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2:55 PM ET, October 2, 2007

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Anita Hill / New York Times:
The Smear This Time  —  ON Oct. 11, 1991, I testified about my experience as an employee of Clarence Thomas's at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  —  I stand by my testimony.  —  Justice Thomas has every right to present himself as he wishes in his new memoir, "My Grandfather's Son."
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Sauce For The Goose  —  Anita Hill takes to the pages …
Discussion: Macsmind
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Larry Kudlow / The Corner:   The GOP Has Some Re-Branding to Do  —  A couple of significant stories …
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Democrats Seize on Limbaugh to Distract from their Iraq Surrender  —  The Senate yesterday passed the annual defense authorization bill with little fanfare.  Although it was intended to be the vehicle for any Iraq restrictions Democrats could come up with, it passed by an eye-popping 92-3.
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
House Dems push new tax to fund war
Discussion: The Swamp and On Deadline
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Approps Chair Obey Says He'll Block Funding For War Without Withdrawal Date
Discussion: TalkLeft
Michael Roston / Huffington Post:
House Dems Ready To Fight Bush On War Funding
Discussion: Open Left and Think Progress
Horses Mouth:
A lot of people are talking about the big speech Barack Obama gave today calling for multilateral nuclear disarmament.  But I wanted to focus in on what I think is a significant aspect of the speech that has little to do with the actual policy questions addressed here.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama to Urge Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama: They voted for war, I didn't
Discussion: The Politico
CNN:
Blackwater contractor wrote government report on incident  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The State Department's initial report of last month's incident in which Blackwater guards were accused of killing Iraqi civilians was written by a Blackwater contractor working in the embassy security detail …
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Blackwater: Rules of Engagement Set by State Department
Discussion: Think Progress
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Anti-war veterans target Limbaugh  —  An anti-war group consisting of veterans from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan is launching an ad Tuesday that attacks popular conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.  —  The group, VoteVets.org, is spending $60,000 on the ad, which will air on Fox News and CNN.
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Obama'08:
On Fifth Anniversary of Speech Opposing Iraq War, Obama Again Challenges Conventional Washington Thinking  —  Chicago, IL — Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is scheduled to deliver a foreign policy address at DePaul University in Chicago today, the five-year anniversary of his original speech opposing …
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The Politico:
Obama blasts senators who voted for war
Discussion: Open Left
Patrick Healy / The Caucus:
Clinton Raises $27M in 3rd Quarter  —  Surpassing her rivals by a margin that few Democrats predicted, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign announced this morning that it had raised $22 million since July to compete in the 2008 primaries, and another $5 million …
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Marco Martinez / Townhall.com:
Marine Hero: The 5 Things I Saw that Make Me Support the War  —  Liberals often like to say that "violence is senseless."  —  That's wrong.  —  Violence isn't senseless.  Senseless violence is senseless.  And I should know.  Before being awarded the Navy Cross and having the privilege of becoming a Marine, I was a gang member.
Discussion: Wake up America and UrbanGrounds
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Expect less Mr. Nice Guy from Fred  —  CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Fred Thompson has a folksy, good old boy persona on the stump, but it may not last much longer.  —  When I asked him if he is an 11th Commandment man — Never speak ill of a fellow Republican — he responded, "I am more of a 12th Commandment man …
Suzanne Le Mignot / WBBM-TV:
Oak Lawn Schools Cancel Holiday Traditions  —  School District To Discuss Cancellation Or Renaming Of Holiday Celebrations At Emergency Meeting  —  (CBS) OAK LAWN, Ill. A southwest suburban school district has taken action, responding to the concerns of a Muslim parent.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Jerusalem Post:
Censorship lifted on September 6 IAF strike inside Syria  —  Israel on Tuesday began to lift its strict veil of secrecy on an air strike in Syria last month, allowing the media to report on the raid without attributing such reports to foreign sources.  —  The censor did not release any other details for publication.
Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Battle of sound bites reaches health care  —  In the battle of sound bites over President Bush's expected veto of the children's health insurance bill, the White House position boils down to this: Beware, beware — it's the first step toward federalized health care.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Angry, hateful liberal bloggers  —  On Protein Wisdom — the right-wing blog of Pajamas Media's Jeff Goldstein — there is a "response" to a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago concerning the exaggerations of the Muslim threat from Marty Peretz's assistant, Jamie Kirchick of The New Republic and Commentary.
 
 
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
SAVED BY THE SURGE  —  IS the surge in Iraq working?
Associated Press:
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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Washington Post Polls Democrats; Shows Support for Iraq Mission
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Newsflash: Press Biased
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Throwing in the Towel in Pakistan
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Seeing Blue  —  In the low desert valleys of Arizona's Pinal County …
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