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9:30 AM ET, November 8, 2007

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Thanks and Praise: I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John's Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome. — A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from "Chosen" …

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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:

THANKS AND PRAISE: Michael Yon emails: "I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John's Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome. A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers …

Discussion: michellemalkin.com, Pundit Review, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Belmont Club, The Strata-Sphere, The Anchoress, The Corner, Transterrestrial Musings, TigerHawk, small dead animals and Whiskey Fire

Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:

AT&T Whistleblower: Telecom Immunity Is A Cover-Up — Earlier today we flagged that Mark Klein, who uncovered a secret surveillance room run by the NSA while employed as a San Francisco-based technician for AT&T, is in Washington to lobby against granting retroactive legal immunity to telecommunications companies.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report

Manu Raju / The Hill:
Specter floats compromise on FISA telecom immunity

Discussion: Firedoglake and The Politico

Chris Dodd:
Why Retroactive Immunity Matters

Discussion: Bluedaze, Democrats.com and Firedoglake

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
A Story of Surveillance — Former Technician 'Turning In' AT&T Over NSA Program

Discussion: Corrente

White House:

President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with President Sarkozy of France — PRESIDENT BUSH: Mr. President, welcome. Thank you very much for coming here to Mount Vernon, and thank you for coming to the United States. I think it's safe to say that you've impressed a lot of people here on your journey.

Discussion: Flopping Aces, First Draft, unbossed.com, The Road to Surfdom and New York Times

Rob / Say Anything:
Video: Sarkozy's Speech Before Congress

Discussion: Don Surber

Nicolas Sarkozy / Real Clear Politics:
Renewing the French-American Alliance

Discussion: Let Freedom Ring, The Sundries Shack and Wake up America

Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:

U.S. Aid to Musharraf is Largely Untraceable Cash Transfers — After Pervez Musharraf declared martial law this weekend, Condoleezza Rice vowed to review U.S. assistance to Pakistan, one of the largest foreign recipients of American aid. Musharraf, of course, has been a crucial American ally since …

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David S. Broder / Washington Post: For a Neighbor, a Worrisome Drama in Pakistan

Andy McCarthy / The Corner:

SSSSHHHHHHH ... Don't Tell Anyone: Al Qaeda Has Been Routed in Baghdad — The Newspaper of Record has the story today ... on page A-19. — ... And even there, the Times can't bring itself to say we won. The report is headlined, "Militant Group Is Out of Baghdad, U.S. Says."

Discussion: protein wisdom

Damien Cave / New York Times:
Militant Group Is Out of Baghdad, U.S. Says

Discussion: QandO, Political Machine and The Strata-Sphere

Bloomberg:

Venezuela Students Shot After Anti-Chavez Protest — Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) — Venezuelan student protesters were fired on, resulting in two gun-shot injuries, when they returned to campus today from a march opposing President Hugo Chavez's plan to rewrite the nation's constitution.

Discussion: Power Line, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Dr. Sanity and Redstate

Associated Press:
Gunmen open fire on Venezuelan protesters

Discussion: Death, Redstate and QandO

John Coleman / icecap.us:

Comments About Global Warming — I was privileged to work with John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel in the year before it became a reality and then for the first of the 6 years I was fortunate to be the Director of Meteorology. No one worked harder than John to make The Weather Channel …

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard, QandO and Confederate Yankee

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming 'Greatest Scam in History'

Discussion: Right Wing News and Sister Toldjah

USA Today:

Poll: Clinton lags in quest for male voters — WASHINGTON — More than eight in 10 Republicans and more than half the married men in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll say they definitely wouldn't vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton for president. — The poll provides an early snapshot of who's ruling out Clinton …

Discussion: The Swamp, Hot Air, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, The Van Der Galiën Gazette and New York Times

Megan Thee / New York Times:
Superdelegates for Clinton (Undecided's No. 1)

Discussion: MSNBC

New York Times:

In a Surprise, Pat Robertson Backs Giuliani — They could compete for strangest bedfellows of 2008. — Rudolph W. Giuliani is a supporter of gay and abortion rights who is building his Republican primary campaign around his response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, TIME and S.C. Politics Today

Gail Collins / New York Times:
Pat Loves Rudy

Discussion: The Mahablog and NewsBusters.org

Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:

For Candidates, Web Is Power And Poison — Clinton, in Particular, Draws Equal Parts Cash and Vitriol — Candidates use the Internet to generate buzz, draw grass-roots support and raise record amounts of money. But in the intense, round-the-clock world of online presidential campaigning, the good comes with the bad.

Discussion: The Caucus and PrezVid

Eli Lake / New York Sun:

'This Pretty Much Kills the Iran Democracy Program' — WASHINGTON — The former director of President Bush's flagship democracy program for the Middle East is saying that the State Department has "effectively killed" a program to disburse millions of dollars to Iran's liberal opposition.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters

r blog:

the show that never was

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Say Anything and Taylor Marsh

IraqPundit:

When Good News Is Bad News — While the following good news stories may come as a great disappointment to many people, we Iraqis welcome the developments: — This Arabic story says Baghdad officials decided to reopen 10 main roads in the city by removing concrete barriers.

Kathleen M. Howley / Bloomberg:

Bankruptcy Law Backfires on Banks as Foreclosures Offset Gains — Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) — Washington Mutual Inc. got what it wanted in 2005: A revised bankruptcy code that no longer lets people walk away from credit card bills. — The largest U.S. savings and loan didn't count on a housing recession.

Discussion: The Big Picture and Suburban Guerrilla

Agence France Presse:

US Air Force ground ageing F-15 fighter jets — WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Air Force has grounded all its F-15 fighter planes after an accident in Missouri triggered concerns about the ageing fleet, officials said Tuesday. — The decision comes after Japan on Sunday grounded its F-15 fleet …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Outside The Beltway

Erik Eckholm / New York Times:

Surge Seen in Number of Homeless Veterans — More than 400 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have turned up homeless, and the Veterans Affairs Department and aid groups say they are bracing for a new surge in homeless veterans in the years ahead. — Experts who work with veterans …

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