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8:45 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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Times of London:
Wary neighbours shy away from punishing nuclear North Korea  —  From Richard Lloyd Parry in Seoul, James Bone in New York and Jane Macartney in Beijing  —  THE prospects for tough, swift action against North Korea were scuppered yesterday when it became clear that South Korea will not abandon …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
William J. Perry / Washington Post:
In Search of a North Korea Policy
CNN:
Rice: Bilateral talks with North Korea won't work
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:
Asia Weighs Risk of Sanctions
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
CNN's Malveaux on North Korea with Bush
Washington Post:
China Says It Will Back Sanctions On N. Korea
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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 …
Malcolm Ritter / Associated Press:
Study: 655,000 Iraqis die because of war  —  NEW YORK - A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates.  —  The timing of the survey's release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it "politics."
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and NewsHog
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:   Iraqi Death Toll Exceeds 600,000, Study Estimates
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
THE DEATH RATE IN IRAQ....A team at Johns Hopkins has done another study …
Discussion: Decision '08
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:   A MOST GHOULISH DEBATE  —  It is an unseemly thing to be debating …
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
Discussion: CNN and PBD
TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Scott Palmer, Who Are You?
Discussion: Wampum
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," …
Rasmussen Reports:
Rhode Island Governor: Carcieri Up Three  —  Carcieri (R) 47% Fogarty (D) 44%  —  Incumbent Donald Carcieri's (R) lead has been extended by a single point in Rhode Island's gubernatorial race.  The latest Rasmussen Reports election survey shows Carcieri leading Lt. Governor Charles Fogarty (D) 47% to 44% (see crosstabs).
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Rasmussen Reports:
Rhode Island Senate: Chafee Down 10
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 …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
It's The Economy, Even If The Media Doesn't Report It  —  Bill Clinton got elected on the James Carville slogan, "It's the economy, stupid."  Fourteen years later, it's the media playing stupid, as a roaring economy has been treated with more secrecy than national-security programs by newspapers and television news channels.
Discussion: WILLisms.com and New York Sun
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 …
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Poll: Lieberman Leads Lamont  —  Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman leads Ned Lamont by eight percentage points in the Senate race, although a majority of voters agree with Lamont on the war in Iraq and the need for change in Washington, a Courant/University of Connecticut poll says.
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
FBI Agents Still Lacking Arabic Skills  —  Five years after Arab terrorists attacked the United States, only 33 FBI agents have even a limited proficiency in Arabic, and none of them work in the sections of the bureau that coordinate investigations of international terrorism, according to new FBI statistics.
Discussion: PoliBlog and AMERICAN FUTURE
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 …
Drudge Report:
'SCARY MOVIE' PRODUCER MAKES CAMPAIGN AD; MOCKS DEMOCRATS  —  The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained an exclusive copy of a "scary" campaign advertisement created by Hollywood producer and director David Zucker that was intended to be used by GOP organizations in the closing weeks of the 2006 campaign.
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
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Olbermann: "Why does habeas corpus hate America"  —  Keith did a great report tonight on what the recently passed Military Commissions Act of 2006 means to America and our Constitution.  —  This story has been buried by Foleygate, which is a crime in itself.
Discussion: The Sideshow and Discourse.net
 
 
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