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Michael Luo / New York Times:
Romney's Slip of Tongue Blurs Osama and Obama — Senator Barack Obama rallying a global terror movement? Mitt Romney might have still been a bit bleary-eyed on Tuesday morning when he twice confused Mr. Obama with Osama bin Laden when referring to the latter's new recorded message for jihadists to fight in Iraq.
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James Pindell / Boston Globe:
McCain says he wants to shoot Osama — ROCHESTER, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain told workers of small weapons factory that he not only wants to catch Osama Bin Laden if elected, but said he "will shoot him with your products". — "I will follow Osama Bin Laden …
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Hillary Says She Would Support Filibuster Of Intel Committee's Telecom Immunity Bill — At a press availability in Colorado a little while ago, Hillary commented on the Senate FISA bill and said that she would support a filibuster of the current legislation that's just emerged …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Senatorial Mush — Chris Dodd has put out a simple position: he'll do what's in his power to stop any bill which gives telecom companies retroactive immunity for their Bush administration sanctioned law breaking. In contrast, Obama and Clinton have put out mush. — Greenwald:
Duane R. Patterson / Townhall.com:
Harry Reid Blames California Wildfires On Global Warming...Before He Denies He Said It. — After a closed door policy meeting with other Senate Democrats, Majority Leader and utter buffoon Hary Reid of Nevada took to the microphones just outside the floor of the United States Senate, and fielded questions.
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Los Angeles Times:
1,155 homes — and counting — Criticism is mounting that the region was unprepared. — Exhausted and sometimes discouraged, firefighters struggled for a third day Tuesday to wrest control of more than a dozen wildfires in Southern California that threatened such familiar landmarks …
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Damned If You Do: Bush Visit Will 'Distract' From CA Firefighting
Damned If You Do: Bush Visit Will 'Distract' From CA Firefighting
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Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
As Campaigns Chafe at Limits, Donors Might Be in Diapers — Elrick Williams's toddler niece Carlyn may be one of the youngest contributors to this year's presidential campaign. The 2-year-old gave $2,300 to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). — So did her sister and brother, Imara, 13 …
Telegraph:
Sept 11 'not that terrible' says Doris Lessing — Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning British author, has called the attacks on New York on Sept 11, 2001, "not that terrible", compared to the campaign of terror waged by the IRA in the UK. — Lessing, 88, who won the Nobel Prize …
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Los Angeles Times:
Clinton's White House years become a boon — Democratic voters are looking favorably on her experience as first lady, even on her failed healthcare effort, a poll finds. — WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has neutralized the political fallout from some of the most difficult moments …
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The Raw Story:
New book says US uses 'methods of the most tyrannical regimes' — More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents demonstrate how US military interrogators "abused, tortured or killed" scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001, including some who were not even suspected …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Remember Iraq — Boy, am I glad we finally got out of Iraq. It was so painful waking up every morning and reading the news from there. It's just such a relief to have it out of mind and behind us. — Huh? Say what? You say we're still there? But how could that be — nobody in Washington is talking about it anymore?
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Children's Health Yields to the Senators From Pork — The United States Senate yesterday was confronted with a stark choice: health care for children, or pet projects for lawmakers' home states. — The final tally? — Pet Projects 68, Kids 26. — In truth, the children never had a chance.
zombietime:
Nonie Darwish at Berkeley — during Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week … The online nicknames of the seven "citizen journalists" are: bbuck, Chicken Kiev, Dan K., Luvpotion v.9.0, Marwan's Daughter, neocon hippie, and Temmy. … "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" is a nationwide series of lectures …
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Targeting the neglected white male — Which of these statements are racist? Which are sexist? Or which are merely political? — "We can't make John black; we can't make him a woman. Those things get you a lot of press, worth a certain amount of fundraising dollars," says Elizabeth Edwards.
Daniel Larison / Eunomia:
Worse Impulses … First of all, I accept that the people running RedState are within their rights to bar anyone they like, but it is still frankly bizarre that they are taking this position. After all, we have the spectacle of a site for online political commentary and activism …
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Ken Caldeira / New York Times:
How to Cool the Globe — DESPITE growing interest in clean energy technology, it looks as if we are not going to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide anytime soon. The amount in the atmosphere today exceeds the most pessimistic forecasts made just a few years ago, and it is increasing faster than anybody had foreseen.