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Joe Katzman / Winds of Change.NET:
Why North Korea is the Wrong Focus — As fate would have it, I was sitting in a local Italian restaurant with Marc Armed "Liberal" Danziger when the call came in at around 8:30pm California time. Kim Jong-Il, the star of "Team America: World Police" and also incidentally the ruler of North Korea, had set off a nuke.
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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.
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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Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
Former pages surveyed in Foley probe — WASHINGTON - Lawmakers, following a request from the House ethics committee, are surveying aides and former House pages to find out if any of them had knowledge of ex-Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s inappropriate conduct toward male pages.
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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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Billy House / Arizona Republic:Kolbe: I didn't know details of Foley e-mails
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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.
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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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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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.
Reuters:
Fire breaks out at ammo dump at U.S. base in Baghdad — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A fire broke out at an ammunition dump at a U.S. base in southern Baghdad on Tuesday night, causing a series of explosions that rocked the capital, the U.S. military said in a statement.
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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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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.
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 …
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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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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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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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 …
Financial Times:
Harvard study paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity — A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard University's Robert Putnam, one of the world's most influential political scientists. — His research shows that the more diverse a community is …
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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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