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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
It's time to embrace American royalty — (updated below - Update II) — We're obviously hungry to live with royal and aristocratic families so we should really just go ahead and formally declare it: … They should convene a panel for the next Meet the Press with Jenna Bush Hager …
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Cheney calls the Dems soft on defense — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday called Democrats soft on national defense while standing up for his administration's actions in the war on terrorism. — In a pre-recorded interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace from his home in Wyoming …
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Michael M. Phillips / Wall Street Journal:
Cheney Says He Was Proponent for Military Action Against Iran
Cheney Says He Was Proponent for Military Action Against Iran
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Michael Scherer / Swampland:
Dick Cheney And The Rule Of Law
Dick Cheney And The Rule Of Law
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Mimi Hall / USA Today:
Ridge backpedals on pressure to raise terror alert level — WASHINGTON — Former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, speaking for the first time about accusations made in his new book, says he did not mean to suggest that other top Bush administration officials were playing politics …
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The Note:
The Note: Leadership Now — Obama urged by both sides to fill political void — We now return you to your regularly scheduled politicking. — President Obama's vacation continues, but the political respite surrounding Sen. Ted Kennedy's remembrances is over. — At the end of this long August, we're back to where we were.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Tom Ridge: Terror alert ‘process worked’ — This could either be a case of an overzealous publisher promoting a book, or a contrite author backpedaling from the written word once he's seen the reaction to it. — Whatever it is, Tom Ridge, former secretary of Homeland Security and governor of Pennsylvania …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Palin gets 1,070+ invitations — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin this week will begin accepting and rejecting the more than 1,070 invitations she has received for paid speeches and political appearances since she resigned as Alaska governor, aides said. — Twenty speakers' bureaus made offers to represent her.
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Associated Press:
Sarah Palin plans first trip to Asia — Former Alaska governor set for initial commercial speaking engagement — HONG KONG - Former U.S. vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, once questioned about her lack of foreign policy experience, will make her first trip to Asia in September.
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Experts see double-digit Dem losses — After an August recess marked by raucoustown halls, troubling polling data and widespread anecdotal evidence of a volatile electorate, the small universe of political analysts who closely follow House races is predicting moderate to heavy Democratic losses in 2010.
Tom Blumer / NewsBusters.org:
Boston Globe: Now That Ted's Out of the Way, Hurry Up With That Cape Cod Wind Farm — On the very day Ted Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery near his two brothers, a Boston Globe editorial argued to undo part of his legacy. — The pertinent portion of Mr. Kennedy's legacy …
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CNN:
Tea Party Express cruises through Nevada — ELY, Nevada (CNN) — Hundreds of people turned out for a series of weekend events as the Tea Party Express cruised across northern Nevada. — The caravan of tour buses, RVs, cargo trucks and SUVs kicked off a cross-country tour Friday in Sacramento …
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Frank Phillips / Boston Globe:
Senate field hinges on Kennedy decision — With Massachusetts having paid its final respects to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the politics of succession begins in earnest this week - candidates will emerge, a race will take shape, and the Kennedy clan will have to reveal whether it wants to keep the seat in the family.
Charlotte Allen / Los Angeles Times:
Keep your self-righteous fingers off my processed food — By demanding we all pay more to fund their agendas in these harsh economic times, foodie snobs and lefty social critics may as well tell us to eat artisanal cake. — Just in time for the worst economic downturn since the Depression …
George F. Will / Newsweek:
An Ivy League Huey Long — Washington is seriously unserious. — From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009 — In August our ubiquitous president became the nation's elevator music, always out and about, heard but not really listened to, like audible wallpaper.
Carol E. Lee / Politico Live's Blog:
Dodd says Obama needs to ‘step up’ — Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) says President Barack Obama needs to “step up” and give Congress more of a framework to work with on health care reform. — “I think the president's got to decide,” Dodd said Sunday, “to step up and really frame this again for us.”
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Fighting Health Care Overhaul, and Proud of It — SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Senator Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Republican who predicted that President Obama's effort to overhaul the health care system would become his “Waterloo,” is doing his best to make that happen.