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2:05 PM ET, October 1, 2007

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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Giuliani Inspires Threat of a Third-Party Run  —  Alarmed at the possibility that the Republican Party might pick Rudolph W. Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate.
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Michael Scherer / Salon:
Religious right may blackball Giuliani  —  Christian conservative leaders privately consider supporting a third-party, antiabortion candidate should Rudy Giuliani win the GOP nomination.  —  Rudy Giuliani speaks to the Associated Press Sept. 25, 2007, in New York.
Washington Post:
Sen. Clinton's Empty Table  —  "THERE ARE basically only three options: We can raise taxes again, which no one wants to do because the payroll tax is regressive. . . We can cut benefits. . . Or we can work together to try to find some way to increase the rate of return."
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New York Post:
HILLARY'S $30,000 FANS ARE HER 'CULT' FOLLOWING  —  A purported pyramid-scheme operator who was run out of Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor has reinvented himself as the head of an upstate group accused of being a "cult" - and his devotees have pumped thousands into Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential run.
Edward / Heading Right:
Even Over A Penny  —  Sixteen years after he castigated the Senate Judiciary Committee for conducting a "high-tech lynching," Justice Clarence Thomas may relish the opportunity to tell his side of the story.  With his new book My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir hitting bookstores today …
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Jan Crawford Greenburg / ABCNEWS:
Clarence Thomas: A Silent Justice Speaks Out
Discussion: Bluey Blog
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Gateway Pundit:
MASS SLAUGHTER IN BURMA!... Hundreds, Maybe Thousands, Dead!  (Video)  —  MASS SLAUGHTER IN BURMA!  —  There are reports coming from Burma that the slaughter of innocent democracy protesters and monks was massive.  —  Ko Htike reports that there are hundreds of Buddhist monks being detained and starved by the junta:
CNN:
Mom cuffed, found dead after missing flight  —  (CNN) — An autopsy was planned Monday for a 45-year-old mother of three who died in police custody at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport.  —  Carol Ann Gotbaum was arrested at the airport Friday for alleged disorderly conduct …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and PrairiePundit
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NY Daily News:
Gotbaum kin's plea before dying: I'm not a terrorist!  —  BY SOO YOUN in Phoenix and ETHAN ROUEN and ADAM LISBERG in New York  —  The daughter-in-law of one of New York's top officials screamed, "I'm not a terrorist!" and fought with security officials in the Phoenix airport before being wrestled …
MySanAntonio.com:
Roddy Stinson: Passenger sitting behind soldier reports 'a very moving moment'  —  THE GOOD  —  Last Wednesday, while flying from Phoenix to the Alamo City on U.S. Airways Flight 207, a San Antonio man, Gil Anderson, witnessed something memorable.  —  Shortly before takeoff …
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
Fundraising: Fred's struggles  —  Here's something to compare Thompson's money to: the 1st Q numbers of his three main rivals: Romney raised 21.2M; Giuliani raised 16.6M; McCain raised 13M.  —  By comparison, Fred's $7-8M (or even $10 million) this quarter is not great.
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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Peace is Dangerous  —  As the level of American casualties in Iraq falls to its lowest level in more than a year, while Iraqi casualties fall as well, Erick at Red State notes that as tragic as the loss of life is, the final year of the Carter administration saw greater losses of life among U.S. soldiers …
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Redstate:
Peace Is Dangerous  —  I stumbled across this a few weeks ago …
Discussion: BartBlog
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
High Court won't hear church-state cases  —  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court opened its new term Monday refusing to get involved in two church-state disputes — one over religious organizations paying for workers' birth-control health insurance benefits, the other over an evangelical group's plea …
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Some in Fairfax Public Housing Make Six Figures  —  Hundreds of families living in housing subsidized by Fairfax County taxpayers exceed income caps designed to ensure that only the neediest receive assistance, a review of county records shows.  —  In the most extreme cases …
The New Republic:
The Usual Suspect  —  The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy  —  IN OCTOBER 2002, Osama bin Laden issued a statement in which he analyzed America's inexhaustible number of sins and prescribed ways of repenting for many of them.  The statement was, by the standards of bin Laden's cave encyclicals, unusually coherent.
Michael J. Totten:
The Peace Corps with Muscles  —  RAMADI, IRAQ - Now that major combat operations are finished almost everywhere in Iraq's Anbar Province, the United States Army and Marine Corps are more like a United Nations peacekeeping force with rules of engagement that allow them to kill if they have to.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
HMMM  —  Yesterday at TPM I flagged Sy Hersh's new New Yorker article on the Cheneyite push for war with Iran — an article as depressing as it is unsurprising.  I want to focus in one passage from the piece about arch-Iran hawk Normam Podhoretz ...  So this is the threat.
Discussion: Eschaton and The Next Hurrah
 
 
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Tim F. / Balloon Juice:
Specious Doesn't Quite Cover It
Stanley Kurtz / The Corner:
Indoctrinate U Premiere  —  Last Friday I attended the world premiere …
Discussion: Instapundit.com
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Earmark Recipients Come through for Chairman Reyes
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
PittsburghLIVE.com:
Santorum eyes gubernatorial bud
Agence France Presse:
Italian archbishop closes convent after nuns come to blows
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Iraqi Civilian Deaths Plunge, Too
The Atlantic Online:
If Wishes Were Ponies...  ... then Oliver Willis and Nick Beaudrot …
MSNBC:
Man with grenades stopped at embassy
 Earlier Items: 
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
General Alarm for Rudy
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
The Politics of Confidence  —  The unpopularity of George W. Bush …
Faiz / Think Progress:
Podhoretz: 'I Believe Bush Is Going To Order Airstrikes On Iran …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Rude Giuliani  —  If he wants voters to respect his privacy …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Michigan Goes Smoot-Hawley In The Early Morning
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
U.S. Pays Steep Price for Private Security in Iraq
Noor Khan / Associated Press:
Afghan boy with US dollars hanged
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
What We Owe the Burmese