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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
The Ugly Side of the G.O.P.  —  I applaud the thousands of people, many of them poor, who traveled from around the country to protest in Jena, La., last week.  But what I'd really like to see is a million angry protesters marching on the headquarters of the National Republican Party in Washington.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Queen Hillary, Empress of Mesopotamia  —  My friend, David Brooks, does his best to reinforce the Hillary-Is-Inevitable consensus in Washington right now.  He may regret this, though: … Then we hear this from a right-wing reporter with access to Bush:
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Iraqi Prime Minister Says That Civil War Has Been Prevented  —  Maliki Also Plays Down Iran's Influence  —  Civil war has been averted in Iraq and Iranian intervention there has "ceased to exist," Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said yesterday.  —  "I can't say there is a picture …
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Mike Carney / On Deadline:
White House upset over copy of Bush speech posted to U.N. website  —  Apparently, a marked-up draft of the president's speech popped up on the U.N.'s website as President Bush delivered his remarks this morning before the General Assembly, USA TODAY's David Jackson reports.
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Ezra Klein:
Ahmadinejad Gets Laughed At  —  Watch Ahmadinejad's face here.  —  He's not being feared.  He's being laughed at.  Imagine how the Iranian people feel seeing these clips (and they're seeing them).  Imagine how the rest of the Iranian government feels being made to look so foolish …
Richard T. Cullen / The Politico:
Anti-Hillary Facebook site tops Obama  —  As the new school year gets fully under way and presidential hopefuls work the young voter circuit via social networking websites, one online group — Facebook's "Stop Hillary Clinton (One Million Strong AGAINST Hillary)" — is seriously outpacing …
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CNN Political Ticker:
Clinton pulling away from Obama in New Hampshire  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has significantly increased her lead over rival Barack Obama in the crucial early-voting state of New Hampshire, according to a CNN/WMUR poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire released Tuesday.
Tom Van Riper / Forbes:
The Top Pundits In America  —  What exactly is a pundit?  According to the dictionary, it's "a person who makes comments or judgments, especially in an authoritative manner; critic or commentator."  —  There's certainly no shortage of that in the media these days.  —  Call the past decade the era of the talking head.
New York Sun:
Teaching Moment  —  President Bollinger ended his remarks to President Ahmadinejad at Morningside Heights yesterday with these words: "I am only a professor, who is also a university president, and today I feel all the weight of the modern civilized world yearning to express the revulsion at what you stand for.
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Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
And another thing...  The morning after the Columbia spectacle two things bother me.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Campaign Seen Against Iraqi Security Officials  —  Sunni extremists appear to have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers and other Interior Ministry officials throughout Iraq, with at least 10 attacks in the last 48 hours.
Discussion: Pat Dollard and First Draft
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CNN:
24 die in Iraq peace meeting blast
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Washington Post:
GOP Senator Says Bush Should Put Health Bill Before Policy Goal  —  A senior Senate Republican accused President Bush yesterday of holding a bipartisan expansion of the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program hostage to his broader policy goals of using tax deductions to help people afford private health insurance coverage.
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Agence France Presse:
France says nuclear weapons in Iran's hands 'unacceptable'  —  French President Nicolas Sarkozy piled pressure on Iran at the United Nations Tuesday, saying it would be unacceptable for the Islamic republic to get hold of nuclear weapons.  —  Sarkozy's comments came just hours …
Rick Perlstein / commonsense.ourfuture.org:
Bed-wetter Nation  —  Here's a big question that I want to start addressing in upcoming posts: what is conservative rule doing to our nation's soul?  How is it rewiring our hearts and minds?  What kind of damage are they doing to the American character?  And can we ever recover?
Youssef Ibrahim / New York Sun:
Israel Lobby's Pull Pales Next to Evil Saudi Input  —  It's been a while since a book about American Jews has elicited as much controversy as "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," in which professors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University argue …
Associated Press:
Actor Kevin Spacey meets with Chavez  —  CARACAS, Venezuela - Actor Kevin Spacey met privately Monday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of Washington's most outspoken critics in Latin America.  —  Neither Spacey — who has won Academy Awards for roles in "The Usual Suspects" and …
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Europeans Want America to Stay in Iraq  —  The Atlantic Community Editorial Team asked European policy experts for their opinions on proposed ways forward in Iraq.  Respondents from ten different countries provided some surprising results.  —  Against Troop Withdrawal
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
 
 
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