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David Adesnik / OxBlog:
HARDBALL: MAYBE THEY SHOULD CALL IT "SOFTBALL": The transcripts for Friday don't go up until Monday, but you can listen to Chris Matthews' interview with John Murtha via podcast. (URL: http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/ podcast/MSNBC-Hardball.xml) — Actually, it isn't right to call it an interview …
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Rob / AMERICAblog:
The House Unraveled Tonight — From the Washington Post: … After Reid shut down the Senate, John and I discussed how something like this could be pulled off in the House. I told him it was nearly impossible, Gingrich had done it on occasion, but the rules are too easy for the majority to stomp on the minority.
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Ezra Klein, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Hugh Hewitt, The RCP Blog, Shakespeare's Sister and Taegan Goddard's …
Jim Miklaszewski / MSNBC:
Pentagon plans for troop drawdown in Iraq — Proposal circulated on Capitol Hill depends on new Iraqi government — WASHINGTON - Amid all the actual chaos in Iraq and the political chaos in Washington, there is word that the Pentagon, where planning is everything, has drawn up a plan to draw down the number of U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Alan Elsner / Reuters:Bush turns to political base as war support wanes
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The Moderate Voice
Times of London:
Security adviser named as source in CIA scandal — THE mysterious source who gave America's foremost journalist, Bob Woodward, a tip-off about the CIA agent at the centre of one of Washington's biggest political storms was Stephen Hadley, the White House national security adviser, according to lawyers close to the investigation.
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The Washington Monthly, The Mahablog, Sirotablog, firedoglake, Decision '08, Think Progress, The Strata-Sphere, The Reaction, Macsmind and The Poor Man
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Open Source Media:
From the founders — "Free speech, not free beer!" — In 1985, that's how the Free Software Foundation first described an idealized world wherein innovative ideas would flow freely though the collaborative environment of the internet. In casting about for a term that would denote freedom …
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Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter:
This is so high school — Kenton Kelly, a CPA from Ohio who used to post on this site as Dennis the Peasant, has turned his website into a non-stop assault on me, going so far as to make jokes about shooting my dog on another person's site. He attacks me in a relentless and obscene manner.
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The American Mind
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Philip Shenon / New York Times:
Corruption Inquiry Threatens to Ensnare Lawmakers — WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 - The Justice Department has signaled for the first time in recent weeks that prominent members of Congress could be swept up in the corruption investigation of Jack Abramoff, the former Republican superlobbyist …
Philip Sherwell / Telegraph:
US offer would allow Teheran to enrich uranium in Russia — President George W Bush has backed a plan to allow Iran to enrich uranium in Russia. The sudden change in tactics over Teheran's controversial nuclear programme has angered hawks in Washington and surprised European diplomats.
Jonathan Alter / New York Times:
Network Error — I REALIZED Mary Mapes had not told the whole story of the CBS-National Guard fiasco when I looked in the index to her book for a reference to The Boston Globe. It wasn't there. — Why is this such a telltale omission? In an article published in February 2004 …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Storm Hit Little, but Aid Flowed to Inland City — JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 19 - When the federal government and the nation's largest disaster relief group reached out a helping hand after Hurricane Katrina blew through here, tens of thousands of people grabbed it.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
New York Times:
Bush, in Beijing, Faces a Partner Now on the Rise — BEIJING, Nov. 19 - Fresh from another impassioned defense of his war leadership, President Bush arrived here on Saturday evening to defuse a host of tensions with China, even as many in Beijing argue that he will be able to apply little true pressure …
Laura / War and Piece:
Information War, Cont'd. The Rendon Group issues a very interesting denial to the Bamford Rolling Stone story. I am most intrigued by bullet point two: … In fact, if you read that bolded line closely, you'll see, this is not a denial at all. It is a statement that someone else has issued a denial.
Michelle Malkin:
JUST A YELLOW WOMAN DOING A WHITE MAN'S JOB — And all I get is this lousy t-shirt... During one of countless book-related radio interviews this week, a liberal radio host insultingly asked me whether I write my own column. His question was prompted by vicious anonymous bloggers who portray …
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Stuck On Stupid
Associated Press:
Justice Dept. May Pursue Halliburton Probe — The Justice Department is deciding whether to pursue an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing over how a division of the Halliburton Co. was awarded a contract in Iraq. — Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., released a letter Friday …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Session Exposes Political Risks Ahead for G.O.P. — WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 - It was a bitter and fitting final note for a discordant Congress. — The ugly debate in the House on Friday over the Iraq war served as an emotional send-off for a holiday recess, capturing perfectly …
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