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8:00 AM ET, October 19, 2007

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MSNBC:
Blasts aimed at Bhutto kill more than 120  —  Ex-Pakistan prime minister not hurt, but more than 120 killed  —  DEVELOPING STORY  —  KARACHI, Pakistan - A suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto killed at least 123 people Thursday night …
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Ashraf Khan / Associated Press:
Al-Qaida links cited in Bhutto bomb
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Welcome back, Bhutto: Dozens dead in jihadi assassination attempt …
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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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Exclusive: Senator Chris Dodd Will Put A Hold On Telecom Immunity Bill  —  Senator Chris Dodd plans to put a hold on the Senate FISA renewal bill because it reportedly grants retroactive immunity to telephone companies for any role they played in the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program, Election Central has learned.
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
CQ: Surveillance Bill Will Go to Senate Floor Next Month  —  Tim Starks of Congressional Quarterly reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) plans to bring the Senate's surveillance bill up for floor debate in mid-November.  That's despite the hold that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) …
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  —  Mormon candidate is winning over many religious conservatives  —  gjeffers@dallasnews.com  —  A prominent Dallas minister told his congregation that if they wanted to elect a Christian to the White House, Republican Mitt Romney wasn't qualified.
Discussion: Pandagon
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.
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Experience — Sen. Clinton says she has 35 years of it
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
The Fantasy of Ron Paul's Military Support  —  Does Andrew Sullivan read stories before he comments on them?  In this case, I suspect he didn't, otherwise he's engaging in pure military-related fantasy.  In response to this article from the Houston Chronicle reporting that Ron Paul …
Discussion: Death
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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
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
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.
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Is Waterboarding Torture?  Mukasey: Yes, if It's Torture  —  Mukasey has firmly established that he's against torture — yesterday he even compared it to the Holocaust (see also here).  —  But what exactly does that mean?  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) asked Mukasey if he thought waterboarding was Constitutional.
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Kristin Bender / Contra Costa Times:
Recruiting facility at center of storm  —  BERKELEY — Flag-waving demonstrators far outnumbered a group of peace advocates who were protesting a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting center in downtown on Wednesday.  —  But groups on both sides of Shattuck Avenue slowed traffic and jammed sidewalks …
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.
ABCNEWS:
Silicon Insider: How The New York Times Fell Apart  —  Once the Paper of Record, the Newspaper Now has Investors Bailing.  Why?  —  OPINION By MICHAEL S. MALONE  —  Boom!  And down goes the biggest newspaper name of all.  —  As you may have read, yesterday brokerage giant Morgan Stanley dumped …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
 
 
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
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Little Green Footballs:
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Discussion: Solomonia and Hot Air
Naomi Wolf / The Huffington Post:
Finally, Action! Ron Paul Introduces Bill to Defend Constitution!
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Colbert Consulted Parties Before Announcing Run
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Doddmania  —  While Senate rules are confusing to mere mortals …
John Derbyshire / Media Matters for America:
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Discussion: culturekitchen
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Splitting The Pringle  —  Sam Brownback, we hardly knew ye:
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
McCain Back at Scene of Collapse in S. Carolina
Discussion: Associated Press and Amygdala
The Raw Story:
Bush on Israel: I don't remember 1981
Ideas Primary:
ENDING THE STALEMATE ON IRAQ
CNN Political Ticker:
Clinton blasted over 'hippie museum'
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Lawmakers blast DHS for building border fence with Chinese steel