AP HAS KERRY UP BY 3; ELECTORAL COLLEGE TIED

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ELECTORAL-VOTE.COM HAS BUSH AND KERRY TIED TODAY 264-264, with ten Minnesota votes still without a home. An Associated Press poll has Kerry up by 3 points over Bush, but Fox News is tilting towards the majority of polls that are calling it dead-even. Tradesports.

NOTE TO JOHN ASHCROFT: <em>THE MATRIX</em> WAS FICTION!

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MAYBE IT’S TIME TO GO BACK TO CASH AND JOIN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS who refuse to hold a passport. Bruce Schneier reports on these new RFID passports (that’s radio frequency identification chips in your passport) that continually broadcast your personal information to whatever reader picks up the signal.

PATRIOTISM? WOULD YOU KNOW IT IF YOU SAW IT?

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MARK SALTER, JOHN McCAIN’S ABLE CHIEF OF STAFF AND CO-AUTHOR with McCain of three books — Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him; Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life; and Faith of My Fathers — protested Mark Goldberg’s critique of Tony Blair’s American…

NEW WIZARDS OF ARMAGEDDON: WHAT RICHARD PERLE FORGOT IN HIS LESSONS FROM ALBERT WOHLSTETTER

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ALBERT WOHLSTETTER WAS ONE OF THE PREMIER DEFENSE INTELLECTUALS of the last century — a very conservative one but still someone who understood the downsides involved in the Cold War’s “delicate balance of terror.

<em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> ON THE “BODY COUNT WAR”

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SEYMOUR HERSH CALLED IT RIGHT. Iraq has become a body count exercise, and we all need to be worried about the ramifications. The New York Times‘ Norimitsu Onishi asks in an article today “How Many Iraqis are Dying?” Best estimates for the past week: From Oct. 11 to Oct.