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12:20 PM ET, November 1, 2007

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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Campaign call reveals Clinton debate concern  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) top advisers, doing damage control after the candidate's debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.
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Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
I want Hillary Clinton to be president  —  You know, I never thought it would come to this.  Over the past 24 hours I have been trying to imagine the kind of person I want to follow George W Bush into the White House.  —  I have been scanning the faces of the competitors for what some have called …
Washington Post:
Clinton Regroups As Rivals Pounce  —  After a rare night of fumbles by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination rushed to maximize the damage yesterday, even as her advisers argued that the "piling on" engaged in by an all-male field of opponents …
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Biden-Giuliani Smackdown Enlivens Campaign Trail
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Kevin Aylward / The 2007 Weblog Awards:
Finalists Announced  —  Here is a partial list of the finalists for The 2007 Weblog Awards.  Finalists badges (hosted by Imageshack) will be available Thursday.  Voting is scheduled to begin Thursday evening (late), but at this point we can't pinpoint the exact time polls will open.
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Nominee's Stand May Avoid Tangle of Torture Cases  —  In adamantly refusing to declare waterboarding illegal, Michael B. Mukasey, the nominee for attorney general, is steering clear of a potential legal quagmire for the Bush administration: criminal prosecution or lawsuits …
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Michelle Malkin:
The Mukasey nomination in jeopardy: Why appeasing Democrats gets you nowhere
Discussion: TownHall Blog
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . .  In Sometimes-Brusque 'Snowflakes,' He Shared Worldview, Shaped Policy  —  In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to …
Sarah Lai Stirland / Wired News:
'Criminal' Botnet Stumps for Ron Paul, Researchers Allege  —  If Texas congressman Ron Paul is elected president in 2008, he may be the first leader of the free world put into power with the help of a global network of hacked PCs spewing spam, according to computer-security researchers who've analyzed …
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Joel Stein / Time:
The Ron Paul Revolution  —  It sometimes seems as if someone is playing a cruel practical joke on Ron Paul.  He goes to a college and delivers the same speech he's given for the past 30 years of his political career, the one espousing the Austrian school of economics.
Patterico / Hot Air:
L.A. Times Editor Denies Having Heard About the Sex Scandal Story — And I Believe Him  —  This morning Allah linked that rumor that the L.A. Times is sitting on a sex scandal involving a leading presidential candidate.  I tried nosing around a little, and asked Matt Welch about it.
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Matthew Sheffield / NewsBusters.org:
U.N. Scientist Rejects Nobel Prize Share, Denounces Climate Alarmism  —  Has the global warming alarmism movement hit its apex?  Maybe so.  —  In recent weeks, we've seen a resurgence of hard scientists who have come out strongly against the warm-mongers, the latest of which is Intergovernmental Panel …
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John R. Christy / mobile2.wsj.com:   My Nobel Moment  —  I've had a lot of fun recently with my tiny …
Irenep / Michael Yon:
Iraqi Islamic Party says, "Al Qaeda is Defeated."  —  O1 November 2007  —  Iraqi Islamic Party: "Al Qaeda is Defeated"  —  "Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated," according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe.
media.www.browndailyherald.com:
Jebediah Koogler '10: Islamofascism speaker misses the point  —  There was an elephant in the room during Robert Spencer's provocative speech last Thursday night.  Spencer, the director of the website Jihad Watch, spoke as part of "Islamofascism Awareness Week" and presented a simple …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Hell, no, they won't go  —  After staffing key diplomatic roles for years with inexperienced ideologues, the U.S. embassy in Iraq, and Amb.  Ryan Crocker in particular, are desperate to have competent State Department officials in Iraq.  Not surprisingly, State employees are, shall we say, reluctant to go.
The Politico:
The angry voter: Bad news for Dems  —  Congressional Democrats certainly know the power of a throw-the-bums-out message.  It vaulted them to power a year ago this week.  Little wonder anxiety is boiling over inside the new majority as lawmakers ponder a succession of polls and reach …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Stop Saving Social Security  —  I said last night that I disagreed with the oft-stated claim that it just gets harder to 'fix' the non-existent Social Security crisis the longer you wait.  In fact, as I thought about Obama's proposal to remove or retool the cap on Social Security taxes I got …
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
USA Today:
A year before voting, a nation of discontent  —  Call us the Unhappy States of America.  —  One year before Election Day 2008, most Americans are dismayed by the country's direction, pessimistic about the Iraq war and anxious about the economy.  Two of three disapprove of the job President Bush is doing.
 
 
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S.F. calls in parking meanies to put damper on Castro Halloween
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Center for American Progress Action Fund:
Executive Summary  —  With little more than a year left …
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CNN:
Anti-gay church ordered to pay millions
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Hillary in the Debate  —  The post-debate spin seems …
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The End of Higher Education
Daniel Gross / Slate:
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
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Thanassis Cambanis / New York Times:
In Rape Case, a French Youth Takes On Dubai
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Ben Johnson / Front Page Magazine:
Code Pink Learns from Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week's Slanderers
Rex Nutting / MarketWatch:
Inflation was low because oil prices surged
Discussion: Greg Mankiw's Blog
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Roadblock for Telecom Immunity
Jeff Emanuel / American Spectator:
The Longest Morning
Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Experts: Fiscal crisis threatens U.S. future
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Bloomberg:
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