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1:55 PM ET, October 28, 2006

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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Furor Over Cheney Remark on Tactics for Terror Suspects  —  The White House found itself fending off questions on Friday about what Vice President Dick Cheney meant when he agreed with a talk-radio host that there was nothing wrong with dunking a terrorism suspect in water if it saved lives.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Letterman vs. O'Reilly...Round Two...Fight!  —  David Letterman didn't try to hide the fact last night that he just plain doesn't like Bill O'Reilly.  He wasted no time bashing FOX News and doing what few people can do — ridiculing O'Reillys ratings (Letterman's audience is more than 2x as large .)
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Lefty / A la Gauche:
David Letterman v. Bill O'Reilly Part II
Discussion: PSoTD
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
In Clean Politics, Flesh Is Pressed, Then Sanitized  —  Campaigns are filthy.  Not only in terms of last-minute smears and dirty tricks.  But also as in germs, parasites and all the bacterial unpleasantness that is spread around through so much glad-handing and flesh-pressing.
Discussion: ScrappleFace
Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Rogich linked to all players but Mazzeo  —  GOP political guru key player in scandal  —  If Chrissy Mazzeo is to be believed, her claims appear to point to a wide-ranging attempted cover-up centering around Republican political guru Sig Rogich, one of the most powerful figures in Nevada, and national, politics.
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Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:
Greg Mankiw: For Higher Gas Taxes  —  Greg Mankiw goes on the offensive against the the letters the Wall Street Journal editorial page chooses to publish: … I think most most muembers of Group 4 believe that Greg Mankiw's Pigovian taxes on gasoline and other carbon emissions would be a good thing …
Discussion: Political Animal and MaxSpeak
New York Times:
Democrats Get Late Donations From Business  —  Corporate America is already thinking beyond Election Day, increasing its share of last-minute donations to Democratic candidates and quietly devising strategies for how to work with Democrats if they win control of Congress.
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
Tangled Webb  —  Cognitive dissonance in Virginia. … Yowie.  We don't often hear rude talk like that up here in Arlington, Virginia, straight across the river from Washington, D.C. Here the leafy, winding streets are lined with Priuses and Volvos and the bumper stickers say "Visualize World Peace" and "Goddess Power."
Discussion: Power Line
George Knapp / klas-tv.com:
Exclusive: Former Employee Says Gibbons Knew of Her Illegal Status  —  Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Jim Gibbons is facing more tough questions on a whole new issue.  These questions revolve around an illegal immigrant whom Gibbons and his wife Dawn employed as their housekeeper and babysitter.
Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
Keeping false hope alive for Dem war plan  —  You can turn off CNN, stop e-mailing me The New York Times editorials and stuff a sock in Keith Olbermann's piehole.  You've done it.  You've closed the deal.  —  I'm ready to vote Democrat.  —  Yes, the man who proudly ran Pat Buchanan's campaign …
Independent:
Robert Fisk: Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb  —  Alarm over radioactive legacy left by attack on Lebanon  —  Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians?
Discussion: CorrenteWire
A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
DEATH COMES FOR THE CUBAN TYRANT  —  Last Wednesday, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro may have slipped into a coma.  —  On Saturday, his sycophant, Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, flew into Havana (scroll down), possibly to bid a final farewell to his Cuban master.
Diane Cardwell / New York Times:
Bloomberg Sends Troops to Help Lieberman  —  In the Lieberman campaign office in Hartford are, from left, Korinne Kubena, Ariel Dvorkin, Crystal Cook and Brian Honan.  All but Ms. Cook are on loan from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City.  —  In his battle for re-election …
Washington Times:
Kennedy-KGB collaboration  —  History has long since vindicated Ronald Reagan's Cold War policy.  Even Sen. Ted Kennedy, whom no one would accuse of harboring pro-Reagan sympathies, had to admit that Mr. Reagan "will be honored as the president who won the Cold War."  But opinions have not always been so united.
Discussion: Power Line
Aaron Beard / Associated Press:
Prosecutor Yet to Interview Rape Accuser  —  DURHAM, N.C.  —  The district attorney prosecuting three Duke lacrosse players accused of raping a woman at a team party said during a court hearing Friday that he still hasn't interviewed the accuser about the facts of the case.
Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Rep. Porter releases phone records, denies wrongdoing  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Rep. Jon Porter on Friday denied ever breaking fundraising laws by calling donors from his congressional offices.  He released phone records and copies of his schedules for days when a former staffer claims he did break the rules.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Matt Browner Hamlin / My Left Nutmeg:
Why did Joe use all this cash?  —  Yesterday readers at My Left Nutmeg dove into the October FEC filings of twenty senate candidates - including politicians who fought a hard primary and won, politicians who lost their primary, and politicians who now face a serious general election challenge, but had no primary challenger.
Discussion: MyDD and Ned Lamont for Senate
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Is There Progress Through Loss?  —  A national election, a national decision.  —  A year ago I wrote a column called "A Separate Peace," in which I said America's leaders in all areas—government, business, journalism—were in some deep way checking out.  They saw bad things coming …
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias:
Should Blair Stay or Should He Go  —  At 3AM, at least …
The Anchoress:
Clarifying myself on Rush and MJ Fox
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Howie Klein / Firedoglake:
Go Blue: Tony Trupiano
Discussion: MyDD and Crooks and Liars
Garry Wills / New York Review of Books:
A Country Ruled by Faith
Bob Cesca / The Huffington Post:
Johnny Reb Allen's Swift Boating Of Jim Webb
Discussion: First Draft
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Deterring Kim Jong Il
The Australian:
Revealed: the Mufti uncut
Washington Post:
Allen Blasts Webb Novels For Sex Scenes
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NEWS.com.au:
No one can sack me, says Sheik Hilaly
Media Matters for America:
Hussein Verdict: News at 11
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New York Times:
For New York Comptroller  —  This has been an election year rife …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Agence France Presse:
Israeli PM accuses world of doing 'nothing' over Iran
Ed Stoddard / Reuters:
U.S. evangelical support for Iraq war slipping
Katherine Griffiths / Telegraph:
Cameron 'backed rules that put jobs at risk'
Discussion: EU Referendum and The Corner
Redstate:
The Choice Could Not Be Clearer
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog:
HamNation: Racism! It's Everywhere!
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and IMAO