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9:15 PM ET, November 4, 2006

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TheResurgence:
Evangelical Leader Quits Amid Allegations of Gay Sex and Drug Use  —  The news has been abuzz with controversy surrounding the allegations that Ted Haggard had a three-year homosexual relationship with a male prostitute that included drug use.  Haggard is pastor of a 14,000-member church in Colorado …
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David Goldstein / The Huffington Post:
Who's to blame for Pastor Haggard's fall from grace?  His fat, lazy wife  —  Colorado Springs' New Life Church just announced that it has fired Pastor Ted Haggard for his "sexually immoral conduct."  The much publicized meth and gay hooker scandal has elicited a little bit of soul searching …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Chuck Plunkett / Denver Post:
Haggard fired for "sexually immoral conduct"
Discussion: Whiskey Bar
Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Looking for a Lifeboat  —  A new NEWSWEEK poll shows that the GOP has lost more ground.  Will rallying the base stem a Democratic tide?  —  Jason Reed / Reuters  —  President Bush speaks to supporters in Iowa on Friday  —  As President George W. Bush jets across Red State America this weekend …
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Glum as It Struggles to Hold Congress  —  The battle for Congress rolled into a climactic final weekend with Republican Party leaders saying the best outcome they could foresee was losing 12 seats in the House.  But they were increasingly steeling themselves to the loss of at least 15 …
Washington Post:
Anxious GOP Focuses on Not Losing Senate
Discussion: MyDD and TalkLeft
Weekly Standard:
Yikes!  —  Kristol, Barnes, Labash, Continetti, Matus, Last, and the rest give their midterm election predictions.  —  Senate: 48 (R), 52 (D)  —  House: 192 (R), 243 (D)  —  Dark Horse: Anti-immigration stance backfires with Republican meltdown in Arizona and Colorado.  —  Fred Barnes
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
I'm Bursting!!  —  My homeys at the Weekly Standard have published their election predictions, and they range from dire to calamitous.  Meanwhile, I'm merrily skipping about Soxblog Manor (in a completely manly way, mind you) whistling a happy tune.  I expect Tuesday to be an extremely successful day for the Republican Party.
vanityfair.com:
Neo Culpa  —  As Iraq slips further into chaos, the war's neoconservative boosters have turned sharply on the Bush administration, charging that their grand designs have been undermined by White House incompetence.  In a series of exclusive interviews, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman …
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
THE NEOCON REHABILITATION PROJECT....David Rose's Vanity Fair interview …
Discussion: Unclaimed Territory
David Frum / The Huffington Post:
Vanity Fair's Inventions
Jane Sutton / Reuters:
Interrogation is "optional," Guantanamo chief says  —  GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE (Reuters) - Guantanamo prisoners are no longer forced to undergo interrogation, including 14 "high-value" prisoners who include the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks, the detention camp commander said.
Discussion: Say Anything
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Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
Nervous excitement builds for Democrats  —  IF YOU'RE not a big admirer of George W. Bush, you are going into Election Day feeling more than a little schizophrenic.  Red Sox fans know the queasy feeling, around mid-August.  —  On the one hand, it sure looks like This Could Be The Year.
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Michael Graham / The Natural Truth:
"Either WE Win Or YOU Cheated"
Army Times:
Time for Rumsfeld to go  —  "So long as our government requires the backing of an aroused and informed public opinion ... it is necessary to tell the hard bruising truth."  —  That statement was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Marguerite Higgins more than a half-century ago during the Korean War.
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Oak Leaf / Stop The ACLU:
The Skinny On Those Political "Military Magazines"
J. Kingston Pierce / The Reaction:
"Take these lies and make them true somehow"  —  If this video doesn't get you fired up and ready to vote next Tuesday, November 7, I don't know what will.  It recounts the rise and fall of George W. Bush and the disasters he's caused—and ignored—during his almost six years in the White House.
John F. Burns / New York Times:
For U.S. and Top Iraqi, Animosity Is Mutual  —  The cycle of discord and strained reconciliation that has broken into the open between Iraq's Shiite-led government and the Bush administration has revealed how wide the gulf has become between what the United States expects from the Baghdad government …
Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:
The Patrician and the Grunts  —  What we can learn from John Kerry's latest flub.  —  Regrettable though it might be for the United States military to become an untouchable "third rail" in American politics, there can be little sympathy for someone who keeps on brushing against that rail just to see what will happen.
John Lewandowski / SantorumBlog:
John Kerry's Fake Apology  —  *Updated - see below* … -John Kerry, October 30, 2006 … -John Kerry, October 31, 2006  —  "I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform and I personally apologize to any service member, family member or American who was offended."
 
 
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Michelle Malkin:
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poststar.com:
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