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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
House Drops Arctic Drilling From Bill — WASHINGTON - A solid phalanx of Republican moderates drove House GOP leaders to drop a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wilderness area to oil drilling as a sweeping budget bill headed toward a vote Thursday. — A plan to allow states to lift …
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Michelle Malkin:
LETTERS TO THE GOP — Reader reaction to the GOP cave-in on ANWR has been overwhelming. I'm reprinting just a small sample of letters that came in this morning from conservatives fed-up with Republican "leadership." — Update 1120am EST. I'll keep adding letters throughout the day.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:House Shelves Alaska Drilling in Budget Fight
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Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
Shocked Jordanians Protest Bombings in Their Capital — AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 10 - Thousands of Jordanians staged protests in the heart of the capital today against the terrorist bombings that killed 59 people and wounded about 100 when they ripped nearly simultaneously through three popular hotels on Wednesday night.
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Michael Kranish / Boston Globe:
Alito reviewed '95 case involving sister's firm — Questions persist about conflicts — WASHINGTON — Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., who said in 1990 that he would disqualify himself from cases involving his sister's law firm, was a member of an appeals court that reviewed a 1995 case …
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Could I ever become a Democrat? — Here is a symposium on whether progressives can believe in economic growth as a primary value. The impetus is Gene Sperling's new and intelligent book The Pro-Growth Progressive. Here is a summary of the book. Here is a recent Sperling article.
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Weekly Standard:
The Party of Sam's Club — THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. Bush has three years yet to run, but this season of scandal and disillusionment is an opportune moment for conservatives to start thinking seriously about the post-Bush era—and particularly how to fashion a domestic policy from the wreckage …
Scott Burgess / The Daily Ablution:
Indy Reporter Responds, Phosphorus 'Witness' Discredited, Racism in the Banlieue — One good sign that you've done well in a discussion is the descent by your counterpart into the realm of the ad hominem. If, at the same time, he ignores the substantive, factual points you've raised (e.g. …
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Associated Press:
Frist concerned more about leaks than secret prisons — WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says he is more concerned about the leak of information regarding secret CIA detention centers than activity in the prisons themselves. — Frist told reporters Thursday …
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Dem's win in Va. gov race gives GOP a scare — House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and the House Republican campaign chairman, Rep. Tom Reynolds, were given a sobering warning last week by senior GOP political operatives. They were told that on Tuesday, Nov. 8, the Democrats were sure to win the governorship of Virginia.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
FREE TRADE....Since I've gotten several emails about this, it's probably worth pointing out that I didn't intend the previous post to imply that trade agreements are bad things. I don't think they are. — Rather, I just wanted to point out that they have their downsides as well as their upsides.
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Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Stop This Amendment. — From the AP: … To repeat: this could come up for a vote tomorrow. TalkLeft has posted a pdf of the amendment. The relevant text: … This is seriously bad news. As best I can tell, it strips the courts of all power to hear any habeas motion from a detainee …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Andrea Mitchell - More Media Backpedaling — On Nov 1, James Taranto of the WSJ unearthed a CNBC transcript which suggested that, according to Andrea Mitchell anyway, Ms. Plame's employment at the CIA was not a total mystery to interested reporters. From "The Capitol Report, Oct 3, 2003 …
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Sam Anderson / Slate:
Irony Maiden — How Sarah Silverman is raping American comedy. — It's fitting that the comedian Sarah Silverman's impending cultural moment—high-profile film, ongoing miniscandal, TV series in the making—is going to coincide with serious public moralizing about the sexual orientation of penguins.
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Intelligence Probe Takes Shape — Senators Discuss Inquiry Into Administration Statements About Iraq — The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday worked out a tentative arrangement for pursuing its inquiry into how the Bush administration publicly portrayed the intelligence …
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Claire Cozens / Guardian:
Riot coverage 'excessive', says French TV boss — One of France's leading TV news executives has admitted censoring his coverage of the riots in the country for fear of encouraging support for far-right politicians. — Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of the rolling news service TCI …
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
At the White House, Prizes for 14 Champs — Medal of Freedom Ceremony Shows Ali as Fast as Ever — Aretha Franklin was teary-eyed, Carol Burnett was teasing, Alan Greenspan was reliably taciturn, and "The Greatest of All Time" stole the show when President Bush bestowed the Medal of Freedom …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Biden: "I'm Running" — Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) seems to have made up his mind to enter the 2008 presidential race, based on reading between the lines of a letter he sent to a potential donor last month and obtained by The Fix from the camp of a potential presidential rival. — "I'm running," Biden writes.
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U.S. Newswire:
Veterans Lash Out at Loss of Voice on Capitol Hill — Contact: David E. Autry of Disabled American Veterans, 202-314-5219 — WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ — A proposal to end the long-standing practice of veterans groups addressing a joint session of the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees …
