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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
Betraying Its Own Best Interests — FOR nearly two weeks, The New York Times has been defending a political advertisement that critics say was an unfair shot at the American commander in Iraq. — But I think the ad violated The Times's own written standards, and the paper …
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Rich Schapiro / NY Daily News:
N.Y. Times admits Petraeus ad sold to Moveon.org at 1/2 off — The old gray lady has some explaining to do. — Officials at the New York Times have admitted a liberal activist group was permitted to pay half the rate it should have for a provocative ad condemning U.S. Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Remember me — Hillary Rodham Kerry — Hillary Clinton embarassed herself last week—but Republicans shouldn't celebrate for too long. — On October 2, 2003, Senator John Kerry voted for an $87 billion appropriation to fund U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that was paired with rescinding some Bush tax cuts.
Times of London:
Israelis seized nuclear material in Syrian raid — Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.
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Times of London:
Snatched: Israeli commandos 'nuclear' raid — Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv, Sarah Baxter, Washington, and Michael Sheridan — ISRAELI commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit - almost certainly dressed in Syrian uniforms - made their way stealthily towards a secret military compound near Dayr az-Zawr in northern Syria.
mrzine.monthlyreview.org:
Open Letter to Progressive Opponents of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — by The Columbia Coalition Against the War — As Columbia only very recently announced, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be speaking in Roone Arledge auditorium this Monday. A number of students and student organizations …
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Sunday Talking Head Thread — Here's the Sunday Talking Head line-up for this morning. (partially via the Contra Costa Times.) — C-Span Washington Journal:7:45am - Thomas Schaller, Baltimore Sun, National Political Columnist | Article; 8:30am - Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls …
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Clinton faces huge test on Sunday — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) will appear on all five Sunday talk shows tomorrow in what could be a defining day in her run for the White House. — Clinton is jumping in with both feet on the Sunday talk show circuit, opting …
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:A Mother's Strength, a Candidate's Ambition
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Investor's Business Daily:
The 'Old' Consensus? — Climate Change: Did NASA scientist James Hansen, the global warming alarmist in chief, once believe we were headed for . . . an ice age? An old Washington Post story indicates he did. — On July 9, 1971, the Post published a story headlined "U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming."
Kari Lydersen / Washington Post:
War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says — The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Nuance and Resolve in Rulings by Attorney General Nominee — In his 18 years on the federal bench, Judge Michael B. Mukasey issued more than 1,500 decisions concerning matters as cataclysmic as the Holocaust and as mundane as milk, beer and cigarettes. — In his opinions …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
China in Three Colors — After a week of meetings with Chinese energy, environmental and clean-car experts, I'm left with one big, gnawing question: Can China go green without going orange? — That is, can China really undertake the energy/environmental revolution it needs without …
David Freddoso / The Corner:
Thompson's Speaking Style — ...is a bit dull. People are looking down, wearing somber faces. Some at the dinner tables have begun chatting and whispering during the speech. The majority who are paying attention are really looking for an applause line — perhaps, to put it harshly, for something that will keep them awake.
Charles Duhigg / New York Times:
More Profit and Less Nursing at Many Homes — Habana Health Care Center, a 150-bed nursing home in Tampa, Fla., was struggling when a group of large private investment firms purchased it and 48 other nursing homes in 2002. — The facility's managers quickly cut costs.
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Haaretz:
Explosives belt designated for holiday attack found in Tel Aviv apartment — A suicide attack in Tel Aviv was thwarted on Saturday when security forces found an explosives belt in an apartment in the city, designated to be used in an attack over the Yom Kippur holiday.
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