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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Canadian Election Live Blog — 6:30 - I'm off to a late start, thanks to a last-moment emergency at work. Now that I'm home, the First Mate has me fixed up with dinner and I'll be eating while blogging. (Excuse typos for a while, IOW.) We're still two hours ahead of poll closings in Canada, and I'm a bit behind on my e-mail.
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Silent Running, Steve Janke, UNCoRRELATED, ++ relapsed catholic …, Dust my Broom, Flopping Aces and Macsmind
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cbc.ca:
Harper wins Tory minority government — Conservative Leader Stephen Harper will become Canada's next prime minister, as Canadians have elected a Tory minority government and ended a 12-year reign of Liberal rule. — Nationwide, the Tories are currently leading or elected in 123 ridings …
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Captain's Quarters, Daimnation!, Dean's World, Gateway Pundit, Ace of Spades HQ, PoliPundit.com and Isaac Schrödinger
ctv.ca:
Conservatives win minority, Martin stepping down — Canadians awarded Conservative Leader Stephen Harper with a minority government Monday, putting an end to more than 12 years of Liberal rule. — Polls across the country are closed and all but a handful of seats are left to account for.
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Iowa Voice
Beth Duff-Brown / Associated Press:
Conservative Party Wins in Canada Election — OTTAWA - Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party won national elections Monday and ended 13 years of Liberal rule, a victory expected to move Canada rightward on social and economic issues and lead to improved ties with the United States.
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Gay Patriot
John Tabin / americanprowler.com:
Grit Removal — Today is Election Day in Canada, and all the polls show that change is on the way. The Liberal Party's 12-year reign is finally coming to an end. The Conservatives, led by Stephen Harper, look poised to form the next government. — It's possible, though not likely …
USA Today:
Surveillance program protects country, Bush says — MANHATTAN, Kan. — President Bush defended on Monday what he called a "terrorist surveillance program" that targets international communications of suspected al-Qaeda members. However, the nation's No. 2 intelligence officer acknowledged …
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The Left Coaster
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:AMENDING FISA....Here's another point related to General Hayden's …
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Talking Points Memo
Editor and Publisher:Defending Spy Program, General Reveals Shaky Grip on 4th Amendment
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Associated Press:
Bush tells abortion foes, 'We will prevail' — 33 years after Roe v. Wade ruling, abortion debate continues — SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — President Bush told abortion opponents Monday that they are pursuing "a noble cause" and making a real difference in the campaign to recruit more Americans to stand on their side.
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MB Williams / Wampum:
The 2005 Koufax Awards: Most Deserving of Wider Recognition — This is the hardest of the nomination posts to compile, one reason I chose to do it early this year - hopefully you'll all feel sorry enough for me that you'll send much Pinot Noir and pad thai (well, maybe not together …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Special Report: Many States Shift Democratic During 2005 — Rhode Island, Delaware most Democratic; Utah, Wyoming most Republican — PRINCETON, NJ — An analysis of Gallup Poll data from 2005 shows that the Democratic Party made gains in party identification among the American public.
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
White House Got Early Warning on Katrina — In the 48 hours before Hurricane Katrina hit, the White House received detailed warnings about the storm's likely impact, including eerily prescient predictions of breached levees, massive flooding, and major losses of life and property, documents show.
White House:
President Discusses Global War on Terror at Kansas State University — THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for the warm welcome. Thanks for inviting me here to give the Landon Lecture. For those students who are here, I want you to know I can remember what it was like to sit through lectures. (Laughter.)
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Adversaries First, Journalists Second — The Valerie Plame kerfuffle has been bad for American journalism, and the indictment of Scooter Libby in matters tangential to the kerfuffle may make things worse. Libby's lawyers "told a federal judge Friday they want to subpoena journalists …
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To Chris Matthews, In the Bullpen, Libertarian Leanings, Blogs for Bush and Elephants in Academia
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ThreatsWatch.Org:
Iraqis vs. al-Qaeda, Continued — Anti al-Qaeda force raised in Ramadi, Zarqawi passes on command of the Mujahedeen Council — Al-Qaeda's situation in Anbar province and the embattled city of Ramadi has slowly worsened since the deadly suicide strikes against police recruits.
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Ombudsman to the Ombudsman — In addition to live blogging the Washington Post chat on Wednesday (1pm et/10am pt) we've also decided to start a public forum called Open Letter to the Washington Post. It was created by Matt Stoller of MyDD and will be moderated by the lovely and talented Taylor Marsh.
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James Glanz / New York Times:
Iraq Rebuilding Badly Hobbled, U.S. Report Finds — The first official history of the $25 billion American reconstruction effort in Iraq depicts a program hobbled from the outset by gross understaffing, a lack of technical expertise, bureaucratic infighting, secrecy and constantly increasing security costs …
Fox News:
U.N. Procurement Scandal: A 'Culture of Impunity' — UNITED NATIONS — How bad is the still expanding scandal in the United Nations' multi-billion-dollar procurement division? Based on a still-secret internal investigation, the answer is: for the U.N., it is just as bad as the gigantic Oil-for-Food debacle — or maybe worse.
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Secular Blasphemy
Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
Held in 9/11 Net, Muslims Return to Accuse U.S. — Hundreds of noncitizens were swept up on visa violations in the weeks after 9/11, held for months in a much-criticized federal detention center in Brooklyn as "persons of interest" to terror investigators, and then deported.
NY Daily News:
'Factory' film on Warhol no work of art, says Reed — Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen and Guy Pearce just started filming "Factory Girl," in which Miller plays Andy Warhol's drug-addled muse Edie Sedgwick. — But Lou Reed has already formed his opinion of director George Hickenlooper and his cast.
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