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1:20 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 …
Discussion: PSoTD and Samizdata.net
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Biden-Giuliani Smackdown Enlivens Campaign Trail  —  In addition to the headline-grabbing Edwards-Obama-Dodd tag-team match with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic debate Tuesday night in Philadelphia had a pretty lively undercard: Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. vs. Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Hillary Stumbles, Needs More Cash: Advisors
Discussion: Hot Air and Redstate
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 …
Discussion: TownHall Blog
Balkinization:   Judge Mukasey and the Groucho Marx Principle
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.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: Michael Yon on the defeat of Al Qaeda in Iraq
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
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 …
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.
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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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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.
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 …
Pew Research Center:
The Gender Gap  —  Gender has long played a role in presidential elections, and the gender gap is again looming large in a possible Clinton-Giuliani matchup.  Currently, Hillary Clinton runs 13 points better among female voters (57%) than among male voters (44%).
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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.
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
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 …
 
 
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CNN:
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Hillary in the Debate  —  The post-debate spin seems …
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Rex Nutting / MarketWatch:
Inflation was low because oil prices surged
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USA Today:
A year before voting, a nation of discontent
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