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3:25 AM ET, September 24, 2007

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PR Newswire:
Statement by Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Political Action Executive Director, Resolving the New York Times Ad Rate Issue  —  WASHINGTON /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In the Public Editor column of today's New York Times, the Times' vice president admits that, without the knowledge or consent …
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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 …
Matt Bai / New York Times:
Profiting From the Pummeling
Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
The Clinton Sunday Show Blitz  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton rarely does the Sunday morning talk show circuit, but she barnstormed all five of the major programs today to try to capitalize on the mostly positive reviews of her new health care plan - and to address some of the controversies …
Discussion: Don Surber and NewsBusters.org
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Hitting All the Sunday Talk Shows, Clinton Says a Lot but Reveals Little  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on all five talk shows yesterday morning and demonstrated a particularly senatorial skill: the art of the filibuster.  —  Asked by ABC's George Stephanopoulos whether …
Discussion: BeldarBlog and Oliver Willis
James Wimberley / The RBC:
Seek the Paths of the Dead  —  The three main Democratic presidential candidates have now proposed very similar plans for universal health care, within the margin of fudge allowed any new administration.  In fact it might pay them to agree on a common health care platform.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Corrente
Washington Post:
In Swing Districts, Democratic Enthusiasm Is Harder to Come By
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Bend over for Nurse Hillary
Alison Vekshin / Bloomberg:
Clinton Calls Health Care Plan a `Moral Imperative'
Discussion: Fox News
Little Green Footballs:
Daily Kos: Why I Have A Little Crush on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  —  At the new mainstream voice of the Democratic Party, Jewish lesbian "sallykohn" explains: Daily Kos: Why I Have A Little Crush on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  —  No, it's not a joke.  And no, this is not an unusual sentiment at Daily Kos.
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Sallykohn / Daily Kos:
Why I Have A Little Crush on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  —  I know I'm a Jewish lesbian and he'd probably have me killed.  But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me swoon...  Okay, I admit it.  Part of it is that he just looks cuddly.  Possibly cuddly enough to turn me straight.
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
Giuliani's Rhetoric on Terror Contrasts With His Record  —  As Rudolph W. Giuliani campaigns for president, he rarely misses a chance to warn about the threat from terrorists.  "They hate you," he told a woman at an Atlanta college.  They "want to kill us," he told guests at a Virginia luncheon.
Scott Adams / The Dilbert Blog:
A Feeling I'm Being Had  —  I was happy to hear that NYC didn't allow Iranian President Ahmadinejad  —  to place a wreath at the WTC site.  And I was happy that Columbia  —  University is rescinding the offer to let him speak.  If you let a guy like  —  that express his views, before long the entire world will want freedom
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Can We Talk Politics, Please?  —  BARACK OBAMA gets morning breath.  Elizabeth Edwards felt her rib pop during some good loving with her husband, John.  —  And Rudolph W. Giuliani, by the testimony of no less than his third wife, is a really-high-testosterone guy.  —  Must we go there?
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Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:   THE 'TOO MUCH INFORMATION' CAMPAIGN  —  The New York Times laments …
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Re: The sun never sets...  Okay, I'll bite.  Even if that's all Fred Thompson meant, I say nuts.  —  FDR didn't take America to war in 1941 with the "disinterested intention of liberating others".  He took America to war not to end the Holocaust or free Belgium or build a democracy in Japan …
Discussion: alicublog
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO COLUMBIA  —  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has got to be secretly pleased with himself.  His visit to the United States so that he can once again harangue the United Nations General Assembly with his warped and twisted view of history and current events has generated …
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Secret US air force team to perfect plan for Iran strike
Discussion: News Hounds and Democrats.com
Byron Williams / The Huffington Post:
Can America Stand the Truth about the Iraq War?  —  As South Africa currently struggles to achieve the ideals they committed themselves to in their post-apartheid constitution, ironic, as it may seem, we could benefit from the path they have courageously blazed.
Discussion: Death and Take Our Country Back
Patterico's Pontifications:
Toobin Will Say Whatever It Takes to Slam Clarence Thomas — Even If He Said the Exact Opposite Thing Eight Pages Earlier  —  In the next few days, I will have a full review of Jeffrey Toobin's "The Nine."  The book is readable, entertaining — and highly problematic.
Discussion: BeldarBlog and Althouse
Hotline On Call:
Romney is the Survivor on the Island  —  Mackinac Island, MI-  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—September 23, 2007  —  CONTACT: Amy Walter (202) 280-0675  —  Gov Mitt Romney won the Michigan Republican Leadership Conference straw poll, receiving 39 % of the 979 votes cast.
 
 
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Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Pakistan backs off Al Qaeda pursuit
Associated Press:
Mime legend Marcel Marceau dies
Michael Goodwin / NY Daily News:
Now playing left field...
Discussion: Power Line and Weekly Standard
CBS News:
Clinton: Cut Iraq Funding To Force Change
TBogg:
Bury My Heart At Wounded Feelings
Discussion: Angry Bear
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Florida Democrats Affirm an Early Primary
CBS News:
Transcript: Ahmadinejad Interview, Part 1
Roger Kimball / The New Criterion:
The poverty of liberalism  —  The English essayist Walter Bagehot …
Discussion: Mercury News
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Independent voters tilt toward Democrats
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Ken Burns: The War: talks about the parallels between Iraq and WWII
Little Green Footballs:
Protests Against Ahmadinejad on Monday
Times of India:
Police posts set on fire in mob fury
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Syria, Iran and the Norky Nukes, Oh My!
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
U.S. Attorney in Minnesota Faces Probe
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
HOW TO SABOTAGE AHMADINEJAD: Have some scantily-clad coed run up and give him a kiss.
 

 
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Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

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