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Anita Hill / New York Times:
The Smear This Time — ON Oct. 11, 1991, I testified about my experience as an employee of Clarence Thomas's at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. — I stand by my testimony. — Justice Thomas has every right to present himself as he wishes in his new memoir, "My Grandfather's Son."
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
An Evening With Justice Thomas
An Evening With Justice Thomas
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Redstate, Power Line, Outside The Beltway, Townhall.com, The Corner, Bluey Blog and La Shawn Barber's Corner
Edward Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
'My Grandfather's Son' by Clarence Thomas
'My Grandfather's Son' by Clarence Thomas
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The Democratic Daily, All Spin Zone, ePluribus Media Community, KXMC-TV and Crooks and Liars
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Sauce For The Goose — Anita Hill takes to the pages …
Sauce For The Goose — Anita Hill takes to the pages …
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Macsmind
Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Is Losing Grip On Core Business Vote — Deficit Hawks Defect — As Social Issues Prevail; — 'The Party Left Me' — \*country-region\*country-regionWASHING TON\*\* — The Republican Party, known since the late 19th century as the party of business, is losing its lock on that title.
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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Democrats Seize on Limbaugh to Distract from their Iraq Surrender — The Senate yesterday passed the annual defense authorization bill with little fanfare. Although it was intended to be the vehicle for any Iraq restrictions Democrats could come up with, it passed by an eye-popping 92-3.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Approps Chair Obey Says He'll Block Funding For War Without Withdrawal Date
Approps Chair Obey Says He'll Block Funding For War Without Withdrawal Date
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TalkLeft
Horses Mouth:
A lot of people are talking about the big speech Barack Obama gave today calling for multilateral nuclear disarmament. But I wanted to focus in on what I think is a significant aspect of the speech that has little to do with the actual policy questions addressed here.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama to Urge Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Obama to Urge Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
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CNN:
Blackwater contractor wrote government report on incident — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The State Department's initial report of last month's incident in which Blackwater guards were accused of killing Iraqi civilians was written by a Blackwater contractor working in the embassy security detail …
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Blackwater: Rules of Engagement Set by State Department
Blackwater: Rules of Engagement Set by State Department
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Think Progress
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Anti-war veterans target Limbaugh — An anti-war group consisting of veterans from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan is launching an ad Tuesday that attacks popular conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. — The group, VoteVets.org, is spending $60,000 on the ad, which will air on Fox News and CNN.
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Gateway Pundit, Taylor Marsh, NewsBusters.org, USA Today, Riehl World View and The Radio Equalizer
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Obama'08:
On Fifth Anniversary of Speech Opposing Iraq War, Obama Again Challenges Conventional Washington Thinking — Chicago, IL — Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is scheduled to deliver a foreign policy address at DePaul University in Chicago today, the five-year anniversary of his original speech opposing …
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Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Clinton Raises $27M in 3rd Quarter — Surpassing her rivals by a margin that few Democrats predicted, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign announced this morning that it had raised $22 million since July to compete in the 2008 primaries, and another $5 million …
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Marco Martinez / Townhall.com:
Marine Hero: The 5 Things I Saw that Make Me Support the War — Liberals often like to say that "violence is senseless." — That's wrong. — Violence isn't senseless. Senseless violence is senseless. And I should know. Before being awarded the Navy Cross and having the privilege of becoming a Marine, I was a gang member.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Expect less Mr. Nice Guy from Fred — CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Fred Thompson has a folksy, good old boy persona on the stump, but it may not last much longer. — When I asked him if he is an 11th Commandment man — Never speak ill of a fellow Republican — he responded, "I am more of a 12th Commandment man …
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San Francisco Chronicle, The Caucus, The Swamp, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Conservative Belle and The Impolitic
Suzanne Le Mignot / WBBM-TV:
Oak Lawn Schools Cancel Holiday Traditions — School District To Discuss Cancellation Or Renaming Of Holiday Celebrations At Emergency Meeting — (CBS) OAK LAWN, Ill. A southwest suburban school district has taken action, responding to the concerns of a Muslim parent.
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Atlas Shrugs
Jerusalem Post:
Censorship lifted on September 6 IAF strike inside Syria — Israel on Tuesday began to lift its strict veil of secrecy on an air strike in Syria last month, allowing the media to report on the raid without attributing such reports to foreign sources. — The censor did not release any other details for publication.
Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Battle of sound bites reaches health care — In the battle of sound bites over President Bush's expected veto of the children's health insurance bill, the White House position boils down to this: Beware, beware — it's the first step toward federalized health care.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Angry, hateful liberal bloggers — On Protein Wisdom — the right-wing blog of Pajamas Media's Jeff Goldstein — there is a "response" to a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago concerning the exaggerations of the Muslim threat from Marty Peretz's assistant, Jamie Kirchick of The New Republic and Commentary.