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3:10 PM ET, October 5, 2006

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Jim Davenport / Associated Press:
Gingrich on page scandal: Democrats have done far worse  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Democratic sex scandals have been far worse than the suggestive Internet messages sent to teenage congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley.
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Chicago Tribune:
Hastert dodges Foley heat, denies report of repeated warnings  —  WASHINGTON — A defiant House Speaker Dennis Hastert fought Wednesday to hold on to his leadership post while fractures appeared among his lieutenants and a former senior aide to Mark Foley said he repeatedly had warned Hastert's top aide …
Deirdre Shesgreen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Defiant Shimkus says he'll keep post
Bill Sammon / Examiner:
Cheney: GOP 'will retain control'
Discussion: TAPPED
Eliana Johnson / New York Sun:
At Columbia, Students Attack Minuteman Founder  —  Students stormed the stage at Columbia University's Roone auditorium yesterday, knocking over chairs and tables and attacking Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen, a group that patrols the border between America and Mexico.
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Michelle Malkin:
Mob rule at Columbia University  —  Minutemen Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist spoke at Columbia University tonight.  He tried to speak, that is.  During his remarks, a mob of students stormed the stage and sabotaged the event.  Every Columbia U. alum should be assailing the administration.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE ZOO IN MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS
Discussion: USS Neverdock
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Voters Say Scandals Will Affect Votes  —  Voters Polled by AP Say Scandals Will Affect Whom They Choose in Midterm Elections  —  Congressional Republicans, already struggling against negative public perceptions of Congress, now face voters who say new scandals will significantly influence their vote in November.
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Rasmussen Reports:
61% Believe Republican Leaders Have Been Protecting Foley  —  Sixty-one percent (61%) of American adults believe that Republican leaders have been "protecting [Mark] Foley for several years."  A Rasmussen Reports national opinion survey conducted Tuesday and Wednesday nights shows …
Discussion: MyDD
Rasmussen Reports:
Connecticut Senate: Lieberman Lead Reaches Double Digits  —  Lieberman (I) 50% Lamont (D) 40%  —  Senator Joseph Lieberman (I) has increased his margin over Democrat Ned Lamont by eight points.  He now leads the antiwar candidate 50% to 40% (see crosstabs).
Judd / Think Progress:
Pajamas Media, Instapundit Facilitate Outing Of Foley Victim  —  An obscure right-wing blogger, Wild Bill, has outed one of Mark Foley's victims, a former Congressional page.  It is a despicable act.  Wild Bill however, gets almost no traffic, so the damage done to the victim's life could have been minimal.
David Rennie / Telegraph:
Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union  —  Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada" against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day.  —  As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers …
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Military Hones a New Strategy on Insurgency  —  The United States Army and Marines are finishing work on a new counterinsurgency doctrine that draws on the hard-learned lessons from Iraq and makes the welfare and protection of civilians a bedrock element of military strategy.
Zogby:
Reuters/Zogby Poll: Dems Lead GOP Incumbents in Three Key Senate Races; Control of Chamber Still Uncertain  —  Races for two other GOP seats in Ohio, Tennessee are tied  —  Democrats in U.S. Senate races across the country are leading their Republican opponents and appear poised to gain ground …
Washington Post:
How to Lose a War  —  IT MAY BE that much of the trouble the United States now faces in Iraq was the inevitable result of the decision to crack open a complex society that had been repressed and brutalized for three decades by Saddam Hussein.  The fierce unwillingness of many Sunnis …
Discussion: Bull Moose, TalkLeft and The Heretik
Ali Eteraz / Eteraz:
Stand Against Women Stoned to Death You Apathetic Monsters  —  This is a call for action to do our small part in coming to the assistance of the women in Iran who have been sentenced to death by stoning.  —  1. Read the background and an explanation of the punishment for stoning to death in Islamic Law.
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Waterboarding Historically Controversial  —  In 1947, the U.S. Called It a War Crime; in 1968, It Reportedly Caused an Investigation  —  Key senators say Congress has outlawed one of the most notorious detainee interrogation techniques — "waterboarding," in which a prisoner feels near drowning.
Associated Press:
Congressman apologizes for affair in TV ad  —  Rep. Don Sherwood, R-Pa. also denies abusing mistress  —  SCRANTON, Pa. - Rep. Don Sherwood, a Republican fighting for re-election in northeastern Pennsylvania, says in a TV ad that he is "truly sorry" for cheating on his wife but denies ever abusing the woman he had the affair with.
Discussion: TAPPED
Maggie Gallagher / Yahoo! News:
HASTERT MUST RESIGN  —  What happened in the Amish countryside this week was not just "sick" or "monstrous" or even "evil."  It was demonic.  —  A good family man gets up in the morning, drops his three kids off at the school bus stop, then drives to a school where he can find young girls to tie up and slaughter.
Discussion: DonkeyRising and TPMmuckraker
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
British Find No Evidence Of Arms Traffic From Iran  —  Troops in Southeast Iraq Test U.S. Claim of Aid for Militias  —  ON THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER — Since late August, British commandos in the deserts of far southeastern Iraq have been testing one of the most serious charges leveled …
Discussion: NewsHog and Booman Tribune
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Patterico's Exclusive Interview with a Man Who Has Spoken to the Terrorists at Guantánamo (Part Four: The Treatment of the Detainees)  —  [This is Part Four of my exclusive interview with "Stashiu," an Army nurse who worked at Guantánamo, and who spoke on a regular basis …
Discussion: ShrinkWrapped
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
The Illinois Democrat may be more serious about '08 than you think  —  Ask Washington insiders about Sen. Barack Obama's presidential hopes, and you'll get a pat response: great idea, a cycle or three from now—or maybe this time as veep.  But they need to get out more.
 
 
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Drudge Report:
CLAIM: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE MESSAGES WERE PAGE PRANK GONE AWRY
CNN:
Former FBI head Freeh to examine page system
Discussion: The RBC and Pam's House Blend
Collin Bishop / WGRZ-TV:
DAVIS SLIPS INTO LEAD OVER REYNOLDS
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Mysterious blog scooped media on Foley messages
Tim Craig / Washington Post:
Democratic Organizer Quits After Calling Allen 'Macacawitz'
Lou Cabron / 10 Zen Monkeys:
5 Nastiest Campaign Ads So Far
Discussion: Hit and Run and Amygdala
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
What is the rational basis for banning same-sex marriage?
Discussion: Back Talk
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Hartford Courant:
Ned And Ted Counter Joe
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Weekly Jobless Claims Fall by 17,000
Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times:
Tribes Heed Call to Join Battle for Iraq
Opinion Journal:
Getting Beyond Foley
Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
Trampling the Constitution  —  Voltaire once remarked to an adversary …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
'Just a Comma' Becomes Part of Iraq Debate
New York Times:
A Complex and Hidden Life Behind Foley's Public Persona
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Foley Was Sexually Abused as a Youth, His Lawyer Says