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Little Green Footballs:
BNP Leader Invited to MSU by 'Conservative' Students — In the boneheaded move of the year, conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom invited British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin, a flat-out racist and Holocaust denier, to speak about the dangers of Islam …
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Brendan Bouffard / lsj.com:
Protesters shout down anti-Islam speaker at MSU — Audience uses chants, obscenities to interrupt British Nationalist's speech — EAST LANSING - When British Nationalist Nick Griffin took the podium at a Friday night Michigan State University event, he tried to explain how Islam is a threat to Western civilization.
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Jihad Watch
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
Michael Moore / Missoulian:
Medical marijuana advocate kills herself — Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Another Drug War Victim — A woman kills herself to stop the pain of an illness she tried to alleviate with marijuana: … That DEA statement should go down in history as an emblem of the anti-federalist agenda of today's conservatives. It's up there with protecting people from the alleviation of their own pain.
Don Surber:
Holocaust survivor trumps Dutch — "Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay" — He'll probably apologize for the remark later but Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, told it like it is to some Dutch politicians …
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Desmond Butler / Associated Press:Dutch lawmakers offended by Rep. Lantos
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Liberty Pundit, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, BitsBlog, michellemalkin.com, Atlas Shrugs and Never Yet Melted
April Castro / Associated Press:
Roswell incident not explained to Richardson's satisfaction — ROUND ROCK, Texas — If he wins his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson may be just the man to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery. — Answering questions …
Gateway Pundit:
More Twisted Journalism- WaPo Misses the Facts in Their Report On Iraq — MNF-Iraq responds HERE. — (This post was updated after reading this morning's Washington Post article.) — The Washington Post has their version of Iraq: — "I Don't Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier's Life"
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Riehl World View, Flopping Aces, Wake up America, Chuck Adkins, Washington Post, Jeff Emanuel and Jules Crittenden
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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.
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JammieWearingFool, The Next Hurrah, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Booman Tribune, Hot Air, Atlas Shrugs and Israel Matzav
Gary Schmitt / Weekly Standard:
But Who Will Surveil the Judges? — The FISA court and its failings. — For one who recently returned from Europe, where a colleague and I interviewed an array of domestic security officials in key European democracies, it is a bit of an out-of-body experience to examine the various bills …
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Power Line
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
The Evangelical Crackup — The hundred-foot white cross atop the Immanuel Baptist Church in downtown Wichita, Kan., casts a shadow over a neighborhood of payday lenders, pawnbrokers and pornographic video stores. To its parishioners, this has long been the front line of the culture war.
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 …
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 …
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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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Judicial Races Now Rife With Politics — BUTLER, Pa. — It's always packed for Wing Night at American Legion Post 117, and in the crowd Seamus McCaffery saw the building blocks of his electoral success. — The local sheriff, the union guys, the daughter of a veteran who said, "I like your commercial about being a Marine."
D. Aristophanes / Sadly, No!:
BREAKING: Eliminationism in Crisis — For those of you who missed our televised coverage of the recent Pam Atlas-Charles Johnson Blog War, here's the transcript: — SNN NIGHTLY NEWS REPORT — Aired October 25, 2007 - 08:32 ET — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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