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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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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 …
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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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.
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Sen. Mike Gravel / The Huffington Post:
Let Ahmadinejad Go to Ground Zero
Let Ahmadinejad Go to Ground Zero
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Jacob Gershman / New York Sun:
Legislatures May Act on Columbia
Legislatures May Act on Columbia
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Iranian on Israel: 'We do not recognize that regime'
Iranian on Israel: 'We do not recognize that regime'
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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 …
Horses Mouth:
Clark Hoyt, the public editor of The New York Times, has now weighed in with a long piece on the whole controversy involving the MoveOn ad in his own paper attacking Mighty Scholar-Warrior Petraeus. It's a deeply disappointing article. He takes a very high-horse tone in the piece …
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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 …
Charles Hurt / New York Post:
MOVE ON TO PAY UP — MoveOn.org yesterday said it would pony …
MOVE ON TO PAY UP — MoveOn.org yesterday said it would pony …
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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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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.
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.
Justin Hart / My Man Mitt.com:
If Columbia is not ashamed of the decision... ... then why did they blacken out the podium and the backdrop? — See these heavily-branded events from the same Columbia U. World Leader Forum: — Dr. Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, — Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia
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.
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Little Green Footballs:
Daily Kos: 45% Want Ahmadinejad As US President — A Daily Kos diarist has put up a poll asking the question, Daily Kos: Who would you rather have lead, Bush or Ahmadinejad? — Bush is actually ahead. But not by much. — (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)
The Raw Story:
Chemical weapon disaster 'led to Syria strike' — Israel did not strike a nuclear weapons facility in Syria on Sept. 6, instead striking a cache of North Korean missiles, current and former intelligence officials say. — American intelligence sources familiar with key events leading …
Jordan Lite / NY Daily News:
9/11 coalition set to 'Swift-boat' Rudy Giuliani today — A coalition of 9/11 families and rescue workers plans to continue efforts to derail former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's bid for President at a midtown fund-raiser today. — The group will to use the same strategy that helped undermine …