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Washington Post:
Mr. Reid's Nondisclosure — The Senate minority leader's incomplete financial filings — THE BEST CASE for Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) is that he was sloppy about financial disclosure rules in accounting for a real estate deal on which he made a $700,000 profit.
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Philadelphia Inquirer:
Reid's Land Deal — Practice what you preach — A lucrative land deal benefiting U.S. Senate minority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) deserves full scrutiny by the Senate ethics committee. — In 1998, Reid purchased undeveloped residential property on the outskirts of Las Vegas for $400,000.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Sen. Reid should look in mirror first — Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid would be well advised to stop thundering about corruption in the Republican ranks or crying "cover-up" over the GOP's failure to promptly and appropriately deal with former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and his sexually explicit e-mails to congressional pages.
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Senate Campaign Accusations Fly — Candidates Stay Above Fray, Letting Operatives Battle Over Misinformation — The U.S. Senate race continued its nasty spiral Thursday, with the campaigns of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and Ned Lamont debating who was nastiest and loosest with the facts.
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Cliff Kincaid / aim.org:
Republican Gays are Closeted Dems — The complex nature of the "dirty trick" against the Republicans over the Mark Foley scandal is beginning to emerge. It doesn't involve a George Soros-funded group or emails that had been in the possession of the media or shopped around by Democratic operatives.
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Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
The Coming Gay Republican Purge — Immediately after the Mark Foley scandal broke, some anti-Republican gay-rights activists composed a memo containing the names of closeted gay Republican Congressional staffers and sent it to leading Christian-right advocacy groups.
Tim Shipman / Daily Mail:
Army chief declares war on Blair: 'We must quit Iraq soon' — The head of the Army is calling for British troops to withdraw from Iraq "soon" or risk catastophic consequences for both Iraq and British society. — In a devastating broadside at Tony Blair's foreign policy …
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Sarah Sands / Daily Mail:
Sir Richard Dannatt : A very honest General
Sir Richard Dannatt : A very honest General
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Wall Street Journal:
Bush's Approval Ratings Slip — President Bush's job-approval rating fell, with 34% of Americans voting him "excellent" or "good," down from 38% in September, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. — Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults now have a negative view of Mr. Bush's job performance …
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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
The Sounds of Silencing — Why do Americans on the left think only they have the right to dissent? — Four moments in the recent annals of free speech in America. Actually annals is too fancy a word. This all happened in the past 10 days: — At Columbia University, members of the Minutemen …
Sharon Begley / Wall Street Journal:
When Terror Strikes, Liberals and the Right Vote Further Apart — On the weekend before Election Day 2004, al-Jazeera broadcast a videotape in which Osama bin Laden, addressing the U.S., boasted about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and tore into the Bush administration. Four days later, the president won re-election.
Newsweek:
Tip Off — A new book says that a comment by former CIA director Porter Goss alerted a journalist to the agency's controversial rendition program. — An unsolicited remark from Porter Goss, then chairman House Intelligence Committee, led a British journalist to unravel many of the details …
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Daily Mail:
Schoolgirl arrested for refusing to study with non-English pupils — A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English. — Codie Stott's family claim she was forced to spend three …
The Blotter:
Exclusive: Marine Sergeant Comes Forward to Report Abuse at Guantanamo Bay — Brian Ross and Vic Walter Report: — The Pentagon says it is fully cooperating with a brand new investigation into allegations of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay. — The allegations come from a Marine Corps sergeant …
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Jane Galt / Asymmetrical Information:
Yes, I've read the damn study. Have you, oh critic? — What is it with people who haven't read the Lancet study triumphantly demanding to know whether I've read the Lancet study? Yes, I've read it; it's not exactly heavy going, since it's eight pages long and surprisingly fuzzy.
BBC:
Nobel for anti-poverty pioneers — Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank have been awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. — Mr Yunus, an economist, founded the bank, which is one of the pioneers of micro-credit lending schemes for the poor in Bangladesh.