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11:30 AM ET, October 31, 2007

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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Obama, Edwards attack; Clinton bombs debate  —  PHILADELPHIA - - We now know something that we did not know before: When Hillary Clinton has a bad night, she really has a bad night.  —  In a debate against six Democratic opponents at Drexel University here Tuesday, Clinton gave the worst performance of her entire campaign.
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New York Times:
The Democratic Debate on MSNBC  —  The following is a transcript of the Democratic Presidential debate in Philadelphia, as provided by Federal News Service.  —  PARTICIPANTS:  —  FORMER SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC)  —  SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (D-IL)  —  MODERATORS:  —  MR. WILLIAMS: Senator Obama, we'll begin with you.
New York Times:
A Pitched Debate: Clinton Hears It From Her Rivals  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York came under withering attack from the rest of the Democratic presidential field last night in a pitched two-hour debate that her opponents used to challenge her candor and electability and to portray …
Washington Post:
Clinton's Foes Go on the Attack  —  Front-Runner Is Target in Season's Liveliest Democratic Debate  —  With just over two months until the first primary contest, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Democratic rivals aggressively challenged their party's front-runner here Tuesday night …
Bryan / Hot Air:
Video: Hillary Clinton flip flops around Eliot Spitzer's licenses-for-illegals plan Updates and additions  —  Let's call this Exhibit A in the case against Hillary Clinton for president.  In the following clip we see her radicalism, her shrillness, her inability to finesse a tough question, and her condescension to her opponents.
MSNBC:
Oct. 30 Democratic debate transcript
Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
Democrats focus attacks on Clinton at debate
Discussion: TownHall Blog
ABCNEWS:
THE NOTE: Clinton Stumble Provides Dems an Opening
Discussion: The Fix, MSNBC and Political Radar
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
HILL TRIPS OVER SPITZ DEBATE
Anne Gearan / Associated Press:
Longtime Bush adviser leaving State Dept  —  WASHINGTON - Karen Hughes, who led efforts to improve the U.S. image abroad and was one of President Bush's last remaining advisers from the close circle of Texas aides, will leave the government at the end of the year.
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Matt / Think Progress:   BREAKING: Karen Hughes resigns.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Giuliani's Prostate Cancer Figure Is Disputed
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Jeffrey Mize / Columbian:
Police report sheds new light on Curtis encounter  —  State Rep. Richard Curtis, R-La Center, admitted to having sex with a man he met at an adult video store in Spokane last week, according to a police report released Tuesday afternoon.  —  The police report offers a damning and far different version …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
NGRs = Not Gay Republicans
Discussion: The Sideshow
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Jay Rockefeller channels Dick Cheney's fear-mongering to urge telecom amnesty  —  Leading telecom advocate Fred Hiatt this morning turned over his Washington Post Op-Ed page today to leading telecom advocate Jay Rockefeller, the Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman …
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Sideshow
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John D. Rockefeller IV / Washington Post:
Partners In the War On Terror
Discussion: Balkinization
Keith L. Alexander / Washington Post:
Judge Who Lost Pant Suit Loses Job  —  Roy L. Pearson Jr., the administrative law judge who lost his $54 million lawsuit against a Northeast Washington dry cleaner, lost his job yesterday and was ordered to vacate his office, sources said.  —  Pearson, 57, who had served as a judge for two years …
Pajamas Media:
Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma  —  So I was down in DC this past weekend and happened to run into a well-connected media person, who told me flatly, unequivocally that "everyone knows" The LA Times was sitting on a story, all wrapped up and ready …
Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:
FEC Complaint Filed Against Hillary Clinton for President Committee  —  How much longer are we going to let the crimes of Democrats, particularly those of the Clinton Machine, go unpunished?  As the co-authors of a book about the rampant corruption in the Democratic Party …
The Fix:
UFOs and Alien Life  —  In the weird last minutes of the debate (the period, by the way, when The Fix made it onto the basketball court in high school) Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) gave us a highlight.  —  Asked about the statement by actress Shirley MacLaine that Kucinich had seen a UFO at her house, Kucinich said that he had.
Guardian:
Post-Islamism  —  The future of Islamic reform lies with post-Islamism - a recognition that politics rather than religion provides for welfare in this life.  —  There is universal consensus that Muslim dictatorships, supported by the west, are the root of evil.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Leahy to White House: Thanks for Nothing  —  Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) pronounced himself pleased that the administration had handed over four "previously undisclosed documents" relating to the administration's interrogation policies.
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CNN:
Mukasey calls waterboarding 'repugnant'
 
 
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
With Book, Gerson Is Back To Fight for GOP's Identity
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Heritage Foundation:
LOST: The Law of the Sea Treaty
The Hill:
Approps members scramble as Cochran mulls retirement
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and MyDD
Jane Novak / Weekly Standard:
Yemen's Truce with al Qaeda
Andrew Grice / The Independent:
Revealed: how Blair rejected Bush's offer to stay
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Booman Tribune:
Expanding Medicare  —  "Everybody knows the insurance companies …
Discussion: Pacific Views
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Associated Press:
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Washington Post:
To Implement Policy, Bush to Turn to Administrative Orders
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
U.S. and Pakistan: A Frayed Alliance
Jay Price / Yahoo! News:
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