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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Memo: Alito Urged Government to Challenge Roe v. Wade — Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. was an architect of the Reagan administration's failed 1985 attempt to have the high court consider overruling Roe v. Wade, according to a memo from the period released today.
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Roberts Seeks Middle Ground — Court Hears Appeal on Parental Notification of Abortion — It's the middle of the night in New Hampshire, and a teenager, afraid to tell her parents she is pregnant, appears at an emergency room. A doctor diagnoses a spike in blood pressure that won't kill …
David Stout / New York Times:
Justices Consider Abortion Case on Parental Notification — WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - The New Hampshire attorney general asked the Supreme Court today to restore her state's abortion law, and in so doing she encountered sharp questions about a facet of the statute's requirement that doctors notify …
White House:
President Outlines Strategy for Victory in Iraq — In Focus: Training Iraqi Security Forces — In Focus: National Strategy for Victory in Iraq — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thanks, please be seated. Please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. It's good to be back at the Naval Academy.
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Washington Post:
Transcript: President Bush's Speech on the War on Terrorism — Delivered at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. — SPEAKER: GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES — [*] BUSH: Thank you. Thank you. Please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome.
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
"U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press" (UPDATED) — From the LA Times: … Wow. If that's the standard for propaganda, we could've saved the information op folks the trouble of writing new copy and just reprinted stories directly out of the LA Times...
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Media Matters for America:
O'Reilly: "There's a very secret plan ... to diminish Christian philosophy in the U.S.A." — On the November 28 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Bill O'Reilly pointed to "a very secret plan" by the "secular progressive" movement, which he said aims to …
Wall Street Journal:
Untangling Tax Reform — President Bush has made reforming the oft-maligned U.S. tax code a priority of his second term, but can he please all its many critics? — The president's tax reform panel recently presented two broad plans for change. The first proposal floats the idea …
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Ian Sample / Guardian:
Alarm over dramatic weakening of Gulf Stream — · Slowing of current by a third in 12 years could bring more extreme weather — · Temperatures in Britain likely to drop by one degree in next decade — The powerful ocean current that bathes Britain and northern Europe …
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William Beutler / Hotline On Call:
Greatly Exaggerated — In the WSJ's subscriber-only "Political Diary" yesterday afternoon, John Fund reported that Senate Min. Leader Harry Reid had told Reno's NBC affiliate: "I heard that Osama bin Laden died in the [recent Pakistan] earthquake, and if that's the case …
William Branigin / Washington Post:
Democrats Attack Iraq Strategy — Sen. Kerry, Sen. Reed Say Bush Plan Ignores Basic Realities — Democratic lawmakers charged today that President Bush has failed to set forth a coherent strategy to win the war in Iraq and called for the establishment of measurable benchmarks for progress …
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Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Sen. Clinton Defends Iraq War Vote — WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday defended her vote to authorize war in Iraq amid growing unease among liberal Democrats who could determine the potential 2008 presidential candidate's future. — "I take responsibility for my vote …
Randy Hall / CNSNews:
MoveOn.org Pulls Anti-War Ad Following Criticism — (CNSNews.com) - The liberal political group MoveOn.org has yanked a video ad from its website after being criticized for using images of British soldiers to represent Americans in Iraq. — The 30-second ad, which also began running on CNN …
Vicki Allen / Reuters:
House minority leader backs quick Iraq pullout — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday backed a call by Democratic Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record) to quickly start the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Rice's Rising Star — Condoleezza Rice had an interesting office visitor on Monday — none other than her old mentor and the nation's realist in chief, former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft. It was the first serious chat they've had after many months of strained relations …
New York Times:
Plan: We Win — We've seen it before: an embattled president so swathed in his inner circle that he completely loses touch with the public and wanders around among small knots of people who agree with him. There was Lyndon Johnson in the 1960's, Richard Nixon in the 1970's, and George H. W. Bush in the 1990's.
Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:
Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way — THE waiting room for Hilarie Cash's practice has the look and feel of many a therapist's office, with soothing classical music, paintings of gentle swans and colorful flowers and on the bookshelves stacks of brochures on how to get help.
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — A New Home — If you're among the readers who've written us to convey your disappointment about "The Journal Editorial Report" leaving PBS, a Fox News Channel press release brings some good news: … A press release from Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Journal and this Web site …
