memeorandum: Calif. bans smoking in cars with kids (Steve Lawrence/Associated Press)

10:55 AM ET, October 11, 2007

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My reply to Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his fellow travelers; Plus: Hillary threatens S-CHIP critics — Update 9:25am Eastern. Your S-CHIP editorial cartoon of the morning comes from Nate Beeler of the Examiner... Meanwhile, Time magazine recycles Democrat talking points and passes it off as reporting.

Faiz / Think Progress:

CNN Pins Blame On Democrats For Right-Wing Smear Of 12-Year Old Boy — This morning, CNN aired its first report on the right-wing smear campaign against 12-year old SCHIP recipient Graeme Frost. CNN pinned the blame on Democrats for assault on the Frost family.

Discussion: The Garlic, The Liberal Avenger and Suburban Guerrilla

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.

Discussion: RADAMISTO and Obsidian Wings

Time:
The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Firedoglake, The American Street, The Carpetbagger Report, Crooks and Liars, TIME: Swampland and Ezra Klein

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 …

Discussion: MSNBC, The Garlic, The Moderate Voice, Boston Globe, New York Times, The Politico, PrairiePundit, Redstate and Middle Earth Journal

Gail Collins / New York Times: Calvin Coolidge Redux

Michael Luo / The Caucus:
Evangelical Supporter Seeks to Rally Brethren for Romney

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and The Van Der Galiën Gazette

Thom Shanker / New York Times:

Marines Press to Remove Their Forces From Iraq — The Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and to send marines instead to Afghanistan, to take over the leading role in combat there, according to senior military and Pentagon officials. — The idea by the Marine Corps commandant …

Discussion: The Swamp, Argghhh!, Hot Air, Los Angeles Times, WorkingForChange, Brilliant at Breakfast, Op For and PrairiePundit

Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:

Army Offers Big Cash To Keep Key Officers — The Army is offering cash bonuses of up to $35,000 to retain young officers serving in key specialties — including military intelligence, infantry and aviation — in an unprecedented bid to forestall a critical shortage of officer ranks …

Discussion: New York Times, Outside The Beltway, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Connecting.the.Dots and Thomas P.M. Barnett

WorldNetDaily:

Giuliani 'doesn't deserve to live' — Terrorists threaten presidential candidate, cite Rudy's war stance, Arafat treatment — Saying Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani "doesn't deserve to live," Palestinian terror leaders are threatening to harm the former New York mayor …

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Comments from Left Field, Israel Matzav and The Van Der Galiën Gazette

Susan Crabtree / The Hill:

GOP lawyer ties Rove to Siegelman case — House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) on Wednesday released an interview with GOP lawyer Dana Jill Simpson implicating former White House adviser Karl Rove in the prosecution and conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D) on corruption charges.

Discussion: Donklephant and MyDD

Adam Zagorin / Time:
Rove Linked to Alabama Case

Discussion: Think Progress, TPMmuckraker, Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, New York Times, The Next Hurrah, The Carpetbagger Report and The Gavel

Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:

Alberto Gonzales hires defense attorney — WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has hired a high-powered Washington lawyer to represent him in investigations of mismanagement of the Justice Department. George Terwilliger, a white-collar crime defense attorney …

Discussion: The Van Der Galiën Gazette, CNN Political Ticker and The Newshoggers

Washington Post:
Attorney General Nominee Made His Name With Terror Cases

Discussion: Corrente

Ben Quinn / Telegraph:

Islamists damage giant rock Buddha — Islamist radicals in Pakistan have attempted to destroy an ancient carving of Buddha by drilling holes in the rock and filling them with dynamite. — The 23ft high image was damaged during the attack, which brought back memories of the Taliban's …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, TigerHawk and JammieWearingFool

Steve Lawrence / Associated Press:

Calif. bans smoking in cars with kids — SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California motorists will risk fines of up to $100 next year if they are caught smoking in cars with minors, making their state the third to protect children in vehicles from secondhand smoke. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger …

Discussion: michellemalkin.com and Daily Pundit

KNTV-TV:
It's Official — Belmont Bans Smoking In Some Homes

Discussion: CWA-NJ Conservatives … and Clayton Cramer's BLOG

Media Matters for America:

On CNBC's The Big Idea, Coulter said that "we" Christians "just want Jews to be perfected" — During the October 8 edition of CNBC's The Big Idea, host Donny Deutsch asked right-wing pundit Ann Coulter: "If you had your way ... and your dreams, which are genuine, came true ... what would this country look like?"

Discussion: Mere Rhetoric, No More Mister Nice Blog, Right Wing News, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Outside The Beltway, Chuck Adkins, At-Largely, Daily Kos, DownWithTyranny! and Seeing the Forest

Aussie Dave / Israellycool:
Coulter Skelter — I might consider myself a Conservative …

Discussion: Roger L. Simon

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 …

Discussion: Washington Wire, Moonbattery, MSNBC and Reason Magazine

Agence France Presse:

Empire State Building to go green for Muslim holiday — New York's iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said. — "This is the first time that …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Little Green Footballs, Debbie Schlussel, The Sundries Shack, PoliPundit.com, Sister Toldjah and Macsmind

Christopher Demuth / Opinion Journal:

Think-Tank Confidential — What I learned during two decades as head of America's most influential policy shop. — I have been presiding at the American Enterprise Institute for 21 years. Today I am announcing that I will step down before the end of 2008.

Discussion: The Corner and The Volokh Conspiracy

New York Times:

Turkey Angry Over House Armenian Genocide Vote — Turkey reacted angrily today to a House committee vote in Washington on Wednesday to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in World War I as an act of genocide, calling the decision "unacceptable."

Discussion: normblog, Guardian and PoliBlog (TM)