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Mike Kelly / NorthJersey.com:
Al-Qaida associates in N.J.  —  Osama bin Laden may be hiding in the impenetrable mountains near the Afghanistan border, but FBI counterterror officials say they have identified several of his associates in a far more accessible spot — northern New Jersey.  —  The FBI's elite Joint Terrorism …
New York Times:
An Internet Jihad Aims at U.S. Viewers  —  When Osama bin Laden issued his videotaped message to the American people last month, a young jihad enthusiast went online to help spread the word.  —  "America needs to listen to Shaykh Usaamah very carefully and take his message with great seriousness," he wrote on his blog.
Mark Hemingway / The Corner:   Treason — It's Kind of a Big Deal
Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled
Amanda / Think Progress:
Malkin quits The O'Reilly Factor.  —  Inside Cable News has obtained an e-mail written by Michelle Malkin stating that she has decided to quit appearing on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor: … Some highlights of her time on the show HERE, HERE, and HERE.
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Spud / Inside Cable News:
Malkin quits The Factor...  ICN has obtained an email written by Michelle Malkin that states she has quit doing The O'Reilly Factor...
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TBogg:
The death of hard-hitting journalism as we have come to know it...
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New York Magazine:   Michelle Malkin Quits O'Reilly After Nasty Three-Way
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Romney gets joint drubbing  —  Sensing weakness, Sen. John McCain and Rudy Giuliani have formed an unspoken alliance to try to torpedo Mitt Romney just as many voters are tuning in to the Republican presidential race.  —  "I'm not going to con you," McCain said Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America" when asked about Romney.
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Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
Romney's Blues  —  Every serious campaign hits a big slump …
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UPI:
Craig: Romney 'threw me under ... bus'
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Dan Balz / The Trail:
Who's the Real Republican?
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Charles Hurt / New York Post:
'WIRE' LAW FAILED LOST GI  —  10-HOUR DELAY AS FEDS SOUGHT TAP  —  U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping Queens soldier Alex Jimenez in Iraq earlier this year, The Post has learned.
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Kagro X / Daily Kos:
Cowboys need lawyers, too.
Satyam / Think Progress:
NY Post Exploits Kidnapped U.S. Troops To Push For Expanded Spying Authority
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
FISA Update  —  I am hearing that the FISA bill's path …
Hillary Rodham Clinton / Foreign Affairs:
Security and Opportunity for the Twenty-first Century  —  Summary: The next U.S. president will have a moment of opportunity to reintroduce America to the world and restore our leadership.  To build a world that is safe, prosperous, and just, we must get out of Iraq, rediscover the value of statesmanship …
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Clinton's Foreign Policy
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New York Post:
COURT SUPREMELY OBJECTS TO MEMOIR  —  SUPREME Court Justice Clarence Thomas' memoir "My Grandfather's Son" is doing well everyplace but in the Supreme Court.  With the utmost respect, the Supremes are supreme.  Yes, the president of the United States of America is commander in chief of the Army …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court will define money "laundering"
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Harry Reid Less Popular Than George Bush In Nevada  —  I just left the great state of Nevada, so the latest polling by the Las Vegas Review-Journal has a special appeal to me.  Harry Reid's high-profile leadership of the Democratic Party has impressed the folks back home, but not in the way that Reid would prefer.
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Group Plans to Provide Investigative Journalism  —  As struggling newspapers across the country cut back on investigative reporting, a new kind of journalism venture is hoping to fill the gap.  —  Paul E. Steiger, who was the top editor of The Wall Street Journal for 16 years …
Jed Babbin / Human Events:
Pelosi's Most Dangerous Ploy  —  Congressional Democrats anxious to force a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq are frustrated by their inability to muster a veto-proof majority for legislation that would establish a firm date for retreat.  But what they cannot do directly they are now working hard to do indirectly.
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Universal healthcare: it's not just for Dems anymore  —  With the party taking a bit of a beating over its resistance to expanding access to healthcare for low-income children, Republicans on Capitol Hill apparently have a new idea: they'll introduce a universal healthcare plan of their own.
New York Times:
Air Force Official Dies in Apparent Suicide  —  The second-highest ranking member of the Air Force's procurement office was found dead of an apparent suicide at his Virginia home Sunday, Air Force and police officials said today.  —  The official, Charles D. Riechers, 47 …
Jon Ponder / Pensito Review:
Limbaugh Had Himself Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Now Is in a Snit of Jealousy over Gore's Win  —  While it may have been common knowledge in the Dittohead universe that Rush Limbaugh was nominated for the Nobel Prize this year, the story went largely unreported out here in the real world.
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Ishmael Vera / Front Page Magazine:
Who Hates Americans?  —  The campaign mounted by campus leftists against Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which is scheduled to take place on more than 100 campuses during the week of October 22-26 has taken a new turn with the announcement of a counter-protest at the Washington Monument.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
IT'S THE COVERUP THAT KILLS YOU, PART 2  —  It's been another week without word from the New Republic on the status of its "investigation" into the columns of TNR Baghdad Diarist Scott Thomas Beauchamp.  "The editors" have not spoken on the matter since their August 10 update.
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