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Fox News:
RAW DATA: Transcript of Cheney on ‘FOX News Sunday’ — The following is a transcript of former Vice President Dick Cheney on “FOX News Sunday.” — FOXNews.com — CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: Mr. Vice President, welcome back to “FOX News Sunday.” — RICHARD CHENEY, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES …
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Washington Post:
Ex-Intelligence Officials Cite Low Spirits at CIA — IG Report's Release, Looming Investigation Into Detainee Interrogations Blamed — Morale has sagged at the CIA following the release of additional portions of an inspector general's review of the agency's interrogation program …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Chris Wallace, A Teenage Girl Interviewing The Jonas Brothers — Here are the tough and penetrating questions asked by Chris Wallace of a man whose critics accuse of war crimes, and whose administration presided over the death of over a hundred prisoners in interrogation …
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Va. Candidate McDonnell Says Views Changed Since He Wrote Thesis — Va. GOP Candidate Wrote on Women, Marriage and Gays — At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis …
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Jason Allardyce / Times of London:
Lockerbie bomber ‘set free for oil’ — The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
SHERMAN FREDERICK: Enough is enough, Harry — Stop the childish bullying — This newspaper traces its roots to before Las Vegas was Las Vegas. — We've seen cattle ranches give way to railroads. We chronicled the construction of Hoover Dam. We reported on the first day of legalized gambling.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BEATS ME.... Kevin Drum recommends we take a moment to get “back to basics.” … Reading this, it reminded me just how challenging the right's sales pitch was going into the debate over reform. In some ways, conservatives couldn't possibly win the argument — the status quo is ridiculous.
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Rasmussen Reports:
57% Would Like to Replace Entire Congress — If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators. — A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again.
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Eleanor Clift / Newsweek:
All The Senator's Women … From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009 — The city editor at a small daily in Iowa sent a reporter out last week to gather reminiscences of Senator Kennedy. “Be sure to ask about Chappaquiddick,” he said, a request that drew a blank look.
Now! Hampshire:
Shea-Porter Instructs Security to Remove a Former Peace Officer from Town Hall — In four short years Carol Shea-Porter has evolved from a rabble-rousing, town hall disrupting anti-war activist who once had to be forcibly removed from a President George Bush event in Portsmouth to a Member …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MCCAIN ON THE TEEVEE.... When I saw that John McCain was going to be on “Face the Nation,” I assumed it was simply to reflect on Ted Kennedy's legacy in the Senate. It wasn't. … It's a very weak argument, but it nevertheless offers us another chance to ask why John McCain is making yet another Sunday morning show appearance.
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New York Times:
Majority Rule on Health Care Reform — The talk in Washington is that Senate Democrats are preparing to push through health care reforms using parliamentary procedures that will allow a simple majority to prevail in their chamber, as it does in the House, instead of the 60 votes needed …
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
No Government Health Care! (Except for Mine.) — “We need to protect Medicare,” Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele exhorted last week, “and not cut it in the name of ‘health-insurance reform.’ ” It was a rousing defense of government-run health care from the . . . conservative chairman of the GOP.
NPR:
‘Tea Party Express’ Takes Protests Cross-Country … text sizeAAA — Conservative political activists associated with the so-called “Tea Party” protests have started a cross-country bus convoy dubbed the Tea Party Express. They plan to stop in 33 cities.
Looking at the Left:
Organizing for America Bus Tour: Manufacturing Consent — Denver - August 29 2009 - The Obama administration has sent out Organizing for America - the successor organization of Obama for America, which was Obama's campaign organization, to drum up support for his unpopular Obamacare initiative.
Los Angeles Times:
10,000 homes are threatened — Across the burning foothills, 1,000 are ordered to flee. Others watch, and dread the phone call to evacuate. — Homeowners Jack and Debra Carr feel relief after hearing word from a U.S. Forest Service employee that their home in Big Tujunga Canyon is safe on Saturday night.
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