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6:40 PM ET, October 22, 2006

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Michelle Malkin:
NYTimes editor now admits: We were wrong to blab  —  Photoshop: Bob D.  —  Un.  Freaking.  Believable.  The NYTimes ombudsman, Byron Calame, buried a bombshell mea culpa in his column today—reversing his prior defense of the Times' blabbermouth report on a once-secret terrorist banking …
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Byron Calame Should Resign  —  Byron Calame, the public editor of the New York Times, admits today that the paper made a mistake when it decided to run the Swift terrorist finance tracking story.  (Via Michelle Malkin.)  Calame had previously defended the decision in a column that …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   NYT's Calame: Oops. Our Bad.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Times Public Editor - SWIFT Disclosure Was Wrong
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Yvonne Ridley / Washington Post:
How I Came to Love the Veil  —  I used to look at veiled women as quiet, oppressed creatures — until I was captured by the Taliban.  —  In September 2001, just 15 days after the terrorist attacks on the United States, I snuck into Afghanistan, clad in a head-to-toe blue burqa …
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Asra Q. Nomani / Washington Post:
Clothes Aren't the Issue  —  MORGANTOWN, W.Va. When dealing with a "disobedient wife," a Muslim man has a number of options.  First, he should remind her of "the importance of following the instructions of the husband in Islam."  If that doesn't work, he can "leave the wife's bed."
Anchoress / Captain's Quarters:
WaPo gives three veiled perspectives
Discussion: Washington Post
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lamont Donates $2 Million To Effort  —  Ned Lamont donated another $2 million to his Senate campaign Saturday - and questioned huge cash expenditures reported by the campaign of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman.  —  The latest donation by Lamont, a wealthy businessman, brings his personal investment in the campaign to $12.7 million.
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Tim Tagaris / Ned Lamont for Senate:
Joe Lieberman's Slush Fund [18]  —  Joe Lieberman's Slush Fund  —  In the days of Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, and an entire army of lobbyists peddling legislation in return for campaign compensation ... it's part of the problem in Washington, D.C.
Nico / Think Progress:
Bush: 'We've Never Been Stay The Course'  —  During an interview today on ABC's This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years.  George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker's plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is …
Associated Press:
Sen. Obama says he's weighing 2008 run  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday he was considering a run for president in 2008, backing off previous statements that he would not do so.  —  The Illinois Democrat said he could no longer stand by the statements he made after his 2004 election …
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BBC:
US 'arrogant and stupid' in Iraq
Discussion: USS Neverdock and The Agonist
Marie Colvin / Times of London:
US in secret truce talks with insurgency chiefs  —  AMERICAN officials held secret talks with leaders of the Iraqi insurgency last week after admitting that their two-month clampdown on violence in Baghdad had failed.  —  Few details of the discussions in the Jordanian capital Amman …
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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:   Poll finds Iraq youth want U.S. to leave
Reuters:
Newsweek poll puts Democrats far ahead in Congress  —Text+WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of Americans, 55 percent, would like to see Democrats take control of Congress, according to a poll by Newsweek magazine released on Saturday.  —  The poll of 1,000 likely voters found …
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
If we had known then...  WAS IT a mistake to go to war in Iraq?  The latest voice to say so is that of conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online's shrewd editor-at-large and, until last week, a supporter of the war.  —  Goldberg hasn't become a John Murtha clone …
Discussion: PSoTD, The Heretik and Solomonia
Observer:
Britain 'risking defeat in Afghanistan'  —  Field Marshal Sir Peter Inge, the former head of Britain's armed forces, has broken ranks to launch an attack on the current military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, warning that British forces risk defeat in Afghanistan.
Discussion: EU Referendum and NewsHog
Christopher Booker / Telegraph:
Christopher Booker's Notebook  —  US firms will fall foul of EU's metric obsession  —  An extraordinary row, involving major European and US industries, is blowing up over the European Commission's determination to make it illegal, in three years' time, for any products made in or imported …
 
 
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Number Crunching  —  TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT THE LANCET'S IRAQ STUDY.
Times of London:
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Life peers face axe in Lords overhaul
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Elizabeth Rubin / New York Times:
In the Land of the Taliban  —  One afternoon this past summer …
Discussion: The Corner
Steven Levy / Los Angeles Times:
The iPod Revolution  —  Five year ago Steve Jobs said his new …
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GOP Losses Could Spark Partisan Warfare
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Bush's family profits from 'No Child' act
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Blog of war now camouflaged
Telegraph:
Al-Qa'eda is winning the war of ideas, says Reid
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Growing Absentee Voting Is Reshaping Campaigns
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Democrats Strengthen Chances For Senate
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Wilder advises Webb to make stance clear
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