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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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Richard Cohen / Real Clear Politics:
Hillary Missed Her MoveOn Moment — If there is a phrase more closely associated with both Hillary and Bill Clinton than "the politics of personal destruction," it does not come to mind. All the others — "It's the economy, stupid," for instance — belong to one or the other, but …
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Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
Clinton unveils $110bn health plan — Hillary Clinton yesterday set out an ambitious $110bn (£55bn) plan to introduce universal healthcare in the US more than 10 years after her earlier failed attempt. — Ms Clinton, who is one of the frontrunners to win the Democratic nomination …
WDIV-TV:
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 …
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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Michelle Malkin:
Student tasered at John Kerry forum Update: A University of Florida student/eyewitness shares what he saw — Update 12:15am 9/18. UF student Tyler Antar was there and e-mails his account of what happened. Looks like there was more to the story than meets the eye:
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Bret Stephens / Opinion Journal:
Osirak II? — Israel's silence on Syria speaks volumes. — In the late spring of 2002 the American press reported that Israel had armed its German-made submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. In Israel, this was old news. It was also headline news.
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Sam Stein / Huffington Post:
Thompson Refuses To Debate At Historically Black College — Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson has become the fourth leading GOP presidential candidate to shun the PBS debate this month at a historically black college in Baltimore, the Huffington Post has learned.
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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!
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CBS News:
Poll: Most Say Bush Iraq Plan Falls Short — 72% In CBS Poll Want U.S. Out Of Iraq Within Two Years - But Doubt That Will Happen — (CBS) Most Americans continue to want troops to start coming home from Iraq, and most say the plan President Bush announced last week for troop reductions …
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Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
Is 'Do Unto Others' Written Into Our Genes? — Many people will say it is morally acceptable to pull a switch that diverts a train, killing just one person instead of the five on the other track. But if asked to save the same five lives by throwing a person in the train's path, people will say the action is wrong.
Jason Trahan / Dallas Morning News:
Muslim Brotherhood's papers detail plan to seize U.S. — Group's takeover plot emerges in Holy Land case — jtrahan@dallasnews.com — Amid the mountain of evidence released in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial, the most provocative has turned out to be a handful …
KETV Omaha's Channel 7:
State Senator Ernie Chambers Sues God — Chambers says its to prove a point about frivolous lawsuits. — OMAHA, Neb — State Senator Ernie Chambers is suing God. He says it to prove a point about frivolous lawsuits. — Chambers says senators periodically have offered bills prohibiting the filing of certain types of suits.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
U.S. Contractor Banned by Iraq Over Shootings — Blackwater USA, an American contractor that provides security to some of the top American officials in Iraq, has been banned from working in the country by the Iraqi government after a shooting that left eight Iraqis dead and involved an American diplomatic convoy.
Mark Benjamin / Salon:
Guns, not roses, for Iraq — The U.S. is selling billions in weapons to Iraq. Is the Pentagon's plan making the country secure or arming it to the teeth for civil war? — The grand debate about Gen. David Petraeus' Capitol Hill testimony last week on U.S. strategy in Iraq focused primarily …
Michael J. Totten:
Anbar Awakens Part II: Hell is Over — This is the second in a two-part series. Read Part One, The Battle of Ramadi, here. — RAMADI, IRAQ - In early 2007 Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar Province, was one of the most violent war-torn cities on Earth. By late spring it was the safest major city in Iraq outside Kurdistan.
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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.