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New York Times:
Musharraf Leaves White House in Lurch — For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world.
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Molly Ivors / Whiskey Fire:
Idiot Princess™ — Seems like we just did this, doesn't it? — But then, MoDo must be telling herself the same thing. — Yes, the Idiot Princess™ is at it again, sharpening her tools for her paymasters who clearly fear Hillary with a pathology that must be based on some deep Freudian s**t …
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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.
Mark Oppenheimer / New York Times:
The Turning of an Atheist — Unless you are a professional philosopher or a committed atheist, you probably have not heard of Antony Flew. Eighty-four years old and long retired, Flew lives with his wife in Reading, a medium-size town on the Thames an hour west of London.
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 …
Washington Post:
Poll Finds Americans Pessimistic, Want Change — One year out from the 2008 election, Americans are deeply pessimistic and eager for a change in direction from the agenda and priorities of President Bush, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
FOXNews Sunday: Poppy Bush Gets Emotional Remembering How We USED To Treat Prisoners — On this morning's Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace interviewed former President George H.W. Bush at his Presidential Library in Texas. Bush defends his son's disastrous presidency, but later in the interview …
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Hullabaloo
Daniel Boffey / Daily Mail:
Passengers revolt after being told to fly on jet with its wing tip missing — An airline crew faced a rebellion when they told passengers they were going to fly on a jet that had lost its wing tip in a runway crash. — The SriLankan Airlines customers had been on the Airbus A340 a day earlier …
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Scared Monkeys
Corey Levitan / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
FORECLOSURE FALLOUT: Home Sour Home — Housing crisis leads some former owners, tenants to take anger out on property — The orange "no trespassing" sticker is faded, the seal it once formed over the doorway broken for at least six months. Joseph Kraemer twists the lockbox key and issues a warning to be prepared.
Satyam / Think Progress:
Giuliani: I Used 'Very Aggressive,' 'Intensive' Interrogation Techniques — Asked about his views of waterboarding this weekend, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said that as President he would support the use of "enhanced" interrogation techniques. In an interview with Bloomberg's Al Hunt …
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2007: Kentucky Governor — Kentucky Governor: Beshear 54% Fletcher 39% — As Kentucky voters prepare to go to the polls next week, they appear ready to elect a new Governor. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows former Lt. Governor Steven Beshear (D) …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
New Rules — eriposte at The Left Coaster discusses the journalistic malpractice exposed in this exchange from the last debate: … eriposte points out that even though president Clinton subsequently explained that his request (from five years ago) was to speed up the release of documents …
MSNBC:
'Meet the Press' transcript for Nov. 4, 2007 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Our Meet the Candidates 2008 series continues, an exclusive interview with Republican Fred Thompson. You've seen him as an actor on the big screen and small screen. He's been a lawyer and a lobbyist …
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Jane Perlez / New York Times:
A Battle Rages in London Over a Mega-Mosque Plan — LONDON — Disputes over mosques have broken out across Europe. Residents from Belgium to France to Germany have expressed unease at minarets competing in the urban landscape with the spires and stones of centuries-old cathedrals.
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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 …
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