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7:30 AM ET, October 23, 2006

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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 …
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Lieberman's Criminal Activity?
Matt Stoller / The Huffington Post:
Joe Lieberman's Slush Fund Problem
Discussion: Firedoglake
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama Says He'll Consider A 2008 Bid for The Presidency  —  Democratic Senator to Decide After Elections  —  Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) opened the door to a 2008 presidential campaign yesterday, saying he has begun to weigh a possible candidacy and will make a decision after the November elections.
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news24.com:
Obama considering White House
The Age:
Youths set passenger bus alight in Paris  —  A band of up to 30 youths forced passengers out of a bus in a southern Paris suburb in broad daylight, set it on fire and then stoned firefighters who came to the rescue, a police official said.  —  Police cordoned off the neighbourhood in Grigny …
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Ronald Brownstein / Los Angeles Times:
A possibly fatal flaw in GOP formula for success  —  The great risk in President Bush's political strategy has always been that it leaves him very little margin for error.  —  From the outset of his presidency, Bush has accepted division as the price of mobilization.
Discussion: Donklephant
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New York Times:
As G.O.P. Mopes, Bush Adds the Duties of Optimist in Chief  —  The capital is filled with Republicans convinced that they will lose the House and maybe the Senate.  So last week, the White House and party leaders convened a "friends and allies" teleconference to dispute what Ken Mehlman …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
Call to Action: Google-Bombing the Election  —  First, I want to thank everyone who has participated in the Use It Or Lose It campaign, designed to drive Democratic money from safe incumbents toward competitive Democratic challengers.  That campaign will continue throughout next week …
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Bryan / Hot Air:   MyDD's Googlenuke Campaign
Warren Hoge / New York Times:
Sudan Orders U.N. Envoy to Leave Country  —  Sudan's government ordered the chief United Nations envoy out of the country today, saying he was an enemy of the country and its armed forces.  —  Secretary General Kofi Annan said that he was reviewing the letter from the Khartoum government …
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Opheera McDoom / Reuters:
Sudan orders top U.N. envoy to leave within 3 days
Guardian:
Blair gives Iraq 12 months to be ready for handover  —  Tony Blair will put pressure on the Iraqi government today to demonstrate that its security forces will be ready to take over from the British army in southern provinces within roughly a year.  —  Amid mounting international concern …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
BBC:
US 'cannot stay course' in Iraq  —  The US is not winning in Iraq and will not be able to stay the course in the long-term, a US state department insider has said.  —  Former intelligence official Wayne White told the BBC that violence in Iraq was "getting worse".
Discussion: Unqualified Offerings
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Alexandra Marks / Christian Science Monitor:
Radical Islam finds US 'sterile ground'  —  Home-grown terror cells are largely missing in action, a contrast to Europe's situation.  —  NEW YORK - The Islamist radicalism that inspired young Muslims to attack their own countries - in London, Madrid, and Bali - has not yielded similar incidents in the United States, at least so far.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
A Nadir of U.S. Power  —  It's not exactly morning in America.  —  In Iraq, things get ever uglier, and the old remedy of extra troops now seems tragically futile.  The Bush team has recently tried putting thousands of additional soldiers into Baghdad, and the result after two months is that violence there has increased.
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
Jonathan Darman / Newsweek:
The Path to Power  —  Tennessee's Harold Ford Jr. is running from his party in one of the must-win Senate races for the Democrats.  His story-and the stakes on Election Day.  —  The sun is just rising over Chattanooga when Harold Ford Jr. begins to pray.  A young African-American congressman …
Josh Manchester / TCS Daily:
The Wisdom of Survivalist Crowds  —  Glenn Reynolds' last article here at TCS drew attention to the seeming growth of disaster preparedness and survivalist tendencies in the mainstream population - even though such have usually been the stuff of small subcultures outside the mainstream.
Seattle Times:
Mike McGavick for U.S. Senate  —  In Sen. Maria Cantwell and challenger Mike McGavick, Washington has two fully qualified choices for the Senate.  The better choice is the Republican, McGavick.  —  Some see this election as a referendum on George W. Bush.  If we did, we would be for a solid Democratic ticket.
Discussion: Redstate and Sound Politics
Las Vegas Sun:
Ex-aide alleges Porter made illegal fundraising calls  —  By Tony Cook <tony.cook@lasvegassun.com>  —  Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., made dozens of campaign fundraising phone calls last spring from his district and Washington, D.C., offices, according to a former Porter staffer and e-mails obtained by the Sun.
Discussion: MyDD
Billmon / Whiskey Bar:
Babbling Idiots  —  Up until now I've resolutely ignored the mindless media chatter about a possible "change of course" in Iraq, both because of the absurdity of the metaphor (sinking ships can have only one course — straight down) and because so much of it appears designed simply …
Discussion: Kiko's House and Times of London
 
 
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Mourning the Demise of Miracle Whip
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Suzanne Nossel / The Huffington Post:
Iraq: An Honest Exit
Claire Sibonney / Reuters:
Sex ed gets a lot sexier at Canadian university
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Fear of too many babies is hard to bear
theoaklandpress.com:
Bouchard will represent our state, county with honor, pride
Discussion: Redstate and PoliPundit.com
Arthur Silber / Once Upon a Time:
Lies in the Service of Evil
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Melanie Morgan's lunacy: "I think we should have gone in and just blitzed Iraq.
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TRex / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon: Anntichrist, Superstar
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Note to Vice President Cheney: Call Your Neighbor, Apologize …
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Fighting for The Spoils  —  Lawmaker and Rainmaker Rahm Emanuel Wants …
Discussion: Riehl World View
Times of London:
Sweden's Muslim minister turns on veil
Discussion: Peaktalk and Daily Pundit
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 …
 

 
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