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3:30 PM ET, October 11, 2007

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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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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
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
THE FEVER SWAMP....A plainly disgusted Karen Tumulty recaps Graeme Frost's introduction to the modern conservative fever swamp in Time magazine and concludes with this: … But of course, that's the whole point.  The slavering hordes of Malkin-land might or might not have made a difference …
Discussion: Brian Beutler
Michelle Malkin:
My reply to Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his fellow travelers; Plus: Hillary threatens S-CHIP critics  —  Update 1:35pm Eastern.  WHY DO YOU HATE CHILDREN SO MUCH?!  —  Update 1:00pm Eastern.  Snort-worthy blue-on-blue spat of the day: ThinkProgress vs. CNN.
Ezra Klein:
An Answer!  —  Michelle Malkin replies to my challenge for a debate about S-CHIP.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and D-Day
Carla Marinucci / SFGate:
UPDATE - Gore cancels appearance at Boxer fundraiser  —  Sen. Barbara Boxer's office just contacted us to say former Vice President Al Gore has been called "overseas" for a trip related to his work on global warming and has canceled his scheduled appearance Thursday in San Francisco at a fundraiser for Boxer's re-election effort.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Will Gore add Nobel to Oscar and Emmy?  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Will Al Gore add a Nobel Peace Prize to his Oscar and Emmy honors?  —  "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary featuring the former vice president captured two Academy Awards in February.  The film focuses on Gore and his worldwide travels …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Movement From the Gore-acle?  —  As regular Fix readers know …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Al Gore for President
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.
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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.
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 …
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:
Discussion: Fred File and Liberal Values
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C. Onur Ant / Associated Press:
Turkey recalls US ambassador for talks  —  ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey ordered its ambassador in Washington to return to Turkey for consultations over a U.S. House panel's approval of a bill describing the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians as genocide, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
Hugh Naylor / New York Times:
Syria Tells Journalists Israeli Raid Did Not Occur  —  Foreign journalists perused the rows of corn and the groves of date palms pregnant with low-hanging fruit here this week, while agents of Syria's ever-present security services stood in the background, watching closely, almost nervously.
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 …
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Four House Democrats No Longer Support the War  —  Anti-war activists are excited that nearly 90 House Democrats (and Ron Paul) are writing to President Bush to inform him that they will no longer support the war.  Actually, that's an exaggeration.  FOUR House Democrats have written …
Discussion: Conservative Belle
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD: Warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty  —  There is a lot of debate about what accounts for the decrepit state of our political press, but often overlooked is the sheer sloth and ignorance of journalists, who repeat what they are told without having any idea what they are talking about.
Discussion: TalkLeft
 
 
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The Atlantic Online:
Me & The War  —  One of the commenters to an idiotic Winds …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Not Ready To Make Nice  —  Well this gets a big, fat "hell, no" from me.
Michael J. Totten:
On Patrol in Ramadi  —  Join me and Army Captain Phil Messer …
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
LEAVE IT TO TEXAS TO PUT A STOP TO EXECUTIVE OVERREACHING.
The Sideshow:
It's no secret  —  Caro brings my attention to this timely cartoon …
Discussion: Eschaton and First Draft
Christopher Demuth / Opinion Journal:
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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
GOP lawyer ties Rove to Siegelman case
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Army Offers Big Cash To Keep Key Officers
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
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