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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
Tuning In Too Late — ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had severed its ties to Acorn, the community organizing group. Robert Groves, the census director, was quoted as saying that Acorn, one of thousands of unpaid organizations promoting …
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Michelle Malkin:
A welcome message for the NYT's new “opinion media monitor” — Pity the New York Times. — Even when the Fishwrap of Record is admitting how out of touch it is, its editors still can't get the story right. — Hapless ombudsman Clark Hoyt writes in his Sunday column that his paper …
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
No Deadline Set for Decision on Troops — President Obama has not set a deadline for determining a new strategy or for committing more troops to the war in Afghanistan, despite an urgent request from his top commander, his national security adviser said Saturday.
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New York Times:
Afghanistan Troop Request Splits Advisers to Obama — WASHINGTON — As President Obama weighs sending more troops to Afghanistan, one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency, he has discovered that the military is not monolithic in support of the plan and that some of the civilian advisers …
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
Go All-In, Or Fold — In Afghanistan, Splitting the Difference May Be Obama's Most Dangerous Choice — Sitting in an air-conditioned office within this gargantuan NATO encampment in southern Afghanistan, a U.S. officer pointed to a map of Kandahar province that indicated, with small …
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Déjà vu: Afghan Surge Skeptics Same As Iraq Surge Naysayers
Déjà vu: Afghan Surge Skeptics Same As Iraq Surge Naysayers
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Reuters:
Iran State Media Report Short-Range Missile Test — TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran test-fired short-range missiles as its elite Revolutionary Guards began war games on Sunday aimed at boosting the Islamic Republic's deterrent capabilities, official media reported.
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Michael Gerson / PostPartisan:
All About Obama — I've refrained from commenting on President Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly because the speech made me angry. And most postings — or letters, or e-mails — written while angry are better discarded or deleted. — But this address grows more disturbing on further reading.
CBS News:
Terror in Kentucky: Census Worker's Murder — Body Found Naked, Hanging From Tree in Cemetery; Had Been Gagged, Duct Taped, ‘Fed’ Scrawled on Chest — (CBS/AP) It was a bizarre and gruesome discovery in a remote section of eastern Kentucky: Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old teacher and part …
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Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico:
Obama links civil rights, health care — President Barack Obama used a dinner-time address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to make an impassioned plea for health care reform, placing it in the tradition of the civil rights struggle. — Obama, who last year addressed the group …
Benjamin Kerstein / The New Ledger:
Why Israel is Unlikely to Attack Iran — The revelation (or non-revelation, at least as far Western intelligence agencies are concerned) of a second Iranian nuclear facility near the city of Qom is of less significance to Israel than one might immediately imagine.
Andy Alexander / Ombudsman Blog:
Post Editor Ends Tweets as New Guidelines Are Issued — As tweets on Twitter, they're pretty innocuous. — “We can incur all sorts of federal deficits for wars and what not,” read a recent one. “But we have to promise not to increase it by $1 for healthcare reform? Sad.”
Peter Dreier / The Huffington Post:
First They Came For ACORN — First Big Business, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs, the Religious Right, the Wall Street Journal, Mitch McConnell, and Karl Rove came for ACORN, and the Democrats did not speak out — because they were not ACORN.
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Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio — Despite signs that the economy has resumed growing, unemployed Americans now confront a job market that is bleaker than ever in the current recession, and employment prospects are still getting worse. — Job seekers now outnumber openings six …
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