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10:55 AM ET, October 8, 2006

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Karen Tumulty / Time:
End of the Revolution  —  Sex, lies and power games are just the latest symptoms of a Republican party adrift from its ideals  —  Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left.  The epitaph for the movement that started when Newt Gingrich …
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Robert J. McCarthy / Buffalo News:
Reynolds is badly trailing Davis, poll shows  —  Incumbent Republican's connection to Foley sex scandal has given his opponent a lead of 48% to 33%  —  Democrat Jack Davis has opened a significant lead over Republican incumbent Thomas M. Reynolds in a congressional contest fueled …
Washington Post:
Foley Consuming GOP As Elections Draw Near  —  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. (R-Fla.) was trying to talk about security Friday at bustling Port Everglades, but with planes roaring overhead and containers slamming onto trucks, nobody could hear him.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Conflicting Accounts Leave Plot Holes in Foley Saga
Discussion: TPMmuckraker and Flopping Aces
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Joe Liarman Strikes Again
Discussion: Daily Kos
Walter F. Roche Jr. / Los Angeles Times:
Ex-Page Tells of Foley Liaison  —  The young man says the then-congressman eyed males in the program.  He says he was 21 when he and the Florida Republican had sex.  —  A former House page says he had sex with then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) after receiving explicit e-mails …
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Little Green Footballs:
Democratic Party Fauxtoshops Veteran  —  I guess The Democratic Party couldn't find a photograph of a US veteran that had the right attitude for their web site's page slamming the Bush administration for not supporting the troops enough.  —  So they found a picture of a Canadian soldier …
Discussion: Cold Fury and USS Neverdock
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Michelle Malkin:
DNC supports vets ...but from which country?  —  A military guy e-mails a weekend website blooper: … My military correspondent says the uniform in the DNC photo...  ...is Canadian.  Is he right?  —  Any other military folks care to weigh in on either the uniform in the foreground …
Florida Cracker:   WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
I Love Canadian Troops, Too!
Discussion: QandO
Brian Lockhart / Stamford Advocate:
Poll shows close Senate race in area  —  U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman leads Democrat Ned Lamont 42 percent to 39 percent among likely 4th Congressional District voters, according to a poll conducted for The Advocate and Greenwich Time.  —  The poll shows Lieberman garnering significant Republican support …
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Denis Horgan / Colin McEnroe:
The Strange Race  —  Nobody needed a poll to know that Ned Lamont …
Pajamas Media:
The Battle of November, 21 (October 7, 2006) …
Discussion: Beltway Blogroll
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
U.S. Casualties in Iraq Rise Sharply  —  Growing American Role in Staving Off Civil War Leads to Most Wounded Since 2004  —  The number of U.S troops wounded in Iraq has surged to its highest monthly level in nearly two years as American GIs fight block-by-block in Baghdad to try to check …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
STAR TRIBUNE SUCKER-PUNCHES REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE  —  The Minneapolis Star Tribune has finally done a front-page investigative report on a Congressional candidate in Minnesota's Fifth District.  Aha, you say, finally!  At last, the Strib has gotten around to reporting that DFLer Keith Ellison …
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
America ponders cutting Iraq in three  —  AN independent commission set up by Congress with the approval of President George W Bush may recommend carving up Iraq into three highly autonomous regions, according to well informed sources.  —  The Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by James Baker …
Karen E. Crummy / Denver Post:
Poll: Ritter in lead across state  —  50% of voters back Dem in governor's race; 35% say Beauprez  —  Democrat Bill Ritter leads Republican Bob Beauprez for governor by 15 percentage points, according to a new poll.  —  Ritter is beating Beauprez in every region of the state …
Mark Sundeen / New York Times:
The Big-Sky Dem  —  It's fun being governor of Montana.  Just watch Brian Schweitzer bouncing around the streets of Helena in the passenger seat of the state's official S.U.V., fumbling with wires, trying to stick the flashing police light on the roof.  When he spots some legislators on the sidewalk …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Sirotablog
Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Inside Hezbollah, Big Miscalculations  —  Militia Leaders Caught Off Guard By Scope of Israel's Response in War  —  BEIRUT — The meeting on July 12 was tense, tinged with desperation.  A few hours earlier, in a brazen raid, Hezbollah guerrillas had infiltrated across the heavily fortified border and captured two Israeli soldiers.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Jonathan Wynne-Jones / Telegraph:
Drive for multi-faith Britain deepens rifts, says Church  —  The Church of England has launched an astonishing attack on the Government's drive to turn Britain into a multi-faith society.  —  In a wide-ranging condemnation of policy, it says that the attempt to make minority "faith" …
 
 
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Cheney Back Delivering the Grim Campaign Speech
Discussion: PBD and Is That Legal?
Michael O'Hare / The RBC:
Foleygate is not an ironic diversion
New York Times:
Rumsfeld Shift Lets Army Seek Larger Budget
THE YELLING BOX:
OPEN BORDERS IN CHICAGO
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Return of Henry Kissinger
Discussion: The Belmont Club
NEWS.com.au:
Muslim cabbies refusing the blind and drinkers
Giraldus Cambrensis / Western Resistance:
France: Schoolgirl Stoned In Playground For Not Observing Ramadan
Discussion: Riehl World View
Richard Engel / MSNBC:
Soldiers question when Iraqis will take the lead
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James Poniewozik / Time:
What Hath Fox Wrought?
David Johnston / New York Times:
Report on Possible Abuses by Former Member of Intelligence Panel Is Held Up
Dallas Morning News:
Rod Dreher: Amish faith shines, even in tragic darkness
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
LIBERTARIAN DEMOCRATS?  The internet is abuzz with controversy …
Associated Press:
Jeb Bush Seeks Refuge From Pa. Activists
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
HASTERT'S BONANZA....I made a brief, snarky reference to this a couple …
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
The Boring Fabulist  —  "State of Denial" amazes me.
Onell R. Soto / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Wife admits wrongdoing but won't be prosecuted
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!