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8:50 AM ET, October 8, 2007

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Los Angeles Times:
How Clinton has built her lead  —  REASON TO SMILE: Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton greets residents in New Hampton, Iowa Sunday.  Polls show her national popularity with Democrats growing.  —  Her base is voters who dominate the Democratic nominating process.  But the presidential campaign season is still young.
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Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
Iowa Caucuses As Smoke-Filled Room  —  A minister, priest and rabbi walk into a 4-H club . . .  I'll eat my straw boater if it turns out that the Iowa caucuses next January play a decisive role in determining who the Republican presidential sacrificial lamb will be, let alone who the Democrats nominate to be the next president.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
The Way Primaries Work  —  We seem to have people who still misunderstand the primary system, both in our CapQ community and in the national political movements on the Right.  Over the last couple of weeks, we have had grand ultimatums from a couple of factions which have demanded a particular type …
CNN Political Ticker:
CNN Political Ticker AM  —  Making News Today...  Clinton's riding a high  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Last week, it was a major fundraising win, and now it's strong showings in two new polls.  Sen. Hillary Clinton is riding a political high less than three months before the Iowa caucuses.
Discussion: The Politico
Des Moines Register:
Clinton takes lead for Democrats
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.
Discussion: Unfogged
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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.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Is America Now South Asia?
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Top Iraqis Pull Back From Key U.S. Goal  —  Reconciliation Seen Unattainable Amid Struggle for Power  —  BAGHDAD — For much of this year, the U.S. military strategy in Iraq has sought to reduce violence so that politicians could bring about national reconciliation, but several top Iraqi leaders …
Discussion: Rising Hegemon, Greatscat! and Truthdig
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Michelle Malkin:
Al Qaeda and Haditha bombshell: What the MSM didn't tell you
Bluto / The Jawa Report:
Report: Haditha 'Massacre' Planned by al Qaeda
Discussion: protein wisdom
Michael J. Totten:
The Best Police Force in Iraq  —  RAMADI, IRAQ - In late July when I visited a police station in the town of Mushadah just north of Baghdad I worried that Iraq was doomed to become the next Gaza.  As many as half the police officers, according to most of the American Military Police who worked …
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Same Old Party  —  There have been a number of articles recently that portray President Bush as someone who strayed from the path of true conservatism.  Republicans, these articles say, need to return to their roots.  —  Well, I don't know what true conservatism is, but while doing research …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
As War Dragged On, Coverage Tone Weighed Heavily on Anchors  —  Charlie Gibson is a product of the Vietnam War era.  When he was a television reporter in Lynchburg, Va., he had driven to Washington on weekends to march in antiwar demonstrations.  And he had lost friends in that jungle war.
Washington Times:
Mexican 'House of Death  —  CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Fernando Reyes wasn't dying fast enough, so his killers wrapped his head in a plastic bag.  It wouldn't be long before the brutally beaten and tortured drug smuggler would take his last breath.  —  An undercover informant working for U.S. authorities …
Discussion: Reason Magazine
Omar Fadhil / Opinion Journal:
Al Qaeda's War of Villages  —  Signs that the terrorists are losing in Iraq.  —  BAGHDAD—The latest chapter in al Qaeda's war manual in their war against the Iraqi people and the Coalition is this: raiding remote peaceful villages, burning down homes and slaughtering both man and beast.
Discussion: SWJ Blog
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
Immigration, Black Sheep and Swiss Rage  —  The posters taped on the walls at a political rally here capture the rawness of Switzerland's national electoral campaign: three white sheep stand on the Swiss flag as one of them kicks a single black sheep away.  —  "To Create Security," the poster reads.
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
 
 
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New York Post:
QAEDA ON THE RUN  —  SYRIA SLAY IS LATEST SETBACK
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David Cracknell / Times of London:
Gordon Brown backs down over snap election
Discussion: normblog
New York Times:
U.S. Renews Bid to Destroy Opium Poppies in Afghanistan
Discussion: Feministe, FP Passport and The RBC
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
A Dutch Retreat on Speech?
Discussion: michellemalkin.com
Houston Chronicle:
Many Texas consumers feel competition in the state's energy markets …
Discussion: Pacific Views and Off the Kuff
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Law on Lies by Politicians Is Found Unconstitutional
Discussion: JURIST
The Atlantic Online:
Class Warfare  —  More dispatches from the continuing conservative war …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Going to Court, but Not in Time to Live  —  Let us consider the arithmetic of death.
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Obama: GOP doesn't own faith and values
William Kristol / Washington Post:
Talk Is Cheap  —  On Sept. 25, President Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Dangerous Sealer Stayed on Shelves After Recall
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Deacon / Power Line:
IT'S SHOWTIME, FOLKS
Rick Moran / American Thinker:
Novak Dispels Some Plame Myths
Discussion: The Hill and PrairiePundit
Washington Post:
More Torture Memos  —  PRESIDENT BUSH said Friday …
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'Journalists' Tell Howard Kurtz Why Good News from Iraq Shouldn't …
 

 
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