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Michelle Malkin:
Democrat poster-child abuse, the nutroots' pushback, and the continued campaign to silence the Right — I received an e-mail from a NYTimes reporter this afternoon: … I gave him these comments: … I also told him this: … Here's the NYTimes story, which actually turned out much fairer and more balanced than I expected.
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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 …
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Capitol Feud: A 12-Year-Old Is the Fodder — There have been moments when the fight between Congressional Democrats and President Bush over the State Children's Health Insurance Program seemed to devolve into a shouting match about who loves children more. — So when Democrats enlisted …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Fred Wins, Chris Loses (Update: My Prediction Comes True) — The first debate with Fred Thompson was expected to reveal whether the lanky actor had what it takes to make a national run for the office. Instead, it revealed Chris Matthews as a hack of the first order, one who tried his best to torpedo Thompson — and failed utterly.
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Washington Wire:
Verdict on Thompson? — Susan Davis reports on the presidential race.
Verdict on Thompson? — Susan Davis reports on the presidential race.
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The Atlantic Online
Stephen Green / VodkaPundit:
Debate Drunkblogging — LIVE!
Debate Drunkblogging — LIVE!
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Townhall.com, The Corner, National Review, Classical Values, Pajamas Media, Patterico's Pontifications, Heading Right and The Trail
Jon Henke / Fred File:
Liveblogging the Michigan Republican Debate
Liveblogging the Michigan Republican Debate
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Spin room open: Thompson's debut, GOP's debate
Spin room open: Thompson's debut, GOP's debate
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The Smoking Gun:
Dead Reverend's Rubber Fetish — Autopsy: Pastor found in wet suits after autoerotic mishap — An Alabama minister who died in June of "accidental mechanical asphyxia" was found hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear …
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Gavin M. / Sadly, No!:
Fundies In Their Undies, Pt. Infinity-Kabillion
Fundies In Their Undies, Pt. Infinity-Kabillion
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Eric Roper / media.www.gwhatchet.com:
Seven GW students admit to hanging controversial posters — A group of seven GW students sent an e-mail to The Hatchet late Tuesday night admitting to hanging hundreds of controversial posters around campus early Monday morning. — The students - Adam Kokesh, freshman Yong Kwon …
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Little Green Footballs:
LGF Poll: Who Won the GOP Debate? — Which Republican candidate turned in the best performance in the October 9 debate? — Sam Brownback — Rudy Giuliani — Mike Huckabee — Duncan Hunter — John McCain — Mitt Romney — Tom Tancredo — Fred Thompson
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New York Times:
An Israeli Strike on Syria Kindles Debate in the U.S. — A sharp debate is under way in the Bush administration about the significance of the Israeli intelligence that led to last month's Israeli strike inside Syria, according to current and former American government officials.
Kuwait Times Newspaper:
Iraq: Iran's hand in the Shiite truce — Key Iraqi Shiite leaders Muqtada Al-Sadr and Abdel Aziz Al-Hakim announced a truce between their rival movements Oct 6. Al-Hakim heads the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC), Iraq's largest and most cohesive Shiite political faction, which has close ties to Iran.
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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Shiite Truce Was Designed In Teheran - Report
Shiite Truce Was Designed In Teheran - Report
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Washington Monthly
Spiegel Online:
Iranian-Born German Soccer Player Refuses to Play Israel — An Iranian-German soccer player who plays for the German national under-21 side has asked not to play against Israel in a friendly on Oct. 12. The team has accepted his request, angering Germany's Jewish lobby.
KPIX-TV:
Foreclosures Spurring Blight In Central Valley — (CBS) MANTECA In the Central Valley community of Manteca, police have a new job: patrolling hundreds of foreclosed houses left empty and abandoned. They are half million dollar houses, often bought with nothing down, turned into suburban blight.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
From Former Bush Aide, A Candid Assessment Of the GOP Candidates — A former adviser to President Bush has a brutally candid analysis of the Republican presidential nomination contest: Fred D. Thompson is the campaign's "biggest dud," Mitt Romney has "a real problem in the South" …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Residents of a famously liberal city appear to be changing views — San Francisco - the liberal, left-coast city conservatives love to mock - could be undergoing a transformation when it comes to homeless people. Although the city would still be a poor choice for a pep rally for the war in Iraq …
Guardian:
Killer law — Last November it became a crime for a woman to have an abortion in Nicaragua, even if her life was in mortal danger. So far it has resulted in the death of at least 82 women. Rory Carroll reports on the fight to have the law changed — María de Jesús González was a practical woman.
New York Magazine:
The Rise of Mailerism — Norman Mailer's God, not surprisingly, is a great artist, who created mankind and all the plants and other animals, and could reincarnate them according to his whim. But he was not all-powerful. Because there was the Devil—and the Devil had technology.
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