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11:25 AM ET, October 27, 2007

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Military Times HOME:
Words spoken in funeral flag-folding draw flap  —  RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Flag-folding recitations by Memorial Honor Detail volunteers are now banned at the nation's 125 veterans graveyards because of a complaint about the ceremony at Riverside National Cemetery.
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Michelle Malkin:
Flag-folding recitations now banned at national cemeteries  —  I'm getting a lot of e-mail about this maddening story in the Military Times about flag-folding recitals being banned at military funerals in national cemeteries: … Here's the banned recital:  —  Flag folds
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.
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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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.
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 …
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ConservativeHome com / ConservativeHome's ToryDiary:
There are eleven times more 'liberals' at the BBC than 'conservatives'
Discussion: Biased BBC
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.
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
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 …
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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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: BitsBlog and The Next Hurrah
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 …
Mark Lasswell / Opinion Journal:
Lone Survivor  —  On Monday Lt. Michael Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.  Meet the man who told his story.  —  ARLINGTON, Va.—At the White House on Monday, the parents of Navy Lt. Michael Murphy received the Medal of Honor posthumously awarded to their son.
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) …
Catherine McMillan / Pajamas Media:
POLITICS OF ENVY AND FEAR IN CANADA'S HEARTLAND  —  PJM Saskatchewan: The attack ads are running and the half-hearted promises for change are being made.  Catherine McMillan reports on the election campaign in one of Canada's most politically-charged provinces.  —  Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers
 
 
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Desmond Butler / Associated Press:
Dutch lawmakers offended by Rep. Lantos
Paul Sims / Daily Mail:
Muslim prisoners sue for millions after they were offered ham sandwiches for Ramadan
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National Review Online:
McCarthy: Waterboarding and Torture
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OK, TNR Is Looking More And More Like Just A Pile Of C**p.
Associated Press:
Sen. Craig will argue against constitutionality of his bust
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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.
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Richard Lardner / Associated Press:
Army to review Iraq contracts for fraud
MSNBC:
'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Oct. 25
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
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INHOFE NOT OK.  —  Reading about yet another terrible stand taken …
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