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Thursday, October 06, 2005

When disaster strikes, should the president mobilize the US military? The 1878 posse comitatus act limits the president’s use of federal forces. But after Hurricane Katrina, President Bush is thinking of rescinding or revising the rules.

"Stay The Course"...And Then What?

Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution,
-previews "a major addess" by the President

» Michael O'Hanlon (Brookings)

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Live Remarks by President Bush

A "major address" by the President on the war in Iraq and fighting terror

» The White House

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Texas Three Step

Ted Alden, Washington correspondent for the Financial Times
-on Bush's speech

» The Financial Times

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Call in the Army!

James Pinkerton, Newsday columnist, Fox News contributor, and fellow at the New America Foundation,
-says posse comitatus or no, the federal government must protect Americans in disasters

» James Pinkerton columnist archive (Newsday)
» James Pinkerton (the New America Foundation)

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30 Issues: School Construction in New Jersey

Steve Chambers, reporter for the Star-Ledger, focusing on land use
-on the controversy surrounding the School Constructions Corporation

» The Star-Ledger
» 30 Issues in 30 Days

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Geography Bee

While there are certainly better things to do with one's time, we thought it so conspicuous that the President insisted on listing geographic locations in his speech this morning (e.g. "...Mombasa, and Casablanca, and Riyadh, and Jakarta, and Istanbul, and Madrid, and..." you get the idea) that we decided to ...

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Document: A Buyer for WNYC

Today we received this bizarre fax for WNYC's President, Laura Walker.


DO NOT PANIC! No one is shopping WNYC around.

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More Real Estate News

Leafing through the Lowdown during the President's speech...Lloyd Grove reports on the ruckus emanating from 740 Park Avenue (AKA "The World's Richest Apartment Building"). The very short version: Georgette Mosbacher has upset her neighbors by agreeing to host a book party at her home in 740.

"I ...

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The Eyesore of 57th Street

A number of listeners wrote in yesterday to correct a caller who favors Ferrer's proposed vacant property tax because of a "property at 9th ave and 57th St. that's been empty since the middle seventies. The building's boarded up and has never been developed."

Not empty, just under-inhabited writes CM: ...

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