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2:40 PM ET, November 3, 2007

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Musharraf Declares State of Emergency — The Pakistani leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, declared a state of emergency tonight, suspending the country's constitution, blacking out all independent television news reports and filling the streets of the capital with hundreds of police and soldiers.

Discussion: Hot Air, The Long War Journal, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Eschaton, The American Street, Middle Earth Journal, Prairie Weather, Mercury Rising and Seeing the Forest

Matthew Pennington / Associated Press:

Musharraf declares emergency in Pakistan — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday, suspending the constitution, replacing the chief justice before a crucial Supreme Court ruling on his future as president, and cutting communications in the capital.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, TPMCafe blogs, Pajamas Media, Stop The ACLU, Macsmind, New York Times and alphabet city

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Musharraf Declares State Of Emergency — Pervez Musharraf has declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, apparently not content to wait for the Supreme Court decision on his presidential election victory last month. So far, he has given no reason for the declaration, although the military activity …

Discussion: BitsBlog and Washington Times

Washington Post:

Musharraf Declares Emergency Rule in Pakistan — Provisional Constitution Instituted, Leader Expected to Address Nation Saturday — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule Saturday, suspending the constitution amid a heavy security presence including armored personnel carriers on the streets of the capital.

Discussion: Is That Legal?, The Van Der Galiën Gazette and Shakespeare's Sister

CNN:

Musharraf declares state of emergency — LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) — Faced with increasing violence and unrest, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday declared a state of emergency, government sources told CNN. — Musharraf issued a provisional constitutional order proclaiming …

Discussion: TalkLeft and The Carpetbagger Report

ABCNEWS:

Bush Administration Blocked Waterboarding Critic — Former DOJ Official Tested the Method Himself, in Effort to Form Torture Policy — A senior Justice Department official, charged with reworking the administration's legal position on torture in 2004 became so concerned …

Discussion: Think Progress, Crooks and Liars, Baltimore Sun, NION, The Heretik, Macsmind, Harper's and The Blotter

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.

Discussion: The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Scared Monkeys, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Jawa Report, BitsBlog and Rasmussen Reports

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.

Discussion: Wake up America, The Sideshow, Spin Cycle, The Strata-Sphere, Taylor Marsh, Neptunus Lex, Riehl World View and The Politico

Kos / Daily Kos:
The politics of parsing

Discussion: Riehl World View

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 …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Say Anything, The Strata-Sphere, Neptunus Lex, neo-neocon, Wake up America, Don Surber, SWJ Blog, NewsBusters.org, Secular Blasphemy and alphabet city

Jules Crittenden:
Not Cricket

Discussion: Times of London

Gateway Pundit:

Al Qaeda Threatens American Poodle... Libyan leader Gadhafi(?) — Al Qaeda lost in Iraq... Now they've lost their minds. — This image from video released by IntelCenter on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007 shows a photo of Ayman al-Zawahri as part of an audiotaped speech harshly criticizing Libyan …

Maggie Michael / Associated Press:

Al-Qaida's No. 2 threatens Libya — CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No. 2 figure harshly criticized Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in a new audio tape Saturday, accusing him of being an enemy of Islam and threatening a wave of attacks against the North African country because it improved relations with the U.S.

Discussion: The Jawa Report and Argghhh!

Michael Powell / New York Times:

Loyal to Kerik, Giuliani Missed Warning Signs — If the rise of Bernard B. Kerik under the mentorship of Rudolph W. Giuliani was meteoric, the speed of his fall was breathtaking. — In December 2004, President Bush nominated Mr. Kerik, a former New York police commissioner, to head the federal Department of Homeland Security.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Kiko's House, KnoxViews, The Right's Field, TalkLeft, DownWithTyranny!, rubber hose, Suburban Guerrilla, MSNBC and The Democratic Daily

Matt Stoller / Open Left:

The Religious Left Runs Against Porn — I like Tom Perriollo, though I find this diatribe on the common good very annoying. … There's lots of stuff that undermines women's rights, sexual health and 'the common good', from legal economic penalties to cultural norms to the sick gender bias …

Discussion: Eschaton and BitsBlog

Tom Perriello / The Coffee House: Our Culture War on Greed

Kate Michelman / Open Left:

We've Come A Long Way — Remember the commercial: — We've come a long way baby. — Well, have we? That's the question American women need to ask themselves. — We earn 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. — We are 48% more likely to live in poverty than men.

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker

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 ...

Discussion: the talking dog

Rich Lowry / Real Clear Politics:
The Campaign Against Mukasey

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Balkinization

Jamiecnn / CNN Political Ticker:

Obama: Cheney is 'a crazy uncle in the attic' — SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (CNN) - At a campaign event Saturday, Sen. Barack Obama called his distant cousin, Vice President Dick Cheney, "a crazy uncle in the attic." — Obama was referencing the recent revelation by the Vice President's wife …

Joe Klein / TIME: Swampland:

The Real War — I'm puzzled by all the neoconservative bloviating and war-whooping about Iran and the near deathly silence about the deteriorating situation in Pakistan. I mean, we have actual terrorist training camps in Waziristan that are just sitting there, ripe targets for the sort …

Discussion: BitsBlog, RealClearPolitics, PSoTD and The American Street