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8:40 AM ET, November 4, 2007

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Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Thompson Adviser Has Criminal Past  —  Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson has been crisscrossing the country since early this summer on a private jet lent to him by a businessman and close adviser who has a criminal record for drug dealing.  —  Thompson selected the businessman …
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Fred Thompson Campaign Advisor Has Drug Crimes in His Past  —  The Washington Post reports that Republican candidate Fred Thompson's good buddy since the mid-90's, Philip Martin of Tennessee, who also supplies the plane for Thompson's campaign trips, has a criminal past:
David Rohde / New York Times:
Pakistani Declares State of Emergency  —  The Pakistani leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, declared a state of emergency on Saturday night, suspending the country's Constitution, firing the chief justice of the Supreme Court and filling the streets of this capital city with police officers.
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Times of London:
Saudi Arabia is hub of world terror  —  The desert kingdom supplies the cash and the killers  —  Nick Fielding and Sarah Baxter, Washington  —  It was an occasion for tears and celebration as the Knights of Martyrdom proclaimed on video: "Our brother Turki fell during the rays of dawn …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Gift of Gall  —  Girlfriend had a rough week.  —  First Hillary got brushed back by the boys in the debate.  Then some women bemoaned Hillaryland's "Don't hit me, I'm a girl" strategy.  —  The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus deplored the "antifeminist subtext" of Hillary's campaign playing the woman-as-victim card.
Discussion: Whiskey Fire
N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:
Beyond Those Health Care Numbers  —  WITH the health care system at the center of the political debate, a lot of scary claims are being thrown around.  The dangerous ones are not those that are false; watchdogs in the news media are quick to debunk them.  Rather, the dangerous ones …
Discussion: Economist's View and Angry Bear
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Noun + Verb + 9/11 + Iran = Democrats' Defeat?  —  WHEN President Bush started making noises about World War III, he only confirmed what has been a Democratic article of faith all year: Between now and Election Day he and Dick Cheney, cheered on by the mob of neocon dead-enders, are going to bomb Iran.
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Rebuts Accusations of Secrecy  —  As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton began a four-day swing through Iowa on Saturday, her political camp struck back against accusations that she and her husband were being overly secretive about discussions they had during their White House years.
William Glaberson / New York Times:
New Detainee Rights Weighed in Plans to Close Guantánamo  —  Officials say they are considering granting detainees greater rights in an effort to close the facility.
Discussion: TalkLeft
David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
FRED THOMPSON VS. THE UN'S ANTI-SELF-DEFENSE CAMPAIGN Earlier this week, Sen. Fred Thompson wrote to Field & Stream magazine, criticizing the UN's campaign against the human right of self-defense.  The Thompson campaign touted the letter on its website, and the letter got a favorable reception among many pro-Second Amendment bloggers.
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
ALL-TIME WINGNUTTIEST BLOG POST CONTEST....While the rest of the blogosphere concerns itself with the worthy task of choosing the all-time best blog posts, I'm keeping my focus where it belongs: on the all-time worst blog posts.  And thanks to help from my commenters, plus commenters over at FDL …
The Huffington Post:
In Bloggo Gravitas: BriWi On SNL, In His Own Words  —  Good Lord, Brian Williams is everywhere these days, pre-SNL — talking to the NYDN about how he won't be singing "Dick In A Box"; admitting butterflies to the AP; declaring to the Hollywood Reporter that the show must go on …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal  —  One afternoon in early September, an architect boarded his commuter train and became a cellphone vigilante.  He sat down next to a 20-something woman who he said was "blabbing away" into her phone.  —  "She was using the word 'like' all the time.
Discussion: Corrente
Daniel J. Mitchell / Cato-at-liberty:
Excellent Story Shows Benefits of Tax Havens  —  Reporting from London, The Business notes that so-called tax havens are among the world's richest jurisdictions.  But rather than emulating success, high-tax nations attack these free-market outposts — with the Paris-based Organization …
Discussion: Redstate
 
 
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DO NOT TRUST CONTENT FROM ANDREW SULLIVAN: I can't go around answering …
Frederick W. Kagan / Weekly Standard:
Reconcilable Differences  —  The Iraqi parliament behaves like a bunch of politicians.
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