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2:25 PM ET, November 4, 2006

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vanityfair.com:
Neo Culpa  —  As Iraq slips further into chaos, the war's neoconservative boosters have turned sharply on the Bush administration, charging that their grand designs have been undermined by White House incompetence.  In a series of exclusive interviews, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman …
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MSNBC:
Papers sold to military: 'Rumsfeld must go'  —  Editorial comes days after Bush affirms defense secretary's job security  —  Just days after President Bush publicly affirmed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's job security through the end of his term, a family of publications catering …
CNN:
Army Times to call for Rumsfeld's resignation  —  (CNN) — An editorial to be published Monday in independent publications that serve the four main branches of the U.S. military will call for President Bush to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  —  "Basically, the editorial says …
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Washington Post:
Anxious GOP Focuses on Not Losing Senate
Discussion: TalkLeft
Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:
Jobless rate sinks to a five-year low
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Charles S. Johnson / Billings Gazette:
Poll: Burns, Tester in dead heat  —  HELENA - After months of campaigning and millions of dollars of advertising, it all comes down to this: Republican Sen. Conrad Burns and Democratic challenger Jon Tester are running dead even, a new Gazette State Poll shows.
Washington Post:
U.S. Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons  —  Court Is Asked to Bar Detainees From Talking About Interrogations  —  The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.
Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Looking for a Lifeboat  —  A new NEWSWEEK poll shows that the GOP has lost more ground.  Will rallying the base stem a Democratic tide?  —  Jason Reed / Reuters  —  President Bush speaks to supporters in Iowa on Friday  —  As President George W. Bush jets across Red State America this weekend …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Daily Kos
Dan Boniface / KUSA-TV:
Accused pastor admits to buying meth  —  and Amy Herdy Investigative Producer  —  updated by Jeffrey Wolf Web Producer  —  COLORADO SPRINGS - Pastor Ted Haggard came out of his house Friday morning and admitted to 9NEWS he bought methamphetamine.  —  VIDEO: HAGGARD ADDRESSES ALLEGATIONS
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
As Vote Nears, Parties Prepare for Legal Fights  —  A team of lawyers for the Democratic Party has been arguing with postal officials in Columbus, Ohio, trying to persuade them to process thousands of absentee ballots that have arrived with insufficient postage.
William Bender / Delaware County Times:
Weldon decides to scale back TV advertising  —  Two days after launching a new advertisement, U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon has canceled some of his TV time, fueling speculation Friday he was throwing in the towel and saving money for a legal defense fund.  The campaign denied the rumors …
Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:
The Patrician and the Grunts  —  What we can learn from John Kerry's latest flub.  —  Regrettable though it might be for the United States military to become an untouchable "third rail" in American politics, there can be little sympathy for someone who keeps on brushing against that rail just to see what will happen.
Media Matters for America:
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser  —  Media treat us to breathtakingly stupid feeding-frenzy over transparent GOP efforts to trick people into thinking John Kerry insulted the military and John Kerry is the Democratic Party  —  Last week, we asked the so-called "Gang of 500" …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Children's Crusade  —  I suppose a lot of people have already written about this at length, but it's so stunning I have to highlight it here.  —  When it was revealed yesterday that the internet document dump to the "Army of Davids" contained plans for building nuclear weapons in arabic …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jay Cost / TIME | Real Clear Politics:
Registration Data  —  Curtis Gans of American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate has just published a new report that analyzes nationwide registration data.  Based upon the 34 states that have reported registration statistics, he finds that 68% of the voting age public is eligible to vote.
Agence France Presse:
Paris airport strike planned over Muslim workers row  —  Unions at Paris's main airport said Friday they plan to call for a strike over the withdrawal of security badges from scores of airport workers, mostly Muslims, denouncing it as discrimination.  —  Officials said Thursday that 72 workers …
Discussion: The Corner
 
 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

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

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India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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