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6:50 AM ET, October 11, 2006

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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Guest Post: Senator John McCain On North Korea  —  Please welcome Senator John McCain as a guest poster at Captain's Quarters.  He delivers a tough, no-nonsense reponse to the latest provocation from North Korea.  —  Time for Decisive Action on North Korea  —  Korea doubts the world's resolve.
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Carl Freire / Associated Press:
Quake raises fears of 2nd N. Korea test  —  TOKYO - A strong earthquake shook northern Japan on Wednesday and Japanese media reported the government had detected tremors in North Korea as well, leading it to suspect Pyongyang had conducted a second nuclear test.
William J. Perry / Washington Post:
In Search of a North Korea Policy  —  North Korea's declared nuclear bomb test program will increase the incentives for other nations to go nuclear, will endanger security in the region and could ultimately result in nuclear terrorism.  While this test is the culmination of North Korea's long-held aspiration …
Wall Street Journal:   Asia Weighs Risk of Sanctions
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
CNN's Malveaux on North Korea with Bush
Associated Press:
Hastert Vows to Fire Anyone Who Hid Page Info  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe said Tuesday he told the House official in charge of the page program as early as 2001 about Rep. Mark Foley's ''creepy'' e-mail to a former page.  —  Kolbe, the only openly gay Republican in Congress …
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ABCNEWS:   Foley's Reputed Visit to the Page Dormitory
John / AMERICAblog:
Hastert does press conference about Foley scandal in front of a graveyard
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TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Scott Palmer, Who Are You?
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Republicans are Whistling Past the Foley Graveyard
Discussion: TalkLeft
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
'Values' Choice for The GOP
Billy House / Arizona Republic:
Kolbe: I didn't know details of Foley e-mails
Discussion: Gay Patriot
David Brown / Washington Post:
Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000  —  A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
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New York Times:
Iraqi Dead May Total 600,000, Study Says  —  A boy at his father's coffin in Baghdad yesterday.  Death rates were higher outside the capital, the study said.  —  A team of American and Iraqi public health researchers has estimated that 600,000 civilians have died in violence across Iraq since …
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:   THE DEATH RATE IN IRAQ....A team at Johns Hopkins has done another study …
New York Times:
Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to Center  —  Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the political mainstream are arguing that Islam cannot be reconciled with European values.  —  "You saw what happened with the pope," …
Associated Press:
Lawmaker fires back at governor's comments on age of Earth  —  BOZEMAN — A Republican state lawmaker is criticizing Gov. Brian Schweitzer for comments he made to a newspaper here about the lawmaker's belief that the planet is not millions of years old.  —  Rep. Roger Koopman, R-Bozeman …
Discussion: Pacific Views and Hit and Run
John Pomfret / Washington Post:
Fence Meets Wall of Skepticism  —  Critics Doubt a 700-Mile Barrier Would Stem Migrant Tide  —  CALEXICO, Calif. — Legislation passed by Congress mandating the fencing of 700 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico has sparked opposition from an array of land managers, businesspeople …
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Margaret Webb Pressler / Washington Post:
Researchers See a Downside as Keyboards Replace Pens in Schools  —  Researchers See a Downside as Keyboards Replace Pens in Schools  —  The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand.  —  When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
History of Foley Messages' Release Clarified by Players  —  2 Sources Explain Motives, Citing Concern for Hill's Pages  —  Two of the news media's sources of Mark Foley's sexually explicit instant messages to former House pages said this week that they came forward to expose …
Little Green Footballs:
And Now, the Apple Jihad  —  Why is Apple Computers so insensitive to the world's 1.3 billion Muslims?  Apple's "Mecca Project" Provokes Muslim Reaction. … UPDATE at 10/10/06 3:11:33 pm:  —  These geniuses probably got hold of an older photo of the Apple Cube while it was under construction.
Discussion: Mudville Gazette
Reuters:
Protesters hurl petrol bombs at Danish mission in Iran  —Text+TEHRAN (Reuters) - Dozens of protesters pelted the Danish embassy in Tehran with stones and petrol bombs on Tuesday after Danish television broadcast footage deemed insulting to the Muslim Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said.
 
 
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