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5:10 PM ET, October 3, 2006

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The Blotter:
New Foley Instant Messages; Had Internet Sex While Awaiting House Vote  —  Brian Ross and Maddy Sauer Report:  —  Former Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) interrupted a vote on the floor of the House in 2003 to engage in Internet sex with a high school student who had served as a congressional page …
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Nico / Think Progress:
Hastert: Foley Scandal Is A Liberal Conspiracy To 'Get To Me' And 'Affect Our Election'  —  Interviewed by Rush Limbaugh today, House Speaker Hastert said Mark Foley's inappropriate behavior was "a political issue" and promised Rush that "we are going on offense."
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Swing Back.  —  The Washington Times wants Speaker Hastert to resign.  To do so would be to capitulate to Democratic-activist-induced and MSM-abetted hysteria.  Not only should Hastert not resign, he should use every opportunity to swing back hard at a MSM deeply compromised …
Paul Bedard / US News:
Hastert may have just days to save his job  —  House Speaker Dennis Hastert, under fire for his handling of the Foley page scandal, may have just one or two days to turn the affair around-or quiet it- or face being forced to step aside, say senior GOP House and party officials.
MSNBC:
Hastert won't resign over Foley scandal  —  Washington Times opines House Speaker 'must do the only right thing'  —  WASHINGTON - Despite a call from a conservative newspaper for his resignation over his handling of a congressional sex scandal, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., intends to retain his leadership position.
New York Times:
Papers Knew of Foley E-Mail but Did Not Publish Stories  —  At least two news organizations were tipped off to e-mail messages sent by Representative Mark Foley long before the story of his sexually explicit remarks to teenage pages broke last week and forced him to resign.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
NRCC Uses Small Children As Human Shields  —  Uh.  Mah.  Gawd.  —  I...words simply fail me.  —  In the fine tradition of George W. Bush standing under the "Mission Accomplished" sign, or any one of the Katrina backdrops (where no expense was spared to bring power to an area for a photo op …
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Ben Smith / The Daily Politics:
Reynolds and the Kiddies  —  The Upstate media today is all about Tom Reynolds' bizarre press conference yesterday, at which he surrounded himself by small children.  At one point, reporters asked if he could make the children leave so they could as adult questions, and he refused.
Buffalo News:   Reynolds denies coverup on Foley
Bo-Mi Lim / Associated Press:
North Korea says it will stage nuke test  —  SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Tuesday it will conduct a nuclear test in the face of what it claimed was "the U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war," ratcheting up tensions amid international pressure to return to negotiations on its atomic program.
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New York Times:
North Korea Vows First Nuclear Test
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE and TAPPED
Jonathan Thatcher / Reuters:   North Korea says will conduct nuclear test
BBC:
N Korea statement on nuclear test
Discussion: The Agonist
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
The Glenn and Helen Show: John Fund on Election Fraud and its Cures  —  With the elections only a month away, we talk to John Fund, Wall Street Journal writer and author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.  Fund talks about high-tech problems with electronic voting machines …
Discussion: Tapscott's Copy Desk
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Politics Central:
THE GLENN AND HELEN SHOW: JOHN FUND ON ELECTION FRAUD AND ITS REMEDIES
Discussion: Dr. Helen and Hot Air
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Three Years Of CQ  —  Three years.  8,156 posts.  Over 109,000 comments and 16,000 trackbacks. 23 million visits.  And the best blog community in the 'sphere.  —  It all started with this post: … When I first started this blog, I expected it to serve two purposes …
Michael Melia / Associated Press:
High-calorie diet fattens U.S. detainees  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Offered a high-calorie diet and kept in their cells almost around the clock, many detainees at Guantanamo Bay are becoming fat.  —  Meals totaling a whopping 4,200 calories per day are brought to their cells …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
BBC:
'Pope protesters' hijack airliner  —  A Turkish airliner flying from Tirana to Istanbul has been hijacked and flown to Brindisi in southern Italy in an apparent protest against the Pope.  —  It sent out an SOS twice in Greek airspace, and both Greece and Italy scrambled fighter jets to escort it before it landed in Brindisi.
Judd / Think Progress:
CBS Turns Over News Broadcast To Man Who Blames School Shootings on Teaching Evolution and Abortion  —  Last night, the CBS Evening News turned their broadcast over to a man named Brian Rohrbough, who lost his son during the Columbine massacre.  Mr. Rohrbough proceeded to blame recent school shootings on …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Lieberman says he has been promised seniority  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman, the longtime Democratic senator from Connecticut running for re-election as an independent, says the party leadership has assured him he would keep his seniority if he returns to Congress.
 
 
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