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4:25 AM ET, October 22, 2006

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Newsweek:
Are the Faithful Losing Faith?  —  Two weeks till midterms, the NEWSWEEK poll shows Republicans in danger of losing a big chunk of their base.  And a growing consensus for a bread-and-butter Democratic agenda.  —  Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images  —  Party Time?  Democrats are feeling optimistic about Election Day.
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Vote Early and Often  —  A Democratic takeover will be a setback for moderates and conservatives.  —  David Kuo, once an official of President Bush's faith-based initiative, published a book this month that attacks the White House for privately ridiculing evangelical Christians while cynically manipulating how they vote.
New York Times:
With Guarded Cheer, Democrats Dare to Believe This Is Their Time  —  There is something unusual bubbling in Democratic political waters these days: optimism.  —  With each new delivery of bad news for Republicans — another Republican congressman under investigation, another Republican district conceded …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:   Riding The Polling Roller Coaster Versus Direct Activism
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
U.S. to Hand Iraq a New Timetable on Security Role  —  The Bush administration is drafting a timetable for the Iraqi government to address sectarian divisions and assume a larger role in securing the country, senior American officials said.  —  Details of the blueprint …
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William M. Arkin / Early Warning:
Taking Advantage of Our Defeat in Iraq
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times:
Lawmaker Outraged by Sniper Footage on CNN  —  SAN DIEGO — CNN has become "the publicist for an enemy propaganda film" by broadcasting a video showing an insurgent sniper in Iraq apparently killing an American soldier, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said here Friday.
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Thomas Watkins / Associated Press:
Calif. Republican asks Pentagon to remove embedded CNN reporters  —  SAN DIEGO - The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee asked the Pentagon on Friday to remove CNN reporters embedded with U.S. combat troops, saying the network's broadcast of a video showing insurgent snipers targeting U.S. soldiers …
Philip J. LaVelle / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Rep. Hunter fires back at U-T article
Matthew Yglesias:
Cleland  —  It's not the biggest deal in the world, per se, but continuing liberal obsession with Max Cleland strikes me as a bit odd.  Josh Marshall hails a witty Cleland line at a campaign event for John Tester and remarks: "If the Dems take Congress, that image will bookend the era …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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The Aardvark / Abu Aardvark:
Campaign ads and recruitment videos  —  That the media has become ever more central to al-Qaeda's political strategy has become something of a truism.  Terrorists have always relied on the media to amplify their message, with their spectacular violence aimed not just at killing people …
Discussion: The RBC
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:   FIGHTING BACK....Commenting on the continuing Democratic obsession …
Simon Walters / Daily Mail:
We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News  —  It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.
Discussion: USS Neverdock and Sister Toldjah
WMC-TV:
Ford Jr. shows up at Corker event uninvited  —  Harold Ford Jr. showed up uninvited at a campaign event for rival Republican Bob Corker at a private charter airstrip in Memphis this morning.  Corker had scheduled the media event earlier this week.  —  News reporters were surprised …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
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Bartholomew Sullivan / Knoxville News-Sentinel:   Corker wants RNC's anti-Ford ad pulled
Redstate:
Junior Confronts Bob. Bob Smacks Him Down.
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and Viking Pundit
Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Tight race for Hyde seat, latest poll shows  —  Incumbent Bean leads in 8th Congressional District  —  The candidates for the west suburban congressional seat being vacated by retiring Republican Rep. Henry Hyde are locked in a tight contest while first-term Rep. Melissa Bean holds …
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Chicago Tribune:
Revving up the base in Rolling Meadows
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Diplomat cites U.S. 'stupidity' in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - A senior U.S. diplomat said the United States had shown "arrogance" and "stupidity" in Iraq but was now ready to talk with any group except Al-Qaida in Iraq to facilitate national reconciliation.  —  In an interview with Al-Jazeera …
Guardian:
'We have liberated Amara from the British.  Basra next'  —  Last week Ghaith Abdul-Ahad visited Amara, the city overrun by militamen yesterday, and met British troops in the area  —  Ten days ago I sat on a mattress on the floor of a Mahdi army safe house talking to Abu Mahdi, a slim 40-year-old …
Discussion: Informed Comment and Kiko's House
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sestakforcongress.com:
Weldon Slams Navy, Sailors, in Desperate Personal Attack  —  In second debate with Admiral Joe Sestak, Weldon's comments about "sailor servants" reveal lack of both respect and knowledge about military service  —  Springfield, PA - In his second debate against former Navy Vice Admiral Joe Sestak …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Anchoress / Captain's Quarters:
Fallaci gifts pontifical school  —  The headline is deplorable (she deserves to be named) but I knew immediately that they were writing about the great Oriana Fallaci, here: Atheist gifts pontifical school in will … You'll want to read the whole article, it's pretty good.
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
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Frances D'Emilio / Associated Press:
Atheist gifts pontifical school in will
Discussion: Daily Pundit
Henry / Crooked Timber:
Liberal darling  —  Megan McArdle tells us that the Economist has moved all of its material from behind the paywall (if you're not a subscriber, you need to watch an ad to get in).  It seems to me that this is good news for the Economist; I can't imagine it'll lose many subscribers, and it may gain some.
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Anchoress / Captain's Quarters:
There's an art to good politics
Discussion: Associated Press
Telegraph:
The veil stretches our tolerance to its limits  —  Shahid Malik, the Labour MP for Dewsbury, spoke for almost the entire nation yesterday when he told Aisha Azmi - the Muslim teaching assistant suspended for wearing a veil - "to just let this thing go".  An employment tribunal has rightly rejected …
 
 
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ELECTION FINANCES  —  Kos does the research on the various …
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Press Association:
Police warned over Ramadan arrests
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Playing Dirty In the 24th (Updated)
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Ignoring Senate, Bush Taps Mine Exec to be Safety Chief
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BBC:
Home Office plans floating jails
Redstate:
The Worst Fears Of The Netroots Continue To Be Realized
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Peter Singer / Guardian:
Gay sex and motorbikes
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Jim McTague / Barron's Online:
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