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11:20 AM ET, October 19, 2007

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Los Angeles Times:
An unlikely treasure-trove of donors for Clinton  —  The candidate's unparalleled fundraising success relies largely on the least-affluent residents of New York's Chinatown — some of whom can't be tracked down.  —  NEW YORK — Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hsu II?  Hillary raking in cash from poor Chinese immigrants …
Michelle Malkin:
Won't you take me to Chinatown?  —  The Los Angeles Times digs …
Discussion: Riehl World View
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Pelosi's Armenian Gambit  —  There are three relevant questions concerning the Armenian genocide.  —  (a) Did it happen?  —  (b) Should the U.S. House of Representatives be expressing itself on this now?  —  (c) Was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's determination to bring this to a vote …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
Krauthammer's Razor  —  I wrote about the House resolution condemning the Armenian genocide in "What about the Dardanelles?"  Charles Krauthammer devotes his weekly column to the subject in "Pelosi's Armenian gambit."  I called the House resolution an act of unbelievable irresponsibility …
Washington Post:
Evangelicals Lukewarm Toward GOP Field  —  For months, Republican presidential candidates such as Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and John McCain have courted evangelical Christians, meeting with religious leaders throughout the Midwest and the South.  —  Today, thousands of Christian conservatives …
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Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
Dallas minister urges vote for a Christian, not Romney
Discussion: Pandagon
New York Times:
Social Conservatives Meet, Their Options Cut by One
Discussion: MSNBC, Political Punch and Spin Cycle
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Democratic Lawmaker Pushing Immunity Is Newly Flush With Telco Cash  —  Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) is reportedly steering the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee to give retroactive immunity to telecoms that helped the government secretly spy on Americans.
Discussion: Death, Salon and The Agonist
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Manu Raju / The Hill:
Dems cool to Senate FISA deal
Discussion: The Swamp
Washington Post:
Syrians Disassembling Ruins at Site Bombed by Israel, Officials Say  —  Syria has begun dismantling the remains of a site Israel bombed Sept. 6 in what may be an attempt to prevent the location from coming under international scrutiny, said U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the aftermath of the attack.
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The Raw Story:
Cheney hand seen behind leaks of 'misleading' stories  —  Allegations that a Syrian envoy admitted during a United Nations meeting Oct. 17 that an Israeli air strike hit a nuclear facility in September are inaccurate and have raised the ire of some in the US intelligence community …
BoreAmerica:
Randi Rhodes statement on "mugging"/falling down incident  —  Speaking on her radio show today, Air America Radio's Randi Rhodes spoke about her supposed mugging.  She said she was watching football in an Irish pub and went outside for a smoke.  The next thing she knew she was on the ground …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Death of the Machine  —  "There are two things that are important in politics.  The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is."  So declared Mark Hanna, the great Gilded Age political boss.  —  Karl Rove has often described Hanna as his role model.
Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Sophisticated attack targeted Bhutto in Pakistan  —  The aftermath of the attack on Bhutto's convoy.  Click to view.  —  As the toll from yesterday's ambush on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto convoy rises to 132 killed and upwards of 500 wounded, the details of the strike emerge.
Fox News:
Attack on President Bush Continues Past SCHIP Veto Override Vote  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Pete Stark launched a shocking one-man assault on the Bush administration Thursday, interrupting floor debate before a failed attempt to override President Bush's veto of the so-called SCHIP bill …
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Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
Drawing the line  —  I understand Mukasey is supposed to be a reasonably good guy, by comparison with the run of Bush appointees.  But if Mukasey won't say that waterboarding is torture and claims that the President has some undefined power to violate statute law — even criminal laws …
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Alan Freeman / Globe and Mail:
Majority of Afghans want foreign troops to stay and fight  —  OTTAWA — A strong majority of Afghans approve of the presence of NATO-led troops in their country, including from Canada, and want the foreign soldiers to remain to fight the Taliban and support reconstruction efforts.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Do right-wing ideas keep on failing?  —  Since Bush is so unpopular, you're hearing many claims that conservative or market-oriented ideas have failed more generally.  For instance here is Paul Krugman's version of the argument.  —  Greg Anrig's The Conservatives Have No Clothes …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and EconLog
Roland S. Martin / CNN:
Commentary: Obama's black wakeup call  —  (CNN) — If the advisers around Sen. Barack Obama want to continue to delude themselves into thinking they have lots of time for black voters to get around to figuring out their candidate's record on issues they care about, then the latest CNN poll surely must …
CNN:
Nobel winner: I didn't mean blacks are inferior  —  LONDON, England (CNN) — Nobel laureate biologist Jim Watson apologized "unreservedly" Thursday for stating that black people were not as intelligent as whites, saying he was "mortified" by the comments attributed to him.
Discussion: The Impolitic and Death
David Brooks / New York Times:
From the Back of the Pack  —  Rindge, N.H.  —  The first thing you notice about Mike Huckabee is that he has a Mayberry name and a Jim Nabors face.  But it's quickly clear that Huckabee is as good a campaigner as anybody running for president this year.  And before too long it becomes easy …
 
 
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Prominent Iraq veteran Bruhns quits major anti-war organization
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James Glanz / New York Times:
Head of Reconstruction Teams in Iraq Reports Little Progress Throughout Country
Michael Kinsley / Time:
Libertarians Rising
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Hillary Clinton's 35 Years of 'Experience'
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
CHIP On Their Shoulder
Washington Post:
On Day 2, Democrats See Change In Mukasey
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THE HLF JURY RETURNS
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USA Today:
Small donors can be big deal for candidates
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Reggae star Lucky Dube shot dead by carjackers
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
The Fantasy of Ron Paul's Military Support
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Does Israel Have to Be a Convent?
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