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Michelle Malkin:
Stiiiiill going — I've been writing newspaper columns for 15 years, writing books since 2002, and blogging since 2004. I've lost track of how many times the nutroots have gleefully declared my demise. — Oh, how they wish, wish, wish it were so! — The latest moonbat tempest …
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New York Magazine:
Michelle Malkin Quits O'Reilly After Nasty Three-Way — People who hate everyone also hate each other. Photo: Patrick McMullan — We guess Michelle Malkin won't be coming to town to guest-host for Bill O'Reilly anymore. She just quit forever, after a three-way conservative-pundit street fight …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Did Malkin quit O'Reilly's Factor over Geraldo clash? — Geraldo apologizes to Malkin on The Factor: Then he says he fell on Bill's sword over the apology while explaining why Limbaugh should apologize over his "phony soldiers" comment... Download (722) | Play (659) (h/t Scarce and justabill for the vids)
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Verizon Says It Turned Over Data Without Court Orders — Firm's Letter to Lawmakers Details Government Requests — Verizon Communications, the nation's second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers' telephone records to federal authorities …
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Shakespeare's Sister, TalkLeft, Connecting.the.Dots, Unqualified Offerings, The Next Hurrah and Macsmind
Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Democrats profile another SCHIP family — Michelle Malkin, meet Bethany Wilkerson. — Bethany is the latest child being profiled by Democrats arguing for an override of President Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program bill. — Malkin, the conservative blogger …
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USA Today:
Poll: Mixed feelings on kids' health insurance — WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans trust Democrats to handle the issue of children's health insurance more than President Bush, but they agree with the president that government aid should be targeted to low-income families, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP targeting Clinton on phone-call snooping — Republicans plan to seize on an allegation from the 1992 presidential campaign to tarnish Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) on the red-hot issue of government surveillance. — Government surveillance will be at the forefront of the political debate …
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Sweetness & Light, Guardian, The Jawa Report, Wizbang, PrairiePundit, Redstate and Stop The ACLU
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Frost Parents Talk About The Right's Jihad Against Their Son On Countdown — In their first television interview since Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh and others on the right decided to crucify their 12 year old son and swiftboat their family, the parents of Graeme Frost sat down and talked with Keith Olbermann tonight on Countdown.
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MSNBC, The American Street, Whiskey Fire, Greatscat!, Shakespeare's Sister and Feministe
Huffington Post:
Launched! Fox Biz Network Goes Live (With Bloopers) — Will it change business television as we know it? Will it hammer CNBC into the ground? Will it make synergistic use of the Wall Street Journal and the pretty smiles of young, nubile anchorwomen around the clock?
The Politico:
Flyover states lose another Republican — Republicans have another potentially troublesome open seat to defend with the retirement of Ohio Rep. David Hobson — the 12th GOP House member to make plans to exit since the party lost control of Congress last year. — The district, spanning south-central Ohio, is reliably Republican.
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Guardian:
The making of the Muslim left — Muslim leftism is the only way to ensure that Islam's individualist revolution doesn't take an even darker turn than it already has. — I went to a government school in the American south where I had constant interaction with religious supremacists.
Washington Post:
The Real Iraq We Knew — Today marks five years since the authorization of military force in Iraq, setting Operation Iraqi Freedom in motion. Five years on, the Iraq war is as undermanned and under-resourced as it was from the start. And, five years on, Iraq is in shambles.
The Sideshow:
Various things — It really is gorgeous out back. — Get well soon, Randi Rhodes. I don't usually have time to listen to her show but I tend to leave AAR on when I'm in front of my computer - but when I heard Lionel sitting in for her, I just turned it off. Sorry, I just can't listen to him.
New York Times:
Democratic Candidates Keep Outraising Republicans — The leading Democratic presidential candidates raised twice as much money as their Republican counterparts this summer, according to campaign finance reports filed yesterday, and two leading of the leading Republicans spent more than they raised.