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2:00 PM ET, October 4, 2006

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Niles Lathem / New York Post:
SICK NEW FOLEY E-MAILS  —  HAD VIRTUAL SEX WITH TEEN BETWEEN VOTES  —  Shocking new Internet messages surfaced yesterday, revealing that former Rep. Mark Foley engaged in online sex with a male high-school page - while taking a break from an important vote on the House floor.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Mark Foley and the unmasked Republican Party  —  Denny Hastert is smack in the middle of one of the tawdriest and ugliest sex scandals in American political history.  As a result, he has been the target of aggressive criticism, even from a few members of his own party, and, by all accounts, is desperately battling to keep his job.
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Congressman questions what Hastert knew  —  WASHINGTON - A third figure in the page scandal threatening to the envelop House Speaker Dennis Hastert suggested Wednesday the speaker knew of an inappropriate e-mail that Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) sent to a Louisiana boy before the matter became public.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Tony Blankley / Washington Times:
Republican integrity  —  Yesterday, the lead editorial of The Washington Times called for House Speaker Denny Hastert to resign his speakership immediately.  I am the editor of the editorial page.  Several loyal Republicans and conservatives around the country strongly disagreed with that judgment …
Jeffrey McMurray / Associated Press:   Gingrich says Hastert shouldn't resign over handling of page scandal
New York Times:
Hastert Fights to Save His Job in Page Scandal
Michael Luo / New York Times:
8 G.I.'s Die in Baghdad, Most in a Day Since '05  —  Eight United States soldiers were killed Monday in Baghdad, the United States military said, the most in the capital in a day since July 2005.  —  Four of the soldiers died in a roadside bomb attack; the four others were killed by small-arms fire in separate incidents.
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Richard Kerbaj / The Australian:
Prophet not perfect, says Islamic scholar … A LEADING adviser on Islam, Ameer Ali, has attacked Muslims who "blindly" follow their faith and fail to question the veracity of the Koran, saying that even Mohammed had "flaws".  —  The chairman of John Howard's Muslim advisory board yesterday warned …
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Independent:
Has the West been silenced by Islam?
Michelle Malkin:
Banned on YouTube  —  Back in February, you may remember, I cobbled together a little mini-movie called "First, They Came" inspired by the Mohammed Cartoon riots.  It's a simple slideshow highlighting the victims of Islamic violence over the years.  We posted it at YouTube a while ago.  No problems.
Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Wellstone Funeral Redux? … That quote comes from a new campaign ad by Patty Wetterling, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Minnesota's 6th district.  You have to admit, it's pretty impressive - in two introductory sentences, Wetterling ably and completely misrepresents two of the key facts of the Foley scandal.
Todd S. Purdum / New York Times:
R.W. Apple, a Times Journalist in Full, Dies at 71  —  R. W. Apple Jr., who in more than 40 years as a correspondent and editor at The New York Times wrote about war and revolution, politics and government, food and drink, and the revenge of living well from more than 100 countries, died early this morning in Washington.
Discussion: FishBowlDC, Gawker, CBS News and Lost Remote
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Green Party hopeful is out; win for Casey  —  By James O'Toole, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  —  The prospect of a three-way U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania appeared all but over yesterday as the state Supreme Court rebuffed Green Party Senate candidate Carl Romanelli's bid to get on the November ballot.
Zogby:
Reuters/Zogby Poll: Dems Hold Leads in Races for Key House GOP Seats as Republicans grapple with sex scandal  —  Democrats hold leads in races for 11 out of 15 key Republican-held House seats, the first in a series of Reuters/Zogby tracking polls shows.  This sets the stage for a full-tilt battle …
Washington Post:
N. Korea Pledges Nuclear Test  —  Need Cited to Deter Threat From U.S., But No Date Is Set  —  North Korea declared Tuesday that it would conduct a nuclear test to bolster its defenses against the United States, raising tensions in the region and marking the communist government's …
CNN:
Passengers leaving hijacked jet  —  BRINDISI, Italy (CNN) — Passengers from a hijacked Turkish plane carrying 113 people are leaving the aircraft after the two unarmed Turks who hijacked the plane, protesting the pope's upcoming visit to Turkey, agreed to release them.
Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Post:
OMB Welcomes Help From Anti-Pork Bloggers  —  Call it the Office of Management and Blog-it.  —  The Office of Management and Budget is turning to bloggers for help in pushing the OMB's government reform plans after last week's success of its pet project, the Federal Funding Accountability …
Robert B. Bluey / humanevents.com:
New York Democrat Billed Taxpayers for Phone Sex Call  —  Democrat congressional candidate Mike Arcuri, while serving as district attorney of Oneida County, N.Y., has billed taxpayers for several questionable expenses, including a call to a phone-sex hotline, according to records obtained by HumanEvents.com.
Sonya Geis / Washington Post:
Border Security, Job Market Leave Farms Short of Workers  —  Growers Frustrated by Delay in Agriculture Legislation  —  CLOVIS, Calif. — Bins of Granny Smith apples towered over two conveyor belts at P-R Farms' packing plant.  But only one belt moved.  P-R Farms, like farms up and down California …
Austin Bay / StrategyPage:
Al-Qaida's Narrative of Doubt  —  Several declassified al-Qaida documents — one discovered after the June 2006 air strike that killed al-Qaida's Iraqi emir, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — strongly suggest al-Qaida's leaders fear they are losing the War on Terror.  —  On Sept. 18, Iraqi National …
Slate:
Joe Lieberman on whether he will caucus with the Dems: … Could be improved by dropping the "intend"—he's maintaining some Saddam-like strategic ambiguity!  But this promise would still be fairly difficult to weasel out of, I should think. ...  **—The text, from a NYT blog, says "world," which I assume is a typo.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
DIVERSITY vs. ECONOMIC JUSTICE....Walter Benn Michaels thinks that liberals have become too obsessed with "diversity."  Why?  Because, he says, "celebrating diversity" is easy and makes us feel good — we're fighting racism! and sexism! and homophobia! — while doing what we should be doing is hard and makes us feel tired.
Discussion: TalkLeft, Crooked Timber and The Valve
Brad / The BRAD BLOG:
INCREDIBLE!  FOX 'NEWS' LABELS FOLEY AS DEM DURING O'REILLY FACTOR!  —  Three Different Video Cutaways, 15 Seconds or More Each, Credit Disgraced REPUBLICAN Congressman as Being a Florida DEMOCRAT!  —  UPDATED: NOW WITH VIDEO!  LATER UPDATE: 'Erroneous' Caption Scrubbed from Late-night O'Reilly Rebroadcasts Without Explanation!
 
 
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Lawrence Messina / Associated Press:
W. Va. Lawmaker Embarasssed by Photos
David Corn:
"The List" (of Gay GOP Aides on the Hill); Hubris on Bloggingheads.tv
Discussion: Hot Air
Douglas Hanks / Miami Herald:
A column, a quarrel - and change at the top
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog and CBS News
Heidi / Euphoric Reality:
Westboro Cult Plans To Desecrate Amish Girls' Memorial
Molly Selvin / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Ruling Could Eliminate Union Eligibility for Millions
Discussion: Political Animal
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Software Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S.
Discussion: TBogg and Hit and Run
Phillydem / keystonepolitics.com:
Lycoming College Poll: Carney 47, Sherwood 38
Mark Scolforo / Associated Press:
Gunman Said He Molested Girls Long Ago
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Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Stepping Up Attacks, Bush Calls Democrats 'Softer' on Terrorists
Swaraaj Chauhan / The Moderate Voice:
America & Israel Seem Happy With Ban Ki-Moon
Discussion: Liberty and Justice and BBC
The Australian:
John Howard: Standard bearer in liberal culture
Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
It Takes a Sex Scandal
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
In Bill's Fine Print, Millions to Celebrate Victory