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Ezra Klein:
Against Giuliani — "Hillary and Obama are kind of debating whether to invite [Osama bin Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] to the inauguration or the inaugural ball," says Rudy Giuliani. Andrew's right. This guy is out of his goddamn mind. — You know, a few years ago …
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Zogby:
Zogby Poll: 52% Support U.S. Military Strike Against Iran — Most see Clinton as the presidential candidate best equipped to deal with Iran, followed by Giuliani and McCain—but many express uncertainty — A majority of likely voters - 52% - would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran …
John R. Wilke / Wall Street Journal:
How Lawmaker Rebuilt Hometown on Earmarks — Johnstown Gets Billions — With Power Broker's Aid; — FBI Questions a Contract — JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — If John Murtha were a businessman, he'd be the biggest employer in this town. — The powerful U.S. congressman has used his clout …
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Mike Faher / The Tribune Democrat, Johnstown, PA:
Career Army man to challenge Murtha — After nearly three decades in the military, William T. Russell's latest mission has brought him to Johnstown. — The career Army man, just two years short of retirement, has left the service and moved to the Flood City in order to mount a political campaign …
Rasmussen Reports:
Poll Matching Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul Tells A Lot About Clinton, Little About Paul — A recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey featuring a match-up between Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul highlights one of the perils that comes from overanalyzing poll results between candidates with different levels of name recognition.
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Online NewsHour:
Debate Stirs Over Possible U.S. Military Action Against Iran — New U.S. economic sanctions leveled against Iran last week over Tehran's nuclear program further fueled debate about the possibility of U.S. military action against the country. Two writers offer their perspectives …
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Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
Fineman: What Obama must do in the debate — WASHINGTON - As Sen. Barack Obama prepared for Tuesday night's crucial NBC debate in Philadelphia, his high command back in Chicago was watching a lot of old Clinton videotape — not of Hillary Clinton, but of Bill, and not of Bill as president …
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
New Congress at war over everything — In a closed-door meeting before the last vote on the children's health care bill, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer appealed for the support of about 30 wavering Republican lawmakers. What he got instead was a tongue-lashing, participants said.
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Iraqi Dam Seen In Danger of Deadly Collapse — AT THE MOSUL DAM, Iraq — The largest dam in Iraq is in serious danger of an imminent collapse that could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water, possibly killing thousands of people and flooding two of the largest cities in the country …
NY Daily News:
Sharpton chides Cheney over Confederate flag flap — Nobody got shot, but Vice President Cheney still fired up controversy Monday when he went hunting at a private club that hangs the Confederate flag. — A Daily News photographer captured the 3-by-5 foot Dixie flag affixed to a door …
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Janny Scott / New York Times:
Memories of Obama in New York Differ — Barack Obama does not say much about his years in New York City. The time he spent as an undergraduate at Columbia College and then working in Manhattan in the early 1980s surfaces only fleetingly in his memoir. In the book, he casts himself …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
2007 Spying Said to Cost $50 Billion — Some Formerly Classified Figures Are to Be Disclosed Today — The director of national intelligence will disclose today that national intelligence activities amounting to roughly 80 percent of all U.S. intelligence spending for the year cost more than $40 billion …
Sean O'Neill / Times of London:
Lessons in hate found at leading mosques — Books calling for the beheading of lapsed Muslims, ordering women to remain indoors and forbidding interfaith marriage are being sold inside some of Britain's leading mosques, according to research seen by The Times.
Keith Ervin / Seattle Times:
Three plead guilty in fake voter scheme — Three of seven defendants in the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history have pleaded guilty and one has been sentenced, prosecutors said Monday. — The defendants were all temporary employees of ACORN …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Nature or Nurture? Well, Smart Guy? — The forum at the usually sober American Enterprise Institute yesterday started off with a bit of Borscht Belt humor. AEI adjunct fellow Jon Entine displayed a cartoon of a tablet-carrying Moses looking incredulously toward the heavens.
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Patricia Leigh Brown / New York Times:
Gay Enclaves Face Prospect of Being Passé — This Halloween, the Glindas, gladiators and harem boys of the Castro — along with untold numbers who plan to dress up as Senator Larry E. Craig, this year's camp celebrity — will be celebrating behind closed doors.