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12:30 PM 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 …
Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
Going Negative on Clinton Is A Mistake
Discussion: Reuters and PSoTD
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Clinton On The Ropes  —  One thing that strikes me about these debates …
Discussion: The Newshoggers and Obsidian Wings
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:   Clinton Gets No Love in Democrats Debate
MSNBC:
Oct. 30 Democratic debate transcript
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
A Record Time For A Reversal
Discussion: Hot Air and michellemalkin.com
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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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Giuliani's Prostate Cancer Figure Is Disputed
Matt / Think Progress:   BREAKING: Karen Hughes resigns.
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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Opinion Journal:
Surveillance Sanity  —  Companies that help protect the U.S. against attack deserve immunity from frivolous lawsuits.  —  Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to target al Qaeda communications into and out of the country.
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Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
House Democrats stall on FISAvote  —  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) has postponed a vote to amend the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for at least a week, and a Hoyer aide told The Hill there was no indication the bill would go back to the floor "anytime soon."
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 …
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 …
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John D. Rockefeller IV / Washington Post:
Partners In the War On Terror
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 …
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 …
Daisy Nguyen / Associated Press:
Officials: Boy With Matches Started Fire  —  SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor to consider the case.
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.
 
 
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USA Today:
Our view on cleaning up Congress: Lawmakers still find ways to preserve their perks
Wall Street Journal:
Primary Rush Forces New Tack For Campaigns
Maria Recio / Houston Chronicle:
Nader claims Democrats sabotaged his 2004 campaign
Michelle Malkin:
The vote on LOST: American sovereignty on the line; Vote-17-4 …
The Atlantic Online:
Everything Sucks, I Blame Mexicans
Discussion: Eschaton and Hullabaloo
Howard Schneider / Washington Post:
U.S. Economy Grows at Faster Than Expected Rate
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Specter's pet project: Sexual abstinence
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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The Hill:
Approps members scramble as Cochran mulls retirement
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Yemen's Truce with al Qaeda
Andrew Grice / The Independent:
Revealed: how Blair rejected Bush's offer to stay
Discussion: Think Progress and AMERICAblog
Booman Tribune:
Expanding Medicare  —  "Everybody knows the insurance companies …
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Guardian:
Post-Islamism  —  The future of Islamic reform lies …
Associated Press:
Tax law: Are you eating those pumpkins?
 

 
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