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12:10 PM ET, October 11, 2007

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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.
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Michelle Malkin:
My reply to Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his fellow travelers; Plus: Hillary threatens S-CHIP critics  —  Update 9:25am Eastern.  Your S-CHIP editorial cartoon of the morning comes from Nate Beeler of the Examiner...  Meanwhile, Time magazine recycles Democrat talking points and passes it off as reporting.
Sadly, No!:
Stalkin' Malkin is losing it  —  It's getting funnier and funnier.  She's plunged straight off the deep end with this one: … Gad, it's like watching one of the Heathers write in her personal pity diary.  All that's missing is angry complaints about Confederate Yankee and Ace turning into Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads.
Discussion: RADAMISTO and Obsidian Wings
Ezra Klein:
An Answer!  —  Michelle Malkin replies to my challenge for a debate about S-CHIP.  Her answer?  Of course not.  She's afraid to debate policy on the merits.  She has no interest in "a good-faith argument."  She's here to swing the hatchet, and lacks either the interest or the aptitude to rise above that station.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Lewis Smith / Times of London:
Al Gore's inconvenient judgment  —  Al Gore's award-winning climate change documentary was littered with nine inconvenient untruths, a judge ruled yesterday.  —  An Inconvenient Truth won plaudits from the environmental lobby and an Oscar from the film industry but was found wanting when it was scrutinised in the High Court in London.
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Al Gore for President
Discussion: The Swamp
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Army Offers Big Cash To Keep Key Officers  —  The Army is offering cash bonuses of up to $35,000 to retain young officers serving in key specialties — including military intelligence, infantry and aviation — in an unprecedented bid to forestall a critical shortage of officer ranks …
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Another Voice in the Choir  —  Fred Thompson did not disgrace himself in his first formal debate as a Republican presidential candidate, but he also did not dominate the stage full of White House hopefuls in Dearborn, Mich., on Tuesday.  —  At least three others — John McCain …
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Gail Collins / New York Times:   Calvin Coolidge Redux
Lance / Maine blog:
The anti-MoveOn ads Google won't let you see  —  Robert Cox has a piece in today's Examiner about Google's restriction of ads I tried to place with them on behalf of the Collins for Senator campaign: … This story is currently #1 on the Examiner's 'most popular' list across the country.
WorldNetDaily:
Giuliani 'doesn't deserve to live'  —  Terrorists threaten presidential candidate, cite Rudy's war stance, Arafat treatment  —  Saying Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani "doesn't deserve to live," Palestinian terror leaders are threatening to harm the former New York mayor …
Marcella Bombardieri / Boston Globe:
Clinton vows to check executive power  —  Would curb use of signing statements  —  Senator Hillary Clinton said yesterday that if she is elected president, she intends to roll back President Bush's expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put …
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
Alberto Gonzales hires defense attorney  —  WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has hired a high-powered Washington lawyer to represent him in investigations of mismanagement of the Justice Department.  George Terwilliger, a white-collar crime defense attorney …
New York Times:
Turkey Angry Over House Armenian Genocide Vote  —  Turkey reacted angrily today to a House committee vote in Washington on Wednesday to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in World War I as an act of genocide, calling the decision "unacceptable."
Alex Berenson / New York Times:
Boom Times for Dentists, but Not for Teeth  —  For American dentists, times have never been better.  —  The same cannot be said for Americans' teeth.  —  With dentists' fees rising far faster than inflation and more than 100 million people lacking dental insurance, the percentage of Americans …
Editor and Publisher:
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.
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
GOP lawyer ties Rove to Siegelman case  —  House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) on Wednesday released an interview with GOP lawyer Dana Jill Simpson implicating former White House adviser Karl Rove in the prosecution and conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D) on corruption charges.
Discussion: At-Largely, Donklephant and MyDD
Ben Quinn / Telegraph:
Islamists damage giant rock Buddha  —  Islamist radicals in Pakistan have attempted to destroy an ancient carving of Buddha by drilling holes in the rock and filling them with dynamite.  —  The 23ft high image was damaged during the attack, which brought back memories of the Taliban's …
Democracy Now:
EXCLUSIVE - Family Members of Slain Iraqis Sue Blackwater USA for Deadly Baghdad Shooting  —  Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript  —  The Center for Constitutional Rights is filing a lawsuit today under the Alien Tort Claims Act on behalf of the families of three …
Discussion: Think Progress
 
 
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A 6-Hour Strike by Auto Workers Against Chrysler
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
LEAVE IT TO TEXAS TO PUT A STOP TO EXECUTIVE OVERREACHING.
Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
Los Angeles to Permit Sleeping on Sidewalks
Discussion: TalkLeft
The Sideshow:
It's no secret  —  Caro brings my attention to this timely cartoon …
Discussion: Eschaton and First Draft
Karen Collier / NEWS.com.au:
Greenpeace urges kangaroo consumption to fight global warming
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Hail to the Punchline-in-Chief: An All-Star Panel of Pundits Weighs …
Discussion: David Frum
Steve Lawrence / Associated Press:
Calif. bans smoking in cars with kids
The Smoking Gun:
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Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
Hillary Talks About 'It'  —  Would she defend Rush Limbaugh's …
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Victor Davis Hanson / Real Clear Politics:
Hope Yet for Iraq?
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
The United States Attorneys Scandal Comes to Mississippi
Wall Street Journal:
The United States of Subprime
Discussion: The Big Picture
Hugh Naylor / New York Times:
Syria Tells Journalists Israeli Raid Did Not Occur
National Enquirer:
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