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6:55 AM ET, November 7, 2007

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Brian Faughnan / Weekly Standard:
Dems Outmaneuvered on Impeachment (Updated)  —  This afternoon Dennis Kucinich took to the House floor to press his case for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney.  A little while later, and as expected, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer moved to table the resolution without a debate.
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Davidswanson / AfterDowningStreet.org:
Kucinich's Resolution Survives Tabling Attempt, Is Referred to Committee  —  4:41 The motion to send it to the Judiciary Committee passed with only about 5 Dems voting No and 3 Republicans voting Yes.  Presumably the 86 Dems who voted No on tabling believed that to be enough to appease their constituents …
Don Surber:
'Dennis Kucinich is on a quest of his own. …
Discussion: Democrats.com and Salon
David Stout / New York Times:
House Votes to Override Bush's Veto of Water Projects
Ron Christie / The Hill:
The Impeachment of Vice President Cheney
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Conservative Authors Sue Publisher  —  Five authors have sued the parent company of Regnery Publishing, a Washington imprint of conservative books, charging that the company deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to book clubs and other organizations owned by the same parent company.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
SCHADENFREUDE ALERT....The New York Times reports today that a group of conservative authors, including Swift Boat nutball Jerome Corsi, is suing right-wing darling Regnery Publishing.  The lead plaintiff is Richard Miniter, author of Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror …
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Poll: 77% oppose illegals' licenses  —  Voters oppose driver's licenses for illegal aliens by a nearly five-to-one margin, a new Fox 5/Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports poll finds.  —  As immigration politics explode into the presidential race, polls show Americans are taking a hard line …
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Stephen Grey / The Blotter:
CIA Rendition: The Smoking Gun Cable  —  Sometimes the music was American rap, sometimes Arab folk songs.  In the CIA prison in Afghanistan, it came blaring through the speakers 24 hours a day.  Prisoners held alone inside barbed-wire cages could only speak to each other and exchange …
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Atrios / Eschaton:
False Confessions  —  They've always been the point of torture,
Discussion: BitsBlog
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Kerry Bringing It On!  —  I am not making this up - a mere three years too late, Kerry has pieced together his autobiography: … Cool - Kerry has finally wrestled his personal history to the canvas.  Did Douglas Brinkley, Tour of Duty author, finally allow Kerry access to Kerry's "War Notes"?
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Alan Dershowitz / Opinion Journal:
Democrats and Waterboarding  —  The party will lose the presidential race if it defines itself as soft on terror.  —  I recently had occasion to discuss the Bush administration's war on terrorism with one of the highest ranking former officials responsible for planning that war.
Advocate:
Poll: 70% of LGBT Respondents Support Noninclusive ENDA  —  According to a new poll, 70% of LGBT Americans prefer passing an Employment Non-Discrimination Act that does not cover transgender people over not passing the bill at all.  The poll, commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The Gs and the Ts  —  A new poll shows 70 percent of gay Americans …
Discussion: The Debate Link
Michael Scherer / Salon:
"A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan"  —  Mitt Romney at the Republican National Hispanic Assembly Convention's prayer breakfast in Washington, July 22, 2007  —  From the back room of a dilapidated used-car dealership, the televangelist Bill Keller has spent the past eight years battling to save the souls of men.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Kaine Claims Victory in Virginia  —  Democratic Party Wins at Least Four Key State Senate Races  —  Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) claimed victory tonight in Tuesday's elections, saying his party had seized control of the state Senate and made historic gains in the House of Delegates.
U.S. Department of / Dipnote:
A Letter From Iraq to My Overwrought Colleagues  —  In his first posting, John writes an open letter to his Foreign Service Officer colleagues about the controversial issue of directed assignments in Iraq.  The issue raises an interesting question, "Should diplomats and other non-military personnel …
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Recession's Hidden Virtues  —  We are all waiting, it seems, for the next recession.  Everyone knows that the business cycle hasn't been repealed, and so another recession is inevitable.  Some indicators suggest that it might be sooner rather than later.  The Conference Board's consumer confidence index …
Discussion: Economist's View
Tom Robbins / Village Voice:
Fred W. McDarrah, 1926-2007  —  Veteran Village Voice photographer Fred W. McDarrah died in his sleep at home in Greenwich Village early Tuesday morning.  He was 81.  —  Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city's postmodern art movement …
Art Moore / WorldNetDaily:
Kathleen Willey suspects Clintons murdered husband  —  New book details evidence of 'smear' campaign orchestrated by Hillary  —  In a new book alleging a campaign of slander and intimidation orchestrated chiefly by Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Willey points a finger of suspicion at the former …
 
 
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