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4:25 PM ET, October 15, 2007

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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.
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 …
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...  Somehow this was just like when Walter Cronkite retired, but with less fanfare: … I think I speak for everyone when I say that we will miss her professionalism:
Discussion: Daily Kos
Richelieu / Weekly Standard:
Romney's Blues  —  Every serious campaign hits a big slump in the pre-primary season, be it John McCain's time in the immigration reform wood chipper or Fred Thompson's Zombie on Ice announcement tour.  Rudy Giuliani's big slump will surely come soon enough.  But for now, Mitt Romney is in the ditch.
Discussion: The Corner and Washington Wire
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UPI:
Craig: Romney 'threw me under ... bus'
Discussion: The Influence Peddler and Redstate
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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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"
Discussion: TalkLeft
James Kirchick / Los Angeles Times:
Clarence Thomas is not the hypocrite
Discussion: PrairiePundit
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 …
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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Tom Bevan / TIME: Real Clear Politics:
Sen. Reid's Favorable Ratings Tank
Discussion: PrairiePundit
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 …
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.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Gore Derangement Syndrome  —  On the day after Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize, The Wall Street Journal's editors couldn't even bring themselves to mention Mr. Gore's name.  Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long list of people they thought deserved the prize more.
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Jules Crittenden:
Gore Derangement Syndrome
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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.
Discussion: The Corner and Confederate Yankee
 
 
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