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10:40 AM ET, October 27, 2007

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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
FEMA Official Apologizes for Staged Briefing With Fake Reporters  —  The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized yesterday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
FEMA's Death Wish  —  After Katrina, FEMA has suffered under tremendous scrutiny, with some wondering whether it should get entirely disbanded and another agency formed to replace it.  Its next disaster response would tell whether FEMA could survive — and it seems to have met the test …
Discussion: The Corner and The Newshoggers
White House:
Press Briefing by Dana Perino
Discussion: First Draft
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
First Read: A look behind FEMA's fake newser
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
'I Don't Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier's Life'  —  BAGHDAD, Oct. 26 Their line of tan Humvees and Bradley Fighting Vehicles creeps through another Baghdad afternoon.  At this pace, an excruciating slowness, they strain to see everything, hoping the next manhole cover, the next rusted barrel, does not hide another bomb.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
State Dept. To Order Diplomats To Iraq  —  As Many as 50 Positions Are Expected to Be Open  —  The State Department will order as many as 50 U.S. diplomats to take posts in Iraq next year because of expected shortfalls in filling openings there, the first such large-scale forced assignment since the Vietnam War.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
D'Oh: House Panel Screw-Up Reveals Whistleblower Email Addresses  —  Here's a whoops with a capital W.  —  This summer the House Judiciary Committee launched an effort to collect tips from would-be whistleblowers in the Justice Department.  The U.S. attorney firings scandal had shown …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
The Mitt-Brownback spat carries on  —  Sam Brownback may be out of the race, but his very public dangling of an endorsement for Rudy is angering at least one prominent Romney backer.  To set the stage: These two camps, Brownback and Romney, are not fond of each other and did battle …
Discussion: CNA Daily News and National Review
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Bopp, Top Social Conservative Supporter Of Romney, Lashes …
Discussion: MyDD
Daily Mail:
Facebook reveals the BBC as a liberal hotbed  —  The BBC has frequently been accused of having a liberal bias.  —  But now the corporation's own staff appear to have confirmed this by revealing their political views on the networking website Facebook.  —  A survey of BBC employees …
CNN:
USS Cole bomber released from jail  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. law enforcement officials Friday blasted Yemen's release of one of the leaders of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 U.S. soldiers.  —  "We are dismayed and deeply disappointed in the government of Yemen's decision …
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Advocate:
Obama Explains Why He's the Best Candidate for LGBT Americans  —  When the Obama campaign announced that Donnie McClurkin would be among the featured singers on the presidential candidate's gospel tour in South Carolina this weekend, it inadvertently ventured into the void between African-American Christians and gays and lesbians.
Robert Reich / Salon:
Why Democrats are afraid to raise taxes on the rich  —  New data from the Internal Revenue Service show that income inequality continues to widen.  The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans earn more than 21 percent of all income.  That's a postwar record.  The bottom 50 percent of all Americans …
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Democrats Plan a Shorter Workweek  —  Shortly after winning a majority last year, Democrats triumphantly declared that they would put Congress back to work, promising an "end to the two-day workweek."  And indeed, the House has clocked more time in Washington this year than in any other session since 1995 …
Discussion: Suitably Flip and Right Voices
Media Matters for America:
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser  —  This week, Slate.com's political/gossip blogger Mickey Kaus wrote: … In just 21 words, Kaus managed to elevate the topics he speculates wildly about to the level of the most famous case of presidential wrongdoing in U.S. history, and to equate his …
wor.ldne.ws:
Donald Rumsfeld charged with torture during trip to France  —  Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got an unpleasant surprise during his visit to France today when human rights groups filed a complaint with the Paris Prosecutor before the "Court of First Instance" (Tribunal de Grande Instance) …
Associated Press:
Sen. Craig will argue against constitutionality of his bust  —  Idaho Sen. Larry Craig will argue before an appeals court that Minnesota's disorderly conduct law is unconstitutional as it applies to his conviction in a bathroom sex sting, according to a new court filing.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Genarlow Wilson released  —  Georgia Supreme Court rules his sentence was cruel and unusual  —  Genarlow Wilson walked out of prison a free man Friday afternoon, hours after the Georgia Supreme Court tossed out his 10-year sentence for having consensual oral sex when he was 17 with a girl who was 15.
Discussion: protein wisdom and The Plank
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National Review Online:
McCarthy: Waterboarding and Torture
Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET:
OK, TNR Is Looking More And More Like Just A Pile Of C**p.
Editor and Publisher:
New Poll Suggests Stephen Colbert Should Be Frontrunner Within a Month!
Niall Firth / Daily Mail:
Human race will 'split into two different species'
Hugo Restall / Opinion Journal:
All the Tobacco in China  —  Taking up the habit of rulers and the common man.
Discussion: Armavirumque and L.A. Times
Richard Lardner / Associated Press:
Army to review Iraq contracts for fraud
MSNBC:
'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Oct. 25
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
I'm Important!  —  So Ben Craw and I just got back from the final …
Tony Barber / Financial Times:
Putin invokes Cuban missile crisis
Sam Boyd / American Prospect:
INHOFE NOT OK.  —  Reading about yet another terrible stand taken …
Kelly Zito / San Francisco Chronicle:
Billions in housing wealth at risk as foreclosures soar
Roosevelt Room / White House:
President Bush Discusses Appropriations
Discussion: Washington Wire
Akbar Ganji / Washington Post:
Why Iran's Democrats Shun Aid
Andrew / stat.columbia.edu:
Some cool graphs of rich states and poor states
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
GOP LUNACY....Ron Brownstein looks at the ongoing Republican …