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10:55 AM ET, October 13, 2006

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Washington Post:
Mr. Reid's Nondisclosure  —  The Senate minority leader's incomplete financial filings  —  THE BEST CASE for Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) is that he was sloppy about financial disclosure rules in accounting for a real estate deal on which he made a $700,000 profit.
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Philadelphia Inquirer:
Reid's Land Deal  —  Practice what you preach  —  A lucrative land deal benefiting U.S. Senate minority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) deserves full scrutiny by the Senate ethics committee.  —  In 1998, Reid purchased undeveloped residential property on the outskirts of Las Vegas for $400,000.
Discussion: Don Surber and Blue Crab Boulevard
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Sen. Reid should look in mirror first  —  Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid would be well advised to stop thundering about corruption in the Republican ranks or crying "cover-up" over the GOP's failure to promptly and appropriately deal with former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and his sexually explicit e-mails to congressional pages.
Daily Oklahoman:   Capitol gains
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Senate Campaign Accusations Fly  —  Candidates Stay Above Fray, Letting Operatives Battle Over Misinformation  —  The U.S. Senate race continued its nasty spiral Thursday, with the campaigns of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and Ned Lamont debating who was nastiest and loosest with the facts.
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Ji Jobs / Journal Inquirer:   GOP Joe  —  On Monday of this week Sen. Joe Lieberman appeared …
Ron Brynaert / The Raw Story:
Cheney: Lieberman 'case' illustrates basic philosophical difference …
Discussion: Connecticut Bob and Booman Tribune
Tim Shipman / Daily Mail:
Army chief declares war on Blair: 'We must quit Iraq soon'  —  The head of the Army is calling for British troops to withdraw from Iraq "soon" or risk catastophic consequences for both Iraq and British society.  —  In a devastating broadside at Tony Blair's foreign policy …
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Cliff Kincaid / aim.org:
Republican Gays are Closeted Dems  —  The complex nature of the "dirty trick" against the Republicans over the Mark Foley scandal is beginning to emerge.  It doesn't involve a George Soros-funded group or emails that had been in the possession of the media or shopped around by Democratic operatives.
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Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
The Coming Gay Republican Purge  —  Immediately after the Mark Foley scandal broke, some anti-Republican gay-rights activists composed a memo containing the names of closeted gay Republican Congressional staffers and sent it to leading Christian-right advocacy groups.
Wall Street Journal:
Bush's Approval Ratings Slip  —  President Bush's job-approval rating fell, with 34% of Americans voting him "excellent" or "good," down from 38% in September, according to a new Harris Interactive poll.  —  Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults now have a negative view of Mr. Bush's job performance …
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
The Sounds of Silencing  —  Why do Americans on the left think only they have the right to dissent?  —  Four moments in the recent annals of free speech in America.  Actually annals is too fancy a word.  This all happened in the past 10 days:  —  At Columbia University, members of the Minutemen …
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Book: Bush Aides Called Evangelicals 'Nuts'  —  White House advisors sought the support of conservative Christians but mocked them in private, writes a onetime administration official.  —  WASHINGTON — A new book by a former White House official says that President Bush's top political …
Discussion: Norwegianity and War and Piece
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Tempting Faith: Chrisitian Conserveratives Duped by BushCo. Part II
Sharon Begley / Wall Street Journal:
When Terror Strikes, Liberals and the Right Vote Further Apart  —  On the weekend before Election Day 2004, al-Jazeera broadcast a videotape in which Osama bin Laden, addressing the U.S., boasted about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and tore into the Bush administration.  Four days later, the president won re-election.
Ryan Sager / Miscellaneous Objections:
Armey: On Christians and Big Government  —  Dick Armey: "When it comes to James Dobson, my personal experience has been that the man is most interested in political power."  —  In the midst of this big fight with Evangelical leader Dr. James Dobson, Dick Armey has released a truly remarkable letter.
Daily Mail:
Schoolgirl arrested for refusing to study with non-English pupils  —  A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English.  —  Codie Stott's family claim she was forced to spend three …
Newsweek:
Tip Off  —  A new book says that a comment by former CIA director Porter Goss alerted a journalist to the agency's controversial rendition program.  —  An unsolicited remark from Porter Goss, then chairman House Intelligence Committee, led a British journalist to unravel many of the details …
Discussion: The RBC
BBC:
Nobel for anti-poverty pioneers  —  Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank have been awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.  —  Mr Yunus, an economist, founded the bank, which is one of the pioneers of micro-credit lending schemes for the poor in Bangladesh.
Jane Galt / Asymmetrical Information:
Yes, I've read the damn study.  Have you, oh critic?  —  What is it with people who haven't read the Lancet study triumphantly demanding to know whether I've read the Lancet study?  Yes, I've read it; it's not exactly heavy going, since it's eight pages long and surprisingly fuzzy.
 
 
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