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11:05 PM ET, October 11, 2007

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Fox News:
Columnist Ann Coulter Shocks Cable TV Show, Declaring 'Jews Need to Be Perfected by Becoming Christians'  —  Slash-and-burn columnist Ann Coulter shocked a cable TV talk-show audience Monday when she declared that Jews need to be "perfected" by becoming Christians, and that America would be better off if everyone were Christian.
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Ann Coulter on CNBC Show: Jews Need 'Perfecting'  —  NEW YORK Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they had "perfected" themselves into — Christians.
The Raw Story:
Jewish group calls on media to boycott right wing author  —  The National Jewish Democratic Council called for media organizations to stop inviting arch-conservative Ann Coulter to appear on television after the right wing pundit and author continued her habit of making outrageous, offensive comments on national television.
Faiz / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE: E-mail Reveals That McConnell Staffer Propagated Smear Campaign Against Graeme Frost  —  Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that there was mounting evidence that a staffer for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may have been involved in the right-wing campaign to smear Graeme Frost and his family.
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Faiz / Think Progress:
CNN Pins Blame On Democrats For Right-Wing Smear Of 12-Year Old Boy  —  This morning, CNN aired its first report on the right-wing smear campaign against 12-year old SCHIP recipient Graeme Frost.  CNN pinned the blame on Democrats for assault on the Frost family.
Amy Ridenour / Townhall.com:
SCHIP, Graeme Frost, and the Bloggers
Discussion: QandO, Sadly, No! and Balloon Juice
Faiz / Think Progress:
Rep. Murphy on smear of Graeme Frost.
Discussion: The Gavel
Tom Hays / Associated Press:
Police: Columbia Won't Turn Over Video  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University has refused to turn over security videotape that could help identify who hung a noose on a black professor's office door, police said Thursday.  —  Investigators began asking on Wednesday for tapes from cameras in the building …
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Sabrina Eaton / OPENERS:
Regula confirms: he's retiring  —  Longtime congressman Ralph Regula, whose years and power on the House Appropriations Committee made him a major player for northeast Ohio, confirmed to The Plain Dealer that he will not run for re-election next year.  —  More coverage
Discussion: Swing State Project and MyDD
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:   Regula to step down Friday, insiders say
CNN Political Ticker:
Sources: Another Republican to retire
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Not Ready To Make Nice  —  Well this gets a big, fat "hell, no" from me.  Via e-mail from Liz Rose of the ACLU on the draft Senate version of the FISA bill, which is not yet publicly available and not being widely shared for review either: … If they didn't do anything wrong, why should they get retroactive immunity?
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD: Warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty
Discussion: Open Left
Scout Prime / First Draft:
Please Blog...Fund Raising Drive to Bring Miracle and her family home to the Lower 9th Ward  —  Two weeks ago I posted about the Joseph family who lost their Lower 9th Ward home for the second time.  Kellie Joseph and her 6 children lost their home to Katrina.
Media Matters for America:
Gibson knew school shooter was white because "[b]lack shooters don't" shoot themselves; "they shoot and move on" … On the October 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated Fox News Radio show, while discussing 14-year-old Asa H. Coon, who earlier that day shot four people at his Cleveland high school …
Satyam / Think Progress:
Lynne Cheney: Terrorist Attacks Worldwide Don't Affect 'American Interests'  —  A frequent Bush administration talking point in defense of the "war on terror" is claiming that United States has not been attacked since 9/11.  —  Yesterday, Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Cheney …
Rocky Mountain News:
Documents: Qwest was targeted  —  'Classified info' was not allowed at ex-CEO's trial  —  The National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program, documents released Wednesday suggest.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Answering Ezra  —  Ezra Klein homes in on my own record in helping scuttle Hillary Clinton's dreadful healthcare reform plan in 1993 and 1994.  It's odd that Klein still supports a plan that Clinton herself has now conceded was misbegotten.  Her current plan is far more market-friendly and less bureaucratic.
FactCheck.org:
Fred's Facts Check Out; Rudy's Don't  —  Thompson avoids error at his GOP debate debut.  But Giuliani commits multiple gaffes.  —  Former Sen. Fred Thompson got the facts straight for his GOP debate debut Oct. 9.  But former Mayor Rudy Giuliani added to a lengthening string of exaggerations and misstatements:
Mike Nizza / The Lede:
'No Gays in Iran'?  An Aide Says, Make That 'Not Many'  —  At Columbia University last month, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earned full-on belly laughs for the kind of sound bite that reporters on the campaign trail only dream about.  —  "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country," he said.
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
9 children killed in U.S. raid in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD - A U.S. attack killed 19 insurgents and 15 civilians, including nine children, northwest of the capital Thursday — one of the heaviest civilian death tolls in an American operation in recent months.  The military said it was targeting senior leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq.
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Despite Criticizing Bush, Clinton Uses 9/11 in Ad
Houston Chronicle:
Lawyers say judge violated executed man's rights
Rosalind Russell / The Independent:
Only now, the full horror of Burmese junta's repression of monks emerges
Discussion: Daimnation!
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Bush: 'Didn't watch' the Republicans debate
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Sniper Scope POV in Iraq
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Grand jury issues subpoena in Lewis probe
Discussion: MyDD and D-Day
SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
"Read the Constitution!"  —  Chris Matthews asks the GOP candidates …
Discussion: The Right's Field
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Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
`God' back on flag documents
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Marshall criticized after 'nay' vote on child health
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Daniel Pipes at Wayne State
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and Hot Air
Michael J. Totten:
On Patrol in Ramadi  —  Join me and Army Captain Phil Messer …
Discussion: BLACKFIVE