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9:40 AM ET, November 3, 2007

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Washington Post:
Democratic Defections Clear Path For Mukasey  —  2 Senators Say Nominee Is Best Bush Would Offer  —  The nomination fight over attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey effectively came to an end yesterday, as two key Senate Democrats parted from their colleagues and announced their support …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Dean on Mukasey  —  Friend of TPM and former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean knows a few things about lawless presidents.  He just sent us his thoughts on the now certain confirmation of Judge Mukasey ...
The Big Blog:
Video: Clinton takes on Russert, says letter was no cover-up  —  "Breathtakingly" misleading.  That's what former president Bill Clinton called a question Tim Russert asked his wife at this week's Democratic presidential candidates' debate.  And boy was he mad.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
HRC White House papers will go public in 08  —  The Clinton library is readying a trove of detail about Hillary Rodham Clinton's eight years as first lady in the White House for release in late January, government lawyers said in a court filing.  —  But Bill Clinton's lawyer will have the final …
Discussion: Washington Post
Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:   Clinton presses for White House papers
Stephen Spruiell / The Corner:
Misleading?  —  Bill Clinton says that one of the questions …
Discussion: Riehl World View
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Michelle Malkin:
Kucinich leads the impeachment circus: Introducing a Cheney impeachment resolution next week  —  Strike up the nutroots band!  Impeach-a-palooza is coming to the House floor.  Dennis Kucinich announces his plans to introduce a privileged resolution that will bring articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney:
Discussion: Don Surber
Alice Miles / Times of London:
The Petraeus Curve  —  Serious success in Iraq is not being recognised as it should be  —  Is no news good news or bad news?  In Iraq, it seems good news is deemed no news.  There has been striking success in the past few months in the attempt to improve security, defeat al-Qaeda sympathisers …
Michael Powell / New York Times:
The Long Run: Loyal to Kerik, Giuliani Missed Warning Signs  —  LOYAL TO KERIK, GIULIANI MISSED WARNING SIGNS  —  New evidence suggests Rudolph W. Giuliani overlooked disturbing information as he supported Bernard B. Kerik.
Dan Morgan / Washington Post:
Sugar Industry Expands Influence  —  When U.S. sugar farmers needed help this summer defending a $1 billion, 10-year subsidy plan in a new House farm bill, they found it in some surprising places.  —  Among the 282 lawmakers siding with Midwest and Gulf Coast growers on a key vote …
Gail Collins / New York Times:
My Favorite Menace  —  The Law of the Sea Treaty has become a hot-button item in the Republican presidential race.  —  Say what?  —  "One of the defining issues of our time," declared Mike Huckabee, who is leading an anti-treaty charge.  —  People, what do you think of when you hear "defining issues of our time?"
Discussion: Marginal Revolution and TigerHawk
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Clinton and Obama Clash Over 'Piling On' Remarks  —  Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tangled today over whether women should be treated equally to men in the boxing ring of presidential politics as Mrs. Clinton backed away from her "politics of pile on" strategy portraying …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Debate Fallout Has No Immediate Impact on Clinton Poll Position
National Review:
The Toughest, Most Effective Web Ad I've Seen This Campaign So Far  —  It's very rare that I find myself in total agreement with Markos Moulitsas, creator of Daily Kos.  But he calls John Edwards' response to Hillary Clinton's "pile-on" video "devastating," and I have to agree.
Arthur Silber / Once Upon a Time:
One Hundred Routes to War, One Hundred Ways to Hell  —  Almost two years ago, in writing about the effects of any foreign intervention that is not a demonstrably necessary act of self-defense, I identified what I considered to be the most important principle regarding interventions of this kind.
Joshua Keating / FP Passport:
It's official: Putin has just stopped pretending  —  It's safe to say that no one really expects this December's Russian elections to be a fair contest.  All the same, the Kremlin's decision to cut the number of international observers invited by two thirds is a particularly brazen demonstration …
Discussion: Redstate
Gary Gentile / The Huffington Post:
Hollywood Writers Set Strike for Monday  —  LOS ANGELES — Film and TV writers prepared to go on strike Monday for the first time in two decades to break what has become a high-stakes stalemate with the world's largest media companies over profits from DVDs and programming on the Internet.
 
 
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
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Bryan / Hot Air:
Hot Air audio: University of Delaware professor speaks out; Update: Transcript added
The Anchoress:
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Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Fulfillment Elusive for Young Altruists In the Crowded Field of Public Interest
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Let's See What You've Got, Babe
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
America The Unfriendly  —  Another sign of what's going on …
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Hiring strong despite housing woes
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The Atlantic Online:
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Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Fox News' Hannity rails against Halloween, which 'teaches kids to be liberals'
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Goodbye to All That  —  T he logic behind the candidacy …
James F. Smith / Boston Globe:
Biden for Dodd (if it isn't Biden)
Discussion: The Caucus
The Blotter:
Exclusive: Only Three Have Been Waterboarded by CIA
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
FUN WITH HISTORY....What are the five best blog posts of all time?
 

 
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Athena Stavrou / The Independent:
More than 230 media industry professionals, including anonymous BBC staff, sign a letter accusing the BBC of bias favoring Israel in coverage of Gaza

Devin Gordon / New York Times:
AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs

Ben Jacobs / Slate:
A profile of John Avlon, former CNN anchor, former Daily Beast EIC, former speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani, and now a congressional candidate running in New York

 
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