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6:00 AM ET, October 27, 2007

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CNN Political Ticker:
FEMA under fire for 'faking' news conference  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House scolded the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday for staging a phony news conference about assistance to victims of wildfires in southern California.  —  The agency — much maligned for its sluggish response …
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Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
First Read: A look behind FEMA's fake newser  —  From NBC's Kelly O'Donnell  —  On Tuesday, FEMA held what was called a "news briefing" on the California fires, but the questions asked did not come from reporters.  They were asked instead by FEMA staffers.
White House:
Press Briefing by Dana Perino
Discussion: First Draft
Tnrstaff / The Plank:
A Scott Beauchamp Update  —  Since our last statement on "Shock Troops," a Diarist by Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp that we published in our July 23 issue, we have continued our investigation into the article's veracity.  On Wednesday, for a brief period, The Drudge Report posted several documents …
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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
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 …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Macsmind
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Andrew / stat.columbia.edu:
Some cool graphs of rich states and poor states  —  I'll take advantage of Paul Krugman's recent link to our paper on income and voting by putting up some cool scatterplots that we made recently.  It started with our maps of which states Bush and Kerry would've won if only the votes of the poor, middle-income, and rich were counted:
John Edwards for President:
Edwards Introduces Bold Proposals For Restoring Corporate Responsibility And Strengthening Retirement Security For The Middle Class And Working Families  —  As part of seven-day "Stand Strong" campaign, Edwards calls for updating the social compact with hard-working Americans to protect them from abuse by corporations
Discussion: Punditry
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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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Tony Barber / Financial Times:
Putin invokes Cuban missile crisis  —  Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, on Friday compared US plans to build a missile defence shield near Russia's borders to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.  —  Mr Putin quickly qualified his remarks …
Discussion: On Deadline
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 …
Kelly Zito / San Francisco Chronicle:
Billions in housing wealth at risk as foreclosures soar  —  More than $23.6 billion in California housing wealth will evaporate if real estate prices continue to decline and foreclosures on subprime home loans soar, according to a new congressional report that indicates the fallout from the national mortgage crisis is worsening.
Sam Boyd / American Prospect:
INHOFE NOT OK.  —  Reading about yet another terrible stand taken by Senator James "global warming is the second-largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state" Inhofe (leading the fight against the law of the sea), I wondered if there was much chance …
Discussion: Gristmill
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 …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Richard Lardner / Associated Press:
Army to review Iraq contracts for fraud  —  WASHINGTON - A team of specially trained investigators will hunker down in an Army office north of Detroit on Monday to begin poring over hundreds of Iraq war contracts in search for rigged awards.  —  This team of 10 auditors …
MSNBC:
'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Oct. 25  —  Guests: Valerie Plame Wilson, Jim Webb, Bobby Jindal, Ezra Klein, Anne  —  CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Witness for the prosecution.  Tonight, the woman at the heart of the White House crimes.  Let's play HARDBALL.  —  Good evening.  I'm Chris Matthews.
 
 
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National Review Online:
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
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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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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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Associated Press:
Uproar Over Obama's Gospel Tour Continues
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