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5:10 PM ET, October 6, 2007

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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
SYRIA UPDATE....ABC News reports that the United States was initially opposed to an Israeli strike against a military base in northeast Syria: … But was it really a nuclear site?  Here's a hint from Aviation Week: … Obviously I'm just playing amateur sleuth here, but it doesn't seem …
Jim Hoagland / Washington Post:
North Korean Mystery
Discussion: Corrente and SWJ Blog
Meryl Yourish / Yourish.com:   The Syria strike: It was nukes
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.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
A Look Back At Interrogation History  —  The Washington Post has an article which reminds us that history continues to reveal itself even after we think the story has been told in its entirety, especially in small but intriguing ways.  The veterans of PO Box 1142, a highly secret operation …
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 …
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 …
Faiz / Think Progress:
O'Reilly Lets Loose: Says WH Reporters Need To Be 'Wiped Out,' Calls CNN 'The Pagan Throne'  —  In an interview with Bill O'Reilly last night, former White House press secretary Tony Snow said that his future career plans may include writing a book on cancer and possibly returning to Fox News.
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.
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") …
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.
Farhana Hossain / The Caucus:
What's on a Lapel?  —  Senator Barack Obama's comments about the absence of an American flag pin on his lapel created dustup on the campaign trail yesterday.  When asked why he wasn't wearing a flag pin in a television interview on Wednesday he said he had stopped wearing one because he felt that the pin …
Discussion: The Impolitic and TPMCafe blogs
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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 …
Carol J. Williams / Los Angeles Times:
War court prosecutor quits post  —  Air Force Col. Morris Davis' resignation comes amid discord on trials and pressure from the White House.  —  MIAMI — The chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo military commissions has resigned, raising the prospect of further delays in the Bush administration's …
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William Glaberson / New York Times:   War-Crimes Prosecutor Quits in Pentagon Clash
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
NAME THAT PARTY (PHONY SOLDIER EDITION)  —  I believe that it's Glenn Reynolds who created the "name that party" series linking to MSM scandal stories burying the party affiliation of the involved officeholders.  In today's installment, the AP reports "Atlantic City mayor drops out of sight."
Discussion: Breaking News …
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
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 and TBogg
 
 
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Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Accounts Vary on U.S. Attack That Killed 25 Iraqis
Discussion: Empire Burlesque
Dave Davies / NPR:
Garry Wills, Meditating on the Church-State Divide
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
ANONYMOUS ELECTRONIC REACTIONS BY STUDENTS: Some of us …
Discussion: The Debate Link
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Sadr Capitulates?  —  Moqtada al-Sadr has signed an agreement …
Discussion: BBC and The Newshoggers
The Onion:
Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year
Associated Press:
Bush hints at spending more on child health care
Ynetnews:
PA official: We won't come to conference without declaration
Michael Ledeen / Opinion Journal:
Insights into Iran can be gleaned from these masterly works.
Discussion: The Corner
 Earlier Items: 
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Governor, you're no Jack Kennedy
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Democrats look to make Minnesota the Massachusetts of the Midwest
Discussion: Captain's Quarters and MyDD
Ezra Levant / The Shotgun:
150 million pages of fighting the good fight
Discussion: The Corner and Jay Currie
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Says Interrogation Methods Aren't Torture
The Atlantic Online:
I am my own lodestar
WKMG-TV:
Prosecutor Accused In Sex Sting Kills Himself
JoinRudy2008:
GIULIANI CAMPAIGN OUTRAISES REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES IN THIRD QUARTER
Brett Okamoto / CNN:
Editor keeps his job after 'F**k Bush' column