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3:45 PM ET, September 25, 2007

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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.
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Gateway Pundit:
The Ugly Side of Another Failed Black Democrat  —  On July 30th 1866: … Those ugly democratic attacks continue to this day.  —  At The New York Times today, another failed black leader, Bob Herbert, attempts to rewrite history with his ugly hit piece "The Ugly Side of the G.O.P." .
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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.
Washington Post:
GOP Senator Says Bush Should Put Health Bill Before Policy Goal  —  A senior Senate Republican accused President Bush yesterday of holding a bipartisan expansion of the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program hostage to his broader policy goals of using tax deductions to help people afford private health insurance coverage.
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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.
New York Times:
Congress Set for Veto Fight on Child Health Care
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Beliefnet
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Iraqi Prime Minister Says That Civil War Has Been Prevented  —  Maliki Also Plays Down Iran's Influence  —  Civil war has been averted in Iraq and Iranian intervention there has "ceased to exist," Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said yesterday.  —  "I can't say there is a picture …
Fausta / Fausta's blog:
Two girls, the Saudi Religious Police, a mobile phone and a can of pepper spray  —  Jules Crittenden and Blue Star Chronicles have it:  —  Saudi Religious Police Attacked by Girls (emphasis added) … Notice how the crowd didn't take the Religious Police's side, either. … It gets better:
Discussion: Hot Air
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New York Sun:
Teaching Moment  —  President Bollinger ended his remarks to President Ahmadinejad at Morningside Heights yesterday with these words: "I am only a professor, who is also a university president, and today I feel all the weight of the modern civilized world yearning to express the revulsion at what you stand for.
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Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
And another thing...  The morning after the Columbia spectacle two things bother me.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Blogger files complaint over Giuliani ad  —  A liberal blogger has jumped into the New York Times-MoveOn.org-Rudy Giuliani fracas, filing a complaint against the former New York City mayor's presidential campaign.  —  Lane Hudson, who in recent weeks has sought to carve out a niche as something …
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The Washington Post / The Trail:
Was Giuliani's MoveOn Deal Unfair?
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
What Defines a Killing as Sectarian?  —  U.S. Military Teams Analyze and Tally Each Civilian Death  —  On Sept. 1, the bullet-riddled bodies of four Iraqi men were found on a Baghdad street.  Two days later, a single dead man, with one bullet in his head, was found on a different street.
Associated Press:
Actor Kevin Spacey meets with Chavez  —  CARACAS, Venezuela - 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" and …
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Front-Runner No-Shows at GOP Minority Debates Assailed  —  Former Republican Congressman J.C. Watts Calls Decision Not to Attend 'Stupid'  —  A former member of the House Republican congressional leadership — and the last African-American to serve as a member of the GOP in Congress …
CNN:
24 die in Iraq peace meeting blast  —  From CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A suicide bombing in Iraq's volatile Diyala province ripped through a "reconciliation meeting" on Monday night attended by Sunni and Shiite militia leaders — a brazen attack that killed …
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
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 …
 
 
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
LIVE BY THE GOTCHA, DIE BY THE GOTCHA
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Diane Cardwell / New York Times:
Bloomberg Begs to Differ With Giuliani on Gun Suit
Blake Hounshell / FP Passport:
Cranking up the pain on Burma
Richard T. Cullen / The Politico:
Anti-Hillary Facebook site tops Obama
Discussion: MoJoBlog
Michael Fleming / Variety:
Spacey to star in HBO's 'Recount'
Discussion: MoJoBlog and Wonkette
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com:
THE POLLSTER.COM DISCLOSURE PROJECT
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Cubans walk out during Bush's UN speech
 Earlier Items: 
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown: Bush Used Bogus Terror Threat To Scare Votes For FISA Bill
Guardian:
The roots of Islamic reform
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
McConnell Reiterates Claim That Debate Will Kill Americans
Discussion: Think Progress
The Corner:
HOLLAND, BETRAYED  —  The betrayal of the Dutch by their political class continues.
Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Wes Clark Interview, Part Two: Iran, Clinton, Residual Forces
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court grants 17 new cases; voter ID, death penalty review
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
GOP expects to lose more House seats