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12:45 PM ET, October 6, 2007

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Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Fort Hunt's Quiet Men Break Silence on WWII  —  For six decades, they held their silence.  —  The group of World War II veterans kept a military code and the decorum of their generation, telling virtually no one of their top-secret work interrogating Nazi prisoners of war at Fort Hunt.
New York Post:
AN IMMODERATE MODERATOR  —  So, should viewers of Tuesday's Re publican presidential debate expect an exchange of views between the candidates - or between the candidates and one of the event's moderators?  —  It's a fair question, given the jaw-dropping comments Thursday evening from MSNBC blowhard …
ABCNEWS:
High Level Debate Stalled Syria Air Strike  —  U.S. Was Concerned Over Intelligence, Stability to Region, Officials Tell ABC News  —  The September Israeli airstrike on a suspected nuclear site in Syria had been in the works for months, ABC News has learned, and was delayed only at the strong urging of the United States.
Melissa Underwood / Fox News:
Candidates Have Their Say on Obama's Decision Not to Wear Flag Pin  —  Barack Obama may choose not to wear an American flag pin on his lapel, but many of the presidential contender's political rivals say they wouldn't leave home without one.  —  VIDEO: Barack Obama Decides Not to Continue Wearing a Flag Pin on His Lapel
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Guardian:
Ron Paul takes it to the bank  —  The libertarian, anti-war Republican presidential candidate shocked Washington by raising $5m in three months.  Was it such a big surprise?  —  Here are some of the ways the American political press has referred to representative Ron Paul …
Chicago Sun Times:
Obama stuck in no-pin zone
Justin Juozapavicius / Associated Press:
Scandal brewing at Oral Roberts  —  TULSA, Okla. - Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called home."  —  Now, his son, Oral Roberts University …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
With Him or Against Him  —  THE BLACK-AND-WHITE WORLD OF CLARENCE THOMAS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE.  —  Clarence Thomas' new autobiography, My Grandfather's Son, paints a stark picture of an America in which nothing but race matters.  In his telling, virtually everyone who has ever wronged him has done so because of his race.
Discussion: The Corner
Evan Kohlmann / Counterterrorism Blog:
The Sunni Insurgency Has Become a "Disaster": An Estranged Former Ally Lashes Out, Accusing Al-Qaida of Torture and Murder in Diyala  —  In a rather stunning development, the Iraqi Islamic militant faction known as Asaeb al-Iraq al-Jihadiya (a.k.a. "the Iraqi Jihad Union") …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and PrairiePundit
Ezra Levant / The Shotgun:
150 million pages of fighting the good fight  —  To my deep regret, the Western Standard has decided to stop publishing our print edition.  —  It's a purely financial decision.  Even though our advertising revenues were stronger than ever, with marquee brands like GM, Mazda …
Discussion: The Corner and Jay Currie
Media Matters for America:
"Media Matters"; by Paul Waldman  —  Here at Media Matters, as in many other places, this was a week of Rush Limbaugh, not only because of what he said about American soldiers and veterans who oppose the Iraq war, but because of what he said about us.  There has been some wild spinning coming …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Says Interrogation Methods Aren't Torture  —  President Bush, reacting to a Congressional uproar over the disclosure of secret Justice Department legal opinions permitting the harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, defended the methods on Friday, declaring, "This government does not torture people."
Discussion: Back Talk
Paul Von Zielbauer / New York Times:
The Erosion of a Murder Case Against Marines in the Killing of 24 Iraqi Civilians  —  Last year, when accounts of the killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha by a group of marines came to light, it seemed that the Iraq war had produced its defining atrocity, just as the conflict in Vietnam had spawned the My Lai massacre a generation ago.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Back Talk
Cagle Cartoons / The Moderate Voice:
Welcome To "The Nanny State"  —  Welcome to the Nanny State  —  By Bill Steigerwald  —  With his book "Nanny State," Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi has thrown a conservative-libertarian rope around a disturbing political and cultural trend — the nannification of America by moral busybodies …
Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer  —  Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth.
Discussion: Wizbang
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Patriotism Is More Than Just A Refuge For Scoundrels  —  Over the last two days, the question of patriotism has been debated over the blogosphere.  It started with Barack Obama's tortured explanation of why he stopped wearing a lapel pin representing the American flag.
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The Corner:   re Patriotism  —  From a reader: … That's an interesting view of causality.
 
 
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Dale Lezon / Houston Chronicle:
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Brett Okamoto / CNN:
Editor keeps his job after 'F**k Bush' column
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William Glaberson / New York Times:
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State Dept. Plans Tighter Control of Security Firm
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Stephen Moore / Opinion Journal:
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Do you pray for Bush?  —  Fox News asks the tough questions …
Guardian:
The fallout from an attack on Iran would be devastating
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Bush: 'Never really thought about' war - no Iran plan
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