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12:10 PM ET, October 21, 2007

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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
The real war on children  —  On Thursday, Congress attempted to override President Bush's veto of the SCHIP expansion.  SCHIP?  Isn't that something to do with health care for children?  Absolutely.  And here is Bay Area Democratic Rep. Pete Stark addressing the issue with his customary forensic incisiveness:
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Don Surber:
Why Pelosi rebuked Stark
Discussion: Redstate
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Suicide Is Not Painless  —  IT was one of those stories lost in the newspaper's inside pages.  Last week a man you've never heard of — Charles D. Riechers, 47, the second-highest-ranking procurement officer in the United States Air Force — killed himself by running his car's engine in his suburban Virginia garage.
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Jerusalem Post:
PM expresses 'discomfort' over release of would-be assassins  —  The Palestinian Authority's conduct towards the suspects in the plot to assassinate him is "a source of discomfort," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday before he left Israel for France.  —  "Israel will find the manner …
Discussion: Israpundit and Israel Matzav
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Line-Item Foolishness  —  Mitt Romney is an intelligent man who sometimes seems eager to find bushel baskets under which to hide his light.  Romney faults Rudy Giuliani for opposing the presidential line-item veto.  But Giuliani doesn't, unfortunately.  The facts — not that they loom large in this skirmish — are:
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
The wonderful world beyond spin  —  ORLANDO, Fla.—Tonight marks the 94th debate between the Republican presidential hopefuls.  —  OK, so I've lost track of exactly how many.  I have the finger scars from enough "live-blogging" to prove that there have been a lot.  Some might even say too many.
Discussion: The Caucus
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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Ouch!  Hillary Clinton's softer image is clawed over dumped cat  —  AS THE "first pet" of the Clinton era, Socks, the White House cat, allowed "chilly" Hillary Clinton to show a caring, maternal side as well as bringing joy to her daughter Chelsea.  So where is Socks today?
Nick Rivera / The Moderate Voice:
Tomorrow's Neocon Today  —  In March of 2005, I wrote a post at the Centrist Coalition, in which I predicted that Hillary Clinton would be the frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic Presidential Nomination.  In that post, I criticized her both for her support for the Iraq War and her pandering to social conservatives.
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
Salim Mansur / Toronto Sun:
Time to end the charade  —  Every American president, beginning with Richard Nixon in the aftermath of the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war, has been tempted with the idea of an international conference on the Middle East for negotiating the final comprehensive settlement of the long festering conflict between Arabs and Jews.
Michael A. Ledeen / Wall Street Journal:
Victory Is Within Reach in Iraq  —  Should we declare victory over al Qaeda in the battle of Iraq?  —  The very question would have seemed proof of dementia only a few months ago, yet now some highly respected military officers, including the commander of Special Forces in Iraq …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Leavitt's Healthy Vision  —  PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — For most of the American public, Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt is best defined by his role defending President Bush's controversial veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Discussion: Eschaton
Sam Enriquez / Baltimore Sun:
U.S. to build watchtower at Iran-Iraq border  —  Structure to target smuggling of shipments that authorities allege are illegal arms for war  —  ZURBATIYA, Iraq - About 300 trucks cross the border here every day, ferrying fruit, rugs and building supplies from Iran - and, if U.S. authorities are to be believed, illegal weapons.
Discussion: AMERICAblog and William K. Wolfrum
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Next Challenge in Iraq  —  Let's assume that the numbers from Iraq are right and that there has been a significant reduction in violence there.  Let's even agree that the Bush administration's strategy is finally showing some success.  Isn't that an argument for accelerating the transfer …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
State Department Struggles To Oversee Private Army  —  The State Department Turned to Contractors Such as Blackwater Amid a Fight With the Pentagon Over Personal Security in Iraq  —  Last Christmas Day in Baghdad, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad received a furious phone call from Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi.
Del Simmons / FreeSpeech.com:
Obscure, violent left-wing blogger threatens murder for hire!  —  Sadly, Mr. Chuck Adkins of Lincoln Park, Michigan has now taken his rude behavior a step too far.  Tonight I posted a respectful comment (no profanity or anything) to his blog asking him to explain to me how Limbaugh had "mocked" the Frost kid.
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Chuck Adkins:
Taking a Break....  I think I'm going to be taking a break from Blogging about Politics.
Discussion: Macsmind
Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
Valerie Plame Wilson Speaks Muzzled  —  Four years and three months after waking up on a Sunday morning and learning that her career as a clandestine intelligence officer was over because of a stupid column by Robert Novak, Valerie Plame Wilson finally gets to meet the public and tell some of her story.
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
In Memoir, Ex-Spy Tells Her Side of CIA Leak Case
 
 
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