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8:15 AM ET, September 23, 2007

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Times of London:
Snatched: Israeli commandos 'nuclear' raid  —  Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv, Sarah Baxter, Washington, and Michael Sheridan  —  ISRAELI commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit - almost certainly dressed in Syrian uniforms - made their way stealthily towards a secret military compound near Dayr az-Zawr in northern Syria.
mrzine.monthlyreview.org:
Open Letter to Progressive Opponents of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  —  by The Columbia Coalition Against the War  —  As Columbia only very recently announced, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be speaking in Roone Arledge auditorium this Monday.  A number of students and student organizations …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Of course we'd invite Hitler to speak, says Columbia dean  —  Webloggin's also on this.  I have it in my head somehow that Dwight Eisenhower, when offered the opportunity to personally accept the surrender of a German general, refused.  So unspeakably loathsome did he find the Nazis …
Stuart Williams / Agence France Presse:
Iran shows off new missile, taunts Israel
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Sunday Talking Head Thread  —  Here's the Sunday Talking Head line-up for this morning.  (partially via the Contra Costa Times.)  — C-Span Washington Journal:7:45am - Thomas Schaller, Baltimore Sun, National Political Columnist |  Article; 8:30am - Newspaper Articles & Viewer Calls …
Discussion: The Caucus
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Clinton faces huge test on Sunday  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) will appear on all five Sunday talk shows tomorrow in what could be a defining day in her run for the White House.  —  Clinton is jumping in with both feet on the Sunday talk show circuit, opting …
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
A Mother's Strength, a Candidate's Ambition  —  Dorothy Rodham's Experiences Shaped and Inspire Clinton  —  Family friends offer harmless details about Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham.  She likes to read.  She travels on her own.  She loves the National Zoo.
New York Times:
Clinton Solidifies Edge as Rivals Take a Tougher Line
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, The Swamp and MSNBC
Haaretz:
Explosives belt designated for holiday attack found in Tel Aviv apartment  —  A suicide attack in Tel Aviv was thwarted on Saturday when security forces found an explosives belt in an apartment in the city, designated to be used in an attack over the Yom Kippur holiday.
Discussion: Yourish.com and Solomonia
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Ynetnews:
Police, Shin Bet foil suicide attack in Tel Aviv
Discussion: Power Line and Israel Matzav
Kari Lydersen / Washington Post:
War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says  —  The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee …
Investor's Business Daily:
The 'Old' Consensus?  —  Climate Change: Did NASA scientist James Hansen, the global warming alarmist in chief, once believe we were headed for . . . an ice age?  An old Washington Post story indicates he did.  —  On July 9, 1971, the Post published a story headlined "U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming."
Discussion: 'Okie' on the Lam
David Freddoso / The Corner:
Thompson's Speaking Style  —  ...is a bit dull.  People are looking down, wearing somber faces.  Some at the dinner tables have begun chatting and whispering during the speech.  The majority who are paying attention are really looking for an applause line — perhaps, to put it harshly, for something that will keep them awake.
Discussion: Bluey Blog
Charles Duhigg / New York Times:
More Profit and Less Nursing at Many Homes  —  Habana Health Care Center, a 150-bed nursing home in Tampa, Fla., was struggling when a group of large private investment firms purchased it and 48 other nursing homes in 2002.  —  The facility's managers quickly cut costs.
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
China in Three Colors  —  After a week of meetings with Chinese energy, environmental and clean-car experts, I'm left with one big, gnawing question: Can China go green without going orange?  —  That is, can China really undertake the energy/environmental revolution it needs without …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Nuance and Resolve in Rulings by Attorney General Nominee  —  In his 18 years on the federal bench, Judge Michael B. Mukasey issued more than 1,500 decisions concerning matters as cataclysmic as the Holocaust and as mundane as milk, beer and cigarettes.  —  In his opinions …
Discussion: BeldarBlog
 
 
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