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2:50 PM ET, October 13, 2007

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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Sanchez' Message  —  It seems that half of the message retired General Richard Sanchez intended to deliver missed the cut at most newsrooms, and with most bloggers.  Typical among the reports of his blistering oration is the front-page treatment given by the Washington Post's Josh White …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
A TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST  —  If the Bush administration gets attacked, the press will report it.  But what if someone attacks the press?  If the attack goes unreported, did it ever really happen?  —  Today General Ricardo Sanchez gave a speech to the Military Reporters and Editors' annual conference …
Bruce Kesler / Democracy Project:
MSM Omits Sanchez' Criticism Of MSM (Roggio Replies)  —  Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez' speech and Q&A session at the Military Reporters & Editors convention has unleashed a whirl of major media coverage and commentary.  (See Memeorandum, for examples.)  All are focused on his criticism …
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
SANCHEZ AND THE PRESS....Matt Yglesias takes note of former Lt. Gen. Rick Sanchez's Friday blast at everyone but himself over our failure in Iraq, but then says: … Actually, not quite.  It's true that Sanchez didn't pretend that things are going well in Iraq, but he actually spent the entire …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and TBogg
Josh White / Washington Post:
Ex-Commander In Iraq Faults War Strategy
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
The Trivial Pursuit  —  Yesterday began with the gratifying news that Al Gore, derided by George H.W. Bush as the "Ozone Man," had won the Nobel Peace Prize.  —  The first thing media types wanted to know was whether this would prompt Mr. Gore to elbow his way into the presidential campaign.
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Bjorn Lomborg / Boston Globe:
An inconvenient Peace Prize  —  THIS YEAR'S Nobel Peace Prize justly rewards the thousands of scientists of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  These scientists are engaged in excellent, painstaking work that establishes exactly what the world should expect from climate change.
Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
Al Gore: the anti-Bush
Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Al Gore wins - and this time, no one can take it away from him
Discussion: Washington Post and AMERICAblog
Fox Sports:
Aides immunized before NASCAR race  —  LIKE THIS STORY?  —  Going to a NASCAR race?  Better get your shots.  —  That's the message Rep. Robin Hayes seems to think is being sent as a handful of congressional aides were told to get immunized before a fact-finding trip for a House Homeland Security Committee.
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Washington Post:
Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm  —  Qwest Feared NSA Plan Was Illegal, Filing Says  —  A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions …
The Corner:
Thy Will Be Done  —  Good Catholics support government-run health care, or at least the expansion of SCHIP, say some activists in Detroit—and it sure sounds like the archdiocese office is egging them on:
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Gregg Krupa / Detroit News:
Catholics target three over 'life issue'  —  They say congressmen need to support child health insurance plan; ad, e-mail campaign to start.  —  Some Catholics in Metro Detroit are organizing a media and Internet blitz against three local members of Congress, saying the representatives' stand …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Ezra Klein:
Andrew Sullivan and "Honesty"  —  If Andrew Sullivan wants to compare honesty, then let's have at it.  I have never, not once, written or published anything I believed to have been untrue.  I have never, not once, allowed being "provocative" to stand in for being rigorous, or honest.  Has Sullivan?
Discussion: BitsBlog
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Chuck Simmins / America's North Shore Journal:
Spc. Rachael L. Hugo … Milwaukee Journal Sentinel … Wisconsin State Journal … Channel 3000 … Channel 3000
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
The Speech He Needs to Give  —  Giuliani and social conservatives.  —  Rudy Giuliani has a problem.  It's bigger than he imagines and could doom his presidential prospects.  The problem is his pro-choice position on abortion.  It's one he cannot finesse by simply saying he "would keep the balance exactly where it is now."
Investor's Business Daily:
Sharia By The Inch  —  Islamofascism: In a monumental nod to political correctness, the Empire State Building is to be lit up green in honor of the Muslim holiday Eid.  The separation of Islam from terror is officially complete.  —  Six years ago, Islamic terrorists screamed "Allah is Greatest! …
 
 
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Jeff Fecke / Shakespeare's Sister:
Explainer: What's an MRA?
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Katherine Mangu-Ward / Reason Magazine:
Nuclear Power: Celebrating 50 Years of Catastrophic Failure
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com and CNN
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Voting Machines Giving Florida New Headache
Reuters:
IRS says rich getting richer: report
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Wilson Ring / Associated Press:
Firm with overses clients says feds are bugging phones, computers
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Next Hurrah
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Cackle-Free Clinton Faces Olbermann
Paul Von Zielbauer / New York Times:
U.S. Investigating Strike That Killed 15 Civilians
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Tom Brune / Newsday:
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New York Post:
UNFIT TO PRINT?  —  Every major daily paper in New York took note …
James W. Ceaser / Weekly Standard:
The Stupid Party  —  How the Democrats earned the epithet …
Discussion: Power Line
Think Progress:
Terms Expire Today For 11 Of Gonzales' Handpicked Interim U.S. Attorneys
JoinRudy2008:
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Discussion: JustOneMinute
Juan Cole:
Who Lost Turkey?  —  Turkey has been the strongest ally …
 

 
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