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8:50 AM ET, October 29, 2007

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Daily Mail:
Record numbers go abroad for health treatment with 70,000 escaping NHS  —  Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.  —  And by the end of the decade 200,000 "health tourists" …
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Times of London:
Quack Michael Moore has mad view of the NHS
Telegraph:
Record numbers go abroad for health
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Hillary Clinton / Journalism.org:
THE INVISIBLE PRIMARY—INVISIBLE NO LONGER  —  A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign  —  In the early months of the 2008 presidential campaign, the media had already winnowed the race to mostly five candidates and offered Americans relatively little information …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fearing Fear Itself  —  In America's darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror."  But that was then.  —  Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president — including all of the candidates with a significant chance …
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: G.I. Joe was just a toy, wasn't he?  —  Hollywood now proposes that in a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toy line, Joe's — well, "G.I." — identity needs to be replaced by membership in an "international force based in Brussels."
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Right Wing News
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
F.C.C. Set to End Sole Cable Deals for Apartments  —  The Federal Communications Commission, hoping to reduce the rising costs of cable television, is preparing to strike down thousands of contracts this week that gave individual cable companies exclusive rights to provide service to an apartment building, the agency's chairman says.
Discussion: The Swamp and Rook's Rant
Studs Terkel / New York Times:
The Wiretap This Time  —  EARLIER this month, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the White House agreed to allow the executive branch to conduct dragnet interceptions of the electronic communications of people in the United States.  They also agreed to "immunize" American telephone companies …
TeddySanFran / Firedoglake:
Sunday Late Nite: Snakes on A Plane  —  Flying west to check up on the California fires, somebody got a very special ride on a very special plane after casting her very special vote for a very special federal judge: … Oh, really, Dianne?  Did you share with the President this tidbit …
Discussion: Calitics
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Matier & Ross: Political jockeying heats up as wildfires rage
Discussion: Big Brass Blog
BBC:
Saudi king chides UK on terrorism  —  Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has accused Britain of not doing enough to fight international terrorism, which he says could take 20 or 30 years to beat.  —  He was speaking in a BBC interview ahead of a state visit to the UK - the first by a Saudi monarch for 20 years.
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Chalabi back in action in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD-Ahmad Chalabi, the controversial, ubiquitous Iraqi politician and one-time Bush administration favorite, has re-emerged as a central figure in the latest U.S. strategy for Iraq.  —  His latest job: To press Iraq's central government to use early security gains …
New York Times:
Trash Talking World War III  —  America's allies and increasingly the American public are playing a ghoulish guessing game: Will President Bush manage to leave office without starting a war with Iran?  Mr. Bush is eagerly feeding those anxieties.  This month he raised the threat of …
Discussion: cab drollery
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Laura Bush accuses Dems of demagoguery on SCHIP  —  First Lady Laura Bush said Sunday that she is much more involved in policy than many people think and then went to bat for her husband on children's health care and foreign policy.  —  Calling the state children's health insurance program …
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Polls don't reflect Obama's star power  —  The Democrat creates a stir wherever he goes, but runs far behind Clinton nationally.  Some observers are puzzled; others say he's too gentle.  —  DES MOINES — Hutton Street, a modest, racially mixed working-class neighborhood on the city's east side …
Discussion: The Caucus and PoliBlog (TM)
Peterhamby / CNN Political Ticker:
Obama supporter: 'God delivered me from homosexuality.'  —  COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) — The controversial Gospel singer at the center of a gay and lesbian backlash against Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign struck back at his critics Sunday night, saying that he has been "vilified" …
Discussion: Think On These Things
G'Kar / Obsidian Wings:
In Defense of Beauchamp  —  I stayed away from the entire Beauchamp affair.  I was aware of it, and I had my own opinion, but since I had no way of proving anything one way or the other, I saw no real value to jumping into the fray.  However, an experience I had the other day has left …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Newshoggers
Yahoo! Movies:
'Saw IV' Slays in $32.M Debut Weekend  —  The killer of the "Saw" franchise may be dead, but his sadistic spirit lives on.  Lionsgate's "Saw IV" led the weekend box office with $32.1 million, maintaining the horror franchise's position as a Halloween perennial, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Discussion: Hot Air
Ynetnews:
IAEA chief lashes out over Israeli raid in Syria  —  Mohamed ElBaradei accuses Jewish state of 'taking the law into its own hands', says 'if countries have information that another country is working on a nuclear-related program, they should come to us'  —  Chief UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed …
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Telegraph:
Basra fight pointless, says British commander
Confederate Yankee:
A Point of Honor  —  Scott Beauchamp doesn't matter.
Shaun Mullen / Kiko's House:
Why Is Gay Hating James Dobson Still Licensed As a Therapist in Colorado?
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
William Safire's Spooky Political Predictions
Celeste Katz / NY Daily News:
Nader voters crippled Gore in 2000; now they love him
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David Leppard / Times of London:
Royal targeted in sex and drugs blackmail plot
Thomas M. DeFrank / NY Daily News:
Giuliani is GOP's best shot against Hillary, said Ford
Dan McDougall / Observer:
Indian 'slave' children found making low-cost clothes destined for Gap
Discussion: Truthdig and Feministe
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
War, like life, is not a movie
 

 
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