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Matthew Hay Brown / Baltimore Sun:
Frost family draws ire of conservatives — Halsey and Bonnie Frost, in front of their Butchers Hill house. Critics question whether the Frosts should be eligible for a federal insurance program. (Sun photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor / October 9, 2007) — When Halsey and Bonnie Frost agreed …
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The Corner:
Frosty reception — I tremble to return to the subject of the Frost family, if only because so many e-mailers in the last 72 hours seem to confuse a debate on health care with an analysis of my sexual inadequacy and the accommodational capacity of my posterior.
Faiz / Think Progress:
Was A McConnell Staffer Behind The Campaign To Smear The 12-Yr Old SCHIP Recipient? — The right wing's attack on Graeme Frost, a 12-year old recipient of SCHIP, is now attracting attention from a number of traditional media outlets. "I think it's really a sad statement about how bankrupt …
Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
Graeme Frost & Why I'm Ashamed to Be a Blogger Today (Update III)
Graeme Frost & Why I'm Ashamed to Be a Blogger Today (Update III)
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Let's Move The S-CHIP Debate Back To Policy
Let's Move The S-CHIP Debate Back To Policy
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
My Clinton Problem - And Ours — A reader writes: … Yes, I remember. I was an unillusioned Clinton supporter in 1991 and 1992. As editor of The New Republic, I helped guide the magazine toward an endorsement of the guy. Heck, I edited Sid Blumenthal's coverage of the campaign and wrote the editorial that endorsed him.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Giuliani compares Romney to John Kerry — Maybe the temptation was too much. — After months of talking about only the Democrats — and indicating just last week that he had no intention to attack his GOP rivals — Rudy Giuliani this morning took some unprompted shots at Mitt Romney.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Smile, Though Your Head Is Aching — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in a determinedly good mood when she sat down to lunch with reporters yesterday. She entered the room beaming and, over the course of an hour, smiled no fewer than 31 times and got off at least 23 laughs.
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David Kelley / Wall Street Journal:
Capitalist Heroes — Fifty years ago today Ayn Rand published her magnum opus, "Atlas Shrugged." It's an enduringly popular novel — all 1,168 pages of it — with some 150,000 new copies still sold each year in bookstores alone. And it's always had a special appeal for people in business.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
CLINTON ON TORTURE....Yes, Andrew Sullivan suffers from Clinton Derangement Syndrome, but I'll still join him in gagging over this nauseating piece of evasion from Hillary: … Politics is politics. Spin and ambiguity are part of the game. But if you can't even take a full-throated …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Analysis: How to say no to the President? — The Supreme Court, deeply fascinated with its own role in an interconnected world legal order, spent extra time on Wednesday examining the question of how to say no to the President on a treaty matter and, if it does, to do so without harming …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Thank You, Jerry Nadler. — I am sitting here in my living room watching the FISA bill mark-up in the House Judiciary Committee. Jerry Nadler is rocking, and I had to take a moment to say thank you. From the hearing moments ago (this is me transcribing it, so it's a rough transcript):
Brandon Friedman / Daily Kos:
Hate Mail from Dittoheads — On Friday night I went on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and read off some hate mail from Rush Limbaugh's listeners. Based on the response, I thought I'd share with you all some of the emails we've received at VoteVets.org—in complete, uncut, and unaltered form.
United States - Department of The Treasury:
Treasury Designates Three Key Terrorist Financiers — The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) three individuals based in Saudi Arabia who have served as significant sources of financial and other support to individuals and entities …
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Judge Bars Bush Crackdown on Illegal Workers — Plan Would Have Pressured Firms to Fire Up to 8.7M — A federal judge barred the Bush administration today from launching a planned crackdown on U.S. firms that hire illegal immigrants, warning of the plan's potentially "staggering" impact on law-abiding workers and companies.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Social conservative leaders back off third-party threat but still fear Giuliani — Evangelical leaders Gary Bauer and Tony Perkins said Wednesday it is still possible for social conservative Republican voters to find a candidate to rally behind, and painted another Clinton administration as the worst outcome of the 2008 election.
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Times of London:
Turkey prepares for cross-border strike on Kurds — The Turkish Prime Minister said today that he had ordered preparations for a possible military strike in northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels launching attacks on Turkey from cross-border bases, despite strong opposition from Washington.
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Eugene Volokh / Opinion Journal:
President Spock — What if Barack Obama told his wife he wouldn't say "I love you" anymore? — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he doesn't tell his wife he loves her any more, because "I love you" has become a substitute for "true love."