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It's some "100 Best novels" list that seems worth fighting over, and this time it's put together by Time magazine. Allegedly they've assembled the 100 best novels since 1923, but as you'll see they hit a few potholes along the...

Argus Leader:Commercial red meat production in South Dakota during September was up 1 percent from a year ago, according to the state Agricultural Statistics Service. Production in South Dakota totaled 87.3 million pounds for September, an increase of 5 percent...

The Washington Post is writing about Daschle's interest in running for President in 2008:President Warner, President Daschle Speaking of Virginia, Democratic Gov. Mark R. Warner's fly-around the Old Dominion last week on behalf of would-be successor Timothy M. Kaine was...

Taking Back North Dakota, via PoliPundit, has noted some of the things that are getting done in the new Senate:If you pay attention to anything the Pravda (mainstream media) says, you probably wouldn't know that the Republican-controlled Congress is getting...

From NewsMax: Bill Kristol, executive editor of The Weekly Standard and a vocal critic of the Oct. 3 nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court, said he was relieved at the news of Miers withdrawal Thursday and confident...

MSM Caught Demon-eyes-ing Administration Again

H/T to Michelle Malkin on this one -

Another case of the MSM (USA Today this time) doctoring content to try to make someone (Condi Rice in this case) look somewhat evil.

Condi Rice a la Anne Rice?

What happened this time was that they tweaked a photo to make her look like she has the evil eye, but got caught in the act. Apparently when they got noticed in the blogosphere, some vestige of journalistic ethics was belatedly called into action, and the picture was revised in their archive, with an editorial comment.

The real deal!

Editor's note: The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA TODAY's editorial standards. The photo has been replaced by a properly adjusted copy. Photos published online are routinely cropped for size and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance. In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice's face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards.

In other words, now that we got busted, we had better try to do some damage control! The Chief suggests you can believe as much of THAT explanation as you want to.

And the MSM still expresses worry about "editorial control" in the blogosphere! The question is, who in the MSM watches the watchers? At least the blogosphere has the feedback mechanism so succinctly stated on the Captain's Quarters site: "Thus every blogger in his kind, is bit by him who comes behind." It seems to work better than MSM "editorial control" does.

Great game tonight, eh? It's amazing how a third baseman can turn a game around with his glove, and that's exactly what Joe Crede did tonight (his bat helped, too). This isn't news to real baseball fans, as third basemen...

I have not taken the conservative split over the Miers nomination very seriously hitherto. While I think it does reveal some of the fault lines in the Republican party, it doesn't seem to me that there is any serious divergence...

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