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CNN Caught Off-Guard; Recording Proves Damaging 'X' Over Vice President's Face was Intentional Says Team Hollywood — Contact: Jane Redding of Team Hollywood Inc., 310-289-2143 — SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ — The following statement concerning CNN's airing of an 'X …
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Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
The CNN Tape Exclusive on Cheney's X … Bill Quick interviewed Preska Thomas of Team Hollywood, an "international marketing company" after Team Hollywood sent out the following press release: — U.S. Newswire : Releases : "CNN Caught Off Guard..." — To: National Desk
Washington Post:
Paper Says Bush Talked of Bombing Arab TV Network — LONDON, Nov. 22 — President Bush expressed interest in bombing the headquarters of the Arabic television network al-Jazeera during a White House conversation with Prime Minister Tony Blair in April 2004, a British newspaper reported Tuesday.
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3 Brigades May Be Cut in Iraq Early in 2006 — Some U.S. Troops Would Stay 'On Call' in Kuwait — Barring any major surprises in Iraq, the Pentagon tentatively plans to reduce the number of U.S. forces there early next year by as many as three combat brigades, from 18 now …
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq's a lost cause? Ask the real experts — WHEN IT COMES to the future of Iraq, there is a deep disconnect between those who have firsthand knowledge of the situation — Iraqis and U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq — and those whose impressions are shaped by doomsday press coverage and the imperatives of domestic politics.
Edward Jay Epstein / Opinion Journal:
Atta in Prague? — An Iraqi prisoner holds the answer to this 9/11 mystery. — PRAGUE—On Oct. 27, 2001, the New York Times reported (erroneously) that 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta "flew to the Czech Republic on April 8 and met with [an] Iraqi intelligence officer," helping to give credence to the so-called Prague connection.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Freshman Republican Weathers Backlash — Schmidt Says She Meant No Insult to Murtha — Rep. Jean Schmidt flung the word "coward" at a decorated war veteran from Pennsylvania last week, but the Ohio Republican's comments landed with a splat in her own Cincinnati district …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Still Searching for a Strategy Four Years After Sept. 11 Attacks — Four years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the government has yet to settle on a consistent strategy for holding and punishing people it says are terrorists. Its efforts remain a work in progress …
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How Appealing
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Jack Kelly / realclearpolitics.com:
Zarqawi's Bad Week — Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the al Qaida chieftain in Iraq, has had a bad week. If it turns out Zarqawi was among seven al Qaida leaders killed in Mosul Saturday, it'll have been a really bad week. But even if Zarqawi got away again, it's been a rotten week for him.
Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel — Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime …
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Associated Press:
Venezuela sending cheap oil to Massachusetts — Two nonprofit groups sign deal to aid low-income residents — QUINCY, Massachusetts (AP) — Thousands of low-income Massachusetts residents will receive discounted home heating oil this winter under an agreement signed Tuesday with Venezuela …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Meanwhile, At The Real Quagmire ... While Congress debates on the supposed quagmire of Iraq and the lengthy time it has taken to establish a democracy, word comes out of the Balkans that the Americans have finally pushed the Bosnians to normalize their own political system …
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Below The Beltway
Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:
Tortured reasoning — Some people seem to see nothing between zero and infinity. Things are either categorically all right or they are categorically off-limits. This kind of reasoning — if it can be called reasoning — is reflected in the stampede to ban torture by Congressional legislation.
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Sadly, No!
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Jacob Gershman / New York Sun:
At Columbia, an Invitation to a Night of Nakedness — An invitation to an all-night party at an undisclosed location is spreading among Columbia University's student body with viral intensity. — "Compadres," the e-mail states, "join us in refusing to comply with a culture that tells us to hide our body …
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Excuse us while we change back into our pajamas — Once upon a time, some friends who met in the casual atmosphere of the blogosphere (us) got together and decided it would be groovy to start a blog company. "We could call it Pajamas Media," we said, referring to the now-famous quote by whatshisface …
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John O'Neill / Democracy Project:
John O'Neill on "Kerrying" our soldiers — A few minutes after I posted "Cowardly Congressional Snipers" below, John O'Neill and I were on the phone chuckling about how we still think alike 34-years after we first joined to bring truth to John Kerry's lies. John has a great op-ed in today's New York Sun, "Summer Soldiers."
