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4:55 PM ET, October 11, 2007

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Faiz / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: E-mail Reveals That McConnell Staffer Propagated Smear Campaign Against Graeme Frost  —  Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that there was mounting evidence that a staffer for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may have been involved in the right-wing campaign to smear Graeme Frost and his family.
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Sadly, No!:
Stalkin' Malkin Is Losing It  —  It's getting funnier and funnier.  She's plunged straight off the deep end with this one: … Gad, it's like watching one of the Heathers write in her personal pity diary.  All that's missing is angry complaints about Confederate Yankee and Ace turning into Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads.
Time:
The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE FEVER SWAMP....A plainly disgusted Karen Tumulty recaps …
Discussion: Brian Beutler
Carla Marinucci / SFGate:
UPDATE - Gore cancels appearance at Boxer fundraiser  —  Sen. Barbara Boxer's office just contacted us to say former Vice President Al Gore has been called "overseas" for a trip related to his work on global warming and has canceled his scheduled appearance Thursday in San Francisco at a fundraiser for Boxer's re-election effort.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Will Gore add Nobel to Oscar and Emmy?  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Will Al Gore add a Nobel Peace Prize to his Oscar and Emmy honors?  —  "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary featuring the former vice president captured two Academy Awards in February.  The film focuses on Gore and his worldwide travels …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Movement From the Gore-acle?  —  As regular Fix readers know, we have long been fascinated with former Vice President Al Gore and his future (or lack thereof) in elected politics.  —  The confluence of two recent stories has our Gore-dar buzzing again.  The first was an ad that ran in the New York Times yesterday.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Al Gore for President
Editor and Publisher:
Ann Coulter on CNBC Show: Jews Need 'Perfecting'  —  NEW YORK Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they had "perfected" themselves into — Christians.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD: Warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty  —  There is a lot of debate about what accounts for the decrepit state of our political press, but often overlooked is the sheer sloth and ignorance of journalists, who repeat what they are told without having any idea what they are talking about.
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Not Ready To Make Nice  —  Well this gets a big, fat "hell, no" from me.  Via e-mail from Liz Rose of the ACLU on the draft Senate version of the FISA bill, which is not yet publicly available and not being widely shared for review either: … If they didn't do anything wrong, why should they get retroactive immunity?
Tom Hays / Associated Press:
Police: Columbia Won't Turn Over Video  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has refused to turn over security videotape that could help identify who hung a noose on a black professor's office door, police said Thursday.  —  Investigators began asking on Wednesday for tapes from cameras in the building …
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Another Voice in the Choir  —  Fred Thompson did not disgrace himself in his first formal debate as a Republican presidential candidate, but he also did not dominate the stage full of White House hopefuls in Dearborn, Mich., on Tuesday.  —  At least three others — John McCain …
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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Hillary's Arrogant Foreign Policy  —  Democratic leaders have for years criticized President Bush's arrogant foreign policy, and promised that things will change if the voters send a Democrat to the White House.  One way it will change, apparently, is that our key trading partners …
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Marc Santora / New York Times:
McCain's Health-Care Plan Focuses on Lower Costs  —  Senator John McCain, outlining his vision for reforming the health-care system by driving down costs, said today that he would seek to restructure the way medical providers are reimbursed, particularly in treating chronic diseases …
Discussion: The Swamp
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Rocky Mountain News:
Documents: Qwest was targeted  —  'Classified info' was not allowed at ex-CEO's trial  —  The National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program, documents released Wednesday suggest.
Marcella Bombardieri / Boston Globe:
Clinton vows to check executive power  —  Would curb use of signing statements  —  Senator Hillary Clinton said yesterday that if she is elected president, she intends to roll back President Bush's expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put …
Michael J. Totten:
On Patrol in Ramadi  —  Join me and Army Captain Phil Messer on a walking tour of Ramadi, Iraq, in a 20 minute video shot during a dismounted foot patrol in early August, 2007.  —  If you enjoy this movie, please consider a donation through Blog Patron or Pay Pal.
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
 
 
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