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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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Carl Freire / Associated Press:
Quake raises fears of 2nd N. Korea test — TOKYO - A strong earthquake shook northern Japan on Wednesday and Japanese media reported the government had detected tremors in North Korea as well, leading it to suspect Pyongyang had conducted a second nuclear test.
Sarah Karush / Associated Press:
McCain criticizes Clinton on N. Korea — SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) on Tuesday accused former President Clinton, the husband of his potential 2008 White House rival, of failing to act in the 1990s to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons.
William J. Perry / Washington Post:
In Search of a North Korea Policy — North Korea's declared nuclear bomb test program will increase the incentives for other nations to go nuclear, will endanger security in the region and could ultimately result in nuclear terrorism. While this test is the culmination of North Korea's long-held aspiration …
ABCNEWS:
Foley's Reputed Visit to the Page Dormitory — New Testimony May Pose Problems for GOP Leadership — House speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., tries to change the subject. But the accusations about Hastert subordinates who were apparently told about Congressman Mark Foley's questionable activities keep coming.
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Associated Press:
Hastert Vows to Fire Anyone Who Hid Page Info — WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe said Tuesday he told the House official in charge of the page program as early as 2001 about Rep. Mark Foley's ''creepy'' e-mail to a former page. — Kolbe, the only openly gay Republican in Congress …
Billy House / Arizona Republic:
Kolbe: I didn't know details of Foley e-mails
Kolbe: I didn't know details of Foley e-mails
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David Brown / Washington Post:
Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000 — A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
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Political Animal, The Reaction, Booman Tribune, Decision '08, Blue Crab Boulevard, Hot Air and Left I on the News
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New York Times:
Iraqi Dead May Total 600,000, Study Says — A boy at his father's coffin in Baghdad yesterday. Death rates were higher outside the capital, the study said. — A team of American and Iraqi public health researchers has estimated that 600,000 civilians have died in violence across Iraq since …
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.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
History of Foley Messages' Release Clarified by Players — 2 Sources Explain Motives, Citing Concern for Hill's Pages — Two of the news media's sources of Mark Foley's sexually explicit instant messages to former House pages said this week that they came forward to expose …
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The Strata-Sphere
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Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Republicans Want to Turn Over a New Page
Republicans Want to Turn Over a New Page
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Associated Press:
Lawmaker fires back at governor's comments on age of Earth — BOZEMAN — A Republican state lawmaker is criticizing Gov. Brian Schweitzer for comments he made to a newspaper here about the lawmaker's belief that the planet is not millions of years old. — Rep. Roger Koopman, R-Bozeman …
Margaret Webb Pressler / Washington Post:
Researchers See a Downside as Keyboards Replace Pens in Schools — Researchers See a Downside as Keyboards Replace Pens in Schools — The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand. — When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams …
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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.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Bush administration's torture of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla — (updated below) — The Bush administration's May, 2002 lawless detention of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla — on U.S. soil — was, as I recounted in my book, the first incident which really prompted me to begin concluding …
Little Green Footballs:
And Now, the Apple Jihad — Why is Apple Computers so insensitive to the world's 1.3 billion Muslims? Apple's "Mecca Project" Provokes Muslim Reaction. … UPDATE at 10/10/06 3:11:33 pm: — These geniuses probably got hold of an older photo of the Apple Cube while it was under construction.
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John Pomfret / Washington Post:
Fence Meets Wall of Skepticism — Critics Doubt a 700-Mile Barrier Would Stem Migrant Tide — CALEXICO, Calif. — Legislation passed by Congress mandating the fencing of 700 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico has sparked opposition from an array of land managers, businesspeople …
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Another 60 Bodies Found in Baghdad — BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's government forged ahead with a plan aimed at ending sectarian attacks, even as a bombing in the capital killed 10 people Tuesday and officials discovered scores of new death-squad victims. — The bomb, planted under a car …