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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 …

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Juan Cole / Salon:

Turning Ahmadinejad into public enemy No. 1 — Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war. — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he leaves Tehran Sept. 23 to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

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Michael Slackman / New York Times:

U.S. Focus on Ahmadinejad Puzzles Iranians — TEHRAN — When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was first elected president, he said Iran had more important issues to worry about than how women dress. He even called for allowing women into soccer games, a revolutionary idea for revolutionary Iran.

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Catherine Donaldson-Evans / Fox News:

Ahmadinejad Speaks of Love, Kindess, Beauty and God in Speech to National Press Club — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during his remarks to the National Press Club Monday that the world needs to build a better future "based on peace and security of all humanity," …

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Michelle Malkin:

Mahmoudapalooza: The madman comes calling; Update: A Columbia/nutjob quid pro quo? ; Update: 11:45am Eastern blogging from CU; Update: 1:35pm Eastern Hundreds counterprotest at Columbia; 2:20pm Eastern - "Some big powers to do not want to see the progress of others" — Update 2:15pm Eastern.

Sen. Mike Gravel / The Huffington Post:
Let Ahmadinejad Go to Ground Zero

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

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ABCNEWS:
Columbia President Defends Invitation to Ahmadinejad to Speak at School

Discussion: The Corner

Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Iranian on Israel: 'We do not recognize that regime'

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker

Bill Sammon / Examiner:

Examiner Exclusive: 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.

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

DON'T MISS THAT MEME — As you can see in our feature story over on the right, the White House's new line is that Barack Obama may be too "intellectually lazy" to run a serious presidential campaign let alone be President of the United States. — But don't think this allusion to generations …

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CNN Political Ticker:

The Donald: Time for Bush to go into 'hiding' — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Donald Trump has some advice for President Bush if he wants a Republican to win the White House: Hide. — The business mogul and vocal critic of the Bush administration told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Monday that he thinks the president is a …

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Dick Cheney: Don't forget me when I'm gone

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John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama wins key Iowa endorsement

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David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:

Podhoretz secretly urged Bush to bomb Iran — President Bush and Karl Rove sat listening to Norman Podhoretz for roughly 45 minutes at the White House as the patriarch of neoconservatism argued that the United States should bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. — The meeting was not on the president's public schedule.

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Satyam / Think Progress:
Podhoretz Granted Secret Access To Lobby Bush On 'The Case For Bombing Iran'

Discussion: Eschaton

Trapper John / Daily Kos:

They're Out There For All of Us — The UAW has struck General Motors, and as you read this, pickets are going up through Michigan and across the country. It's a strike that — as the UAW explains — is primarily about health care. As you know if you've been following the story …

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Associated Press:

UAW Calls National Strike Against GM — UAW Launches National Strike Against General Motors; Union Head Says "One-Sided" Talks Fail — DETROIT (AP) — Thousands of United Auto Workers walked off the job at General Motors plants around the country Monday in the first nationwide strike against the U.S. auto industry since 1976.

Discussion: The Politico, All Spin Zone, Outside The Beltway and VodkaPundit

Charles Hurt / New York Post:

MOVE ON TO PAY UP — MoveOn.org yesterday said it would pony up the full price it should have paid The New York Times for a full-page ad slamming Gen. David Petraeus, a day after the paper admitted giving the left-wing activist group a huge discount. — MoveOn said it would wire $77,083 …

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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

New York Times Says It Violated Policies Over MoveOn Ad — After two weeks of denials, the New York Times acknowledged that it should not have given a discount to MoveOn.org for a full-page advertisement assailing Gen. David H. Petraeus. — The liberal advocacy group should have paid $142,000 …

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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.

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Charles Lane / Washington Post:

Rather Ridiculous — I have obtained new documentary evidence regarding Dan Rather's relationship with his former bosses at CBS News. — Obviously, I cannot identify my source. But he told me during a collect call from Sofia, Bulgaria, that he has access to Rather's "personal files" and that his typewriter was built after 1966.

Discussion: Power Line, Captain's Quarters, TIME and NewsBusters.org

Rebecca Trounson / Los Angeles Times:

Pasadena church wants apology from IRS — All Saints' rector also demands that the agency clarify its findings after closing its probe into an antiwar sermon in 2004. — The Internal Revenue Service has told a prominent Pasadena church that it has ended its lengthy investigation …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Carpetbagger Report, TaxProf Blog and The Daily Background

Bill Walsh / Breaking News Updates New Orleans:

Vitter earmarked federal money for creationist group — WASHINGTON — Sen. David Vitter, R-La., earmarked $100,000 in a spending bill for a Louisiana Christian group that has challenged the teaching of Darwinian evolution in the public school system and to which he has political ties.

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Michael J. Totten:

"Al Qaeda Lost" — RAMADI, IRAQ - I met and interviewed dozens of Army officers in Baghdad and Ramadi, but none who were as admired and respected by the men who serve under them as much as 3rd Infantry Division Lieutenant Colonel Mike Silverman from Midway, Georgia.