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12:25 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
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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
Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times:
Bush raises stakes on Mukasey
Discussion: MoJoBlog and Cliff Schecter
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Telegraph:
The most influential US liberals: 1-20
Discussion: The Swamp
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?
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Joe Conason / Salon:
Rudy's bogus healthcare stats
Discussion: Gawker and The Carpetbagger Report
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.
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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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Obama Promises A Rerun  —  Barack Obama sat down with the New York Times to discuss his views on Iran, and how he has the policy that will unlock the stalemate with the mullahs.  However, what the Times and Obama fail to realize is that Iran has heard the proposal before from the US and others.
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
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 …
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
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush, Defending Justice Nominee, Sees Unfairness  —  Caught off guard by the fight over Michael B. Mukasey, the White House has begun a campaign to salvage his candidacy.
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
 
 
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Librarians Say Surveillance Bills Lack Adequate Oversight
Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Iraq Plan: Withdraw Quickly, Return if Things go Wrong
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Manu Raju / The Hill:
GOP turns ethics tables
BBC:
Captured Pakistani troops
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What Kind of War Are We Fighting, and Can We Win It?
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