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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.
Bret Stephens / Opinion Journal:
Columbia's Conceit — Exactly what would it have accomplished to "engage in a debate" with Hitler? — On Saturday John Coatsworth, acting dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, made the remark that "if Hitler were in the United States and …
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Columbia University in the City of New York:
President Lee C. Bollinger's Introductory Remarks at SIPA-World Leaders Forum with President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — I would like to begin by thanking Dean John Coatsworth and Professor Richard Bulliet for their work in organizing this event and for their commitment to the role …
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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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The Next Hurrah, New York Times, NY Daily News, Bluestem Prairie, Quad City Times and Cato-at-liberty
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The Right Fight for Democrats — This week's showdown over children's health insurance is the first skirmish in the new battle for universal health coverage. It is also the first confrontation between the president and Congress fought out almost entirely on terms set by the new Democratic majority.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Center Holds — In the beginning of August, liberal bloggers met at the YearlyKos convention while centrist Democrats met at the Democratic Leadership Council's National Conversation. Almost every Democratic presidential candidate attended YearlyKos, and none visited the D.L.C.
Fausta / Fausta's blog:
Two girls, the Saudi Religius Police, a mobile phone and a can of pepper spray — Jules Crittenden and Blue Star Chronicles have it: — Saudi Religious Police Attacked by Girls (emphasis added) … Notice how the crowd didn't take the Religious Police's side, either. … It gets better:
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Hot Air
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Rasmussen Reports:
23% Approve of MoveOn.org Petraeus Ad, 58% Disapprove — Twenty-three percent (23%) of Americans approve of an ad run in the New York Times "that referred to General Petraeus as General Betray Us." A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 58% disapproved.
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Captain's Quarters, Don Surber, QandO, BLACKFIVE, Outside The Beltway, L.A. Times and Blue Crab Boulevard
Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
NRA now eyeing role in GOP primaries — The National Rifle Association, which did not endorse President Bush in 2000 and 2004 until just a month before the general election, is considering stepping into the presidential campaign fray early next year during the primary season, the group's chief lobbyist says.
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The Blotter:
Armed Children in Iraq Featured in New Propaganda Video — Maddy Sauer and Rehab El-Buri Report: — A new propaganda video from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) features small children with AK-47 assault rifles. The narrator of the video refers to these young boys as the "new generation" of mujahedeen.
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Hot Air, Stop The ACLU, The Jawa Report, The Sundries Shack, A Blog For All and Weasel Zippers
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
SO HARD? — Now, was that so hard? — As you know, Iranian President Ahmadinejad spoke yesterday before a raucous crowd at Columbia University. The president of the university excoriated him. He backtracked a bit from his statements about Israel, perhaps as some commentators have noted …
ABCNEWS:
Clinton Camp Raises Q3 Money Expectations for Rival — Clinton Camp Puts Own Q3 Haul at $17-20 Million; Predicts Obama's Over $30 Million — In the last week before the third quarter fundraising totals are due, the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. …
Christian Lowe / Military.com:
Iraq Detainee Chief Undercuts Insurgents — It may not be the most dramatic operation going on to defeat the insurgency and weed out al Qaeda in Iraq, and it may not grab the biggest headlines. But one Marine general is waging his counterinsurgency fight by attacking the battlefield of the mind …
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BLACKFIVE
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court grants 17 new cases; voter ID, death penalty review — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to add 17 new cases to its new Term's decision docket, including a pair of appeals on the constitutionality of requiring voters to show a photo ID before they may vote (Crawford v. Marion County Election Board …
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Jesus' General:
Priorities — Subscribe to Jesus' General for $5/mo. — Communications — Recent Comments — Battle 2008 — Frenchmen hijacked my sidebar — Probably French — The General monitors these enemy dispatches daily. — The Frenchmen of the Northwest Forests — 43rd State Blues
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DownWithTyranny!
Lydia Saad / Gallup Poll:
Democratic Party Maintains Solid Image Advantage Over GOP — Public Prefers Democratic Party to Republican for handling terrorism, military security — PRINCETON, NJ — Public attitudes toward the two major political parties have not changed much in recent months.
David Margolick / Vanity Fair:
Through a Lens, Darkly — During the historic 1957 desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, 26-year-old journalist Will Counts took a photograph that gave an iconic face to the passions at the center of the civil-rights movement—two faces, actually: those of 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford …