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11:55 PM ET, October 27, 2007

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Obama Promises a Forceful Stand Against Clinton — Senator Barack Obama said he would start confronting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton more forcefully, declaring Friday that she had not been candid in describing her views on critical issues, as he tries to address mounting alarm among supporters …

Discussion: The Politico, The Atlantic Online, Eunomia, JustOneMinute, Roger L. Simon and Prairie Weather

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:

OBAMA ON THE ATTACK....Barack Obama says he's about to dial up his campaign a notch: … This is good, but I have my doubts that trying to be "clear with the American people" on these particular subjects is going to do the trick. As Obama says, Hillary Clinton is "very deft politically," and I don't think that's going to change.

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker and Eschaton

Normanm / CNN Political Ticker:
Edwards tours Iowa's 99 counties — again

Discussion: The Swamp

Little Green Footballs:

BNP Leader Invited to MSU by 'Conservative' Students — In the boneheaded move of the year, conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom invited British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin, a flat-out racist and Holocaust denier, to speak about the dangers of Islam …

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Spartan Spectator and Hot Air

Brendan Bouffard / lsj.com:

Protesters shout down anti-Islam speaker at MSU — Audience uses chants, obscenities to interrupt British Nationalist's speech — EAST LANSING - When British Nationalist Nick Griffin took the podium at a Friday night Michigan State University event, he tried to explain how Islam is a threat to Western civilization.

John Cole / Balloon Juice:

Beauchamp's Unit- More Shoddy Journamalism and the Citizen Journalist Response! — The Washington Post has a piece on Scott Beauchamp's unit in Iraq, and it didn't take me long to realize this is just another liberal hit piece designed to subvert our will, coughed up in the middle …

Discussion: The Impolitic

Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
'I Don't Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier's Life'

Gateway Pundit:
More Twisted Journalism- WaPo Misses the Facts in Their Report On Iraq

Discussion: Flopping Aces, Wake up America and Jeff Emanuel

Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
More 'phony soldiers' speak out against Iraq policy

Discussion: Liberty Street and Think Progress

Michael Moore / Missoulian:

Medical marijuana advocate kills herself — Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded.

Discussion: Raw Story Breaking News and Suburban Guerrilla

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Another Drug War Victim

Discussion: Balloon Juice

New York Times:

Yet Another Photo of Site in Syria, Yet More Questions — The mystery surrounding the construction of what might have been a nuclear reactor in Syria deepened yesterday, when a company released a satellite photo showing that the main building was well under way in September 2003 — four years before Israeli jets bombed it.

Discussion: JammieWearingFool, Booman Tribune, Atlas Shrugs, The Next Hurrah, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Hot Air and Israel Matzav

April Castro / Associated Press:

Roswell incident not explained to Richardson's satisfaction — ROUND ROCK, Texas — If he wins his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson may be just the man to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery. — Answering questions …

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard, Eunomia and Weasel Zippers

Don Surber:

Holocaust survivor trumps Dutch — "Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay" — He'll probably apologize for the remark later but Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, told it like it is to some Dutch politicians …

Discussion: TigerHawk

Desmond Butler / Associated Press:
Dutch lawmakers offended by Rep. Lantos

Discussion: Liberty Pundit, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, michellemalkin.com, Atlas Shrugs, BitsBlog and Never Yet Melted

Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:

Hire Carla Babb! (Fire John Edwards) — Does the John Edwards campaign have a death wish? To the litany which includes the 28,000 square foot home, his job with a hedge fund (to learn about poverty!) and the $400 haircuts we can now add a story about the decision by the Edwards campaign …

Discussion: The American Mind, TigerHawk, Fox News, BitsBlog, Don Surber, Hot Air and Stubborn Facts

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Student Paper Upsets the Edwards Camp

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, NO QUARTER and Los Angeles Times

Charlotte Observer:
Edwards tussles with UNC over video

Discussion: James Edward Dillard and PrezVid

David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

The Evangelical Crackup — The hundred-foot white cross atop the Immanuel Baptist Church in downtown Wichita, Kan., casts a shadow over a neighborhood of payday lenders, pawnbrokers and pornographic video stores. To its parishioners, this has long been the front line of the culture war.

Discussion: Hot Air, AMERICAblog and Daily Kos

Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:

Malkin & Co. target Soros, hit Bush pioneers — The St. Petersburg Times reported this week that WellCare Health Plans, a Florida-based company that provides managed-care plans for millions of Medicare and Medicaid participants, has come under federal investigation.

Discussion: The Newshoggers and Cliff Schecter

John Cheves / Lexington Herald-Leader:

McConnell marks funds for contractor — FIRM UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR BRIBERY — JCHEVES@HERALD-LEADER.COM — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is pushing $25 million in earmarked federal funds for a British defense contractor that is under criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department …

Discussion: MyDD, Think Progress and Seeing the Forest

Richard S. Lowry / Op For:

What goes around - Comes around — Unfortunately, most Americans do not consider Iraqis as people. We see them as terrorists or victims, not as everyday people with the same values as our friends, neighbors and relatives. Yet, most Iraqis are decent human beings with the same concerns, dreams, and compassion as most Americans.

Discussion: BLACKFIVE, Stop The ACLU, Wake up America, Gateway Pundit and The Sundries Shack

The Brussels Journal:

Are We All Nazis Now? — One of the greatest injustices to the victims of racism, and in particular the holocaust, is the trivialization of it. One does not have to agree with the Dutch "Islamophobic" anti-immigration politicians Geert Wilders or Rita Verdonk, but what kind of person writes something like …

Discussion: Atlas Shrugs, Jihad Watch and Gates of Vienna

D. Aristophanes / Sadly, No!:
BREAKING: Eliminationism in Crisis

Discussion: Orcinus, Atlas Shrugs, Islam in Europe and INSTAPUTZ

David Greenberg / Washington Post:

Rudy a Lefty? Yeah, Right. — You wouldn't know it from reading the papers, but the favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination is a confirmed right-winger. On issues such as free speech and religion, secrecy and due process, civil rights and civil liberties, pornography and democracy …

Discussion: Liberal Values and Cliff Schecter

Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:

Gail Collins: There To Make MoDo and Bobo Look Smart — I forgot to blog about this on Thursday, but this has to rank as one of the most remarkable recent paragraphs written on the increasingly embarrassing NYT op-ed page: … Tristero and Somerby point out the rather massive gap in the story here …

Discussion: Grasping Reality …

Jerusalem Post:

Rice confers with Carter and Clinton — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has sought the advice of former US presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton ahead of a planned Middle East peace parley scheduled to take place in Annapolis, Maryland, in November or December.

Discussion: Power Line and Israel Matzav

Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
State Dept. To Order Diplomats To Iraq

Discussion: Political Machine, SWJ Blog, Unqualified Offerings, Reuters, The Carpetbagger Report, Associated Press, Angry Bear, The Swamp, The Impolitic, AMERICAblog, Middle Earth Journal and Outside The Beltway

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.