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Mark Halperin / The Page:
Thompson's Plan to Fight Illegal Immigration — From Thompson campaign: — Thompson Announces Plan to Secure Border, Enforce Existing Immigration Laws — Senator Fred Thompson today unveiled a comprehensive border security and immigration enforcement proposal that would make America safer …
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Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Tancredo: Arrest the immigrant students at press conference — Democrats knew they were embracing the touchy subject of immigration when they planned an afternoon press conference with three college students whose parents came to the United States illegally .
Michelle Malkin:
Shamnesty alert: Dems prepare to ram DREAM Act through with cloture …
Shamnesty alert: Dems prepare to ram DREAM Act through with cloture …
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Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Tancredo calls immigration police on participants of congressional staff meeting
Tancredo calls immigration police on participants of congressional staff meeting
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Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
The Clinton family machine — Union ties one example of couple's joint effort to return to White House — Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton at a September campaign rally at Market Square in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Scott Lindlaw / Associated Press:
Civility Reigns at San Diego Stadium — SAN DIEGO (AP) - Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled to the NFL stadium here, waiting out the calamity and worrying about their homes.
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Damned If You Do: Bush Visit Will 'Distract' From CA Firefighting
Damned If You Do: Bush Visit Will 'Distract' From CA Firefighting
Fox News:
Baptist Pastor Retracts Endorsement of Romney — The former president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention has retracted his endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. — The Romney campaign has agreed to withdraw all references to Pastor Don Wilton's endorsement of Romney …
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
MoveOn And Top Bloggers To Launch Campaign Pressuring Hillary And Obama To Back Dodd On FISA — Another interesting twist in the Dodd-FISA story. — In a move that will up the pressure on Hillary and Barack Obama to stand firm against the Senate telecom immunity FISA bill …
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Obama: I Would Support Dodd's Filibuster — Obama spokesman Bill Burton sends over this statement in response to our story saying that MoveOn and the top liberal bloggers are teaming up to press Hillary and Obama to get Chris Dodd's back on the threatened filibuster:
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Redstate Bans Ron Paul Supporters — Redstate has made a mistake in dealing with the Ron Paul Internet phenomenon. Instead of dealing quietly with trolls, the excellent conservative blog has announced a blanket policy banning supporting diaries and comments for Ron Paul from the site.
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ABCNEWS:
Giuliani Defends, Employs Priest Accused of Molesting Teens — Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties.
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The Atlantic Online:
Patience, children — Ezra and Brian are complaining that it's hard to get anything done these days: … First of all, the notion that this is some sort of uniquely horrible moment in world history is absurd. I grew up with the very real fear that one day, without much warning, I would simply vanish in a radioactive cloud.
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zombietime:
Nonie Darwish at Berkeley — during Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week … The online nicknames of the seven "citizen journalists" are: bbuck, Chicken Kiev, Dan K., Luvpotion v.9.0, Marwan's Daughter, neocon hippie, and Temmy. … "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" is a nationwide series of lectures …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama pressured on gay 'cure' preacher — The nation's biggest gay rights group is trying to force Sen. Barrack Obama (D-Ill.) to cancel presidential campaign event with a controversial preacher who claims he was homosexual but has been cured. — The Human Rights Campaign has expressed …
Techmeme News:
What are memeorandum's top 100 sources? — The ascent of blogs and other independent publishers has expanded and revitalized political dialogue in the United Status. While the "mainstream" media remains the primary source of factural reporting, they no longer own the agenda.
Bloomberg:
Clinton, Giuliani Overshadow Field for 2008 Race, Poll Shows — Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — Two New Yorkers dominate the 2008 presidential race: Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. — A new Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll shows that Senator Clinton has opened up a 31-point gap over her chief Democratic rival …
Keith L. Alexander / Washington Post:
Judge Set to Lose Job, Sources Say — Panel Reportedly Votes Against Reappointment — Roy L. Pearson Jr., whose $54 million lawsuit against a Northeast Washington dry-cleaning shop was rejected in court, is about to lose his job as an administrative law judge, sources said last night.
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Sharp drop seen in US deaths in Iraq — BAGHDAD - October is on course to record the second consecutive decline in U.S. military and Iraqi civilian deaths and Americans commanders say they know why: the U.S. troop increase and an Iraqi groundswell against al-Qaida and Shiite militia extremists.
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Ecuador wants military base in Miami — NAPLES (Reuters) - Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast. — Correa has refused to renew Washington's lease …
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
BEIRUT BARRACKS BOMBING ANNIVERSARY — The driver of the yellow Mercedes Benz truck in Beirut that awful day 24 years ago knew precisely where to go. According to intelligence reports, two members of what was then the underground terrorist organization known as Hizbullah had mapped the layout …
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