Gary Langer / New York Times:
What They're Saying in Anbar Province  —  IN his address to the nation on Thursday, President Bush singled out progress in Anbar Province as the model for United States success in Iraq.  The president's claims echoed those made earlier in the week by Gen. David H. Petraeus …
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Damien Cave / New York Times:   U.S. Seizes Suspect in Killing of Sunni Sheik
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Freaky deaky: Iranian Holocaust miniseries sympathetic to Jews?  Update: AP story has it all wrong?  —  State-produced and airing on state TV, no less. … What gives?  Well, Ahmadinejad's Holocaust revisionism may get the headlines but his take on the subject has always been of the either/or variety …
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
The Overlawyered War  —  "Never in the history of the United States had lawyers had such extraordinary influence over war policy as they did after 9/11."  Those are the words of Jack Goldsmith, the Harvard law professor who was one of those lawyers, as head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2003 and 2004.
Pablo / pw pub:
Good News, Bad News  —  The good news:  —  Officials: Shiites Interested in Alliance With American Troops … The bad news: … And what if it just keeps getting better?  Why, that would be an unmitigated disaster.  For Democrats.  For America and Iraq, it would be a wonderful thing.
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Bruce Smith / Associated Press:
McCain: I'm a Baptist  —  HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has long identified himself as an Episcopalian, said this weekend that he is a Baptist and has been for years.  —  Campaigning in this conservative, predominantly Baptist state …
Discussion: All Spin Zone and DownWithTyranny!
 
 
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