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Donna Brazile / Washington Post:
I Will Rebuild With You, Mr. President — New Orleans is my hometown. It is the place where I grew up, where my family still lives. For me, it is a place of comfort and memories. It is home. — Now my home needs your help, and the help of every American. Much of my city is still underwater.
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Massimo Calabresi / Time:
Looking for a Corpse to Make a Case — Senators look for a wealthy casualty of Katrina as evidence against the estate tax — Federal troops aren't the only ones looking for bodies on the Gulf Coast. On Sept. 9, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions called his old law professor Harold Apolinsky …
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Able Danger, The Cole Too, 09/17/05 — Interesting how much of a chess game is being played around this story this weekend in the news media. Weldon must be up against some big guns to be (a) challenged by the 9-11 Commission so brazenly and (b) to keep coming out with ever more stunning claims …
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Thanks to Top Dog and his comment to this post, we learn two things in this Fox News story. The first is the Pentagon is trying to close the hearings - which would be a big PR mistake. … We need to know what happened. If they need a closed session to go into technical details which are classifed- fine.
Michelle Malkin:
WHAT HAPPENED ON FLIGHT 17? — A number of us in the blogosphere have been catching wind of rumors that a surface-to-air missile was fired at an America West flight originating out of New York. Here's a post at Little Green Footballs, where many commenters are wisely skeptical but wanting more info.
Washington Post:
Confirm John Roberts — JOHN G. ROBERTS JR. should be confirmed as chief justice of the United States. He is overwhelmingly well-qualified, possesses an unusually keen legal mind and practices a collegiality of the type an effective chief justice must have. He shows every sign of commitment to restraint and impartiality.
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Greg Palast / gregpalast.com:
GALLOWAY: DEADLY ANTI-ABORTION THREATS FROM REPUBLICAN'S FAVORITE "LEFTIST" — Note: Palast and Cindy Sheehan will be speaking at the Operation Ceasefire concert sponsored by DC Anti-War Network and United for Peace and Justice — all day and night at the Washington Monument.
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The Corner on National …
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Los Angeles Times:
Louisiana Officials Indicted Before Katrina Hit — Federal audits found dubious expenditures by the state's emergency preparedness agency, which will administer FEMA hurricane aid. — WASHINGTON — Senior officials in Louisiana's emergency planning agency already were awaiting trial …
Andrew / www.AndrewSullivan.com:
HUGH AND SID: — My analogy seems to have hit a nerve. Powerline provides ten reasons Hewitt isn't as slavishly pro-Bush as Blumenthal was slavishly pro-Clinton. One is that Sid was on the Clinton pay-roll. But Hewitt doesn't need to be on the Bush pay-roll. He does it for free.
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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush Sees 'Bright Dawn' Emerging in Gulf — Appealing to God for help with "the difficult work that lies ahead," President Bush on Saturday painted a picture of a hopeful and vibrant future for the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast and the people there who lost family, jobs, communities and everything they own in the storm.
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Democracy Now:
The Militarization of New Orleans: Jeremy Scahill Reports from Louisiana — Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript — Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend Purchase Video/CD — We go to Louisiana to speak with Democracy Now! …
Associated Press:
Son of Florida Gov. Bush Arrested — AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The youngest son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was arrested early Friday and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest, law enforcement officials said. — John Ellis Bush, 21, was arrested by agents of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission …
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Mark Nickolas / BluegrassReport.org:
GOP Leaders Ignore Fletcher, Keep Brock As Chairman (AP) — I Believe That The Fletcher-Patton-Pence Administration Is On Life Support And Even Their Own Crew Won't Give Them Any More Oxygen — I'm still amazed by this and admit that it caught me by surprise.
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days:
OF DEVILS AND DETAILS AND JOE BIDEN — Senator Joe Biden recently penned an op-ed discussing what he believes our options should be in Iraq. It is a masterpiece of opaque advocacy: … The commentary is breathtaking. Understand that Senator Biden is upset over the fact that the Sunnis …
David Adesnik / OxBlog:
BUSH WOULD KILL FOR THAT KIND OF PRESS COVERAGE: I think there is pretty strong agreement across the political spectrum that American journalists always make at least a token effort to ensure that both sides have their say in any given newspaper article. But actually, that's not that case.
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Jack Army:
Time to restart this festival of fun! If you sent in a post already and it wasn't put up, send me a reminder email and I'll get it up. Mare, I have yours ready to go up on Monday. Sorry, everyone for kinda pooping out for the last few weeks. The hurricane took a lot of the wind out of my sails, as it were.
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The Evil Emperor Mindstation / Point Five:Open Trackbacks: John Roberts Hearing Edition
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