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9:55 AM ET, September 24, 2007

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Brzezinski: U.S. in danger of 'stampeding' to war with Iran — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski likened U.S. officials' saber rattling about Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions to similar statements made before the start of the Iraq war.

Discussion: Vidiot Speak

The Corner:

Free-Speech Hypocrisy — Institutional memory is short, so just a flashback to the Qadhafi speech at Columbia. The sad thing is that while faculty fall all over themselves to bring repressive dictators to campus, many dissidents from the same countries are ignored.

Discussion: The Van Der Galiën Gazette

David M. Schizer / law.columbia.edu:

STATEMENT BY DAVID M.SCHIZER RE: SIPA INVITATION TO MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD — A controversy has developed about the invitation extended to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran by the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. Although Columbia Law School was not involved in arranging …

Discussion: Townhall.com and Blue Crab Boulevard

Agence France Presse:

Iranian president to face protests in New York — NEW YORK (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was to face angry protests Sunday in New York, where he was due to arrive amid a storm of controversy over his appearances at the United Nations and a top university.

Discussion: The Corner, The Nose On Your Face, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, RealClearPolitics, Riehl World View, Jihad Watch, CBS News, JammieWearingFool, Death, Hot Air, Little Green Footballs and The New Criterion

Michelle Malkin:

Mahmoudapalooza: The madman comes calling — Update 9:30am Eastern. Spoof time-a reader sends along the webpage of the new Columbia University School of Terrorism. — Fake, but accurate. — A reminder again about the protests taking place today in NYC and D.C. against Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadenihad, via The Israel Project.

Discussion: Atlas Shrugs, Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Don Surber, American Spectator, Power Line and WCBS-TV

James Carroll / Boston Globe:

N.Y. site transcends boundaries — SO MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD is forbidden by the United States to visit Ground Zero. Iran's president is to address the United Nations tomorrow, and while in New York, he had hoped to go to the World Trade Center site, as so many visitors do.

Discussion: Jules Crittenden and TIME

Michael Slackman / New York Times:
U.S. Focus on Ahmadinejad Puzzles Iranians

Discussion: Unfogged and Oliver Willis

Jacob Gershman / New York Sun:
Legislatures May Act on Columbia

Discussion: City Room

Fox News:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Arrives in NYC, Dismisses …

Discussion: 9/11 Families … and Cox & Forkum

The Big Trunk / Power Line: COLUMBIA'S DISGRACE, PART 8

Manny Fernandez / New York Times: New York Grudgingly Opens Door to Ahmadinejad

Scott Adams / The Dilbert Blog:
A Feeling I'm Being Had — I was happy to hear that NYC …

Discussion: Main and Central, Comments From Left Field, Yourish.com, Daimnation! and Unqualified Offerings

Roger L. Simon / Pajamas Media:

ALL THE PROPAGANDA THAT'S FIT TO PRINT — Pajamas Media CEO Roger Simon underestimated how deep the institutional bias in the New York Times truly runs. That won't happen again. — Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers — It's not often I underestimate the stuck-in-time …

Discussion: The Van Der Galiën Gazette

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
New York Times Says It Violated Policies Over MoveOn Ad

Discussion: MSNBC

PR Newswire:
Statement by Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Political Action Executive …

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, Wizbang, BLACKFIVE, Weasel Zippers, New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Connecting.the.Dots, The Oxford Medievalist, VodkaPundit, Neptunus Lex, The Democratic Daily and The Moderate Voice

MSNBC:

'Meet the Press' transcript for Sept. 23, 2007 — Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the Iraq war, healthcare, campaign fund-raising and more. Our Meet the Candidates 2008 series continues.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Washington Wire

Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Hitting All the Sunday Talk Shows, Clinton Says a Lot but Reveals Little

Discussion: MSNBC, Boston Globe and Oliver Willis

CNN: CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER

Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
The Clinton Sunday Show Blitz

Discussion: Don Surber, The Raw Story and NewsBusters.org

Washington Post:

U.S. Aims To Lure Insurgents With 'Bait' — A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of "bait," such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then killing Iraqis who pick up the items, according to military court documents.

Discussion: Think Progress, The Swamp, Main and Central, Daily Kos and Rook's Rant

Henry Samuel / Telegraph:

French PM Fillon tells farmers 'France is broke' — France is bankrupt and can no longer afford to pay its workers generous salaries and subsidies, its prime minister has declared. — Francois Fillon made the undiplomatic outburst during a trip to the French island of Corsica, where farmers were demanding more government money.

Discussion: Gates of Vienna, Don Surber and Weasel Zippers

un.org:

The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change … UN SECRETARY-GENERAL CONVENES WORLD LEADERS TO BUILD MOMENTUM FOR CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS IN BALI — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will seek to advance the global agenda on climate change …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, FP Passport and The Washington Note

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Politics in Black and White — Last Thursday there was a huge march in Jena, La., to protest the harsh and unequal treatment of six black students arrested in the beating of a white classmate. Students who hung nooses to warn blacks not to sit under a "white" tree were suspended for three days …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, The Carpetbagger Report, Middle Earth Journal, Feministe and TigerHawk

Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:

Giuliani's Rhetoric on Terror Contrasts With His Record — As Rudolph W. Giuliani campaigns for president, he rarely misses a chance to warn about the threat from terrorists. "They hate you," he told a woman at an Atlanta college. They "want to kill us," he told guests at a Virginia luncheon.

Discussion: MSNBC, Comments From Left Field, The Caucus, Connecting.the.Dots, The Reaction, Brilliant at Breakfast, TalkLeft and Riehl World View

Yossi Klein Halevi / Opinion Journal:

Iran's German Enablers — Berlin puts business interests ahead of nonproliferation. — JERUSALEM—Business opportunities in Iran were the theme of a German government-sponsored conference last week in Darmstadt, Germany. "Iran is accustomed to crises," the conference invitation delicately noted …

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard, Real Clear Politics and SWJ Blog

Newsweek:
Israel's Raid on Syria: Prelude to a Nuke Crisis?

Discussion: Pat Dollard, Hot Air, The Newshoggers and Outside The Beltway

Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:

First Read: Thompson's Mackinac disadvantage — NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy reports... Attendees of the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, MI over the weekend were billing Fred Thompson's much anticipated speech on Saturday as an important first impression.

Discussion: DownWithTyranny!

Bill Sammon / Examiner:

President predicts GOP will keep control of White House after 'tough race' in 2008 — Washington, D.C. (Map, News) - President Bush, for the first time, is predicting that Hillary Rodham Clinton will defeat Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primaries.

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker, The Raw Story and On Deadline