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5:35 PM ET, October 22, 2006

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Byron Calame / New York Times:
Can 'Magazines' of The Times Subsidize News Coverage?  —  A PERFUME critic?  Yes, The Times now has one.  Chandler Burr's Scent Strip column appears in the high-gloss T: The New York Times Style Magazine, where the often-fluffy lifestyle coverage is a world apart from the kind of journalism in the daily sections of the paper.
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Michelle Malkin:
NYTimes editor now admits: We were wrong to blab  —  Photoshop: Bob D.  —  Un.  Freaking.  Believable.  The NYTimes ombudsman, Byron Calame, buried a bombshell mea culpa in his column today—reversing his prior defense of the Times' blabbermouth report on a once-secret terrorist banking …
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Byron Calame Should Resign  —  Byron Calame, the public editor of the New York Times, admits today that the paper made a mistake when it decided to run the Swift terrorist finance tracking story.  (Via Michelle Malkin.)  Calame had previously defended the decision in a column that …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   NYT's Calame: Oops. Our Bad.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   Times Public Editor - SWIFT Disclosure Was Wrong
Yvonne Ridley / Washington Post:
How I Came to Love the Veil  —  I used to look at veiled women as quiet, oppressed creatures — until I was captured by the Taliban.  —  In September 2001, just 15 days after the terrorist attacks on the United States, I snuck into Afghanistan, clad in a head-to-toe blue burqa …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
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Asra Q. Nomani / Washington Post:
Clothes Aren't the Issue  —  MORGANTOWN, W.Va. When dealing with a "disobedient wife," a Muslim man has a number of options.  First, he should remind her of "the importance of following the instructions of the husband in Islam."  If that doesn't work, he can "leave the wife's bed."
Little Green Footballs:
Washington Post Publishes Radical Islamic Propaganda  —  For a special article on "Islam and Women," the Washington Post today gives column space to an utterly deranged, hard-core Islamofascist sympathizer, Yvonne Ridley—without identifying her as anything but the "political editor of Islam TV."
Anchoress / Captain's Quarters:
WaPo gives three veiled perspectives
Discussion: Washington Post
Associated Press:
Sen. Obama says he's weighing 2008 run  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday he was considering a run for president in 2008, backing off previous statements that he would not do so.  —  The Illinois Democrat said he could no longer stand by the statements he made after his 2004 election …
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:   Obama's Elixir Bewitches Rich
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lamont Donates $2 Million To Effort  —  Ned Lamont donated another $2 million to his Senate campaign Saturday - and questioned huge cash expenditures reported by the campaign of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman.  —  The latest donation by Lamont, a wealthy businessman, brings his personal investment in the campaign to $12.7 million.
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Tim Tagaris / Ned Lamont for Senate:
Joe Lieberman's Slush Fund [18]  —  Joe Lieberman's Slush Fund  —  In the days of Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, and an entire army of lobbyists peddling legislation in return for campaign compensation ... it's part of the problem in Washington, D.C.
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BBC:
US 'arrogant and stupid' in Iraq
Discussion: USS Neverdock and The Agonist
Nico / Think Progress:
Bush: 'We've Never Been Stay The Course'  —  During an interview today on ABC's This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years.  George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker's plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is …
Reuters:
Newsweek poll puts Democrats far ahead in Congress  —Text+WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of Americans, 55 percent, would like to see Democrats take control of Congress, according to a poll by Newsweek magazine released on Saturday.  —  The poll of 1,000 likely voters found …
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
If we had known then...  WAS IT a mistake to go to war in Iraq?  The latest voice to say so is that of conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online's shrewd editor-at-large and, until last week, a supporter of the war.  —  Goldberg hasn't become a John Murtha clone …
Discussion: PSoTD and Solomonia
WMC-TV:
Ford Jr. shows up at Corker event uninvited  —  Harold Ford Jr. showed up uninvited at a campaign event for rival Republican Bob Corker at a private charter airstrip in Memphis this morning.  Corker had scheduled the media event earlier this week.  —  News reporters were surprised …
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Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Blog of war now camouflaged  —  When something good is happening in the military, you can rely on someone high up and behind the lines to try to kill it.  Slowly.  Bureaucratically.  Bleed the life out of it.  —  That is what is happening to milblogging, the Internet phenomenon …
 
 
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