Zawahiri Was Target in U.S. Attack on Religious School in Pakistan  —  Alexis Debat Reports:  —  Ayman al Zawahiri was the target of a Predator missile attack this morning on a religious school in Pakistan, according to Pakistani intelligence sources.  —  ABC News has learned the raid …

CNN hopes blogging is election-night blessing  —  An event aimed at getting instant reaction from online opinion makers is but a part of cable channels' efforts.  —  NEW YORK — Who says the mainstream media don't respect the blogosphere?  —  CNN is trying to incorporate bloggers directly …

Request to Sen. Lieberman to disclose petty cash  —  Public Campaign Action Fund's letter to Senator Joe Lieberman regarding his nondisclosure of petty cash:  —  The Hon. Joseph Lieberman  —  PO Box 231294  —  State House Square  —  Hartford, CT 06123  —  Dear Senator Lieberman,

Left Publicizes Facebook Pic of Corker's Daughter Kissing A Girl  —Ace  —  From Wonkette , which now seems to be officially a gay website, and which is crowing that it got the smooch story pushed into the MSM.  (Well, defnining MSM as a "nobody columnist from the Atlanta Commercial Appeal …

Poll: Stumping not boosting Bush popularity  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush's popularity has not been buoyed by a series of public events in recent days, a new CNN poll suggests.  —  Bush's approval rating hovers in the high 30s, where it has been throughout October.

In Baghdad, a Force Under the Militias' Sway  —  Infiltration of Iraqi Police Could Delay Handover of Control for Years, U.S. Trainers Suggest  —  BAGHDAD — The signs of the militias are everywhere at the Sholeh police station.  —  Posters celebrating Moqtada al-Sadr, head of the Mahdi Army militia, dot the building's walls.

Climate change fight 'can't wait'  —  The world cannot afford to wait before tackling climate change, the UK prime minister has warned.  —  A report by economist Sir Nicholas Stern suggests that global warming could shrink the global economy by 20%.  —  But taking action now would cost …

How the Web Prevents Rape  —  ALL THAT INTERNET PORN REDUCES SEX CRIMES.  REALLY.  —  Does pornography breed rape?  Do violent movies breed violent crime?  Quite the opposite, it seems.  —  First, porn.  What happens when more people view more of it?  The rise of the Internet offers a gigantic natural experiment.

Audio: John Kerry on America's lazy, uneducated military  —  People send me these audio clips all the time and I'm never sure whether to run them or not.  Without the audio of the whole speech, I can't tell if the comments were later qualified, retracted, embellished, etc.

IF ONLY ALL THE REPUBLICANS...  ...ran campaigns as sharp as Michael Steele's.  Have you ever wondered where the men in the street in "man in the street" campaign ads come from?  This is a Ben Cardin ad called "Real People," in which a series of Marylanders identified only by name praise Cardin:

Shreddin' With Dick  —  Spotted on 10/19, by an eagle-eyed Wonkette reader: The Mid-Atlantic Shredding Services truck making its way up to the Cheney compound at the Naval Observatory.  —  Fun fact: Mid-Atlantic Shredding Services has been contracted by the Secret Service for our Executive Branch's record-not-keeping needs.

Bush Says 'America Loses' Under Democrats  —  White House Talk Heats Up As Polls Show Tight Races  —  President Bush said terrorists will win if Democrats win and impose their policies on Iraq, as he and Vice President Cheney escalated their rhetoric Monday in an effort to turn out Republican voters in next week's midterm elections.

Message Discipline  —  I'm behind the curve on Amy Sullivan on David Kuo, but I thought this was interesting: … Now Amy's right.  It would be useful, for the purposes of electoral politics, for liberals in the media to avoid expressing the view that the belief — adhered to by millions of Americans …

Democrats fear the storm could leave them high and dry  —  Party is worried that the precdicted hurricane will just fizzle out  —  PUNDITS predict that the Republicans will be swept from power on Capitol Hill on November 7 by an elemental force of voter anger aimed at President Bush and Congress.