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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Votes to Demand Regular Iraq Updates From White House — WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - The Senate signaled its growing unease with the war in Iraq today, voting overwhelmingly to demand regular reports from the White House on the course of the conflict and on the progress that Iraqi forces are making in securing their own country.
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Senate Republicans Block Iraq Timetable — WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday easily defeated a Democratic effort to pressure President Bush to outline a timetable for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. It then overwhelmingly endorsed a weaker statement calling …
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Confusing Developments Senate-Side on GTMO Detention, Commissions and Habeas — (Cross-posted in part at SCOTUSblog.) — [UPDATE: The Senate approved the Graham/Levin "compromise" amendment (see below) by a vote of 84-14. All of the No votes but one (that of Sen. Specter) were cast by Democrats.]
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:Habeas and Guantanamo: Breaking News
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Slate, The Poor Man Institute, SCOTUSblog, INTEL DUMP, Amygdala, Balloon Juice and Seeing the Forest
White House:
Setting the Record Straight: The New York Times Editorial on Pre-War Intelligence — The New York Times Editorial Says Foreign Intelligence Services Did Not Support American Intelligence. "Foreign intelligence services did not have full access to American intelligence.
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Rantingprofs, In the Bullpen, Clayton Cramer's BLOG, Don Surber and Media Blog on National …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Now Its The Times Versus The Times — The Times editors choose their side as Bush pushes back against "baseless" charges: — The Bush administration was also alone in making the absurd claim that Iraq was in league with Al Qaeda and somehow connected to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Fred Kaplan / Slate:I Was Wrong, but So Were You — Parsing Bush's new mantra.
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The Mahablog, Begging to Differ, firedoglake, OxBlog, Simianbrain, Curiouser & Curiouser and Yahoo! News
Andrew Leigh / National Review:
Pajama-Clad Revolutionaries — A year ago, Jonathan Klein, current president of CNN, airily dismissed the bloggers who dethroned Dan Rather. "These bloggers have no checks and balances... You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [at 60 Minutes] …
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Roger L. Simon, New York Sun, La Shawn Barber's Corner, The Talent Show, Donklephant, Peaktalk, Ed Driscoll.com and Daimnation!
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John / AMERICAblog:
Very disturbing story about Bush's state of mind in the Wash Times magazine — The Washington Times, you may know, is an "independent" newspaper that is basically the mouthpiece of the Republican party. For that reason, it sometimes gets inside scoops as to what the GOP is thinking, and even what's going on inside the White House.
Los Angeles Times:
A note to our readers — WHEN A columnist misses his usual spot in the rotation, we normally run a short note explaining his absence. Today, Robert Scheer's column will not appear. Consider this a longer-than-usual note of explanation. — Scheer's impassioned prose has graced these pages for 13 years.
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Report Says Ex-Chief of Public TV Violated Federal Law — WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting concluded today that its former chairman repeatedly broke federal law and its own regulations in a campaign to combat what he saw as liberal bias.
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USA Today:
A 'fiscal hurricane' on the horizon — WASHINGTON — The comptroller general of the United States is explaining over eggs how the nation's finances are going to hell. — "We face a demographic tsunami" that "will never recede," David Walker tells a group of reporters.
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Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
THE GULF WAR REVISITED. Following up on E.J. Dionne's excellent column this morning, Michael Crowley reminds us that memories of the first Gulf War — where anti-war votes proved politically costly down the road — also played a role in pushing Democrats toward hawkishness. True enough.
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Thomas Oliphant / Boston Globe:
Bush's magnificent deception — JUST FOR the record, the polling numbers President Bush claims not to read show the following with regard to the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003: — According to The Wall Street Journal-NBC News survey last week, 57 percent of the sample believe Bush …
Lorie Byrd / Michelle Malkin:
HERE IS WHY DEMOCRATS THOUGHT THEY WOULD GET AWAY WITH IT — When you watch this incredibly good RNC web video you might ask how on earth the Democrats ever thought they would get away with accusing the President of lying and misleading the country into the war in Iraq. I would answer that with the following:
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Suitably Flip, Power Line, Media Blog on National …, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler and GOP Bloggers
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The Ginsburg Fallacy — To hear some Republicans tell it, letting Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto the Supreme Court was a tough pill to swallow. She was an ACLU-loving, bra-burning feminazi, but they supported her anyway, dutifully respecting the president's right to put his own stamp on the high court.
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RedState.org, The Right Coast, The Wide Awakes, The Huffington Post, Hit and Run and Matthew Yglesias
James Pinkerton / Tech Central Station:
Truth and Doodie — Welcome to the next installment of the continuing saga: Mary Mapes vs. the Blogs, in which, for good measure, she takes on reality, too. And at the same time, we can consider the rise, fall — and possible comeback — of Mapes as part of the ongoing power-struggle between the MSM …
Noahmax / Defense Tech:
RUMMY BACKING OFF FROM IRAQ? — This article from Sunday's Washington Post Magazine is the second major attempt I've seen in the last few months to separate Donald Rumsfeld from the Iraq war. (Here's the other.) — The idea, basically, is that Rummy was more fixated on modernizing the military than invading any country.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Nathan / NathanNewman.org:
Alito Against Democracy — The release of Alito's 1985 Job Application is causing ripples because of his clear statement that "the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion." — But forget Roe— that's just confirmation of what everyone suspected, and I continue to believe …
John C. Roper / Houston Chronicle:
City seeking network partner — Mayor wants company proposals to build citywide communications system — The city of Houston will begin looking in March for a company to not only build a wireless Internet network that blankets downtown, but for that business to pay for it as well.
