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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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Winds of Change.NET, TigerHawk, Taylor Marsh, Times of London, The Belmont Club and Shot In The Dark
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Bush's 'Axis of Evil' Comes Back to Haunt United States — Nearly five years after President Bush introduced the concept of an "axis of evil" comprising Iraq, Iran and North Korea, the administration has reached a crisis point with each nation: North Korea has claimed it conducted its first nuclear test …
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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.
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Kim: Just Another Shrimp On The Barbie — The Australians have stepped up to the plate, as they always do when tyrants threaten global security, in the wake of the North Korean nuclear test. They didn't bother to wait for the UN Security Council to slap sanctions on the Kim Jong-Il regime …
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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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Slate, The Agonist, Orcinus, The Belgravia Dispatch, The Political Pit Bull, The Corner, Blue Crab Boulevard and Cold Fury
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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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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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Kolbe: I didn't know details of Foley e-mails
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Gay Patriot
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'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, Don Surber, Hot Air, Instapundit.com, Flopping Aces and Gay Patriot
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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
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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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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
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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.
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Secular Blasphemy
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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 …
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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 …
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New Poll: Ford Leads Corker 51-44 — New DSCC Poll Has Ford Besting Corker, 51-44, Bush Has a 35% Approval in Tennessee — If you're wondering why the Republicans have been relentlessly attacking Harold Ford Jr., wonder no more: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) …
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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 …
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'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 …
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Senate reality check — I'm getting a little nervous with people thinking we have any race this fall in the bag. While things look great for us right now, the election isn't right now. And if Republicans can do anything, it's close the deal. And quite frankly, we're not a sure thing anywhere.