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Michelle Malkin:
And now for some shoddy war reporting...from an NRO milblogger — Ugh. This is bad on many levels. W. Thomas Smith, Jr., a former Marine and milblogger who writes at National Review Online's The Tank (and whose work in Iraq I've praised and linked to here), posts a long-winded defense of bogus …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
National Review reporter caught fabricating; where is the "liberal media"? — Update II — NR on notice six weeks ago) — National Review reporter Thomas Smith has been exposed as a fabulist for plainly fictitious claims he made in two separate NR posts in September regarding Hezbollah's …
The Corner:
Re: Lebanon & "The Tank" — I was going to wait until a decent hour on Monday morning to bring readers' attention to "The Tank" Lebanon issue again but since everybody is working for the weekend, I'll weigh in tonight. Delay does no one any favors, especially the truth.
The Devil's Excrement:
Chronicle of a No vote in the Venezuelan referendum — I went around and there are some small lines left, not worth taking pictures of them. Then I decided to go and vote at 2 PM, the time when reportedly the stduents were planning to go out. Below, the chronicle of my vote:
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Aljazeera:
Chavez 'wins Venezuela referendum' — Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, is heading for victory in a referendum on allowing him to remain in power as long as he keeps winning elections, two government-linked sources said citing exit polls. — Three exit polls showed Chavez won …
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Mark Halperin / The Page:
More on Romney Religion Speech — The venue is not a surprise, since Romney has given a previous major address (on defense policy) at the Bush library, and the two families are very close. And Texas, of course, was also the venue for John F. Kennedy's famous speech on religion in 1960 …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Romney to give speech on Mormonism — Looks like that PowerPoint that leaked back in February was spot-on. — Halperin has the big news: Mitt Romney will take to to the Bush Library in College Station, Texas, on Thursday to give a long-anticipated, much-debated speech about his Mormon faith …
Atrios / Eschaton:
Jeb'd — state of Florida. … Don't know if Siedle has information or if he's just making a guess, but I too suspect that the last gasp of Big S**tpile involved finding marks in state and local governments.
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Forbes:
Where Was Jeb? — A government money market debacle unfolding in Florida is raising questions about former governor and presidential brother Jeb Bush's possible involvement in the mess. — Florida froze withdrawals from a state investment fund earlier this week when local governments withdrew billions …
Dan Popkey / Idaho Statesman:
More gay men describe sexual encounters with U.S. Sen. Craig — Allegations made since news of the Minneapolis case broke lend weight to rumors about Craig. … David Phillips. Mike Jones. Greg Ruth. Tom Russell. — Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations …
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
ANALYSIS: Both Iowa contests tight — DES MOINES, Iowa - Call it a brave new world in Iowa presidential politics. — The races for both the Republican and Democratic nominations here are toss ups as voting approaches, a double-dose of fluidity unseen in decades.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Jay Leno turns traitor: Fires his writers — I guess passing out some donuts while wearing his Republican lapel pin to striking writers was as far he was willing to go. What a putz. … Bob Cesca says:
David Leppard / Times of London:
US says it has right to kidnap British citizens — AMERICA has told Britain that it can "kidnap" British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States. — A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens …
Mark Steyn / The Australian:
A loss for civilisation — ACCORDING to my Oz-watching pals in Britain and the US, John Howard is not a failure but a victim of his own success. He made Australia safe for the Labor Party: or, at any rate, safe enough that a sufficient number of bored electors were willing to take a flier …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
TEDDY BEARS, PARKED CARS AND MORAL EQUIVALENCE — The Washington Post online has a religion section called On Faith, which features liberal commentary on various issues relating to religion and public life. Today's column, "Sudan and Saudi Arabia: Who Speaks for Islam?," is by John Esposito and John Voll, both of Georgetown.
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Associated Press:
Fire Dept. Suspends Apprentice For Noose, Note — The Baltimore Fire Department has suspended a paramedic apprentice who admitted placing a threatening note and a rope shaped like a noose inside a firehouse. — Fire officials say the paramedic, Gary Maynard, is the one who initially reported finding the note and the rope.
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Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun:Firehouse incident with noose was a hoax
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Richard Fausset / Los Angeles Times:
Huckabee: 'a different kind of Jesus juice' — The Republican's idiosyncratic agenda in Arkansas — a health plan, taxes for parks — was always driven by faith, he says. — LITTLE ROCK, ARK. — In 2005, a Republican state senator named Jim Holt introduced a bill to deny public benefits …
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Sudhir Hazareesingh / Times of London:
Israelis hit Syrian 'nuclear bomb plant' — Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv and Michael Sheridan in Seoul — ISRAEL'S top-secret air raid on Syria in September destroyed a bomb factory assembling warheads fuelled by North Korean plutonium, a leading Israeli nuclear expert has told The Sunday Times.
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Austin American-Statesman:
Is misdeed a creation of political doctrine? — Is this state's education agency being driven by a political orthodoxy so fierce that it dumped its science director for passing along a harmless e-mail? It's possible. — Chris Comer was director of the science curriculum …
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