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3:20 PM ET, October 10, 2007

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Matthew Hay Brown / Baltimore Sun:
Frost family draws ire of conservatives  —  Halsey and Bonnie Frost, in front of their Butchers Hill house.  Critics question whether the Frosts should be eligible for a federal insurance program.  (Sun photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor / October 9, 2007)  —  When Halsey and Bonnie Frost agreed …
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The Corner:
Frosty reception  —  I tremble to return to the subject of the Frost family, if only because so many e-mailers in the last 72 hours seem to confuse a debate on health care with an analysis of my sexual inadequacy and the accommodational capacity of my posterior.
Discussion: five feet of fury.
Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:
Graeme Frost & Why I'm Ashamed to Be a Blogger Today (Update III)  —  The Frosts Outside & Inside Semi-Palatial Home  —  The vicious underbelly of the blogosphere is in full-howl display over the story of Graeme Frost, the 12-year-old who gave a Democratic Party radio rebuttal …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Let's Move The S-CHIP Debate Back To Policy  —  The New York Times takes a look into the storm of controversy over the Frost family in the S-CHIP debate.  David Herszenhorn gives a fairly balanced view of the nine-day wonder that the Frosts became, and settles some of the factual disputes that has plagued the sideshow:
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Hartford Courant / Colin McEnroe:
Frosted: The War on Middle Class Solvency  —  The messy feud over the family of Graeme Frost spilled onto the front page of the New York Times today, after about 24 hours of high heat on the internet.  Most of the steam has swirled around the question of whether conservatives were Swift Boating …
Michelle Malkin:
Democrat poster-child abuse, the nutroots' pushback, and the …
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Capitol Feud: A 12-Year-Old Is the Fodder
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
My Clinton Problem - And Ours  —  A reader writes: … Yes, I remember.  I was an unillusioned Clinton supporter in 1991 and 1992.  As editor of The New Republic, I helped guide the magazine toward an endorsement of the guy.  Heck, I edited Sid Blumenthal's coverage of the campaign and wrote the editorial that endorsed him.
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Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
The Silenced Majority  —  We are condemned, the smart guys tell us, to stay in Iraq.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Norwegianity
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Smile, Though Your Head Is Aching  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in a determinedly good mood when she sat down to lunch with reporters yesterday.  She entered the room beaming and, over the course of an hour, smiled no fewer than 31 times and got off at least 23 laughs.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republican Debate: Winners and Losers
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Michelle Malkin:
Atlas Shrugged: 50 years  —  The WSJ pays tribute on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged."  —  Robert Tracinski writes on "The Historic Significance of Atlas Shrugged:" … Robert Bidinotto blogs about an "Atlas Shrugged" celebration in Washington.
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David Kelley / Wall Street Journal:
Capitalist Heroes  —  Fifty years ago today Ayn Rand published her magnum opus, "Atlas Shrugged."  It's an enduringly popular novel — all 1,168 pages of it — with some 150,000 new copies still sold each year in bookstores alone.  And it's always had a special appeal for people in business.
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Thank You, Jerry Nadler.  —  I am sitting here in my living room watching the FISA bill mark-up in the House Judiciary Committee.  Jerry Nadler is rocking, and I had to take a moment to say thank you.  From the hearing moments ago (this is me transcribing it, so it's a rough transcript):
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ACLU:
Tell your representative: Stand up for the Constitution, fix FISA.
Discussion: WorkingForChange
The Corner:
It's a Boston Thing  —  The latest Rudy press release is a 2004 flashback: … Meanwhile, the Romney camp is just glad Team Rudy cares so much about their guy.
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Deacon / Power Line:
A FAUX "GOTCHA" MOMENT
Discussion: race42008.com and TIME
Brandon Friedman / Daily Kos:
Hate Mail from Dittoheads  —  On Friday night I went on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and read off some hate mail from Rush Limbaugh's listeners.  Based on the response, I thought I'd share with you all some of the emails we've received at VoteVets.org—in complete, uncut, and unaltered form.
Eugene Volokh / Opinion Journal:
President Spock  —  What if Barack Obama told his wife he wouldn't say "I love you" anymore?  —  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he doesn't tell his wife he loves her any more, because "I love you" has become a substitute for "true love."
San Francisco Chronicle:
Residents of a famously liberal city appear to be changing views  —  San Francisco - the liberal, left-coast city conservatives love to mock - could be undergoing a transformation when it comes to homeless people.  Although the city would still be a poor choice for a pep rally for the war in Iraq …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Generation Q  —  I just spent the past week visiting several colleges — Auburn, the University of Mississippi, Lake Forest and Williams — and I can report that the more I am around this generation of college students, the more I am both baffled and impressed.
Discussion: Brian Beutler, MoJoBlog and Gawker
Ali Eteraz / The Huffington Post:
The Myth of Muslim Condemnation of Terror  —  The amount of disinformation about Muslims is disconcerting.  One popular smear is that Muslims are in an alliance with the left to take over the West; it is an allegation that far right loves to use.  —  The other, equally popular and equally absurd …
Discussion: The Newshoggers and Ali Eteraz
 
 
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Eve Conant / Newsweek:
Seeking common ground on abortion
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City Journal:
A SLAPP Against Freedom
National Review:
FRC's Tony Perkins: 'Yes, There Will Be Some Evangelicals Who Vote For [Giuliani].
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
What Fred's Got  —  I haven't changed my mind on the essential …
Discussion: Punditry
U.S. House of Representatives:
The 'C' in SCHIP Is for Children, Except When It's Not
Discussion: Heading Right and Redstate
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The Threat of Ron Paul
Discussion: PoliBlog (TM)
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Pelosi defends refusal to put "God" on flag certificates
Peter Funt / Washington Post:
It's Not Democracy. It's a Sub.
Discussion: Wonkette and Comment Central
Camille Paglia / Salon:
The paranoid withdrawal fantasy
Discussion: UrbanGrounds
USA Today:
GAO study reveals boot camp 'nightmare'
Washington Post:
Clinton Cites Lessons of Partisanship
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Why Fight For Anyone's Freedom?
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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