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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Republicans Pushing for a Plan on Ending the War in Iraq — WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - In a sign of increasing unease among Congressional Republicans over the war in Iraq, the Senate is to consider on Tuesday a Republican proposal that calls for Iraqi forces to take the lead next year …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Senators Agree on Detainee Rights — A bipartisan group of senators reached a compromise yesterday that would dramatically alter U.S. policy for treating captured terrorist suspects by granting them a final recourse to the federal courts but stripping them of some key legal rights.
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Don Surber:
Bush Whacks Situational Hawks — Welcome Malkin readers. I'm flattered. … "Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fascism. Whatever we choose to call this enemy, we must recognize that this ideology is very different from the tenets of the great religion of Islam.
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White House:
President Delivers Remarks at Elmendorf AFB on War on Terror — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thanks for the warm welcome. (Applause.) Laura and I were in the neighborhood - (laughter) — we thought we'd come by to say hello to the nation's "Arctic Warriors." (Applause.)
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Setting the Record Straight: Sen. Levin On Iraq — Sen. Levin (D-MI) Tries To Separate Iraq From The War On Terror. SEN. LEVIN: "But before the war, the President was saying that you cannot distinguish between Saddam Hussein and Iraq. As a matter of fact, he said that so often that he tried …
USA Today:
President's ratings hit new low in poll — WASHINGTON — Americans' views of President Bush and his trustworthiness have hit new lows, a downturn that could make it more difficult for him to push his legislative agenda and to boost Republican candidates in next year's congressional elections.
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CNN:
Poll: Bush approval mark at all-time low — (CNN) — Beset with an unpopular war and an American public increasingly less trusting, President Bush faces the lowest approval rating of his presidency, according to a national poll released Monday. — Bush also received his all-time worst marks …
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William J. Bennett / National Review:
Rockefeller's Confession — What was the West Virginia Democrat doing as a freelancing prewar diplomat? — Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, the following exchange took place between Chris Wallace and U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Chillin' with Chalabi: My Journey into the Surreal — Ahmad Chalabi's Washington visit hit the top floor today, as he met with Don Rumsfeld in the morning and Dick Cheney in the afternoon. — No official word on what they discussed — but I got a sneak peek Friday night over the course …
Maria Newman / New York Times:
F.D.A.'s Rejection of Contraceptive Is Questioned — Correction Appended — The Food and Drug Administration did not follow its usual procedures in rejecting an application for over-the-counter sales of the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B, the investigating arm of Congress found today.
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:Report Details F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill
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David Stout / New York Times:
Parents Carry Burden of Proof in School Cases, Court Rules — WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 - The Supreme Court ruled today, in a case of intense interest to educators and millions of parents, that people who demand changes to their children's special-education programs have the burden of proving those programs inadequate.
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Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Closing Statement — Unless the Bingaman amendment is introduced Tuesday instead of Monday, or hilzoy has something up her sleeve, I think this is the last post we are going to be able to do on this subject. It will also be the shortest. — First, I wanted to provide links to all the posts …
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John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:
U.S. Widens Offensive In Far Western Iraq — Insurgent Positions Near Syria Targeted — BAGHDAD, Nov. 14 — The U.S. military broadened its offensive in western Iraq on Monday, launching a major attack on insurgent positions in the town of Ubaydi near the Syrian border and killing …
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Tony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Senate Weighs Measures Urging Bush Set Limits in Iraq (Update1) — Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate opened debate today on measures that would put the chamber on record for the first time asking President George W. Bush to set limits for keeping American troops in Iraq.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Another Set of Scare Tactics — Mr. President, it won't work this time. — With a Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll finding 57 percent of Americans agreeing that George W. Bush "deliberately misled people to make the case for war with Iraq," the president clearly needs to tend to his credibility problems.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
MANIPULATING INTELLIGENCE....Did the Bush administration mislead the country during the runup to the Iraq war? It's true that they turned out to be wrong about a great many things, but that doesn't answer the question. It merely begs it. Were they sincerely wrong, or did they intentionally manipulate …
Washington Post:
No Right to Abortion, Alito Argued in 1985 — Reagan-Era Papers Show Staunch Conservatism — As a young lawyer in the Reagan administration, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion," declared his firm opposition …
