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4:25 AM ET, November 5, 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 …
Discussion: James Wolcott's Blog and wtfwjd?
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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 …
Chuck Plunkett / Denver Post:
Haggard fired for "sexually immoral conduct"
Discussion: Whiskey Bar
Dan Savage / Slog:   When a Conservative Christian Pastor Gets Caught Messing Around …
Washington Post:
Democrats, on the Offensive, Could Gain Both Houses  —  Two days before a bitterly fought midterm election, Democrats have moved into position to recapture the House and have laid siege to the Senate, setting the stage for a dramatic recasting of the power structure in Washington …
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Alex Massie / Scotsman:   Bush braced for a bleak future
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
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Washington Post:
Mr. Steele's Politics as Usual
Discussion: Power Line and Oliver Willis
Whitney Holmes / WAHU-TV:
UVa law student and political blogger Mike Stark is cuffed and carried out of Senator George Allen's Campaign rally.  —  At George Allen's rally in Weyers Cave, supporters had one eye on the Senator, and the other UVa Law student Mike Stark, who ended up being cuffed and carried out by sheriff's deputies.
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Mike Stark / Comments for Calling All Wingnuts:
First they went after Free Speech... Now it's the Free Press …
Discussion: Majikthise
Austin Bay Blog:
Military service, John Kerry, and honor  —  Via neo-neocon — a 21st century irony.  —  The son serves, the father sounds like Abbie Hoffman (and if you don't know who Abbie Hoffman was, no sweat.)  —  Hitchens kicks Kerry in today's Wall St Journal.  —  The kicks are hard (it's Hitchens) …
Discussion: TBogg and The Anchoress
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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
Where Plan A left Ahmad Chalabi  —  1. London, August 2006  —  Many miles away in a more dangerous place the dream is ending badly.  The bodies pile up.  Good people stream to the borders.  Leaders pile money onto planes.  The center is giving way.  —  The apartment on South Street …
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Associated Press:
War simulation in 1999 pointed out Iraq invasion problems  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A series of secret U.S. war games in 1999 showed that an invasion and post-war administration of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, nearly three times the number there now.  —  And even then, the games showed …
Gateway Pundit:
Donald Rumsfeld... The Best Defense Secretary Ever!  —  Another day... Another liberal attack on Donald Rumsfeld...  Via Instapundit... The Department of Defense came out with a rebuttal to the latest nonsense by the media.  —  An earlier photo of Rummy as nazi from Democrats.com.
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William March / TBO.com:
Harris' Prayer Call Stirs Concerns  —  TAMPA - U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, who has made past comments that raised questions about her religious sensitivity, prayed in a telephone prayer service recently that God would "bring the hearts and minds of our Jewish brothers and sisters into alignment."
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog:
What Are You Doing This Weekend?  —  Pop quiz.  What's the absolute least sexy thing on earth?  Getting out the vote for the GOP?  Yep, now that is unsexy.  So, what do I do?  I turn it into a dating line commercial.  Ha.  I love vlogging.  —  Sign up to make calls from home, right here.
Sean Rushton / humanevents.com:
The Rumor About John Paul Stevens  —  For weeks, commentators have speculated that significant numbers of conservatives, alienated by over-spending, the Iraq War, and other perceived GOP disappointments, will stay home on Election Day, giving one or both Houses of Congress to Democrats.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Cook's Last Forecast  —  Political Wire asked Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report for his latest forecast on Tuesday's elections.  —  With just over 72 hours to go before the polls close, it's very hard to imagine how the House majority does not turn over, it's a question of how big this thing will be.
Discussion: AMERICAblog
David Crossland / Times of London:
Priest burns himself to death over Islam  —  A retired priest committed suicide by setting himself on fire in a German monastery in protest at the spread of Islam and the Protestant Church's inability to contain it.  —  Roland Weisselberg, 73, poured a can of petrol over his head and set light …
C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
Sniper Attacks Adding to Peril of U.S. Troops  —  Sgt. Jesse E. Leach of the Marines assisted Lance Cpl. Juan Valdez-Castillo, who was shot by a sniper in the town of Karma.  He survived.  —  The bullet passed through Lance Cpl. Juan Valdez-Castillo as his Marine patrol moved down a muddy urban lane.
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:
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
GOP's Woes Imperil Even the Centrists
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JACK CARTER CAMPAIGN: Woman insulted by letter
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Marie Colvin / Times of London:
Saddam faces hanging after Baghdad verdict
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
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Robert Kuttner / Boston Globe:
Nervous excitement builds for Democrats
Jane Sutton / Reuters:
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John Lewandowski / SantorumBlog:
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