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5:15 PM ET, November 4, 2007

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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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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Pentagon Backs Musharraf
Discussion: The Heretik and Guardian
Barnett R. Rubin / Informed Comment:
Live From Islamabad: President Musharraf
CNN:
'Emergency will last as long as necessary'
Reuters:
U.S. to review aid to Pakistan after emergency
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Middle Earth Journal
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 …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Feingold to Oppose Mukasey  —  Statement just released ...
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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 …
Discussion: Majikthise, Angry Bear and Ezra Klein
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 …
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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.
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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Bruce Kesler / Democracy Project:
Doctors Vs Professors
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM)
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.
Discussion: Eschaton and Calculated Risk
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.
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Matt / Think Progress:
Bush 41 Gets His News From Fox News; Warns More Bushes May Run For Public Office  —  Fox News Sunday launched a new series this week called "American Leaders" that seeks to engage "prominent business, cultural and social figures in candid discussion."  The first "leader" featured by Fox …
Tina Rosenberg / New York Times:
The Perils of Petrocracy  —  I.  —  Who holds the world's oil?  You might assume it's in the hands of big private oil companies like ExxonMobil.  But in fact, 77 percent of the world's oil reserves are held by national oil companies with no private equity, and there are 13 state-owned oil companies …
Skippy / skippy the bush kangaroo:
who needs original thinking when you're joel stein?  —  patterico's pontifications (who graciously links to us, as we are tangentially involved in this brewing journamalistic scandal) points out that joel stein, big-time latimes op-ed writer, was a little bit sticky-fingered when it came to premises for his column this last week:
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Joel Stein / Los Angeles Times:
Ann Coulter Mad Libs
 
 
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Think Progress:
Retired Judge Advocates General Write To Leahy Condemning Waterboarding
Discussion: D-Day and LeftWord
Jane Perlez / New York Times:
A Battle Rages in London Over a Mega-Mosque Plan
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Telegraph:
The deceit behind global warming
Lance / A Second Hand Conjecture:
The Iranian Labor Movement, Heroic and Ignored- Updated
Lynn Zinser / New York Times:
Marathoner Dies in Olympic Trials
Teresa Watanabe / Los Angeles Times:
Citizenship applications climb despite fee hike
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Thousands Return to Safer Iraqi Capital
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Excellent Story Shows Benefits of Tax Havens
Discussion: Redstate
David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
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