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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.
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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 …
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Hartford Courant / Colin McEnroe:
Frosted: The War on Middle Class Solvency — The messy feud over the family of Graeme Frost spilled onto the front page of the New York Times today, after about 24 hours of high heat on the internet. Most of the steam has swirled around the question of whether conservatives were Swift Boating …
Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
Graeme Frost & Why I'm Ashamed to Be a Blogger Today (Update III) — 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 …
Michelle Malkin:
Democrat poster-child abuse, the nutroots' pushback, and the …
Democrat poster-child abuse, the nutroots' pushback, and the …
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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 …
Bomb, Bomb Iran — Hillary seemed rattled. — Up until now …
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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."
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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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.