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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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Jules Crittenden, Outside The Beltway, Riehl World View, Unqualified Offerings and Making Light
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Former first daughter Jenna Bush joins ‘Today’ — NEW YORK — NBC's “Today” show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent — former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager. — Hager, a 27-year-old teacher in Baltimore, will contribute stories about once a month on issues …
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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Think Progress, ABCNEWS, Atlas Shrugs, Washington Times, DISSENTING JUSTICE and George's Bottom Line
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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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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The Note
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.
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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Gateway Pundit:
Pro-Obamacare Tea Party Crasher SMASHES ATTENDEE In the Face With His Elbow & Disrupts Meeting (Video) — More Hope & Change— Barack Obama gave his marching orders: … His supporters followed through... But, don't expect the state-run media to report on this.
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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.
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 …
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.
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.
Jed Babbin / Human Events:
Cruel September — T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month, because it mixes hope with desire. For Democrats, April was easy, washed away in the Obama spending tsunami. — September will be the cruelest month for Democrats because their hope to pass Obamacare and cap-and-trade …
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Moe Lane
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.
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Raft of Deals for Failed Banks Puts U.S. on Hook for Billions — WASHINGTON — The biggest spur to deal-making among banks isn't private-equity cash or foreign investors. It is the federal government. — To encourage banks to pick through the wreckage of their collapsed competitors …
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.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Shea-Porter has constituent arrested at town-hall forum — This is a curious re-election strategy, especially for a Representative who made her name by bird-dogging her former Congressman at his town-hall forums. Consistency isn't Carol Shea-Porter's strong suit, apparently …
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Michael Eric Dyson / Top Stories from CQ:
CQ Transcripts: Remembering Kennedy on CBS's ‘Face the Nation’ — CQ Transcriptwire — SPEAKERS: BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-ARIZ. SEN. ORRIN G. HATCH, R-UTAH SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, D-CALIF. REP. BARNEY FRANK, D-MASS. — [*] SCHIEFFER: Today on FACE THE NATION, the legacy of Senator Ted Kennedy.
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José M. Guardia / Barcepundit:
TED, WE HARDLY KNEW YE: Javier Rupérez — Spain's ambassador …
TED, WE HARDLY KNEW YE: Javier Rupérez — Spain's ambassador …
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Patterico's Pontifications
Bill Bradley / New York Times:
Tax Reform's Lesson for Health Care Reform — THE chance of bipartisan agreement on health care seems to be waning as August draws to a close and ideologues mount increasingly vitriolic attacks on President Obama's health care initiative. The debate is beginning to sound …
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