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Bill Varner / Bloomberg:
UAE Seizes North Korean Weapons Shipment to Iran — Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship carrying North Korean-manufactured munitions, detonators, explosives and rocket-propelled grenades bound for Iran in violation of United Nations sanctions, diplomats said.
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Financial Times:
‘N Korean arms for Iran’ seized by UAE — By Simeon Kerr in Dubai and Harvey Morris in New York — The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship secretly carrying embargoed North Korean arms to Iran, say diplomats. — News of the interception comes at a sensitive time.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
REID'S MUDDLED SUPPORT FOR A PUBLIC OPTION.... On a conference call yesterday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) emphasized his support for a public option as part of health care reform. That support started sounding a little shaky, though, when the Democrats' Senate leader explained what he means by “public option.”
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Reid Muddies Water: I'm For Public Option—So Long As It's Private — During a tele-townhall with constituents today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he supports a public option...but then he added an extremely important caveat. Reid said he doesn't think the public option ought …
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Sen. Reid indicates support for a public option that is privately-run.
Sen. Reid indicates support for a public option that is privately-run.
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Stephanopoulos: Kennedy Would Have Agreed To Ditch The Public Option
Stephanopoulos: Kennedy Would Have Agreed To Ditch The Public Option
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Eric Zorn / Change of Subject:
How wall-to-wall Chappaquiddick would have changed history — for the worse — Of course every network would have had special logos featuring bridges, water, wrecked cars or portraits of the main players. And each would have had a snappy title for their non-stop coverage:
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SusanG / Daily Kos:
President Obama's eulogy for Ted Kennedy — Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery — Eulogy for Edward Kennedy — Boston, MA — Mrs. Kennedy, Kara, Edward, Patrick, Curran, Caroline, members of the Kennedy family, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:
Peter Robinson / Forbes:
Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit
Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit
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Reuel Marc Gerecht / Wall Street Journal:
Interrogating the CIA — A clever, streetwise classmate of mine at the Central Intelligence Agency's junior officer training program—a former Delta Force officer—quickly and rudely discovered that counterterrorism in the much-vaunted Reagan years wasn't a serious endeavor at Langley.
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Washington Post:
How a Detainee Became An Asset — Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding — By Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate, Page A01 — After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Daily Dish:
Tilting at Statists — On his Twitter feed, talk radio host Mark Levin has asked for feedback on “A Conservative Manifesto,” the epilogue to his bestselling book Liberty and Tyranny. Some time ago I borrowed the book from my grandfather, so I thought I'd skip ahead, read its final pages and offer my thoughts.
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The Huffington Post:
Huckabee: Kennedy Would Have Been Urged To Die Earlier Under ObamaCare — Conservative media figures are blasting Democrats for trying to draw political gain from the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. But on Thursday, it was one of their own — former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee — who went there.
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Enzi blasts Dems over healthcare goals — A key member of the Senate Republican Conference on Saturday blasted Democrats for offering a healthcare solution distinctly at odds with his party's goals. — Democratic healthcare reform will drive up the deficit, discriminate against the elderly …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Holmes on Caldwell — If you look across the Atlantic to Europe, there's no question that some real problems exist with the social exclusion of immigrant communities that's leading, in the particular case of Muslim immigrant communities, to the rise of some extremist ideologies.
Denver Post:
Romanoff has eye on Senate — Democrat to run against Bennet, sources say — Former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff is poised to mount a Democratic primary campaign against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. — Urged to challenge Gov. Bill Ritter as he seeks re-election in 2010 …
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Imbalance of Trust — Liberals are flummoxed by the fact that obviously false and widely discredited claims about health care reform have not only taken root, but appear to be growing in acceptance. — According to a poll of 600 adults ages 18 and older, which was conducted Aug. 13 to 18 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Halting Recovery Divides America in Two — The U.S. recovery is a tale of two economies. — At one extreme of Corporate America is a cadre of companies and banks, mostly big, united by an enviable access to credit. At the other end are firms, chiefly small, with slumping sales that can't borrow or are facing stiff terms to do so.
Lawhawk / A Blog For All:
Rangel's Lies Proliferate — Rep. Charles Rangel has had to go for some time now, but his lies keep proliferating. He's lied to the IRS over his tax obligations. He's lied to state and local officials about his tax obligations. — He's lied to his mortgage lender.
Anahad O'Connor / New York Times:
Qaddafi Cancels Plans to Stay in New Jersey — Amid pressure from New Jersey political leaders, the Libyan government has canceled plans for its nation's president, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, to stay in New Jersey during his visit to the United States next month.
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Times of London:
Britain accused of breaking promise to US over Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi — Britain was accused last night of reneging on a promise to the United States that the Lockerbie bomber would serve his sentence in Scotland. — According to confidential correspondence obtained by The Times …