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10:15 PM ET, October 10, 2007

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CNN:
Carter says U.S. tortures prisoners  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Carter said Wednesday.  —  "I don't think it.  I know it," Carter told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.  —  "Our country for the first time in my life …
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Reuters:
Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a "disaster"  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney as a "disaster" for the country and a "militant" who has had an excessive influence in setting foreign policy.  —  Cheney has been on the wrong side …
CNN Political Ticker:
Carter: America tortures
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.
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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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:   Judge Bars Government From Discovering Social Security Fraud
Edward Glaeser / New York Sun:
The World According to Paul Krugman  —  Human knowledge is produced by intellectual combat that exposes weak premises and faulty conclusions to withering challenge.  We are often improved more by our ideological enemies than by our friends, because our enemies push us hardest.
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Paul Krugman, pussycat  —  The Conscience of a Liberal is um...not that polemic.  It's not that shrill.  There is an argument, to be sure, but the book has much more economic history than I had expected, and much more political history.  —  I've already blogged on The Great Compression …
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Exclusive: Nearly 90 House Dems Sign Letter Pledging To No Longer Fund War  —  I've just learned that nearly 90 members of the House of Representatives have now added their names to a letter to the President pledging not to vote for any more funding for the war and only to vote for supplementals …
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Newsweek:
Terror watch: Gonzales lawyers up  —  Still under investigation by Congress and Justice Department lawyers who once worked for him, the former attorney general has turned to a leading Washington attorney to help him beat the rap.  —  No sooner did Alberto Gonzales resign as attorney general …
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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Sara Bonisteel / Fox News:
Canada's Expectant Moms Heading to U.S. to Deliver  —  Mothers in British Columbia are having a baby boom, but it's the United States that has to deliver, and that has some proud Canadians blasting their highly touted government healthcare system.  —  "I'm a born-bred Canadian …
Discussion: Don Surber
CNN:
Mayor: School gunman killed himself  —  (CNN) — A 14-year-old boy killed himself after shooting students and teachers at a Cleveland, Ohio, high school, wounding four, the mayor told CNN affiliates WOIO and WKYC.  —  The incident took place at 1:15 p.m. ET at SuccessTech Academy near downtown Cleveland …
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Maria Newman / New York Times:
Gunman Opens Fire at Cleveland High School
Discussion: The American Scene
D. Aristophanes / Sadly, No!:
Malkin vs. Malkin  —  My first favorite scene in this movie is the one in the beginning where Michelle pees standing up next to Jesse.  But my second favorite scene is this one:  —  Sulkin' Malkin, August 27, 2004: … VERSUS...  Stalkin' Malkin, October 9, 2007: … BONUS QUOTE, BULIMIC CRY-FOR-HELP DEPT.:
Chase Martyn / Iowa Independent:
McAuliffe Sheds Light on the Connection between Clinton's Gender and Her Position on Iraq War Vote  —  On the five-year anniversary of the United States Senate vote to authorize President George W. Bush to use military force in Iraq, former Sen. John Edwards has renewed his call …
 
 
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Put Some Steak on the Plate
MSNBC:
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Live Free Or Die
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