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12:30 AM ET, October 28, 2007

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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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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.
Discussion: CNN Political Ticker and Eschaton
Normanm / CNN Political Ticker:
Edwards tours Iowa's 99 counties — again
Discussion: The Swamp
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Impolitic
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
'I Don't Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier's Life'
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
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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.
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 …
Discussion: TigerHawk
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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 …
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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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.
Discussion: AMERICAblog, Hot Air and Daily Kos
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Newshoggers and Cliff Schecter
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.
New York Times:
Rethinking Fire Policy in the Tinderbox Zone  —  As Californians sift through the cinders of this week's deadly wildfires, there is a growing consensus that the state's war against such disasters — as it is currently being fought — cannot be won.  —  "California has lost 1.5 million acres …
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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D. Aristophanes / Sadly, No!:
BREAKING: Eliminationism in Crisis
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 …
Discussion: Liberal Values and Cliff Schecter
 
 
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Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Homeland Security strikes deal with New York on driver's licenses
Gary Schmitt / Weekly Standard:
But Who Will Surveil the Judges?  —  The FISA court and its failings.
Discussion: Power Line
James Gordon Meek / Counterterrorism Blog:
Breaking News: Major Afghan Fight Erupts Today
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Tyler Cowen / New York Times:
To Know Contractors, Know Government
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Gail Collins: There To Make MoDo and Bobo Look Smart
Jack Shafer / Slate:
A BRIEF WORD IN SUPPORT OF THE GENOCIDAL TYRANT.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Bush the Embracer  —  The wildfires in Southern California …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Leonard Doyle / The Independent:
Guantanamo military lawyer breaks ranks to condemn 'unconscionable' detention
 Earlier Items: 
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Fred Hiatt's concern over "costly litigation" for AT&T and Verizon
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Ron Paul's campaign paid conspiracy nut Alex Jones $1,300?
J.P. Emanuel / Jeff Emanuel:
Does independent journalism from Iraq really make a difference?
Discussion: Redstate
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
From CIA Jails, Inmates Fade Into Obscurity
Online NewsHour:
California Wildfire Response Compared to Katrina; U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Iran
Jerusalem Post:
Rice confers with Carter and Clinton
Discussion: Power Line and Israel Matzav
Richard Alleyne / Telegraph:
Man who had sex with bike in court
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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