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• SCOZZAFAVA SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN – Watertown Daily Times
  SCOZZAFAVA SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN
  UPDATE: Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, has issued a statement regarding Ms. Scozzafava’s announcement.
  “Dede Scozzafava’s has worked extremely hard to achieve the goal of becoming the next Congressman from New York’s 23rd District. It takes courage and strength to step back and make the best choice for her [...]
• BREAKING NEWS: Republican in NY House race suspends campaign
  Republican in NY House race suspends campaign
  (AP) 
  ALBANY, N.Y. — Republican Dierdre Scozzafava (sko-zuh-FAH’-vuh) has suspended her campaign for the New York House and is encouraging supporters to embrace Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman.
  Campaign spokesman Matt Burns says she thinks dropping out of the 23rd Congressional District race is in the best interests of the party.
  The [...]
• Anthropomorphism Alert: John Harwood Attributes Malicious Intelligence to H1N1 Virus
  “Why is the virus targeting children?” John Harwood, New York Times reporter and host of MSNBC’s New York Times Friday afternoon show asked as a teaser to David Schuster’s upcoming 2 hours.
  This is almost as stupid as the nightly local news ritual of blaming—or thanking—the meteorologist for the weather.
  First, let’s dispense with the part that [...]
• Raided Detroit mosque: “we ain’t no jihadist overthrow organization”
  Do you think this sympathetic article would have been written this way about a Christian church whose pastor was killed in a gun battle with the FBI? “Slain mosque leader mourned,” by Charlie LeDuff for The Detroit News, October 31 (thanks to James): Detroit — The brotherhood of the Masjid…
• Obama’s Broken Promises
  On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, NBC’s Chuck Todd, “Meet the Press” host David Gregory, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) discussed the question of whether the Obama administration is making good on its campaign promises.
  Unsurprisingly, Sen. Sheldon answered in the affirmative, while Gregory and Todd were slightly more critical. “Has ‘yes we can,’ become ‘maybe’?” Gregory [...]
• Thailand: “More than 3900 people have died in shootings, bomb blasts, beheadings and crucifixions” since 2004
  This AFP story departs from ordinary mainstream media practice by actually identifying the Thai jihadists as “Islamic,” and adds a final paragraph that is, well, killer: more than 3900 people (but apparently fewer than 4000), it says, have been killed “in shootings, bomb blasts, beheadings and crucifixions” since the jihad…
• What Democracy Now! Doesn’t Say May be More Important than What it Does
  Amy Goodman, the Marxist host of Democracy Now!, reported that “a former so-called enemy combatant,” who has been jailed in the U.S. for over six years without charge, has now been sentenced to over eight years in prison.
  This opening description sets a tone, which leaves the viewer with the impression that the remainder of the [...]
• From the Pen of David Horowitz: October 31, 2009
  Political utopians like my father had a master plan. They were going to transform the world from the chaos we knew into a comfortable and friendly place. In the happy future they dreamed about, there would be an end to grief from life out of control, life grinding you down and smashing your gut when [...]
• American Thinker: Charity and Sacrifice in a Free Society
   
  AYN RAND
  October 31, 2009
  Charity and Sacrifice in a Free Society
  By Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
  If men have grasped some faint glimmer of respect for individual rights in their private dealings with one another, that glimmer vanishes when they turn to public issues – and what leaps into the political arena is a caveman who can’t [...]
• Rep. Issa switches from Scozzafava – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room
  10/30/09 06:21 PM ET
  Rep. Issa switches from Scozzafava
  By Aaron Blake -
  Dede Scozzafava is now losing her supporters to Doug Hoffman.
  Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is switching his support in the New York special election from the GOP nominee to Conservative Party candidate Hoffman.
  A spokesperson said Issa is overnighting Hoffman a $5,000 check from Issa’s political action [...]

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