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1:05 PM ET, November 2, 2007

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Kevin Aylward / The 2007 Weblog Awards:
Poll Index  —  Voting for The 2007 Weblog Awards is now open.  This is the master list of voting links that you can use this to navigate to the voting booths for each of the 49 categories.  You can vote once a day in each category.  Polls close November 8, 2007.  —  General Categories  —  Best Blog
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Kevin Aylward / The 2007 Weblog Awards:
Best Military Blog  —  Finalist Links  —  Notes: Do you have questions about voting?  First see the voting rules.  Second, check the the daily Weblog Award Notes for the latest news and issues with this years Weblog Awards.  Third, read the FAQ, as many questions are answered there.
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Kevin Aylward / The 2007 Weblog Awards:
Best Political Coverage
Discussion: Extreme Mortman
Kevin Aylward / The 2007 Weblog Awards:
Best Conservative Blog
Washington Post:
Undecided Schumer May Be Key to Mukasey's Chances  —  Judiciary Chairman Endorsed Justice Nominee but Says He, Like Other Democrats, Is Concerned About Torture Question  —  As Democratic opposition builds over attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey, no Democratic lawmaker has found himself …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Mukasey's nomination and the sudden opposition to "waterboarding"  —  On one level, it is, I suppose, a good sign that there is some opposition to the confirmation of Michael Mukasey due to what ought to be his completely unacceptable positions on torture and more generally on executive power.
Discussion: Eschaton
Don Surber:
Good news on Iraq (see page 18)
Discussion: Back Talk and Salon
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Telegraph:
The most influential US liberals: 1-20
Discussion: The Swamp
The Corner:
Democrats & Torture  —  As I discussed in this article a few days ago, Judge Mukasey seems to be the only person required by Democrats to call for a categorical ban on all coercive interrogation tactics.  —  This morning, both Rich and the Wall Street Journal recount these comments by Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2004:
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Aaron Gould Sheinin / The State:
Poll: Thompson edging Romney for GOP lead in S.C.  —  Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson holds a thin lead for the 2008 S.C. Republican presidential primary, a new poll shows, potentially setting up the Palmetto State as the not-Mitt-Romney firewall.  —  The Winthrop/ETV poll released Thursday …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
S.C. Democrats Say No to Colbert
Discussion: Betsy's Page and L.A. Times
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
'This Will Make Voter Fraud Easier'  —  Why does Mrs. Clinton want driver's licenses for illegal aliens?  —  Sen. Hillary Clinton was asked during a debate this week if she supported New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Prostates and Prejudices  —  "My chance of surviving prostate cancer — and thank God I was cured of it — in the United States?  Eighty-two percent," says Rudy Giuliani in a new radio ad attacking Democratic plans for universal health care.  "My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England?
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Al Jazeera: U.S., not Israel, destroyed Syrian reactor — with tactical nuclear weapons; Update: Source was Islamic message board?  —  Too good bad freaky deaky to check. … I can't even find the story on AJ's website; we'll have to take JPost's word that it was there.
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Jerusalem Post:
US Air Force struck Syrian nuclear site
Discussion: Media Blog
IBDeditorials.com:
Even Harvard Finds The Media Biased  —  Journalism: The debate is over.  A consensus has been reached.  On global warming?  No, on how Democrats are favored on television, radio and in the newspapers.  —  Just like so many reports before it, a joint survey by the Project for Excellence …
Andrew Bolt / NEWS.com.au:
The war in Iraq has been won  —  THERE is a reason Iraq has almost disappeared as an election issue.  —  Here it is: The battle is actually over.  Iraq has been won.  —  I know this will seem to many of you an insane claim.  Ridiculous!  —  After all, haven't you read countless stories that Iraq is a …
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Hillary Reveals Her Inner Self  —  It's startling.  It's still 1993 in there, the year before her fall.  —  The story isn't that the Democrats finally took on Hillary Clinton.  Nor is it that they were gentlemanly to the point of gingerly and tentative.  There was an air of "Please …
Discussion: Bookworm Room and If I Ran the Zoo
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Damsel in the Debate  —  My favorite photo of the week — maybe my favorite photo of the presidential campaign so far — showed Hillary Clinton, dukes up, in a pair of bright red boxing gloves.  It is iconic Hillary, unafraid to take on a fight.  Which is also why the almost anti-feminist subtext …
Washington Post:
In Iraq, a Lull or Hopeful Trend?  —  Signs of Declining Violence Leave Residents, U.S. Commanders Cautious  —  From store clerks selling cigarettes by generator power, to military commanders poring over aerial maps, Iraqis and Americans are striving to understand the sharp decrease in violence …
Charles Krauthammer / Real Clear Politics:
The Real Hill-Bill Problem  —  WASHINGTON — Americans don't normally take much notice of Argentine elections.  But they did notice when Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, wife of President Nestor Kirchner, was elected to succeed him last Sunday, ensuring not just a co-presidency …
Shane Harris / National Journal:
NSA Sought Data Before 9/11  —  Beginning in February 2001, almost seven months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the government's top electronic eavesdropping organization, the National Security Agency, asked a major U.S. telecommunications carrier for information about its customers …
Discussion: The Washington Note and ACSBlog
 
 
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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush vetoes water projects bill
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
James Traub / New York Times:
Is (His) Biography (Our) Destiny?
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
U.S. Sees Decline In Bombs In Iraq
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Giuliani Seen as Sporting Strongest Coattails
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Bill Richardson: The Playboy (really) interview
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush, Defending Justice Nominee, Sees Unfairness
Manu Raju / The Hill:
GOP turns ethics tables
BBC:
Captured Pakistani troops
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Commentary:
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Discussion: Eunomia and Crooked Timber
David Brooks / New York Times:
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Heck of a Job, Hughsie
Discussion: rubber hose and Balloon Juice
Deb Price / Detroit News:
Lawmaker puts aide on leave after clash
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Friday's Blackout boycott took wing on the Web
CNN:
Saudi prince: We could've helped prevent 9/11
National Review:
Newt Gingrich: Hillary's Nomination Chances Just Dropped From 80 to 50 Percent
 

 
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