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2:40 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 …
Hillary Clinton / Journalism.org:
THE INVISIBLE PRIMARY—INVISIBLE NO LONGER  —  A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign  —  In the early months of the 2008 presidential campaign, the media had already winnowed the race to mostly five candidates and offered Americans relatively little information …
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.
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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 …
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 …
Club for Growth:
Ron Paul's Record on Economic Issues … Ron Paul: The Perfect as the Enemy of the Good  —  Taxes … Ron Paul's record on taxes is excellent, epitomized by his rallying cry for phasing out the IRS[1].  A strong believer in the economic benefits of tax cuts, he declared in a 2006 article …
Discussion: Suitably Flip
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The Corner:
Ron Paul and Alex Jones
Discussion: Hot Air
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" …
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 …
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 …
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.
Irenep / Michael Yon:
The Perfect Evil: Coming to Roost  —  Pleasing to the eye, soothing to the senses: A Perfect Evil.  —  October 26, 2007  —  Iraq is looking better month by month.  But at the current rate, surely we shall fail in Afghanistan: … A great deal of flak came in for my 2006 reporting from Afghanistan.
 
 
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Looming Catastrophe as Campaign Opportunity
Discussion: Eschaton
Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
IT'S TIME TO GIVE BACK TO OUR WOUNDED - VALOUR-IT KICK OFF 2007!
The Volokh Conspiracy:
ADVOCACY MATTERS This article originated in some research …
City Journal:
What the New Atheists Don't See  —  To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
Inside Higher Ed:
Furor Over Anti-Islam Speaker
Discussion: Sadly, No!
Ezra Klein:
Medical Tourism  —  Andrew Sullivan's very excited by the fact …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Charles Clover / Telegraph:
James Lovelock: Reducing emissions could speed global warming
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Psssst  —  I received this email from Slate this morning:
Discussion: Firedoglake and Eschaton
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Atrios / Eschaton:
The Audacity of Homophobia
Chris Colin / San Francisco Chronicle:
ON THE JOB  —  The fog of work: What happened to Fremont mechanic Hamid Sayadi after 9/11?
Discussion: TalkLeft
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
COULD MCCONNELL GET DASCHLE-D?  —  From NBC's Chuck Todd
Lawrence Summers / Financial Times:
How America must handle the falling dollar
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Huckabee stirs up third-party fear
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
U.S. Guns Behind Cartel Killings in Mexico