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Irenep / Michael Yon:
Resistance is Futile — October 22, 2007 — Resistance is futile: You will be (mis)informed. — A gulf. — A gap. — A chasm. — A parallel universe. — All describe the bizarro-world contrast between what most Americans seem to think is happening in Iraq versus what is really happening in Iraq.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
McCain Shines at Latest GOP Debate — The Fix didn't liveblog last night's Republican debate in Florida, but I certainly watched it, interrupted only by the occasional channel switch to check on Game 7 of the Red Sox-Indians series. — The first 30 minutes of the debate provided …
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Washington Post:
Dishwashers for Clinton — DONORS WHOSE addresses turn out to be tenements. Dishwashers and waiters who write $1,000 checks. Immigrants who ante up because they have been instructed to by powerful neighborhood associations, or, as one said, "They informed us to go, so I went."
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Clinton Finds Way to Play Along With Drudge
Clinton Finds Way to Play Along With Drudge
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Horses Mouth, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Sun Times, Don Surber, BuzzFlash.org, Booman Tribune, MSNBC, The Atlantic Online, Fausta's blog, Right Voices, La Shawn Barber's Corner, JammieWearingFool, TIME: Swampland, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Brilliant at Breakfast, Assorted Babble and DownWithTyranny!
The Palmetto Scoop:
Mike Huckabee has just won the White House — CHUCK NORRIS ENDORSES FORMER ARKANSAS GOVERNOR — Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) may have just gone from a dark horse candidate to the lone frontrunner with the announcement that Chuck Norris — who is known for slamming revolving doors …
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WorldNetDaily:
My choice for president — A short time ago, I wrote in jest about what I would do if I am elected president. Of course, that was written all in good fun. — Like most of you, over the summer and into the fall, I've been watching, listening, studying and praying about who could lead this country as our next president.
WFAA-TV:
Holy Land trial: Not guilty but judge orders more discussion — WFAA.com — 11:00 a.m.Jurors in the landmark Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case acquitted some of the former Richardson charity organizers on charges they aided terrorists abroad, but appear to have deadlocked on other charges …
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David Koenig / Associated Press:
Mistrial declared in Muslim charity case — DALLAS - A judge declared a mistrial Monday for most former leaders of a Muslim charity accused of funding terrorism, after chaos broke out in the court when three jurors disputed the verdict that had been announced.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Cheney, Like President, Has a Warning for Iran — Vice President Dick Cheney issued a pointed warning to Iran on Sunday, calling the government in Tehran "a growing obstacle to peace in the Middle East" and promising "serious consequences" if the government there does not abandon its nuclear program.
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The Atlantic Online, NION, Los Angeles Times, Booman Tribune, The Carpetbagger Report and White House
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Niall Ferguson / Los Angeles Times:
One strike, Iran could be out — Of all the columns I've written for this newspaper over the last couple of years, none has elicited a more heated response than the one published in January 2006 about the Great War of 2007. Indeed, it still gets quoted back at me more than a year and a half later.
Valerie Plame Wilson / The Huffington Post:
Finally Telling My Story — I'm Valerie Plame Wilson and I'm excited to be here and blog about my book Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, which goes on sale Monday, Oct 22. When my publisher sent me the finished copy earlier this week, it was thrilling.
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Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Valerie Plame, Telling the (Edited) Inside Story
Valerie Plame, Telling the (Edited) Inside Story
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New York Times, MSNBC, Los Angeles Times, NYT, TIME: Swampland, Norwegianity and Tennessee Guerilla Women
Rita Beamish / Associated Press:
NASA won't disclose air safety survey — MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized.
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River / riverbendblog.blogspot.com:
Bloggers Without Borders... Syria is a beautiful country- at least I think it is. I say "I think" because while I perceive it to be beautiful, I sometimes wonder if I mistake safety, security and normalcy for 'beauty'. In so many ways, Damascus is like Baghdad before the war- bustling streets …
New York Times:
8 Turkish Soldiers Are Missing in Kurdish Attack — Turkey's military confirmed today that eight of its soldiers were still missing after an ambush by Kurdish militants a day earlier that left at least 12 Turkish soldiers dead and touched off a major escalation in Turkey-Iraq tensions.
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David Segal / Washington Post:
Low Road to Splitsville — Right-Wing Publisher's Breakup Is Super-Rich In Tawdry Details — Looking for a perfect little weekend vacation this fall? Here's a travel tip you don't hear very often: Head to Pittsburgh. Right away. — Seriously, get in the car and read this story later …
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NewsBusters.org, Middle Earth Journal, Pharyngula, Roger Ailes, The Impolitic and Paul Krugman
New York Times:
Ain't That America — Think of America's greatest historical shames. Most have involved the singling out of groups of people for abuse. Name a distinguishing feature — skin color, religion, nationality, language — and it's likely that people here have suffered unjustly for it …
Michelle Malkin:
Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week kicks off — The irrepressible David Horowitz is the man behind Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which kicks off today. The Left and the jihadi apologists are in a snit, of course, and you already know what the grievance hoaxers at GWU attempted to do in their effort …
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The Jawa Report, Indybay newswire, IMAO, The Radio Equalizer, BLACKFIVE, Seattle Times and The Huffington Post
Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek.com:
Stalin, Mao And ... Ahmadinejad? — Conservatives have become surprisingly charitable about two of history's greatest mass murderers. — At a meeting with reporters last week, President Bush said that "if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing …