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10:30 AM ET, October 27, 2006

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Drudge Report:
ALLEN'S REVENGE: EXPOSES UNDERAGE SEX SCENES IN OPPONENT'S NOVELS  —  Sen. George Allen, R-VA, unleashed a press release late Thursday that exposed his rival's fiction writing, which includes graphic underage sex scenes.  —  The press release, as provided by the Allen Campaign:  —  WEBB'S WEIRD WORLD
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Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:
Defiant Iraq War Foe Defined by Vietnam
Discussion: TIME, First Read, OxBlog and Wizbang
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Smutgate: Drudge nukes Webb with pedo passage from novel
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
G.O.P. Moves Fast to Reignite Issue of Gay Marriage  —  The divisive debate over gay marriage, which played a prominent role in 2004 campaigns but this year largely faded from view, erupted anew on Thursday as President Bush and Republicans across the country tried to use a court ruling …
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Alan Cooperman / Washington Post:
Religious Conservatives Cheer Ruling on Gays as Wake-Up Call
Discussion: Preemptive Karma
New York Times:
Family Ties Help Kean in Senate Race, Poll Says
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:
The Year Of Playing Dirtier  —  Rep. Ron Kind pays for sex!  —  Well, that's what the Republican challenger for his Wisconsin congressional seat, Paul R. Nelson, claims in new ads, the ones with "XXX" stamped across Kind's face.  —  It turns out that Kind — along with more than 200 …
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Andrew Sullivan on The Conservative Soul  —  The Hugh Hewitt Show  —  HH: Joined now by Andrew Sullivan, author of The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How To Get It Back, in bookstores everywhere.  I will link it at Hughhewitt.com a little bit later.  We've got Andrew for the next hour and a half.
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Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
Bring Out The Comfy Chair
Discussion: Power Line and JunkYardBlog
Tim B. / Tim Blair:
"UNCOVERED MEAT IS THE DISASTER"  —  Sheik Sheik Sheik!  —  Sheik Sheik Sheik!  —  Sheik Hilali!  —  Shiek HiLAli!  — KC & The Sunshine Band of Decadent Western Dancing Unpeople Who Must Die  —  IS IT possible to Sheik and spin at the same time?
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Melting Snowflakes  —  If Rush Limbaugh and his pals in the media still think that Michael J. Fox is acting, they should check out this video clip from ABC News from last July.  The guy is so clearly trying to do something good here.  It just kills me that these heartless bastards are attacking …
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Media Matters for America:
Lauer on Limbaugh's Michael J. Fox attacks: "Didn't Rush Limbaugh …
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs
David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
I.R.S. Going Slow Before Election  —  Mark W. Everson, commissioner of internal revenue, said he regularly discussed the potential impact of agency actions with senior staff members.  "We are very sensitive to political perceptions," Mr. Everson said.  —  The commissioner of internal revenue …
Hotline On Call:
Seven Reasons Why Karl Rove Is Optimistic  —  Ok, well, actually, we can't break into Rove's head and we don't know why he's personally confident.  Many speculate that the veneer of hope masks unalloyed fear.  But here are seven reasons cited by people who also read "THE polls" …
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Sadr City Raids  —  Following up the raids in Sadr City; Maliki did approve of the raids  —  Targeting Sadr City.  Image courtesy of MNF-Iraq.  Click image to view.  —  The primary target of the joint Iraqi and U.S. raid inside Sadr city on October 25 was directed as Mahdi Army commander Abu Dura …
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Democrats Fear Disillusionment in Black Voters  —  Last weekend, Jim Webb, the Virginia Democrat who hopes to oust Senator George Allen, crammed in visits to 12 black churches, and for several weeks he has been pumping money into advertisements on black radio stations and in black newspapers.
Gallup Poll:
What Democrats Would Do If They Win Control of Congress  —  Most Americans believe Democrats would set time-table for withdrawal from Iraq  —  PRINCETON, NJ — What will happen if the Democrats manage to win control of Congress in the Nov. 7 elections?  This question is of more than academic interest.
rushlimbaugh.com:
Rush Apology: I Was Wrong.  Fox Took Too Much Medication  —  RUSH: I want to make an apology here.  You have number seven from the audio sound bite roster ready to go?  All right, let her rip.  —  FOX: The symptoms that I had in the ad that I did, that's called dyskinesia, and that's actually from too much medication.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Hot Air
David Stout / New York Times:
Bush, Signing Bill for Border Fence, Urges Wider Overhaul  —  President Bush signed into law on Thursday a bill providing for construction of 700 miles of added fencing along the Southwestern border, calling the legislation "an important step toward immigration reform."
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and TalkLeft
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
In the Libby Case, A Grilling to Remember  —  With withering and methodical dispatch, White House nemesis and prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald yesterday sliced up the first person called to the stand on behalf of the vice president's former chief of staff.  —  If I. Lewis "Scooter" …
Discussion: Firedoglake and JustOneMinute
Paul Schindler / gaycitynews.com:
Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendlyAbsorbing Gay Pain & Praise, Clinton Says She's Evolved  —  In an appearance early Wednesday evening in front of roughly three-dozen LGBT leaders, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton indicated that she would not oppose efforts by Eliot Spitzer …
Eric Black / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Is that a fact: Ad twists Bachmann's crime views  —  A recent ad uses one Senate vote unfairly against the GOP candidate in the tight Sixth District race.  —  A highly deceptive ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee takes one vote out of context to distort congressional candidate Michele Bachmann's record on crime.
New York Post:
PULLS SUPPORT OF TROUBLED COMPTROLLER  —  Attorney General Eliot Spitzer delivered a devastating blow yesterday to Alan Hevesi, withdrawing his re-election endorsement, saying the scandal-scarred state comptroller is unfit for office, and laying the groundwork for a replacement.
Discussion: A Blog For All
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The networks' refusal to accept ads for The Dixie Chicks documentary  —  (updated below)  —  The new documentary, Shut Up & Sing, chronicles the hostile and sometimes threatening conduct directed towards The Dixie Chicks after one of the group's members criticized the Commander-in-Chief …
Discussion: Wizbang
Tom Leonard / Telegraph:
The BBC's commitment to bias is no laughing matter  —  It's fair to say the message is finally getting through: the BBC has a problem with impartiality.  The row over BBC bias has been rumbling on longer than war in Sudan and always seemed just as unresolvable.
Discussion: USS Neverdock and Dodgeblogium
 
 
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