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MSNBC:
Transcript for November 13 — Guests: His Majesty King Abdullah II, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; — Ken Mehlman, Chairman, Republican National Committee; and — Howard Dean, Chairman, Democratic National Committee — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the Democrats win governorships in Virginia and New Jersey.
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Sweetness & Light:
Tim Russert, Democrat Shill — We realize Tim Russert only got his job at NBC because of Russert's then boss Senator Patrick Moynihan's friendship with the then head of NBC News. But Russert regularly goes beyond the call of duty to his DNC overlords. — Behold this lead into a question …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The Counter-Offensive Turns Into A Team Sport — The pushback against the ridiculous "Bush lied!" campaign taken up by Democrats in 2005 after they lost an entire electoral cycle on it in 2004 has broadened out past the White House to even the President's fair-weather friends in the GOP.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
SO, AT THE GYM they were for some reason running Face the Nation this morning where they usually show CNN or FoxNews. But that means I caught this very interesting statement from John McCain: … I think the "Bush lied us into war" meme is in trouble, and the GOP pushback seems to be a general effort, not a one-off.
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protein wisdom, Power Line, BillHobbs.com, Transterrestrial Musings, Althouse, The Truth Laid Bear, Decision '08 and Dean's World
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Amman Bombings Reflect Zarqawi's Growing Reach — BERLIN, Nov. 12 — Triple suicide bombings in Jordan this week marked a breakthrough for Islamic guerrilla leader Abu Musab Zarqawi in his efforts to expand the Iraqi insurgency into a regional conflict and demonstrated his growing independence …
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Mark Bowden / Opinion Journal:
Always Another Way? — Sometimes cruelty and coercion are necessary in dealing with enemy prisoners. — The thorny issue of torture paid a visit recently to Mackenzie Allen (Geena Davis), television's newest president of the United States. A terrorist plot to attack elementary schools …
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Agence France Presse:
White House declines to totally rule out torture — WASHINGTON (AFP) - In an important clarification of President George W. Bush's earlier statement, a top White House official refused to unequivocally rule out the use of torture, arguing the US administration was duty-bound to protect Americans from terrorist attack.
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Pam Spaulding / Pandagon:LATEST FROM BUSH STOOGE: CAN'T RULE OUT TORTURE
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The Road To Surfdom
Los Angeles Times:
Five questions non-Muslims would like answered — By Dennis Prager, Dennis Prager's nationally syndicated radio show is heard daily in Los Angeles on KRLA-AM (870). He may be contacted through his website: www.dennisprager.com. — THE RIOTING IN France by primarily Muslim youths …
WorldNetDaily:
Anti-Christian rampage by 2,000 India Muslims — Organized vandals in buses burn churches, convent, schools, homes of pastors, priests — They came in buses to the small village of Sangla Hill in the Nankana district of Punjab in India. — Some 2,000 organized Muslims first vandalized three churches …
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Gateway Pundit:
Days 17 & 18: Violence Spreads in Europe — VIOLENCE BREAKS OUT IN FRANCE, BELGIUM, GREECE, GERMANY & THE NETHERLANDS, — Last night- A nursery school was torched by youths in the southern French town of Carpentras, and a burning car was pushed up to an old people's home, which caused panic among residents.
Bill Sammon / Washington Times:
Alito rejected abortion as a right — Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times. — "I personally believe very strongly" in this legal position …
Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Bush Didn't Mislead on War, Adviser Says — WASHINGTON - While admitting "we were wrong" about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, President Bush's national security adviser on Sunday rejected assertions that the president manipulated intelligence and misled the American people.
New York Times:
Doing Unto Others as They Did Unto Us — Washington — How did American interrogation tactics after 9/11 come to include abuse rising to the level of torture? Much has been said about the illegality of these tactics, but the strategic error that led to their adoption has been overlooked.
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Once Upon a Time
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Liberal Coalition Is Making Plans to Take Fight Beyond Abortion — WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - A coalition of liberal groups is preparing a national television advertising campaign against the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. that seeks to move the debate over his selection …
Suzanne Fields / Townhall.com:
The love song of Maureen Dowd — Every generation confronts the poses and attitudes that define the era, and supplies the ammunition required to keep the war between the sexes going. Flappers learned to drink and smoke in public, just like men. This was liberation that lasted, but nevertheless requires constant reinvention.
Jamal Halaby / Associated Press:
1,100 Lawyers Leave Saddam Defense Team — AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Some 1,100 Iraqi lawyers have withdrawn from Saddam Hussein's defense team, citing insufficient protection following the slayings of two peers representing co-defendants of the ousted Iraqi leader.
