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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Schumer, Feinstein Announce Support for Mukasey — Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced this afternoon that they will vote in favor of confirming Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general, effectively ending a growing revolt by fellow Democrats that had threatened Mukasey's confirmation.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Mukasey's nomination and the sudden opposition to "waterboarding" — (updated below) — On one level, it is, I suppose, a good sign that there is some opposition to the confirmation of Michael Mukasey due to what ought to be his completely unacceptable positions on torture and more generally on executive power.
CNN:
Two Dems revive AG nominee's chances — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The confirmation of Michael Mukasey as attorney general was all but assured Friday when two key Democratic senators said they will vote in favor of the nominee despite questions about his views on "waterboarding" and the president's power to order electronic surveillance.
New York Times:
More Opposition to Attorney General Nomination — The nomination of Michael B. Mukasey to be attorney general encountered more opposition today when Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermonter who heads the Judiciary Committee, became the fifth Democrat on the panel to announce that he would vote against the nominee.
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IBDeditorials.com:
Even Harvard Finds The Media Biased — Journalism: The debate is over. A consensus has been reached. On global warming? No, on how Democrats are favored on television, radio and in the newspapers. — Just like so many reports before it, a joint survey by the Project for Excellence …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Damsel in the Debate — My favorite photo of the week — maybe my favorite photo of the presidential campaign so far — showed Hillary Clinton, dukes up, in a pair of bright red boxing gloves. It is iconic Hillary, unafraid to take on a fight. Which is also why the almost anti-feminist subtext …
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Jerusalem Post:
US Air Force struck Syrian nuclear site — The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two strategic US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a nuclear site under construction.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Prostates and Prejudices — "My chance of surviving prostate cancer — and thank God I was cured of it — in the United States? Eighty-two percent," says Rudy Giuliani in a new radio ad attacking Democratic plans for universal health care. "My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England?
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Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
Rice to face subpoena in espionage case — WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and some of President Bush's top foreign policy advisers must testify about their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a federal judge ruled Friday in a trial over the misuse of classified information.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Goodbye to All That — T he logic behind the candidacy of Barack Obama is not, in the end, about Barack Obama. It has little to do with his policy proposals, which are very close to his Democratic rivals' and which, with a few exceptions, exist firmly within the conventions of our politics.
Kevin Aylward / The 2007 Weblog Awards:
Poll Index — Voting for The 2007 Weblog Awards is now open. This is the master list of voting links that you can use this to navigate to the voting booths for each of the 49 categories. You can vote once a day in each category. Polls close November 8, 2007. — General Categories — Best Blog
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Arizona Republic:
Authorities: Suspicious item at Palo Verde a pipe bomb — A suspicious item seized Friday morning from the truck of a contract worker at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station was an apparent pipe bomb, plant operator Arizona Public Service Co. said. — The worker has been detained and questioned.
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Shane Harris / National Journal:
NSA Sought Data Before 9/11 — Beginning in February 2001, almost seven months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the government's top electronic eavesdropping organization, the National Security Agency, asked a major U.S. telecommunications carrier for information about its customers …
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James Traub / New York Times:
Is (His) Biography (Our) Destiny? — "If I am the face of American foreign policy and American power," Barack Obama mused not long ago aboard his campaign plane, "as long as we are also making prudent strategic decisions, handling emergencies, crises and opportunities in the world in an intelligent and sober way. . . ." He stopped.
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The Corner:
The Girl's Got Game — Well, well, well ... 166,000 new jobs. Twice the consensus view. Did somebody say Goldilocks? Did somebody say the greatest story never told? — U.S. businesses and entrepreneurs are in very good shape. These are the real job creators.
Rasmussen Reports:
Debate Fallout Has No Immediate Impact on Clinton Poll Position — Tuesday night's debate was not Hillary Clinton's finest moment of the campaign season, but there has been little or no immediate damage to her standing in the national polls. In fact, if anything, support for Clinton …