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Video shows snipers' chilling work in Iraq — (CNN) — Chilling scenes from a videotape made by insurgents show the work of snipers in Iraq, targeting and killing American troops, taking them down with a single bullet from a high-powered rifle. — The graphic video of 10 sniper attacks …
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Associated Press:
NY Times Co. 3Q Profit Plunges 39%, Belo Also Down — CHICAGO The New York Times Co. reported Thursday that its third-quarter 2006 profit from continuing operations plunged 39.2% on costs related to its job cuts and a loss on its sale of its 50% stake in the Discovery Times Channel.
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John Yoo / Opinion Journal:
Sending a Message — Congress to courts: Get out of the war on terror. — During the bitter controversy over the military commission bill, which President Bush signed into law on Tuesday, most of the press and the professional punditry missed the big story.
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New York Times:
General Urges New Strategy for Baghdad — The American-led crackdown in Baghdad has not succeeded in reducing a "disheartening" level of violence across the capital and a new approach is needed, a military spokesman said today. — Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the senior spokesman …
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Militias Splintering Into Radicalized Cells — New Groups Appear More Ruthless In Use of Bombings and Death Squads — BAGHDAD — The young Shiite men, some wearing black masks, glided from house to house in search of Sunni Muslim men. They arrived at the two-story dwelling of Mohammed Hussein clutching a bomb, neighbors said.
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq Was a Worthy Mistake — We know now that invading Iraq was the wrong decision, but that doesn't vindicate the antiwar crowd. — THERE'S A STRICT taboo in the column-writing business against recycling ideas. So let me start with something fresh. — The Iraq war was a mistake.
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The Blotter:
Exclusive: Former House Clerk's Testimony — John Yang and Brian Ross Report: — The former clerk of the House of Representatives, Jeff Trandahl, who testified for more than four hours before the House Ethics Committee today, is believed to have testified that a top aide to House Speaker Dennis Hastert …
HeraldTribune.com:
Priest tells of Foley relationship — Then-altar boy may have found some things inappropriate — A Catholic priest told the Herald-Tribune on Wednesday about an intimate two-year relationship he had with former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley when the congressman was a teenage altar boy living in Lake Worth.
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
New Laws and Machines May Spell Voting Woes — New electronic voting machines have arrived in Yolo County, Calif., but there is one hitch: the audio program for the visually impaired in some of them works only in Vietnamese. — "Talk about panic," said Freddy Oakley, the county's top election official.
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Rocco DiPippo / Front Page Magazine:
The Coming Impeachment — A plan is in place to censure and impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Orchestrated and organized by the radical Left and Congressman John Conyers, Jr., this plan is ready to go should the Democratic Party take control of the House of Representatives in November.
Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Good Girls Go Bad, for a Day — IN her thigh-highs and ruby miniskirt, Little Red Riding Hood does not appear to be en route to her grandmother's house. And Goldilocks, in a snug bodice and platform heels, gives the impression she has been sleeping in everyone's bed.
Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Judge orders Cheney visitor logs opened — WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Dick Cheney's office and personal residence, an order that could spark a late election season debate over lobbyists' White House access.
American Prospect:
We Answer to the Name of Liberals — From the November print issue: A response to Tony Judt, and a manifesto for liberals in the waning Bush era. — As right-wing politicians and pundits call us stooges for Osama bin Laden, Tony Judt charges, in a widely discussed and heatedly debated essay …
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Bob Englehart / Hartford Courant:
October 19, 2006 — About this cartoon, Bob says ... Many hundreds of years ago when Senator Joe had blond hair and I had hair, period, during one election campaign I drew him as a weather vane blowing in the political winds. — In fact, that weather vane morphed into the weather vane beanie …
James Mackenzie / Reuters:
French TV station wins Palestinian boy libel case — PARIS (Reuters) - Broadcaster France 2 won a libel case on Thursday over accusations it faked a report into the killing of a Palestinian boy whose death in 2000 became a symbol of the uprising known as the second intifada.
Joe Bel Bruno / Associated Press:
Dow Ends Above 12,000 for the First Time — NEW YORK (AP) - The Dow Jones industrial average scored its first close above 12,000 Thursday as Wall Street, showing its growing confidence despite new evidence of a weakening economy, managed to hold on to a slim advance.
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Victor Davis Hanson / Real Clear Politics:
Liberals Gone Wild! — Why do Republicans drive leftists so crazy these days? Liberal democrats are beginning to sound like rowdy students on spring break, shrieking and exhibiting themselves on camera. — Consider some of the recent rabid outbursts by once sober, old-guard politicians.
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Hotline On Call:
Dems Pressure Kerry, Bayh to Give To DSCC — Top Democrats are trying to convince two potential presidential candidates with flush campaign bank accounts to part with as much as $1 million each to finance the DSCC s late October effort to pull six Senate seats from Republican control.