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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Guest Post: Senator John McCain On North Korea — Please welcome Senator John McCain as a guest poster at Captain's Quarters. He delivers a tough, no-nonsense reponse to the latest provocation from North Korea. — Time for Decisive Action on North Korea — Korea doubts the world's resolve.
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David Frum / New York Times:
Mutually Assured Disruption — THE North Korean nuclear test — if that indeed is what it was — signals the catastrophic collapse of a dozen years of American policy. Over that period, two of the world's most dangerous regimes, Pakistan and North Korea, have developed nuclear weapons and the missiles to launch them.
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The Agonist, Orcinus, The Belgravia Dispatch, The Corner, Blue Crab Boulevard and Cold Fury
Judd / Think Progress:
Hastert Tries To Shift Blame To Staff, Raises Prospect of 'Cover Up' — At a press conference this morning, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) set up his staff to take the blame for the Mark Foley scandal. Asked if he was satisfied with how his staff handled the matter, Hasert said, "I understand what my staff told me.
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John / AMERICAblog:
Hastert does press conference about Foley scandal in front of a graveyard — (The video is at the bottom of this post.) — First, Hastert outright lied during his press conference. It is simply amazing that GOP leaders are still trying to downplay the severity of this scandal. More on that below.
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Billy House / Arizona Republic:Kolbe: I didn't know details of Foley e-mails
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Gay Patriot
Drudge Report:
'SCARY MOVIE' PRODUCER MAKES CAMPAIGN AD; MOCKS DEMOCRATS — The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained an exclusive copy of a "scary" campaign advertisement created by Hollywood producer and director David Zucker that was intended to be used by GOP organizations in the closing weeks of the 2006 campaign.
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Townhall.com Blog's …, NewsBusters.org, The Political Pit Bull, Hot Air, Flopping Aces and Gay Patriot
Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Republicans Want to Turn Over a New Page — The Foley scandal is no "October surprise" — Leading Republicans, with the support of conservative media outlets, are charging that the Mark Foley scandal was a plot orchestrated by Democrats to damage the G.O.P.'s electoral prospects this November.
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The Corner, The Strata-Sphere, The Anonymous Liberal, Macsmind, Sweetness & Light, NewsBusters.org and Hot Air
Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Massive explosions rock Baghdad! — Over the past 90 minutes or so, massive explosions could be heard in Baghdad and actually I'm hearing more of them while I'm typing. — When the first few bangs happened I thought they were just the usual dose of mortars for the night but more and more explosion kept happening!
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Ralph Peters / New York Post:
NO MORE TROOPS — WITH 26 American troops dead in Iraq in the first nine days of October, the combination of bad news and pre-election politics has those on one bench arguing for bailing out immediately and those on the other bench frantic to pile on. — Neither position is realistic.
Confederate Yankee:
Help You, Help Me: The First Blegburst — I guess I wasn't paying very close attention, but at some point yesterday I cracked a million visits on ye olde Sitemeter, a good chunk of which came from this post that took me longer to upload than create. — I think this a milestone of some sort …
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Townhall.com Blog's …, WuzzaDem, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Blue Crab Boulevard and Riehl World View
Gail Shister / Philadelphia Inquirer:
Gibson: Run golden-oldie ads, get golden-oldie viewers — Want younger viewers for the evening news? Ditch the geezer ads, says ABC World News anchor Charlie Gibson. — If networks are serious about luring pre-Social Security eyeballs, they should replace commercials for adult diapers …
Reuters:
Protesters hurl petrol bombs at Danish mission in Iran —Text+TEHRAN (Reuters) - Dozens of protesters pelted the Danish embassy in Tehran with stones and petrol bombs on Tuesday after Danish television broadcast footage deemed insulting to the Muslim Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said.
Pollster:
Of Generic Votes and Likely Voters — Today's flood of new national surveys provides enough raw material for a week's worth of blog posts. The new surveys are from ABC News/Washington Post, CBS/NY Times, CNN/ORC and USAToday/Gallup, plus one more from Newsweek released over the weekend.
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Political Animal, Outside The Beltway, The Carpetbagger Report, The Corner and Daily Kos
Bloomberg:
Allen's Undisclosed Stock Options Were Worth Up to $1.1 Million — Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — Stock options that Senator George Allen described as worthless were worth as much as $1.1 million at one point, according to a review of Senate disclosure forms and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
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Washington Post, MyDD, The Allen Blog, Discourse.net, Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos, The Agitator, PoliBlog, AMERICAblog, Showdown 06 and The Carpetbagger Report
Edmund S. Phelps / Opinion Journal:
Dynamic Capitalism — Entrepreneurship is lucrative—and just. — There are two economic systems in the West. Several nations—including the U.S., Canada and the U.K.—have a private-ownership system marked by great openness to the implementation of new commercial ideas coming from entrepreneurs …
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The Moderate Voice, Chronicle of the Conspiracy, Dean's World, EconLog, Ezra Klein, Peaktalk and Greg Mankiw's Blog
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
'Values' Choice for The GOP — It's possible that the Mark Foley scandal could finally end the phony, trumped-up "culture war" that the Republican Party has so expertly exploited all these years — possible, but not likely. I'm afraid the Foley episode will be remembered as just another bloody battle …
Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
Frivolous Politics — With a war going on in Iraq and with Iran next door moving steadily toward a nuclear bomb that could change the course of world history in the hands of international terrorists, the question for this year's elections is not whether you or your candidate is a Democrat …
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The Carpetbagger Report, Unclaimed Territory, Dr. Sanity, Blue Crab Boulevard and Hang Right Politics
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Suspicion Surrounds Retreat In Gas Prices, Poll Finds — Gasoline prices are down about 75 cents in two months, but whether motorists will see further declines at the pump depends in part on whether the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries can agree to cut production.
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