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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Limbaugh Says Actor Fox Exaggerates Effects of Disease in Ads — Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh attacked actor Michael J. Fox for inserting his halting voice into the U.S. Senate campaign in Missouri, suggesting Fox was "acting" in a commercial where he's shown shaking …
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rushlimbaugh.com:
Michael J. Fox Is Not Infallible; He's Just the Latest Victim Used by the Democrat — RUSH: One of the big issues in the Missouri Senate race — as you know, we touched on it yesterday — is the Michael J. Fox commercial which is entirely misleading and which is in itself an attack ad …
Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
Poll: Senate within Dems' grasp, but pitfalls remain — Control of the chamber could hinge on the outcomes in Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia. — Washington — Democrats are within range of capturing a Senate majority, but face potentially decisive resistance from rural voters …
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New York Post:
'06 ELEX: BACK TO TOSS-UP — THE latest polls show something very strange and quite encouraging is happening: The Republican base seems to be coming back home. This trend, only vaguely and dimly emerging from a variety of polls, suggests that a trend may be afoot that would deny the Democrats control of the House and the Senate.
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:GOP attack ad draws heat for racial overtones
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Frederick W. Kagan / Washington Post:
Insult to Injury in Iraq — It's been coming for a long time: the idea that fixing Iraq is the Iraqis' problem, not ours — that we've done all we can and now it's up to them. — Such arguments have been latent in the Bush administration's Iraq strategy and explicit in Democratic critiques of that strategy for some time.
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ABCNEWS:
The Note: Pending: Six Days of November Surprises — It Isn't a "Surprise" If You Expect It — By MARK HALPERIN, DAVID CHALIAN, TEDDY DAVIS, TAHMAN BRADLEY, and EMILY O'DONNELL with KARUNA SESHASAI, MONA RAPHAEL, and MICHELLE DUBERT — How the (liberal) Old Media plans to cover the last two weeks of the election:
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Jennifer Medina / The Empire Zone:
Correction: Joe and 'Stay the Course' — Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has used the phrase "stay the course" several times in discussing the war in Iraq in recent years, echoing a key phrase of the White House, contrary to an article published today in The Times.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Finding Welcome Mats as G.O.P. Looks for an Edge — President Bush cannot show up just anywhere in the waning days of this midterm campaign. But there is a certain class of Republicans who are somewhere between eager and willing to have him at their sides.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
The GOP Leans on A Proven Strategy — Beset by discouraging polls and division within ideological ranks, the White House is accelerating efforts to woo back disaffected conservatives and energize the Republican base in a reprise of a strategy that succeeded in the last two campaign cycles.
David Johnston / New York Times:
Congressman From Arizona Is the Focus of an Inquiry — Federal authorities in Arizona have opened an inquiry into whether Representative Rick Renzi introduced legislation that benefited a military contractor that employs his father, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
Henry Schuster / CNN:
One of FBI's 'Most Wanted Terrorists' confirmed dead — (CNN) — An al Qaeda operative wanted in connection with the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings was killed in April in Pakistan, American officials have confirmed. — Pakistani officials had said that Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah was killed …
Steven Stalinsky / New York Sun:
Western Press Ignores Iran's Hate-Filled Quds Day — The MEMRI Report — It is disturbing when the entire leadership of one nation, along with hundreds of thousands of its citizens, comes out with celebrations and parades every year that call for the annihilation of another country.
James Glanz / New York Times:
Idle Contractors Add Millions to Iraq Rebuilding — A prison built in Nasiriya, Iraq, by the Parsons group. Overhead costs eat up large shares of such contracts. — Overhead costs have consumed more than half the budget of some reconstruction projects in Iraq, according …
Michael Fumento / fumento.com:
COVERING IRAQ: THE MODERN WAY OF WAR CORRESPONDENCE (EXTENDED VERSION) — Would you trust a Hurricane Katrina report datelined "direct from Detroit"? Or coverage of the World Trade Center attack from Chicago? Why then should we believe a Time Magazine investigation of the Haditha killings …
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Veiled Insult — Quite a long time ago, having briefly joined the herd of 20-something backpackers that eternally roams Southeast Asia, I found myself in Bali. Like all of the other 20-somethings, I carefully read the Lonely Planet backpacker's guide to Indonesia and learned, among other things …
Daily Mail:
Add your comment Reader comments (26) … Did the women who had the abortions care about the child they destroyed? I doubt it even entered their head what happened to the foetus after the abortion so little point in them saying they're upset or distressed now. — Kate, Newcastle
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