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1:40 PM ET, November 3, 2006

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William J. Broad / New York Times:
U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Guide  —  Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war.  The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who said they hoped to …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
JIM GERAGHTY writes: "I'm sorry, did the New York Times just put on the front page that IRAQ HAD A NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM AND WAS PLOTTING TO BUILD AN ATOMIC BOMB?"  —  UPDATE: Ed Morrissey has more: … Kind of undercuts that whole "Bush lied about WMD" thing.
Discussion: Doug Ross, The Sideshow and alicublog
Will / Attytood:
How the 101st Fighting Keyboarders (and Rick Santorum and George W. Bush) are helping Iran get the nuclear bomb  —  We have one question this morning for Sen. Rick Santorum, Michelle Malkin, Glenn Reynolds, Rep. Peter Hoekstra, John Hinderaker, Roger Simon, Stephen Hayes, and a self-proclaimed "army" of right-wing bloggers.
Discussion: The Sideshow
The Anchoress:   NYTimes: Bush told truth! Saddam a true threat! Yellowcake!
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Radiaoctive: More on the NYT Iraqi nuke article
Discussion: Reuters
KKTV-TV:
Church Leader Says Haggard Admits To Some Indiscretions  —  Interim Senior Pastor Says Haggard Admits Indiscretions — Raw Interview  —  Colorado Springs  —  A sudden about-face in the scandal facing New Life Church's pastor.  —  After Pastor Ted Haggard went public Wednesday night denying allegations …
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David Montero / Rocky Mountain News:
Haggard's sex accuser fails polygraph
Opinion Journal:
The Acorn Indictments  —  A union-backed outfit faces charges of election fraud.  —  So, less than a week before the midterm elections, four workers from Acorn, the liberal activist group that has registered millions of voters, have been indicted by a federal grand jury …
Discussion: Redstate and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Democrats Predict Voter ID Problems  —  On Indiana's primary day, Rep. Julia Carson shoved her congressional identification card in a pocket, ran out of her house and raced down the street to be at her polling site when it opened at 6 a.m. The Democrat, seeking to represent Indianapolis for a sixth term …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Andrew Duffy / National Post:
Steyn's book can't be found in Canada  —  Author says bookstore chain 'boycotting' best-seller  —  A Canadian author's book about the need to defend Western civilization against Islam's demographic juggernaut — and the United States' vital role in that effort — has become a best-seller …
Discussion: New Sisyphus - PDX
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
We Need His Kind  —  In praise of Rick Santorum.  —  It has been hard not to experience the election as a brute-force clash between two armies struggling over terrain their soldiers have come to see, inevitably—they are at war, they are exhausted—as the location of the battle, but not its purpose.
Discussion: SantorumBlog
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Morning Call:
BREAKING NEWS: Crash on I-78 closes highway in Berks
Discussion: SantorumBlog
James Glanz / New York Times:
Congress Tells Auditor in Iraq to Close Office  —  Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton …
Julian Glover / Guardian:
British believe Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il  —  America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today that reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq.
Reuters:
Unemployment rate lowest in nearly 5-1/2 years  —Text+WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to its lowest in nearly 5-1/2 years during October as 92,000 more jobs were added and hiring in each of the two prior months was revised up, a government report on Friday showed.
KTVB.com Local News:
IBR/KTVB poll: Brady leads Otter; Grant leads Sali  —  BOISE - With less than a week to go until Election Day, a new poll finds that two of the biggest races in Idaho are too close to call.  —  The Idaho Business Review and the KTVB News Group just released the results of a poll conducted over the past week.
Adam Zagorin / Time:
An Abu Ghraib Offender Heads Back to Iraq  —  Exclusive: A military dog handler convicted for his role in the prisoner abuse scandal has been ordered back to help train the country's police  —  As if the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal weren't bad enough for America's image in the Middle East …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Think Progress
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesota unit behind 'Irak' sign  —  Members of the 1/34 Brigade Troops Battalion from Minnesota's National Guard devised the retort to Sen. John Kerry after his comments about those who get sent to Iraq.  —  A photograph mocking Sen. John Kerry that has gotten enormous TV …
Discussion: Power Line and Free Frank Warner
BBC:
Gaza women 'die in mosque siege'  —  Two women have been killed as Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd of women gathered to help besieged gunmen flee a Gaza mosque, witnesses and doctors say.  —  The Israeli military said the army believed the Palestinian militants escaped by mingling with the women …
Ronald R. Griffin / Opinion Journal:
Shame on Him  —  John Kerry picked the wrong people to insult.  —  I missed the joke.  You must forgive me, for there just is not a lot of room in my life for even good jokes—and there is absolutely no room for "botched jokes"—when the subject of the joke is my son who was killed in Iraq.
 
 
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TRex / Firedoglake:
OBNOXIOUS!!  —  Day Two of the Big Bad Bus Tour isn't exactly off to a good start.
Discussion: MyDD
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Liberal bloggers rip party over Lamont
Arizona Republic:
McCain is star of Proposition 107 TV commercials
Houston Chronicle:
Signs link Dems to terror and illegal immigrants
Larisa Alexandrovna / AlterNet.org:
When Strategy Fails, Rove Will Fight Dirty
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The Murphys Shake the GOP
Discussion: TAPPED and DownWithTyranny!
Washington Times:
Cardin rallies blacks in PG
Bloomberg:
Soros Bumped as Top Political Giver by Swift-Boat Group's Perry
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
Judgment day looms for Saddam
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Duel, but Not Decisive
Rosa Brooks / Los Angeles Times:
Was Kerry right?  —  The military isn't full of poor …
Discussion: TAPPED and Bradford Plumer
Brian Haynes / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Gibbons, Mazzeo not seen on tapes
Farhad Manjoo / Salon:
"Hacking Democracy"  —  On Tuesday, 40 percent of voters …
Robin Toner / New York Times:
In Virginia Race, Women Make the Difference
Discussion: Hotline On Call and TIME
Associated Press:
No Foley ethics report before Election Day
Times of London:
America fights to take charge of UN peacekeepers around world
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

 
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