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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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Michelle Malkin:
Democrat poster-child abuse, the nutroots' pushback, and the continued campaign to silence the Right — Update 11:50am Eastern 10/10. Here's the Baltimore Sun's nutroots-approved follow-up piece on the Frost family, using a single, rotten comment by a stupid RedState commenter to tar all conservative bloggers as hatemongers.
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Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
Graeme Frost & Why I'm Ashamed to Be a Blogger Today (Update II) — The Frosts Outside & Inside Semi-Palatial Home — The vicious underbelly of the blogosphere is in full-howl display over the story of Graeme Frost, the 12-year-old who gave a Democratic Party radio rebuttal to President Bush's veto …
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 …
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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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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Bomb, Bomb Iran — Hillary seemed rattled. — Up until now, she has displayed remarkable imperturbability — gliding along with the help of good lighting, a hearty guffaw and a clever husband. — But on Sunday in New Hampton, Iowa, Hillary lost her cool at last.
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.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republican Debate: Winners and Losers — Yesterday's GOP debate in Dearborn, Mich., was supposed to be all about former Sen. Fred Thompson (Tenn.). It was the actor turned politician's first time on stage with his opponents and was widely cast as a chance for Thompson to reshape what, to date, has been a somewhat lackluster campaign.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
From Former Bush Aide, A Candid Assessment Of the GOP Candidates
From Former Bush Aide, A Candid Assessment Of the GOP Candidates
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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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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Generation Q — I just spent the past week visiting several colleges — Auburn, the University of Mississippi, Lake Forest and Williams — and I can report that the more I am around this generation of college students, the more I am both baffled and impressed.
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 …
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Iain Murray / globalwarming.org:
Court Finds Truths Inconvenient for Gore — The British government decided that it would be a good idea to send copies of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to all schools, with then Environment Secretary (now Foreign Secretary) David Miliband declaring that "the debate over science is over."
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Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
Blogs target jihadis online — Ordinary Americans are tracking down U.S. Web sites used by al Qaeda and jihadi sympathizers and then using the Internet to persuade the service providers to snuff out the sites. — "I do this because it has to be done," says one blogger who calls himself a …
CNN:
White House: Turkey resolution will harm relations — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Bush administration Wednesday lobbied heavily against a House resolution that labels the killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I as "genocide," saying it would hurt relations with a key U.S. ally.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Why Fight For Anyone's Freedom? — In the backlash against President Bush's democracy agenda, conservatives are increasingly taking the lead. It is inherently difficult for liberals to argue against the expansion of social and political liberalism in oppressive parts of the world — though …