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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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Lisa Wangsness / Boston Globe:
In ways, Clinton healthcare plan resembles Romney's Mass. solution — Key elements of Hillary Clinton's healthcare proposal are strikingly similar to the tenets of the health overhaul that Mitt Romney signed into law in Massachusetts last year. But you would never guess it from the broadsides …
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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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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:
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 …
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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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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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
. . . What She Ducked — After Petraeus Is Slimed, Spineless Silence — 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 …
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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.
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 …
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.
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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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.
Ntodd / Pax Americana:
What's Next? — Surprisingly, I woke up this morning to find the war in Iraq was still going on. Who knew that this Saturday's march wouldn't be the proverbial straw that broke Bush's back? Sadly, our Democratic majority's collective spines still seem broken so I guess we have our work cut out for us.
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.
White House:
Press Briefing by Dana Perino — MS. PERINO: Greetings everybody. (Applause.) Let me start off just by reiterating something that took place this morning. The President has nominated his intention to send up the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey. He is a federal judge from New York.