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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
'I Don't Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier's Life' — BAGHDAD, Oct. 26 Their line of tan Humvees and Bradley Fighting Vehicles creeps through another Baghdad afternoon. At this pace, an excruciating slowness, they strain to see everything, hoping the next manhole cover, the next rusted barrel, does not hide another bomb.
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John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Beauchamp's Unit- More Shoddy Journamalism and the Citizen Journalist Response! — The Washington Post has a piece on Scott Beauchamp's unit in Iraq, and it didn't take me long to realize this is just another liberal hit piece designed to subvert our will, coughed up in the middle …
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The Impolitic
Gateway Pundit:More Twisted Journalism- WaPo Misses the Facts in Their Report On Iraq
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Flopping Aces
New York Times:
Obama Promises a Forceful Stand Against Clinton — Senator Barack Obama said he would start confronting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton more forcefully, declaring Friday that she had not been candid in describing her views on critical issues, as he tries to address mounting alarm among supporters …
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Normanm / CNN Political Ticker:
Edwards tours Iowa's 99 counties — again — COULTER, Iowa (CNN) — For the second time in his life, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards completed campaign visits to all of Iowa's 99 counties on Saturday with a stop in the city of Coulter, part of Franklin County.
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The Swamp
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
OBAMA ON THE ATTACK....Barack Obama says he's about to dial up his campaign a notch: … This is good, but I have my doubts that trying to be "clear with the American people" on these particular subjects is going to do the trick. As Obama says, Hillary Clinton is "very deft politically," and I don't think that's going to change.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Hire Carla Babb! (Fire John Edwards) — Does the John Edwards campaign have a death wish? To the litany which includes the 28,000 square foot home, his job with a hedge fund (to learn about poverty!) and the $400 haircuts we can now add a story about the decision by the Edwards campaign …
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Malkin & Co. target Soros, hit Bush pioneers — The St. Petersburg Times reported this week that WellCare Health Plans, a Florida-based company that provides managed-care plans for millions of Medicare and Medicaid participants, has come under federal investigation.
New York Times:
Yet Another Photo of Site in Syria, Yet More Questions — The mystery surrounding the construction of what might have been a nuclear reactor in Syria deepened yesterday, when a company released a satellite photo showing that the main building was well under way in September 2003 — four years before Israeli jets bombed it.
The Brussels Journal:
Are We All Nazis Now? — One of the greatest injustices to the victims of racism, and in particular the holocaust, is the trivialization of it. One does not have to agree with the Dutch "Islamophobic" anti-immigration politicians Geert Wilders or Rita Verdonk, but what kind of person writes something like …
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Richard S. Lowry / Op For:
What goes around - Comes around — Unfortunately, most Americans do not consider Iraqis as people. We see them as terrorists or victims, not as everyday people with the same values as our friends, neighbors and relatives. Yet, most Iraqis are decent human beings with the same concerns, dreams, and compassion as most Americans.
John Cheves / Lexington Herald-Leader:
McConnell marks funds for contractor — FIRM UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR BRIBERY — JCHEVES@HERALD-LEADER.COM — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is pushing $25 million in earmarked federal funds for a British defense contractor that is under criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department …
Military Times HOME:
Words spoken in funeral flag-folding draw flap — RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Flag-folding recitations by Memorial Honor Detail volunteers are now banned at the nation's 125 veterans graveyards because of a complaint about the ceremony at Riverside National Cemetery.
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Gail Collins: There To Make MoDo and Bobo Look Smart — I forgot to blog about this on Thursday, but this has to rank as one of the most remarkable recent paragraphs written on the increasingly embarrassing NYT op-ed page: … Tristero and Somerby point out the rather massive gap in the story here …
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Grasping Reality …
David Greenberg / Washington Post:
Rudy a Lefty? Yeah, Right. — You wouldn't know it from reading the papers, but the favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination is a confirmed right-winger. On issues such as free speech and religion, secrecy and due process, civil rights and civil liberties, pornography and democracy …
Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
To Know Contractors, Know Government — ALLEGATIONS of misbehavior by employees of Blackwater USA in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis have brought the military's use of private contractors into question. But whatever the possible sins of the Blackwater firm, the overall problem …
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
From CIA Jails, Inmates Fade Into Obscurity — Dozens of 'Ghost Prisoners' Not Publicly Accounted For — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Jerusalem Post:
Rice confers with Carter and Clinton — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has sought the advice of former US presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton ahead of a planned Middle East peace parley scheduled to take place in Annapolis, Maryland, in November or December.
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