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GOP Candidates Spar Over Conservatisim — Florida Debate Centers on Direction of GOP and Hillary Clinton — After two weeks of sparring at a distance out on the campaign trail, the Republican presidential hopefuls gathered in Florida for their most heated and intense debate of the year.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Clinton Finds Way to Play Along With Drudge — As Senator Barack Obama prepared to give a major speech on Iraq one morning a few weeks ago, a flashing red-siren alert went up on the Drudge Report Web site. It read, "Queen of the Quarter: Hillary Crushes Obama in Surprise Fund-Raising Surge …
Washington Post:
Dishwashers for Clinton — DONORS WHOSE addresses turn out to be tenements. Dishwashers and waiters who write $1,000 checks. Immigrants who ante up because they have been instructed to by powerful neighborhood associations, or, as one said, "They informed us to go, so I went."
Deacon / Power Line:A SLEEPING GIANT WAKES UP
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Irenep / Michael Yon:
Resistance is Futile — October 22, 2007 — Resistance is futile: You will be (mis)informed. — A gulf. — A gap. — A chasm. — A parallel universe. — All describe the bizarro-world contrast between what most Americans seem to think is happening in Iraq versus what is really happening in Iraq.
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protein wisdom, The Jawa Report, Say Anything, The Strata-Sphere, Bookworm Room, Hot Air, Confederate Yankee, FreeSpeech.com and Pundit Review
Valerie Plame Wilson / The Huffington Post:
Finally Telling My Story — I'm Valerie Plame Wilson and I'm excited to be here and blog about my book Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, which goes on sale Monday, Oct 22. When my publisher sent me the finished copy earlier this week, it was thrilling.
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Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
Valerie Plame Wilson and the Ultimate Betrayal — Valerie's problem is her decency and humanity. She has reasons most Americans don't know to be really angry with George Bush and George Tenet but she has contained her rage. In a new tasty nugget in her book, Fair Game, she gives some details on the 2004 Al Qaeda threat to kill her.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Iraq and Turkey See Tensions Rise After Ambush — A brazen ambush by Kurdish militants that left at least 12 Turkish soldiers dead touched off a major escalation in Turkey-Iraq tensions on Sunday, bringing fears that Turkey would retaliate immediately by sending troops across the border into Iraq.
David Segal / Washington Post:
Low Road to Splitsville — Right-Wing Publisher's Breakup Is Super-Rich In Tawdry Details — Looking for a perfect little weekend vacation this fall? Here's a travel tip you don't hear very often: Head to Pittsburgh. Right away. — Seriously, get in the car and read this story later …
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Key Clinton Backer Rips Giuliani's Personal Life — Rep. Charles Rangel Apparently Refers to Giuliani as a 'Cheating Goddamn Husband' — Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., the dean of the New York congressional delegation, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, longtime political booster …
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Des Moines Register, Hot Air, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Weasel Zippers, Fausta's blog and A Chequer-Board of Nights …
Doug Struck / Washington Post:
At the Poles, Melting Occurring at Alarming Rate — For scientists, global warming is a disaster movie, its opening scenes set at the poles of Earth. The epic already has started. And it's not fiction. — The scenes are playing, at the start, in slow motion: The relentless grip …
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Mortgage Security Bondholders Facing a Cutoff of Interest Payments — For all the pain in the mortgage market, investors who hold bonds backed by risky home loans have continued to receive their monthly interest payments — until now. — Collateralized debt obligations …
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Eschaton
New York Post:
GIULIANI BERN SHIELD — PAL KEEPS EYE ON EX-NYPD BOSS' PROBE — Rudy Giuliani's law partner has been told to monitor the criminal probe of disgraced ex-NYPD boss Bernard Kerik, which threatens to muddy up the former mayor's bid to become president. — As part of his sensitive assignment …
New York Times:
Ain't That America — Think of America's greatest historical shames. Most have involved the singling out of groups of people for abuse. Name a distinguishing feature — skin color, religion, nationality, language — and it's likely that people here have suffered unjustly for it …
New York Times:
A Dearth of Taxes — President Bush considers himself a champion tax cutter, but all the leading Republican presidential candidates are eager to outdo him. Their zeal is misguided. This country's meager tax take puts its economic prospects at risk and leaves the government ill equipped to face the challenges from globalization.
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