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7:20 PM ET, October 9, 2007

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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
What Is Wrong With You?!?  —  The difference between the far right wing and the far left wing: the far right will do anything — anything — so long as the ends justifies the means.  The far left folks have ethical boundaries that they try very hard not to cross: things like attacking …
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John Cole / Balloon Juice:
When Rhetoric Meets Reality  —  I was talking to Tim via AOL IM, and I decided it was probably worthwhile to bring this up for everyone.  One of the things that is so surprising (for me, at least) about the whole Graeme Frost episode is that rather than make their case against this program …
Ezra Klein:
What Has Happened To The Right?  —  Something has gone wrong on the Right.  Become sick and twisted and tumorous and ugly.  To visit Michelle Malkin's cave is to see politics at its most savage, its most ferocious, its most rageful.  They say they've spent the past week smearing a child …
Faiz / Think Progress:
Rush Smears 12-Yr Old: 'They Filled His Head With Lies Just As They Have Some Of These Soldiers'  —  Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted the right wing has been orchestrating a coordinated effort to smear a 12 year old recipient of SCHIP.  These conservatives have been propagating baseless "facts" …
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Graeme Frost: What Would You Do If This Was Snooping Around Your House?
Peter Baker / The Trail:
Bartlett Unleashed: On Flip-Flops, a "Dud" and the Guy With the Funny Name  —  Dan Bartlett, formerly one of the closest advisers to President Bush, has been offering a tough analysis of the GOP field.  (White House Photo Office).  —  One of President Bush's closest advisers …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
Live-Blogging the Republican Debate  —  6:10 p.m. More from Dean Baker:  —  It is fascinating (at least to those of us who had not watched one of  —  these all the way through) how all the Republicans candidates feel the  —  need to claim that we can get more revenue through tax cuts.  Obviously
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Spin room open: Thompson's debut, GOP's debate
Kelly P. Kissel / Associated Press:   Huckabee: Rivals Might Consider Suicide
Associated Press:
Court nixes suit claiming CIA torture  —  Justices throw out German's challenge to alleged abduction by U.S. agents  —  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday terminated a lawsuit from a man who claims he was abducted and tortured by the CIA, effectively endorsing Bush administration arguments …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Court Declines Case of Alleged CIA Torture Victim
Discussion: The RBC and The Debate Link
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets  —  Firm Says Administration's Handling of Video Ruined Its Spying Efforts  —  A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month …
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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Uh, About that "Leak" That Burned Our al Qaeda Intel  —  I know what the NY Sun and Washington Post are saying about a major source of intel being burned by a leak, but it just isn't so.  Rita Katz and the SITE Institute do a great job, but attributing the interception of this video to them is just false.
John Tierney / New York Times:
Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus  —  In 1988, the surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, proclaimed ice cream to a be public-health menace right up there with cigarettes.  Alluding to his office's famous 1964 report on the perils of smoking, Dr. Koop announced that the American diet …
HillaryClinton.com:
Hillary Clinton's American Retirement Accounts Plan: A 401(k) Plan For All Americans  —  Today, Hillary Clinton announced a bold new American Retirement Accounts plan with generous matching tax cuts that—alongside her efforts to strengthen defined benefit pension plans …
Discussion: The Swamp and TIME: Swampland
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Unveils Her Retirement Savings Plan
Discussion: TalkLeft
Atrios / Eschaton:
Fake News Event of the Day  —  CNN's programming is really pretty weird.  I generally don't catch any of the morning show, but between that and the Situation Room it seems that every day is dominated by some fake news event - a school lockdown, a missing child, a truck accident …
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Patrick / mediabistro.com:
Matthews on Matthews  —  On today's "Morning Joe," Joe Scarborough asked Chris Matthews if Republican candidates would try to get a "cheap applause line" tonight by pointing to his recent controversial comments.  —  Said Matthews:  —  I've been thinking about that....It's not my stage tonight.
Little Green Footballs:
Phony 'Satirical' Anti-Muslim Posters Circulated at GWU  —  At George Washington University, another outrageous action by the Saudi-funded radical Islamic front group calling itself the Muslim Student Association, as they circulate flyers purporting to be from a conservative campus group …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
DoJ Vote Chief Argues Voter ID Laws Discriminate against Whites  —  When Justice Department lawyers and analysts found in 2005 that a Georgia law requiring voters to have photo ID would disproportionately discriminate against African-Americans, they were overruled by John Tanner …
Detroit Free Press:
Obama, Edwards, Richardson, Biden out of state primary  —  Four of the leading Democratic presidential nominees have removed their names from the Jan. 15 Michigan presidential primary.  —  U.S. Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards both earlier today filed paperwork …
Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
"Ward Churchill to teach unsanctioned course on CU campus"  —  Dangerous.  Anti-establishment.  Edgy: … If Churchill's special brand of anti-American, white guilt-fueled BDS is strong enough to get college students to attend extra classes — for which they'll receive no credit …
Discussion: Suitably Flip
 
 
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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Tancredo Goes After Brownback's Mother
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The Kiwi and the Eagle: Anti-Americanism in New Zealand
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
2 Iraqi Women Killed in Shooting by Security Convoy
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Wilson hopes Novak 'is going to confession, because otherwise he's going to hell'
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
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Satyam / Think Progress:
Charlie Savage: Cheney Plotted Bush's Imperial Presidency 'Thirty Years Ago'
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David Blair / Telegraph:
Iranian students attack 'fascist Ahmadinejad'
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Back From Iraq  —  I'm struck by how sober Rich Lowry …
Confederate Yankee:
The New Republic Re-Interviewed Beauchamp... Over a Month Ago
Jonathan Chait / New York Times:
Captives of the Supply Side
Rick Weiss / Washington Post:
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.
Lydia Saad / Gallup Poll:
Bush's Approval Rating Returns to Low 30s
 

 
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