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10:10 PM ET, October 3, 2007

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Reid Wilson / RealClearPolitics:
Exclusive: Paul Tops $5 Mil For Quarter  —  Texas Congressman Ron Paul, an anti-war libertarian making his second run at the White House, will report having raised $5.08 million in the third quarter.  The number, which rivals those of John McCain and Bill Richardson, was boosted thanks …
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The Atlantic Online:
Ron Paul Raises Five Times As Much As Huckabee  —  Oh me of little faith.  Ron Paul cannot be dismissed as a gadfly; the chance for him to outperform expectations rises exponentially with additional million dollars he raises.  5.08m is real money.  There must be, within the Republican Party, a vein of anti-war libertarian sentiment.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Huckabee's Money  —  UPDATE, 2:15 pm: Huckabee's numbers seem …
Discussion: MSNBC and The Caucus
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Ron Paul: Five Million Dollar Man
Discussion: All Spin Zone
Libby Spencer / The Newshoggers:
Ron Paul's grassroots problem
Eric Pianin / The Fix:
Sen. Pete Domenici Expected to Retire  —  Veteran Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is expected to announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate in 2008, according to several informed sources, a decision that further complicates an already difficult playing field for Republicans next November.
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Martina Stewart / CNN Political Ticker:
2008 Senate race landscape
Discussion: The Politico
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Domenici to become fifth GOP senator retiring
Discussion: New York Times
Fred File:
Fred Thompson on Harry Reid's attacks on Rush Limbaugh  —  Congressional Democrats are trying to divert attention from insulting our military leader in Iraq and pandering to the loony left by attacking Rush Limbaugh.  He is one of the strongest supporters of our troops, yet Democrats claim he is not being strong enough.
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Is That A Fat Lady I Hear Singing?  —  Pills Limbaugh just keeps diggin' and diggin'.  I've been delighted to see that it's been all over cable news today, and Wes Clark has been promoting the move to get Limbaugh off Armed Forces Radio Network.  Since that letter from Harry Reid et. al. condemning Rush …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Crazed by Rush, Wes Clark calls for political discourse to be rated  —  He doesn't say who'll be doing the rating but he digs the idea of Congress yanking Rush Limbaugh off of Armed Forces Radio so presumably they'd be okay to head that up, too.  The point he's ostensibly trying …
David Espo / Associated Press:
Child health veto will be election issue  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush cast a quiet veto Wednesday against a politically attractive expansion of children's health insurance, triggering a struggle with the Democratic-controlled Congress certain to reverberate into the 2008 elections.
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CNN:
Democrats begin push to override veto of kids health insurance bill
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
Another Fred gaffe  —  From NBC's Joel Seidman  —  More gaffes from Fred Thompson: Not only has he misspoken or said he didn't know about Terri Schiavo, or the controversy about oil drilling in the Everglades, or that he was unaware that a federal judge had ruled that lethal injection procedures …
Darin Murphy / The Huffington Post:
Weak Has a Face, and It's Pelosi's  —  If there was any doubt before, which there wasn't, it's gone now.  Watching Nancy Pelosi on The View yesterday morning provided the final proof that the backbone of the House is only as strong as its speaker.  Her body language said it all.
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
One Angry Man  —  To read Clarence Thomas's book is to be struck anew by the blast-furnace of his anger — at Democrats; at liberal interest groups; at the media; at, of course, Anita Hill.  —  There are wounds that never heal, but, for most, time tends to at least salve the injury.
Discussion: Bench Memos
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Ruth Marcus, Cherry-Picking
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
The Daily Show: Chris Matthew's "Book about Sadness"  —  Chris Matthews has always puzzled me as a talking head.  There's always been this strange disconnect between his embarrassingly slavish adulation of political figures (please, don't make me repeat the glimmering GWB, the manly-smelling Fred Thompson, etc.
Daily Mail:
Schools must warn of Gore climate film bias  —  Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore's controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.  —  The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of 'brainwashing' children …
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
MERCS....Max Boot makes some sensible comments about Blackwater and other private contractors in Iraq: … At this point, we really have only two options.  First, we could try to dramatically reduce our reliance on military contractors.  This would require massive restructuring of our command …
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James Gordon Meek / NY Daily News:
Blackwater to guard FBI team probing it
CNN Political Ticker:
Fred Thompson's wife shakes off 'trophy wife' criticism  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeri Thompson, wife of GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson, shakes off the "trophy wife" label critics have tagged her with for being 24 years younger than her husband.  —  "It's hard not to be defensive," …
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Said to Endorse Harsh C.I.A. Interrogations  —  When the Justice Department publicly declared torture "abhorrent" in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.
 
 
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