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9:40 AM ET, October 19, 2007

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Washington Post:
Evangelicals Lukewarm Toward GOP Field  —  For months, Republican presidential candidates such as Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and John McCain have courted evangelical Christians, meeting with religious leaders throughout the Midwest and the South.  —  Today, thousands of Christian conservatives …
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Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
Dallas minister urges vote for a Christian, not Romney
Discussion: Pandagon
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Pelosi's Armenian Gambit  —  There are three relevant questions concerning the Armenian genocide.  —  (a) Did it happen?  —  (b) Should the U.S. House of Representatives be expressing itself on this now?  —  (c) Was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's determination to bring this to a vote …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
Krauthammer's Razor  —  I wrote about the House resolution condemning the Armenian genocide in "What about the Dardanelles?"  Charles Krauthammer devotes his weekly column to the subject in "Pelosi's Armenian gambit."  I called the House resolution an act of unbelievable irresponsibility …
New York Times:
House Sustains President's Veto on Child Health  —  The House on Thursday upheld President Bush's veto of a bill to provide health insurance to 10 million children, but Democrats vowed to send it back to him next month, with minor changes, in the belief that they could ultimately prevail.
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Fox News:
Attack on President Bush Continues Past SCHIP Veto Override Vote  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Pete Stark launched a shocking one-man assault on the Bush administration Thursday, interrupting floor debate before a failed attempt to override President Bush's veto of the so-called SCHIP bill …
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE HLF JURY RETURNS  —  The Dallas Morning News reports that the jury has reached a verdict in the Holy Land Foundation trial after 19 days of deliberation.  The verdicts were sealed and will not be read in court until the presiding Judge Joe Fish returns to town on Monday.
Discussion: On Deadline
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:   PA to shut down Islamic charities
New York Times:
Panel Approves Eavesdropping Compromise  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday night to approve compromise legislation that would strengthen court oversight of eavesdropping on Americans while granting telephone and Internet companies legal immunity for their role in assisting government surveillance programs since 2001.
Discussion: The American Street
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Washington Post:
Senate Panel Approves New Surveillance Bill
Ashraf Khan / Associated Press:
Bhutto blames deadly attack on militants  —  KARACHI, Pakistan - Former Prime Minister Benezir Bhutto, her return from exile shattered by a suicide attack that killed up to 136 people, blamed militants Friday for trying to kill her and said she would not "surrender our great nation" to them.
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MSNBC:
Blasts aimed at Bhutto kill more than 120
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Reid Tries To Shut Down Dodd's Hold  —  Well this is quite shocking: … I'm a bit confused here.  This just doesn't happen.  So I chatted with someone I know with extensive Hill experience, who said: … Consider what happened when Chris Dodd introduced the Emmet Till cold case bill …
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
CQ: Surveillance Bill Will Go to Senate Floor Next Month
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Death of the Machine  —  "There are two things that are important in politics.  The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is."  So declared Mark Hanna, the great Gilded Age political boss.  —  Karl Rove has often described Hanna as his role model.
Jonathan Clayton / Times of London:
Reggae star Lucky Dube shot dead by carjackers  —  The South African music legend Lucky Dube, an icon across the continent, was shot dead late last night in an apparent botched hijacking, police said.  —  Captain Cheryl Engelbrecht said the incident took place at about 8.20 pm after Mr Dube …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14  —  We're not used to thinking of them this way.  But many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger.  Most of the time.
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sen. Clinton digs deep into D.C. donor pockets  —  New fundraising data shows that Beltway insiders who had been on the fence are flocking to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) presidential campaign as she has maintained her strong lead in the polls, performed well in debates and made few mistakes.
David Brooks / New York Times:
From the Back of the Pack  —  Rindge, N.H.  —  The first thing you notice about Mike Huckabee is that he has a Mayberry name and a Jim Nabors face.  But it's quickly clear that Huckabee is as good a campaigner as anybody running for president this year.  And before too long it becomes easy …
Mike Potemra / The Corner:
Does Israel Have to Be a Convent?  —  Anti-Iraq War blogger Mark Shea is trying to drive a wedge between U.S. evangelicals and Israel, by posting a video on his website that he hopes will shock us into realizing that Israel is just another "secular nation-state."
Discussion: Israel Matzav and BitsBlog
 
 
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Little Green Footballs:
An Artist and His Dog  —  Swedish artist Lars Vilks …
Discussion: Solomonia and Hot Air
Naomi Wolf / The Huffington Post:
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
The Fantasy of Ron Paul's Military Support
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Colbert Consulted Parties Before Announcing Run
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