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1:20 PM ET, October 29, 2007

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Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Huckabee Surges, Edwards Fades  —  The latest still photo from the slow motion, inter-party electoral horse race known as Iowa is in — and it looks like John Edwards is losing steam on the Democratic side while Mike Huckabee is charging at the GOP frontrunners.
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Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Polls don't reflect Obama's star power  —  The Democrat creates a stir wherever he goes, but runs far behind Clinton nationally.  Some observers are puzzled; others say he's too gentle.  —  DES MOINES — Hutton Street, a modest, racially mixed working-class neighborhood on the city's east side …
University of Iowa News Services:
UI Hawkeye Poll: Huckabee gaining; Clinton and Obama battling for top spot  —  Mitt Romney continues to hold a strong lead in Iowa among candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination.  But Mike Huckabee's Iowa numbers — buoyed, perhaps, by growing support among Evangelical Christians …
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Foreign Policy Grown-Up  —  Where Clinton Stands Out Among the Democrats  —  So now Barack Obama has come out swinging against Hillary Clinton.  After months of gentlemanly restraint, he accuses her of poll-tested, triangulated dissembling.  It's true that Clinton has ducked questions …
Eoin Callan / MSNBC:
Edwards' attack on Peru deal shifts debate
M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Tancredo says he's leaving Congress  —  Even if he loses his long-shot bid for the White House, Rep. Tom Tancredo will be leaving the U.S. House of Representatives at the end of 2008.  —  Tancredo, 61 , waited until after the Colorado Rockies' last out of the World Series on Sunday night …
Daily Mail:
Record numbers go abroad for health treatment with 70,000 escaping NHS  —  Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.  —  And by the end of the decade 200,000 "health tourists" …
Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Will Now Tell All - and Face Charges if Necessary - to Any Major Television Network That Will Let Her  —  Attention CBS 60 Minutes: we've got a huge scoop for you.  If you want it.  —  Remember the exclusive story you aired on Sibel Edmonds …
Rick Jacobs / The Huffington Post:
Ann Coulter: On the Gay Circuit in West Hollywood  —  We had dinner last night at Murano, a new West Hollywood restaurant, owned by gay circuit party promoter Jeffrey Sanker, and lesbian night club owners Robin Gans and Sandy Sachs.  It's a visually stunning space, straight lines …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court to rule on Exxon Valdez verdict  —  The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to rule on the legality of the $2.5 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil Corp. and its shipping subsidiary for the massive oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989 — an incident that has sparked …
Discussion: PointOfLaw Forum and ACSBlog
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:   Court to hear Exxon Valdez case
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Obama campaign spokesman blasts gays at Gospel concert; white preacher and Obama say nothing  —  UPDATE: Per the NYT, the anti-gay activist turned the entire final half hour of the concert into an anti-gay harangue: … Surprise, surprise, surprise.  Obama's anti-gay religious right activist used …
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: G.I. Joe was just a toy, wasn't he?  —  Hollywood now proposes that in a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toy line, Joe's — well, "G.I." — identity needs to be replaced by membership in an "international force based in Brussels."
Studs Terkel / New York Times:
The Wiretap This Time  —  EARLIER this month, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the White House agreed to allow the executive branch to conduct dragnet interceptions of the electronic communications of people in the United States.  They also agreed to "immunize" American telephone companies …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fearing Fear Itself  —  In America's darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror."  But that was then.  —  Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president — including all of the candidates with a significant chance …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
'Fairness' Is Foul  —  Liberals vs. the First Amendment.  —  It wasn't that hard for Indiana's Rep. Mike Pence to build media and congressional support for his Free Flow of Information Act, which would protect the confidentiality of contacts between reporters and sources.
Bluto / The Dread Pundit Bluto:
Full Text of Email Reveals Greenwald Mischaracterizations  —  Welcome, fellow minions of the lgf New World Odor  —  Glenn Greenwald, as he had promised in his post at Salon, has forwarded the email he says he received from Colonel Steven A. Boylan, Public Affairs Officer for General Petraeus.
Lawrence Summers / Financial Times:
How America must handle the falling dollar  —  The falling dollar generates anxiety almost everywhere.  Americans and those dependent on American growth worry about the proverbial "hard landing" as inflation and interest rates rise with a weakening dollar, causing asset prices and output to fall.
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
 
 
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Huckabee stirs up third-party fear
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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
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Hillary Clinton / Journalism.org:
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