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8:50 AM ET, September 17, 2007

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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 …

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Swamp, Crooks and Liars, ImmigrationProf Blog, PoliBlog (TM), Shakespeare's Sister, Ezra Klein, Abovethelaw.com, Macsmind, The Atlantic Online, ScrappleFace, Washington Wire and New York Times

Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:

Bush To Tap Mukasey for Justice — Schumer Suddenly Turns Guarded — President Bush's choice of Michael Mukasey, a retired judge from New York who has received the support of Senator Schumer, to be the next attorney general signals that the White House wishes to avoid a Senate confirmation battle.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Mahablog and Guardian

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Schumer Eats His Words, Up-Chucks — Chuck Schumer has begun his rapid retreat from his statements of support for Michael Mukasey. The New York Sun reports that Schumer, who had openly championed Mukasey as a "consensus candidate" to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General …

Discussion: The Van Der Galiën Gazette and rubber hose

Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Sources: Mukasey to Accept AG Position

Discussion: CNN

New York Times:
Bush to Name Ex-Judge as Successor to Gonzales

Discussion: Outside The Beltway

Mike Allen / The Politico:
Bush plans to pick Mukasey for A.G.

Discussion: Liberty Pundit, PoliPundit.com, Weekly Standard and CNN

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.

Discussion: Reason Magazine, Taylor Marsh, DownWithTyranny!, James Hibberd, Don Surber, First Draft, Sister Toldjah and TalkLeft

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.

Discussion: The Democratic Daily, Hullabaloo and Greatscat!

SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:

Emmy Awards: Sally Field Censored by FOX — At last night's 59th Annual Emmy Awards, Sally Field, who won Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Nora Holden Walker in ABC's "Brothers and Sisters," was censored by FOX as she was about to make a point about the Iraq War. — Download (1600) |

Discussion: Althouse, Make Them Accountable and EW.com

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.

Discussion: Guardian, Economist's View, Tammy Bruce, The Huffington Post, The Agonist, TIME: Swampland and The Blue State

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 …

Discussion: European Tribune and Calculated Risk

Tahman Bradley / Political Radar:
Bush vs. Greenspan: White House Fires Back

Discussion: The Blue State, New York Times, Cliff Schecter and Washington Wire

Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:

Clinton to offer health care plan — DES MOINES, Iowa - For months, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has promised a plan to bring health care to every American. — She was to make good on that pledge Monday, unveiling a sweeping proposal requiring everyone …

Discussion: New York Post, NewsBusters.org, Wizbang, JammieWearingFool, Vox Popoli, eyeon08.com and PoliPundit.com

Robert Pear / New York Times:
Clinton to Propose Universal Health Care

Discussion: The Politico, Washington Monthly, ParaPundit, The Democratic Daily, TalkLeft and Prairie Weather

CNN:

Police: O.J. held behind bars 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

CNN:
Police: No bail for O.J. after robbery arrest

Discussion: Pajamas Media, E! Online, Tammy Bruce, Ed Driscoll.com, TMZ.com, the talking dog, The Moderate Voice, Shakespeare's Sister and Scared Monkeys

Washington Post:

Crocker Blasts Refugee Process — Iraqis Could Wait 2 Years for Entry, Ambassador Says — The U.S. ambassador to Iraq warned that it may take the U.S. government as long as two years to process and admit nearly 10,000 Iraqi refugees referred by the United Nations for resettlement to the United States …

Discussion: FP Passport, New York Times and Prairie Weather

Des Moines Register:

Dems urge different Iraq exit plans at steak fry — Indianola, Ia. — Each of six Democratic presidential candidates, appearing at Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry in Indianola, argued to the most active core of party activists in Iowa Sunday that they can end the war in Iraq.

Discussion: New York Times, Daily Kos, TPM Election Central and Open Left

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Sad Alan's Lament — If Alan Greenspan wasn't intending to lend crucial support to the Bush tax cuts, he had ample opportunity to set the record straight when it could have made a difference.

Discussion: Dohiyi Mir, Norwegianity and Economist's View

Ian Welsh / Firedoglake:
No, Greenspan Doesn't Get To Rehabilitate His Reputation

Discussion: The Agonist, bustardblog and Crooks and Liars

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 …

Discussion: Associated Press, Yourish.com and Israpundit

BBC:

Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal — Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. — The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.

Discussion: New York Times

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 …