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10:10 AM ET, October 13, 2006

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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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and TIME
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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.
Discussion: Don Surber and Blue Crab Boulevard
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.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Was Patrick Lane Development In Rory Reid's District?
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  —  People thought that the new head of the Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, would be a managerial, John Majorish figure, keen to do the Government's bidding.  —  Sir Richard's predecessor, General Sir Mike Jackson, was a soldier from central casting …
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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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 …
Discussion: It Shines For All
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 …
Associated Press:
Overseer of House Pages to Be Questioned  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief congressional overseer of House pages, who says he tried to stop ex-Rep. Mark Foley from e-mailing a Louisiana page in late 2005, is ready to explain his actions to House investigators.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Foley's Former Top Aide Testifies
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: The RBC
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 …
Discussion: The American Street
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.
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
A Newspaper Investigates Its Future  —  Newspapers are all looking for ways to gain readers, and many have hired consultants to help them.  In an unusual twist, The Los Angeles Times is looking to chart its future by using its own reporters and editors, who rank among the best investigators in the business.
 
 
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