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Chuck Todd / MSNBC:
Clinton gets snippy with Iowan over Iran — From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones — NEW HAMPTON, Iowa — At a campaign stop here, Hillary Clinton sparred verbally for several minutes with a man who pressed her on her recent vote to call Iran's army a terrorist organization.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton / The Trail:
Clinton's Iran Vote Prompts A Harsh Back-and-Forth — Randall Rolph said he came to New Hampton, Iowa, on Sunday to see Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) with an open mind about whether to support her candidacy. After a tough exchange over Iran, he left saying he had ruled her out.
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft / Washington Post:
Who Made Hillary Queen? — Among so much about American politics that can impress or depress a friendly transatlantic observer, there's nothing more astonishing than this: Why on Earth should Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton be the front-runner for the presidency?
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Nathaniel R. Helms / warchronicle.com:
Al Qaeda in Haditha: The battle the media ignored — Buried in the mountain of exhibits attached to the once secret Haditha, Iraq murder inquiry prepared by US Army Maj. Gen. Eldon A. Bargewell is an obscure Marine Corps intelligence summary (see pdf) that says the deadly encounter …
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Michelle Malkin:
Al Qaeda and Haditha bombshell: What the MSM didn't tell you — You won't hear about this from John Murtha, but you'll read it first on the Internet. Nathaniel Helms at Defend our Marines has an exclusive report on the battle in Haditha that the media ignored:
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Don Surber:
3,000 square foot home, but cannot 'afford' health insurance? — Remember the Frost family of Baltimore? They had a bad traffic accident 3 years ago. Their medical bills were paid by the taxpayer-subsidized SCHIP. Democrats trotted out Graeme Frost, 12, to call the president mean …
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Free Republic:
The "Not So Poor" 12 Year Old Who Rebutted Bush on SCHIP Veto — Graeme Frost, who gave the democrat rebuttal to George Bush's reasons for vetoing the SCHIP Bill, is a middle school student at the exclusive$20,000 per year Park School in Baltimore, MD. — Graeme was in a severe car accident …
The Atlantic Online:
Class Warfare — More dispatches from the continuing conservative war on adorable children (as depicted above) as Glenn Reynolds joins with other rightwingers to sputter with rage at the idea of middle class children having health insurance. We're supposed to believe, I suppose …
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Whiskey Fire
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
'Journalists' Tell Howard Kurtz Why Good News from Iraq Shouldn't Get Reported (updated w/video) — As CNN's Howard Kurtz accurately pointed out on Sunday's "Reliable Sources," few media outlets seemed at all interested in giving much attention to the great news out of Iraq last week regarding September's sharp decline in casualties.
Peterhamby / CNN Political Ticker:
Obama: GOP doesn't own faith and values — GREENVILLE, South Carolina (CNN) — After speaking to an evangelical church on Sunday in this traditionally conservative South Carolina city, Sen. Barack Obama said that Republicans no longer have a firm grip on religion in political discourse.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Dangerous Sealer Stayed on Shelves After Recall — DENVILLE, N.J. — Walter E. Friedel's plans to waterproof the tile floors of his hot tub room using Stand 'n Seal, a do-it-yourself product sold at his local Home Depot, promised to be a quick weekend project, one he could wrap up in time to catch …
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Rick Moran / American Thinker:
Novak Dispels Some Plame Myths — Robert Novak, who wrote the column that exposed the Plame connection to Joe Wilson's trip to Niger, has been trying unsuccessfully to set the record straight regarding the "outing" of Wilson's wife for a long time. — Novak's problem has been that the Plame narrative …
Houston Chronicle:
Many Texas consumers feel competition in the state's energy markets has been a costly failure — Is there light at end of the power line? — When Texas lawmakers agreed to open the state's power markets to competition back in 1999, one promise was on the tip of many tongues — lower prices.
Deacon / Power Line:
IT'S SHOWTIME, FOLKS — Fred Thompson may not have impressed certain "inside-the-beltway" pundits in the run-up to his entry into the presidential race, but so far he seems to be doing fairly well among Republican voters. The latest Rasmussen survey has him in a statistical dead-heat with Rudy Giuliani.
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