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12:50 PM ET, September 23, 2007

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Rich Schapiro / NY Daily News:
N.Y. Times admits Petraeus ad sold to Moveon.org at 1/2 off  —  The old gray lady has some explaining to do.  —  Officials at the New York Times have admitted a liberal activist group was permitted to pay half the rate it should have for a provocative ad condemning U.S. Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus.
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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
Betraying Its Own Best Interests  —  FOR nearly two weeks, The New York Times has been defending a political advertisement that critics say was an unfair shot at the American commander in Iraq.  —  But I think the ad violated The Times's own written standards, and the paper …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Remember me  —  Hillary Rodham Kerry  —  Hillary Clinton embarassed herself last week—but Republicans shouldn't celebrate for too long.  —  On October 2, 2003, Senator John Kerry voted for an $87 billion appropriation to fund U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that was paired with rescinding some Bush tax cuts.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Power Line
Washington Post:
In Swing Districts, Democratic Enthusiasm Is Harder to Come By  —  Conventional wisdom dictates that Democratic voters are thrilled with their choices for president, bursting at the seams to rally behind Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) or whoever gets the party's nod next year.
Times of London:
Israelis seized nuclear material in Syrian raid  —  Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.
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Times of London:
Snatched: Israeli commandos 'nuclear' raid  —  Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv, Sarah Baxter, Washington, and Michael Sheridan  —  ISRAELI commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit - almost certainly dressed in Syrian uniforms - made their way stealthily towards a secret military compound near Dayr az-Zawr in northern Syria.
mrzine.monthlyreview.org:
Open Letter to Progressive Opponents of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  —  by The Columbia Coalition Against the War  —  As Columbia only very recently announced, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be speaking in Roone Arledge auditorium this Monday.  A number of students and student organizations …
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Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:
REWRITING 'GOD BLESS AMERICA'  —  It didn't generate much in the way of media attention this week, but a bunch of religious right groups co-sponsored the first-ever "Values Voter" debate a few days ago for the GOP presidential field.  The top four (Giuliani, Romney, McCain, and Thompson) …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Sunday Talking Head Thread  —  Here's the Sunday Talking Head line-up for this morning.  (partially via the Contra Costa Times.)  — C-Span Washington Journal:7:45am - Thomas Schaller, Baltimore Sun, National Political Columnist |  Article; 8:30am - Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls …
Discussion: The Caucus
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Clinton faces huge test on Sunday
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
A Mother's Strength, a Candidate's Ambition
Newsweek:
Terror: Al Qaeda's Feuds and Fears  —  Lonely, marginalized and suddenly suspicious that he was losing his grip over the organization he helped create, Osama bin Laden finally decided that enough was enough.  At least that's the explanation sources close to him are giving for why …
Angela Doland / Associated Press:
Marcel Marceau, Famed French Mime, Dies  —  PARIS (AP) — Marcel Marceau, whose lithe gestures and pliant facial expressions revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, died Saturday.  He was 84.  —  Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red flower …
Discussion: Althouse, Jules Crittenden and Death
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Soldiers of the Queen, cont.  —  Re Fred Thompson and David Freddoso's remarks on who spilled more blood, I've had a remarkable number of emails along the lines of the following: … So now we're arguing about what proportion of a nation's war dead died in direct defense of its national territory …
Discussion: Jules Crittenden
David Margolick / New York Times:
The Day Louis Armstrong Made Noise  —  FIFTY years ago this week, all eyes were on Little Rock, Ark., where nine black students were trying, for the first time, to desegregate a major Southern high school.  With fewer than 150 blacks, the town of Grand Forks, N.D., hardly figured to be a key front …
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Investor's Business Daily:
The 'Old' Consensus?  —  Climate Change: Did NASA scientist James Hansen, the global warming alarmist in chief, once believe we were headed for . . . an ice age?  An old Washington Post story indicates he did.  —  On July 9, 1971, the Post published a story headlined "U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming."
Kari Lydersen / Washington Post:
War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says  —  The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee …
New York Times:
Security Company Faces Iraqi Criminal Charges  —  The Iraqi government said Saturday that it expects to refer criminal charges to its courts within days in connection with a shooting here by a private American security company, and the Interior Ministry gave new details of six other episodes it is investigating involving the company.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Rulz  —  Village rule number one:  —  You can't employ a play on words that any Republican might be able to use as an excuse to run to the fainting couch and have a good old-fashioned cry.  Democrats must be as bland and technocratic as humanly possible in their political rhetoric.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Romney, your campaign 'change agent'
Los Angeles Times:
Iraq war budget jumps for 2008
Discussion: Corrente, Rook's Rant and The Swamp
Charles Duhigg / New York Times:
More Profit and Less Nursing at Many Homes
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
China in Three Colors
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David Freddoso / The Corner:
Thompson's Speaking Style
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Nuance and Resolve in Rulings by Attorney General Nominee
Discussion: Hullabaloo and BeldarBlog
Steve Benen / Talking Points Memo:
'NUTPICKING' HITS THE BIG TIME