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Columnist Ann Coulter Shocks Cable TV Show, Declaring 'Jews Need to Be Perfected by Becoming Christians' — Slash-and-burn columnist Ann Coulter shocked a cable TV talk-show audience Monday when she declared that Jews need to be "perfected" by becoming Christians, and that America would be better off if everyone were Christian.
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Jewish group calls on media to boycott right wing author — The National Jewish Democratic Council called for media organizations to stop inviting arch-conservative Ann Coulter to appear on television after the right wing pundit and author continued her habit of making outrageous, offensive comments on national television.
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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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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Relations Sour Between Shiites and Iraq Militia — In a number of Shiite neighborhoods across Baghdad, residents are beginning to turn away from the Mahdi Army, the Shiite militia they once saw as their only protector against Sunni militants. Now they resent it as a band of street thugs without ideology.
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Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
9 children killed in U.S. raid in Iraq — BAGHDAD - A U.S. attack killed 19 insurgents and 15 civilians, including nine children, northwest of the capital Thursday — one of the heaviest civilian death tolls in an American operation in recent months. The military said it was targeting senior leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq.
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
HAS HILLARY LET OBAMA BACK INTO THE RACE?: — Ben Smith highlights the back-and-forth today between the Obama and Clinton camps over an Obama op-ed in the Manchester Union-Leader. First, the key grafs in the Obama piece, which focuses mostly on that Lieberman-Kyl Iran amendment:
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Garance Franke-Ruta / American Prospect:
NOT VOTING IS NOT THE SAME AS VOTING NO. — I read this Noam Scheiber item on The Plank with interest, as Noam's been on a bit of a roll lately with his campaign analysis, and earlier got the diagnosis of the problems with the Barack Obama and John Edwards campaign exactly right.
Sen. Barack Obama / New Hampshire Union Leader:Five years after Iraq war vote, we're still foolishly rattling our sabers
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Regula to step down Friday, insiders say — Longtime GOP Rep. Ralph Regula is retiring tomorrow, according to GOP insiders. Regula, who has served in the House since 1973, would be the second Ohio Republican to step down this cycle. Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) has already announced …
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C.I.A. Chief Orders Internal Inquiry — The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael V. Hayden, has ordered a highly unusual internal inquiry into the work of the agency's inspector general, whose aggressive investigations of the C.I.A.'s detention and interrogation programs …
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Please Blog...Fund Raising Drive to Bring Miracle and her family home to the Lower 9th Ward — Two weeks ago I posted about the Joseph family who lost their Lower 9th Ward home for the second time. Kellie Joseph and her 6 children lost their home to Katrina.
Andrew Malcolm / Los Angeles Times:
BREAKING NEWS: John Edwards denies affair with campaign worker — Former Sen. John Edwards today denied a story in the National Enquirer that he had an extramarital affair with a former campaign worker who followed him on numerous trips around the country. — Without naming the woman …
Tom Hays / Associated Press:
Cops: Columbia reverses position, turns over tapes in noose case — NEW YORK (AP) — Under pressure from investigators, one of Columbia University's graduate schools changed course Thursday and agreed to turn over security videotape that could provide leads in the highly charged case …
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Tom Hays / Associated Press:Police: Columbia Won't Turn Over Video
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Shadowscope:
Thursday Thirteen #3: Roadtrips — ...or thirteen places I have. Nothing too terribly exotic here but there are cool stories behind each. — Thirteen Things about YOUR NAME — Los Angeles - in 1987 my friend Chris that passed away last year was home on leave and wanted …
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Liberal Base Proves Trying to Democrats — Of the three most recognizable Barneys in America, one is a singing purple dinosaur, another is a prehistoric cartoon character and the third is a gay congressman from Massachusetts. — Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat …
Washington Post:
Va. Poll Gives Mark Warner Wide Lead in Senate Race — Former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner holds a 30-point lead over his two potential Republican rivals in next year's U.S. Senate race, boosting Democrats' chances of expanding their congressional majority and highlighting the party's ascendancy …
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Satyam / Think Progress:
Lynne Cheney: Terrorist Attacks Worldwide Don't Affect 'American Interests' — A frequent Bush administration talking point in defense of the "war on terror" is claiming that United States has not been attacked since 9/11. — Yesterday, Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Cheney …
Media Matters for America:
Gibson knew school shooter was white because "[b]lack shooters don't" shoot themselves; "they shoot and move on" … On the October 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated Fox News Radio show, while discussing 14-year-old Asa H. Coon, who earlier that day shot four people at his Cleveland high school …
Solomon Moore / New York Times:
U.S. Reports 2,002 Deaths in Arrests in 2003-5 — At least 2,002 people died during their arrests by state and local law enforcement officers from 2003 through 2005, the Justice Department reported yesterday. — Of those suspects, officers themselves killed more than half, 80 percent of whom …
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