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11:10 AM ET, September 25, 2007

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Columbia University in the City of New York:

President Lee C. Bollinger's Introductory Remarks at SIPA-World Leaders Forum with President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — I would like to begin by thanking Dean John Coatsworth and Professor Richard Bulliet for their work in organizing this event and for their commitment to the role …

Discussion: Salon, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Ahmadineblog, Melanie Phillips's Diary, Jules Crittenden, Althouse, The Huffington Post, The Washington Note, Attytood, Wall Street Journal, Think Progress, Washington Wire, All Spin Zone, RealClearPolitics, The Atlantic Online, Hot Air and The Reaction

Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:

Playing Democrat At Columbia — The novelty of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's appearance yesterday at Columbia University did not, as many critics would have it, lie in the fact that an august Ivy League institution had invited the Iranian president — a Holocaust-denier, authoritarian leader and sponsor of terrorism — to speak on its campus.

Discussion: michellemalkin.com, Real Clear Politics, Los Angeles Times, City Room, SWJ Blog, National Review Online and Counterterrorism Blog

Bret Stephens / Opinion Journal:

Columbia's Conceit — Exactly what would it have accomplished to "engage in a debate" with Hitler? — On Saturday John Coatsworth, acting dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, made the remark that "if Hitler were in the United States and …

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Betsy's Page

Eric / Classical Values:
GAYS, HAIRCUTS, NOOSES. SOME DENIAL REQUIRED.

Discussion: Telegraph, WCBS-TV and Riehl World View

NY Daily News:
Grinning madman Ahmadinejad squirms at Columbia

Discussion: New York Post, City Room, New York Times and Pajamas Media

irna.ir:
IRI President addresses students at Colombia University

Discussion: protein wisdom, The Sundries Shack, The People's Republic …, Dr. Sanity, The Belmont Club, QandO, Captain's Quarters, Blue Crab Boulevard, Mere Rhetoric, The Corner and The Oxford Medievalist

Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Ahmadinejad, at Columbia, Parries and Puzzles

Discussion: The Huffington Post, CNN, New York Post, Beliefnet, Jezebel, The Moderate Voice, At-Largely, Washington Times, Time, Ezra Klein, CommonDreams.org, NY Daily News, Guardian, 9/11 Families …, Burkean Reflections, the talking dog and Daniel W. Drezner

Bob Herbert / New York Times:

The Ugly Side of the G.O.P. — I applaud the thousands of people, many of them poor, who traveled from around the country to protest in Jena, La., last week. But what I'd really like to see is a million angry protesters marching on the headquarters of the National Republican Party in Washington.

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, QandO, The Sundries Shack, Norwegianity, Feministe, Shakespeare's Sister, Macsmind, Friends of Justice, JammieWearingFool, All Spin Zone, Washington Monthly, The Atlantic Online, theneweditor.com, The American Street and Death

E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:

The Right Fight for Democrats — This week's showdown over children's health insurance is the first skirmish in the new battle for universal health coverage. It is also the first confrontation between the president and Congress fought out almost entirely on terms set by the new Democratic majority.

Discussion: Think Progress, Corrente, Democratic Strategist and Eduwonk.com

Washington Post:
GOP Senator Says Bush Should Put Health Bill Before Policy Goal

Discussion: NY Daily News, New York Times, Quad City Times, Bluestem Prairie and Cato-at-liberty

David Brooks / New York Times:

The Center Holds — In the beginning of August, liberal bloggers met at the YearlyKos convention while centrist Democrats met at the Democratic Leadership Council's National Conversation. Almost every Democratic presidential candidate attended YearlyKos, and none visited the D.L.C.

Discussion: TalkLeft, Liberal Values, The Carpetbagger Report and The Corner

Rasmussen Reports:

23% Approve of MoveOn.org Petraeus Ad, 58% Disapprove — Twenty-three percent (23%) of Americans approve of an ad run in the New York Times "that referred to General Petraeus as General Betray Us." A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 58% disapproved.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Don Surber, QandO, L.A. Times, BLACKFIVE, Outside The Beltway and Blue Crab Boulevard

David Margolick / Vanity Fair:

Through a Lens, Darkly — During the historic 1957 desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, 26-year-old journalist Will Counts took a photograph that gave an iconic face to the passions at the center of the civil-rights movement—two faces, actually: those of 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford …

Discussion: Lean Left and Dean's World

Juan Williams / Washington Post:
A Little Rock Reminder

Discussion: Too Sense and Feministe

Associated Press:

Kevin Spacey Meets Venezuela's Chavez — CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Actor Kevin Spacey met privately Monday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of Washington's most outspoken critics in Latin America. — Neither Spacey — who has won Academy Awards for roles in "The Usual Suspects" …

Discussion: This ain't Hell …, Scared Monkeys and Weasel Zippers

Joseph Curl / Washington Times:

NRA now eyeing role in GOP primaries — The National Rifle Association, which did not endorse President Bush in 2000 and 2004 until just a month before the general election, is considering stepping into the presidential campaign fray early next year during the primary season, the group's chief lobbyist says.

Discussion: TPM Election Central

Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
Call Him an Oddball if You Must, but Do Call

Discussion: MSNBC and TalkLeft

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Time to Move On? — The fact that we're all debating the MoveOn ad two weeks after it ran suggests that the organization more than got its money's worth—even though the price just jumped from $65,000 to $142,000. — That's because, as I noted yesterday, MoveOn agreed to pay the higher rate …

Discussion: JammieWearingFool

ABCNEWS:

Clinton Camp Raises Q3 Money Expectations for Rival — Clinton Camp Puts Own Q3 Haul at $17-20 Million; Predicts Obama's Over $30 Million — In the last week before the third quarter fundraising totals are due, the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. …

Discussion: TIME, Don Surber, National Review and The Politico

Associated Press:

Giuliani party seeks $9.11 per person — WASHINGTON - A supporter of Rudy Giuliani's is throwing a party that aims to raise $9.11 per person for the Republican's presidential campaign. — Abraham Sofaer is having a fundraiser at his Palo Alto, Calif., home on Wednesday …

Discussion: All Spin Zone, Wizbang, Attytood, Brilliant at Breakfast, Right Wing News, Truthdig, Shakespeare's Sister and PoliBlog (TM)

Jesus' General:

Priorities — Subscribe to Jesus' General for $5/mo. — Communications — Recent Comments — Battle 2008 — Frenchmen hijacked my sidebar — Probably French — The General monitors these enemy dispatches daily. — The Frenchmen of the Northwest Forests — 43rd State Blues

Discussion: DownWithTyranny!

CBN.com:

Southern Baptist Leader Defends Fred Thompson — Richard Land, the President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (which is part of the influential Southern Baptist Convention), tells The Brody File that the criticism leveled at Fred Thompson by James Dobson and others is a tad bit over the top.

Discussion: MSNBC, RealClearPolitics, TIME and Hot Air

Lydia Saad / Gallup Poll:

Democratic Party Maintains Solid Image Advantage Over GOP — Public Prefers Democratic Party to Republican for handling terrorism, military security — PRINCETON, NJ — Public attitudes toward the two major political parties have not changed much in recent months.

Discussion: The Swamp