memeorandum: Soros-backed Medicare insurer raided by FBI (Michelle Malkin)

5:15 PM ET, October 25, 2007

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Beauchamp and the Rule of Second Chances — October 25, 2007 — Beauchamp and the Rule of Second Chances: Pass it Along — I'd known that General Petraeus was once accidentally shot in the chest, but I first heard the full story this summer in Baqubah, from an eyewitness whose account I wrote about in Second Chances.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Hot Air, Little Green Footballs, BLACKFIVE, Riehl World View, Roger L. Simon and Confederate Yankee

Greg Sargent / Horses Mouth:

Army Acknowledges Leaking Beauchamp Docs To Drudge, Promises Investigation — Updated below. — There's been a very interesting turn in the saga of The New Republic's "Baghdad Diarist," the American soldier in Iraq who's been accused of fabricating negative stories about U.S. troops and publishing them in the mag.

Discussion: National Review, Salon, Hot Air and Confederate Yankee

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Baghdad Diarist Was On Guard When Questioned by Editors

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters: Yon: Beauchamp's Honor

Michael Cooper / The Caucus:

In His Words: Giuliani on Torture — DAVENPORT, Iowa — At a town hall meeting here last night, Rudolph W. Giuliani expanded upon his views of torture. Here is a transcript of the exchange. — Linda Gustitus, who is the president of a group called the National Religious Campaign Against Torture …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, TalkLeft, Think Progress, The Newshoggers, The Carpetbagger Report, The Plank, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Comments from Left Field, The Atlantic Online, Spin Cycle, DownWithTyranny!, The Heretik, No More Mister Nice Blog and TIME: Swampland

Salon:

Glenn Greenwald — Anonymous Liberal for Glenn Greenwald: Giuliani on torture — In his book, former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin described his experience being tortured by sleep deprivation at the hands of the KGB: … Here's U.S. presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, speaking at a town hall event in Iowa yesterday:

William J. Broad / New York Times:

Satellite Photos Show Cleansing of Syrian Site — New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, Booman Tribune, Danger Room, QandO, A Blog For All and Prairie Weather

CNN:

GOP cries foul on timing of children's health vote — WASHINGTON (CNN) — House Republicans are fuming over Democrats' decision to hold the next vote on the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Thursday — when many Republicans will be in California as President Bush tours areas hit by wildfires.

Discussion: The Hill, Wonkette, Middle Earth Journal, Angry Bear, Cliff Schecter, The Rude Pundit and The Politico

Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
House Democrats Set For Vote on New Version Of Children's Health Bill

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Central Sanity, The Moderate Voice, DownWithTyranny!, The American Street, Fact-esque, The Carpetbagger Report, Daily Kos and The Stakeholder

John Feehery / The Hill:

Dems Are Out of Touch on Taxes — Earlier this year, The Tax Foundation released a poll about the attitudes that Americans have towards the tax code. It found that a majority of U.S. adults believe the federal tax code is complex, that the federal income taxes they pay are "too high," …

Discussion: The Politico, Macsmind and Blue Crab Boulevard

Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
A Tax Plan as Trial Run for '09 Law

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Robert Reich's Blog, Economist's View and Blogs for Bush

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:

The Ron Paul Wars — RedState defends its decision to bar future posters from supporting Ron Paul: … I don't think I qualify as a Neo-Nazi or a Code Pink activist. Full Wired story here. But here's a simple message to Ron Paul supporters. You're welcome here.

Discussion: Wired News, The Van Der Galiën Gazette and Eunomia

Michelle Malkin:

Soros-backed Medicare insurer raided by FBI — The St. Petersburg Times reports on an FBI raid of WellCare, a shady Medicare insurer...initially funded by far Left billionaire George Soros and run by one of his acolytes: … Wellcare serves Medicare and Medicaid customers-more than 350,000 seniors in Florida alone.

Discussion: St. Petersburg Times, Liberal Values, The Newshoggers, Health Blog, JammieWearingFool and BitsBlog

Sherry Saavedra / Wildfires 2007:

Illegal immigrants suspected of stealing supplies — Six illegal immigrants who were suspected of stealing relief supplies from Qualcomm Stadium were arrested by Border Patrol agents after San Diego police stopped them Wednesday morning. — A woman who had been evacuated to the stadium told officers …

Discussion: Lonewacko, The Gulbransens Blog, michellemalkin.com, Moonbattery and UrbanGrounds

Anna Gorman / Los Angeles Times:
Six illegal immigrants arrested at Qualcomm

Discussion: A Blog For All, PoliPundit.com and On Deadline

Cornelia Dean / New York Times:

'55 'Origin of Life' Paper Is Retracted — In January 1955, Homer Jacobson, a chemistry professor at Brooklyn College, published a paper called "Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life" in American Scientist, the journal of Sigma Xi, the scientific honor society.

Discussion: Pharyngula and DefCon Blog

Docweasel / docweaselblog:

Bobby Caina Calvan Blog : the entire post with comments preserved — UPDATE: Good gracious, blogging since '97 and my first Instalanche. Thank you Mr. Reynolds! Thank you AOSHQ and the lovely and talented Michelle Malkin as well. — The entire site is 404′d, and the comments were the sweetest plum!

Little Green Footballs:

Ted Rall: Only Idiots Die in Iraq, US IQ Soars — Here's a look into the squirmy, ugly mind of Ted Rall, whose latest cartoon about US troops in Iraq says: "Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared." — (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The American Street, Death and Tim Blair

David Eggert / Associated Press:

Student hounds prof running for Congress — MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - A politically conservative student armed with a video camera and a Web site is trying to force a Democratic congressional candidate out of his teaching job at Central Michigan University. — Dennis Lennox, a 23-year-old junior …

Discussion: BartBlog, UrbanGrounds and The Van Der Galiën Gazette

Roger Simon / The Politico:

Iowa Dems to set Jan. 3 caucus date — The Iowa Democratic Party Central Committee will vote Sunday night on a plan to move the Iowa Democratic caucuses to Jan. 3, the same day as the Republican caucuses. — Iowa Democratic Party Chair Scott Brennan will recommend the move …

Discussion: Chase Martyn On Display, The Swamp, CNN Political Ticker, MyDD and One Million Strong

Michael Rubin / The Corner:

Academic Freedom? — Yesterday, the University of Delaware asked Asaf Romirowsky to step down from an academic panel at the University of Delaware because another panelist, University of Delaware political scientist Muqtedar Khan, didn't want to share the podium with anyone who served in the Israeli Defense Forces.

Discussion: Israel Matzav

Col. David Hunt / Fox News:

America Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden — But Didn't — Because there is no shortage of things to yell about regarding the War on Terror, Iraq, Afghanistan, Homeland Security, and so on, deciding what to write about is always fun. — This week, I was going to yell about how the Bush …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, BuzzFlash.org, BLACKFIVE and Cliff Schecter