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4:10 PM ET, November 3, 2007

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New York Times:
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.
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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.
CNN:
Musharraf declares state of emergency
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 …
Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times:
Mukasey all but a shoo-in for approval  —  Two Democrats on the judiciary panel express concerns but say they will vote to confirm him as attorney general.  —  WASHINGTON — Michael B. Mukasey appeared on Friday to be all but assured of becoming the nation's 81st attorney general …
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Rich Lowry / Real Clear Politics:
The Campaign Against Mukasey
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!
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Gateway Pundit:   Al Qaeda Threatens American Poodle... Libyan leader Gadhafi(?)
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Thousands Return to Safer Iraqi Capital  —  BAGHDAD (AP) - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.
Discussion: Assorted Babble
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Jules Crittenden:
Not Cricket  —  This embarrassing.  Even the Brits, who are barely in Iraq anymore, are noticing how unsporting the Iraq coverage is.  Times of London: … Well, they are covering the good news in the United States.  With the highest of yeah-but journalism standards.
Discussion: Times of London
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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
Toni-Lynn Robbins / Bangor Daily News:
Flag-burning 'lesson' provokes UM student  —  ORONO, Maine - A University of Maine student alleges her former professor offered extra credit to class members if they burned the American flag or the U.S. Constitution or were arrested defending free speech.  —  On the first day of class …
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
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Tom Perriello / The Coffee House:   Our Culture War on Greed
The Earth Times Online Newspaper:
Pakistan considers Taliban rule in volatile valley - Summary  —  Islamabad - Pakistan is considering enforcement of Islamic laws in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley to meet the demands of pro-Taliban militants who briefly seized and then released around 100 security personnel …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
The Corner:
Strange Times  —  In the recent silence about Iraq (apparently no bad news is no news at all), we fail to appreciate that we are witnessing one of the most dramatic turnabouts in a war in our history, comparable to the 90 day radical change from June to September 1864.
 
 
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