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1:10 PM ET, October 15, 2007

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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Inshallashshaheed Outted: North Carolina Jihadi in the News  —  Michael Moss of the New York Times has outted Inshallashaheed, the al Qaeda supporting blogger who we've been investigating for over a year.  I've been sitting on his true identity for months, but in one fell swoop Samir ibn Zafar Khan …
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Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled  —  Many Officials, However, Warn Of Its Resilience  —  The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group …
New York Times:
An Internet Jihad Aims at U.S. Viewers  —  When Osama bin Laden issued his videotaped message to the American people last month, a young jihad enthusiast went online to help spread the word.  —  "America needs to listen to Shaykh Usaamah very carefully and take his message with great seriousness," he wrote on his blog.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
AQI On The Run, Not Vanquished
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Gore Derangement Syndrome  —  On the day after Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize, The Wall Street Journal's editors couldn't even bring themselves to mention Mr. Gore's name.  Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long list of people they thought deserved the prize more.
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Jules Crittenden:
Gore Derangement Syndrome  —  Get yours here!  —  Paul Krugman at NYT wants to know what it is about Al Gore that drives right-wingers crazy.  Howabout: Gore Lies, No One Will Die ...  Here's Krugman's theory: … That's true if you (A) believe the Nobel Prize committee is the last word on anything and …
Graham Bowley / New York Times:
3 Americans to Share Nobel Prize in Economics  —  The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded today to three Americans for their work in mechanism design theory, a branch of economics that looks at the design of institutions in situations where markets do not work properly.
Mark Steyn / The Australian:   Doom if Saint Al loses carbs
Associated Press:   Americans Win Nobel Prize in Economics
Lee Bandy / The Politico:
McCain is bouncing back  —  Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is back, two months after he was given up for dead.  —  For most of 2007, McCain was the prohibitive favorite among GOP voters.  No one else came close.  —  Then, suddenly, his campaign — swollen with overhead and consultants …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Group Plans to Provide Investigative Journalism  —  As struggling newspapers across the country cut back on investigative reporting, a new kind of journalism venture is hoping to fill the gap.  —  Paul E. Steiger, who was the top editor of The Wall Street Journal for 16 years …
Jed Babbin / Human Events:
Pelosi's Most Dangerous Ploy  —  Congressional Democrats anxious to force a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq are frustrated by their inability to muster a veto-proof majority for legislation that would establish a firm date for retreat.  But what they cannot do directly they are now working hard to do indirectly.
Charles Hurt / New York Post:
'WIRE' LAW FAILED LOST GI  —  10-HOUR DELAY AS FEDS SOUGHT TAP  —  U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping Queens soldier Alex Jimenez in Iraq earlier this year, The Post has learned.
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Can Fox Win Its Frontal Assault Against CNBC?  —  The team leading the Fox Business Network into battle with CNBC, the entrenched leader in cable business news, has made no secret that it intends to do in the realm of business news exactly what the Fox News Channel did in general news.  As in: conquer.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:   Fox Puts Its Money on 'Fun' Business Channel
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Standing Their Ground  —  Brave New Films has released a powerful new film today about a subject that has the potential to knock Rudy Giuliani's campaign to its knees.  Most of us know that the NY Firefighters are mad as hell at Giuliani, but this films starkly lays out one very serious reason why: the radios.
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Robertgreenwald / Brave New Films blog:
The REAL Rudy: Radios
Discussion: Think Progress
Tom Bevan / TIME: Real Clear Politics:
Sen. Reid's Favorable Ratings Tank  —  Molly Ball of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Senator Harry Reid's favorable rating in Nevada has "plunged dramatically," according to a new poll.  Currently, Reid's favorable rating is at 32%, while his unfavorable rating is at 51% …
Discussion: PrairiePundit and Wizbang
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Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Poll: Reid's popularity falls among Nevadans
Discussion: Don Surber
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
IT'S THE COVERUP THAT KILLS YOU, PART 2  —  It's been another week without word from the New Republic on the status of its "investigation" into the columns of TNR Baghdad Diarist Scott Thomas Beauchamp.  "The editors" have not spoken on the matter since their August 10 update.
Drudge Report:
THE RESURRECTION OF IMUS: RETURNS ON NATION'S TOP TALK STATION  —  In a dramatic and dazzling career rebound, controversial radio host Don Imus has secured a deal returning him to the airwaves on December 3 — this time on the nation's most listened to talk station, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned!
Discussion: Hot Air, Gawker and NewsBusters.org
Mike Kelly / NorthJersey.com:
Al-Qaida associates in N.J.  —  Osama bin Laden may be hiding in the impenetrable mountains near the Afghanistan border, but FBI counterterror officials say they have identified several of his associates in a far more accessible spot — northern New Jersey.  —  The FBI's elite Joint Terrorism …
Hillary Rodham Clinton / Foreign Affairs:
Security and Opportunity for the Twenty-first Century  —  Summary: The next U.S. president will have a moment of opportunity to reintroduce America to the world and restore our leadership.  To build a world that is safe, prosperous, and just, we must get out of Iraq, rediscover the value of statesmanship …
Discussion: The Swamp and HillaryClinton.com
 
 
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Malkin quits The O'Reilly Factor.
Amy Lorentzen / Associated Press:
Edwards gets Iowa SEIU endorsement
Christopher Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
How Housing Turmoil Could Hurt Republicans in '08
Discussion: MSNBC, The Caucus and eyeon08.com
The Copenhagen Post / jp.dk:
Hirsi Ali offered refuge in Denmark
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Where Are All of The Realists?
Discussion: RealClearPolitics
Marist Poll:
New Hampshire Presidential Primary
Neil the Ethical Werewolf / Ezra Klein:
There Is So Much For Us Of Little Faith
Michelle Malkin:
S-CHIP and the Democrats' human shield campaign
 Earlier Items: 
James Kirchick / Los Angeles Times:
Clarence Thomas is not the hypocrite
Discussion: PrairiePundit
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Giuliani Sells New York as Town He Tamed
Walter Shapiro / Salon:
My letter to the most important man in American politics
PZ Myers / Pharyngula:
FFRF recap: heroes of the revolution, Hitchens screws the pooch …
Discussion: Vox Popoli and The Sideshow
Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
America's own unlawful combatants?
Andrew C. McCarthy / Human Events:
Medellin (and Bush) v. Texas
Telegraph:
'Come to Zimbabwe for a holiday ... please'
Discussion: normblog and JammieWearingFool
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Vatican Official Insists He's Not Gay
 

 
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