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4:10 PM ET, October 26, 2006

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Business Wire:
Voters Increase Support for Stem Cell Research After Viewing Michael J. Fox Ad  —  Republicans' Support for Republican House Candidates Declines  —  FLEMINGTON, N.J.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—A new national study revealed that American voters' support for stem cell research increased after they viewed …
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Steven Ertelt / lifenews.com:
Patricia Heaton, Sports Stars Rebut Michael J. Fox on Missouri Stem Cell Ad  —  St. Louis, MO (LifeNews.com) — Pro-life advocates in Missouri have prepared a response ad to one that actor Michael J. Fox has made in numerous states that contains misleading information about pro-life candidates and their views on stem cell research.
Roger Friedman / Fox News:
PATRICIA HEATON: NOT EVERYONE LOVES MICHAEL J. FOX
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush signs U.S.-Mexico border fence bill  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush signed a bill Thursday authorizing 700 miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to give Republican candidates a pre-election platform for asserting they're tough on illegal immigration.
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Senator Bill Frist:
Secure Fence Act Signed by the President
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Richard Shears / Daily Mail:
Outrage as Muslim cleric likens women to 'uncovered meat'  —  A Muslim cleric's claim that women who do not wear the veil are like 'uncovered meat' who attract sexual predators sparked outrage around Australia yesterday.  —  Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, the nation's most senior Muslim cleric …
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Richard Kerbaj / The Australian:
Mufti outrages Muslims over sex comments  —  AUSTRALIA'S Muslims yesterday turned on their leader, Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, amid calls for him to be sacked as the nation's mufti for blaming women for inciting rape.  —  Sheik Hilali was universally condemned by mainstream politicians …
Robin Toner / New York Times:
Ad Seen as Playing to Racial Fears  —  The Tennessee Senate race, one of the most competitive and potentially decisive battles of the midterm election, became even more unpredictable this week after a furor over a Republican television commercial that stood out even in a year of negative advertising.
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Norah O'Donnell / MSNBC:
GOP retires 'Playboy' ad in Tennessee  —  Day after Mehlman defended anti-Ford spot, party says it's 'run its course' … Norah O'Donnell  —  The Republican National Committee said Wednesday it was taking off the air an attack ad that critics said was a racial slur against Democratic …
Cecile Brisson / Associated Press:
Youths torch 3 buses in suburban Paris  —  PARIS - Youths forced passengers off three buses and set the vehicles on fire overnight in suburban Paris, raising tensions Thursday ahead of the first anniversary of the riots that engulfed France's rundown, heavily immigrant neighborhoods.
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Geoff Mulvihill / Associated Press:
N.J. court opens door to gay marriage  —  TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey's highest court opened the door Wednesday to making the state the second in the nation to allow gay marriage, ruling that lawmakers must offer homosexuals either marriage or something like it, such as civil unions.
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Connecticut Crucible for a War Debate  —  When the three candidates in Connecticut's celebrated Senate race met for their final debate on Monday night in New London, only one of them appeared to be having a good time.  —  It was not Ned Lamont, the tense and fidgety businessman who had captured …
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Katherine Kersten / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Airport taxi flap about alcohol has deeper significance  —  The airport taxi controversy may go deeper than the quandary over whether to accommodate Somali Muslim cabdrivers who refuse to carry passengers carrying alcohol.  Behind the scenes, a struggle for power and religious authority is apparently playing out.
Peter Bergen / New York Times:
What Osama Wants  —  THE French saying, often attributed to Talleyrand, that "this is worse than a crime, it's a blunder," could easily describe America's invasion of Iraq.  But for the United States to pull entirely out of that country right now, as is being demanded by a growing chorus of critics …
Indianapolis Star:
Poll: Democrat leads in 8th District  —  Democrat Brad Ellsworth had built a lead over Republican Rep. John Hostettler in the race for southwestern Indiana's 8th District congressional seat, according to a new poll.  —  The WISH-TV Indiana Poll results released Wednesday also found Republican …
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John Whitesides / Reuters:   Democrats lead in US election-Reuters poll
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
In Iraq, Journalist Richard Engel Sticks to the Story  —  NBC Correspondent Has Made War Coverage His Life  —  NEW YORK — After struggling for years to make it as a Middle East journalist, Richard Engel was living in Cairo, married to his college girlfriend and itching for a new adventure.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and The Corner
Cincinnati Enquirer:
Schmidt angry to see 'cowards' speech in TV ad  —  Political Notebook  —  Rep. Jean Schmidt blasted Democrat Victoria Wulsin on Wednesday for allegedly breaking a U.S. House rule that prohibits using the broadcast of House floor proceedings in campaign ads.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Rights Group Fires Publisher of Foley E-Mail  —  A liberal gay rights group said Wednesday that one of its employees, acting anonymously, had created the Web site that first published copies of unusually solicitous e-mail messages to teenagers from former Representative Mark Foley, which led to his resignation.
Matt Miller / Fortune:
Revolt of the fairly rich  —  Today's lower upper class is seething about the ultrawealthy.  —  (Fortune Magazine) — Not long ago an investment banker worth millions told me that he wasn't in his line of work for the money.  "If I was doing this for the money," he said, with no trace of irony, "I'd be at a hedge fund."
Discussion: The Street Light, Vox Baby and EconLog
Jack Shafer / Slate:
Love Me, I'm a Journalist  —  A PROFESSION'S ROMANCE WITH ITSELF.  —  On Monday, I singled out Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz as I admonished journalists for overreacting to staff cuts at newsrooms around the country.
Discussion: Romenesko
Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data  —  If things go as planned for liberal bloggers in the next few weeks, searching Google for "Jon Kyl," the Republican senator from Arizona now running for re-election, will produce high among the returns a link to an April 13 article from The Phoenix New Times, an alternative weekly.
Discussion: Cold Fury and NewsBusters.org
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Watchdog Group Accuses Churches of Political Action  —  A nonprofit group has filed a complaint asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the role that two churches may have played in the re-election campaign of Kansas' attorney general.  —  The complaint by Citizens for Responsibility …
Discussion: MyDD, Balloon Juice and Hit and Run
Thomas Harding / Telegraph:
British troops in Iraq likely to be halved after success  —  The number of British troops serving in Iraq will be halved early next year after commanders on the ground yesterday claimed to have reached the "tipping point" in defeating insurgents in the southern city of Basra.
Discussion: EU Referendum and Whiskey Bar
Pete Donohue / NY Daily News:
Girls' room his, too  —  Transgender men free to use ALL of MTA's loos  —  The line for the girls' room just got longer.  —  Men who live as women can now legally use women's rest rooms in New York's transit system under an unprecedented deal revealed yesterday.
Bill Turque / Washington Post:
An Ascent Shadowed By Questions on Race  —  In February 2004, Sen. George Allen was on a bus taking him from Birmingham to Selma, Ala. On a video screen in front of him was "Eyes on the Prize," the acclaimed documentary chronicling the civil rights movement.
Ibon Villelabeitia / Reuters:
Five US troops killed in Iraq as Bush under fire  —  Source: Reuters  —  The military said on Thursday five more American troops were killed in Iraq, bringing the U.S. death toll for October to 96, as President George W. Bush sought to deflect mounting election-year pressure over the war.
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
 
 
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