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11:50 PM ET, October 22, 2006

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Byron Calame / New York Times:
Can 'Magazines' of The Times Subsidize News Coverage?  —  A PERFUME critic?  Yes, The Times now has one.  Chandler Burr's Scent Strip column appears in the high-gloss T: The New York Times Style Magazine, where the often-fluffy lifestyle coverage is a world apart from the kind of journalism in the daily sections of the paper.
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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 …
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Times Public Editor - SWIFT Disclosure Was Wrong
Discussion: Squiggler
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   NYT's Calame: Oops. Our Bad.
Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Lamont Questions Lieberman's Spending  —  HARTFORD, Conn. — Ned Lamont's campaign says Sen. Joe Lieberman has failed to account for $387,000 in petty cash his campaign spent days before the state's August Democratic primary.  —  "Whenever this much cash is floating around it certainly raises suspicions …
Discussion: MyDD and Blue Crab Boulevard
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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.
Matt Stoller / The Huffington Post:
Joe Lieberman's Slush Fund Problem
Discussion: Firedoglake
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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news24.com:
Obama considering White House
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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Beth Gardiner / Associated Press:
British watchdog warns on veil debate  —  LONDON - The heated debate over veils that cover the faces of some British Muslim women is growing ugly and could trigger riots, the head of Britain's race relations watchdog warned on Sunday.  —  Britons are becoming increasingly polarized along racial …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Editor and Publisher:
Campaign Ad Linking Democrat to 'Sex' Call May Backfire on GOP  —  NEW YORK It seemed like a "gotcha" moment for Republicans in one of the most closely watched congressional races in the country: catching the Democratic candidate calling a sex phone line and billing the call to the local taxpayers.
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Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
Tickling the Limbic System
Discussion: Needlenose
TRex / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon: Anntichrist, Superstar  —  (Today's book salon guest is Joe Maguire, who is a) author of Brainless and b) a former Reuters employee.  His activities in "a" seem to have played a role in liberating him from "b."  Please stop by in the comments section and welcome him — JH.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:   C&L's interview with Joe Maguire-author of Brainless
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Poll finds Iraq youth want U.S. to leave  —  WASHINGTON - Majorities of Iraqi youth in Arab regions of the country believe security would improve and violence decrease if the U.S.-led forces left immediately, according to a State Department poll that provides a window into the grim warnings provided to policymakers.
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Times of London:
Sweden's Muslim minister turns on veil  —  THE latest media darling of Scandinavian politics is not only black, beautiful and Muslim; she is also firmly against the wearing of the veil.  —  Nyamko Sabuni, 37, has caused a storm as Sweden's new integration and equality minister by arguing …
Discussion: Peaktalk and Daily Pundit
Newsweek:
What the Dems Would Do  —  They've waited 12 long years to reclaim the steering wheel.  How the party out of power would rule if they retake the House.  —  Khue Bui for Newsweek  —  Whose House?  The Dems could take the Capitol next month  —  John Dingell likes to reminisce about the days when Democrats ruled Capitol Hill.
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Fighting for The Spoils  —  Lawmaker and Rainmaker Rahm Emanuel Wants a Nov. 7 Victory For the Democrats So Bad He Can Almost Taste It.  If Only He Had Time to Eat.  —  CHICAGO  —  This must be how Machiavelli ate his corned beef sandwiches.  —  Sitting in a South Side deli …
Discussion: Riehl World View
Andrew Sullivan / Washington Post:
Has the Right Gone Wrong?  —  HarperCollins.  294 pp.  $25.95  —  I don't spend much time in Washington; maybe it's different down there.  But let me tell you, out here in the wilds of the New Jersey suburbs, it is pure hell being a Republican these days, or a conservative, which used to be the same thing.
Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
French Police Face 'Permanent Intifada'  —  On a routine call, three unwitting police officers fell into a trap.  A car darted out to block their path, and dozens of hooded youths surged out of the darkness to attack them with stones, bats and tear gas before fleeing.  One officer was hospitalized, and no arrests made.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Melanie Morgan's lunacy: "I think we should have gone in and just blitzed Iraq.  We haven't had a, a serious war, really, since WWII."  —  Melanie Morgan is one of those grade B talk show hosts that's treated like the almighty when she appears on Teevee.  On Hardball Friday-she proves …
Discussion: Eschaton
 
 
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Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Call to Action: Google-Bombing the Election
Discussion: Hot Air and Riehl World View
Opheera McDoom / Reuters:
Sudan orders top U.N. envoy to leave within 3 days
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Note to Vice President Cheney: Call Your Neighbor, Apologize …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Can someone who puts up with Glenn Greenwald's prose explain something to me?
Times of London:
Life peers face axe in Lords overhaul
Discussion: The Corner and Althouse
Christopher Booker / Telegraph:
Christopher Booker's Notebook
Elizabeth Rubin / New York Times:
In the Land of the Taliban  —  One afternoon this past summer …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and The Corner
Steven Levy / Los Angeles Times:
The iPod Revolution  —  Five year ago Steve Jobs said his new …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
 Earlier Items: 
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
GOP Losses Could Spark Partisan Warfare
Reuters:
Newsweek poll puts Democrats far ahead in Congress
Observer:
Britain 'risking defeat in Afghanistan'
Discussion: EU Referendum and NewsHog
Jim McTague / Barron's Online:
Survivor!  —  The GOP Victory  —  JUBILANT DEMOCRATS …
CNN:
Diplomat: U.S. arrogant, stupid in Iraq
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
If we had known then...  WAS IT a mistake to go to war in Iraq?
Discussion: PSoTD, The Heretik and Solomonia
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Blog of war now camouflaged
 

 
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