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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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Donklephant
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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 …
Discussion: Power Line and Donklephant
MSNBC:   Alito urged indirect attacks on Roe v. Wade
David Espo / Associated Press:
Alito Pushed Abortion Fight Under Reagan
Discussion: Wizbang and Confirm Them
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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New York Times:
U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - Titled "The Sands Are Blowing Toward a Democratic Iraq," an article written this week for publication in the Iraqi press was scornful of outsiders' pessimism about the country's future.
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
"U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press" (UPDATED)
Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press
Discussion: Liberty Street and onegoodmove
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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National Review:
Smart, or Stupid?  —  Will someone please explain why the Bush …
Discussion: Angry Bear
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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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Gaining Control in Iraq, and Regaining Support at Home  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - The political calculation behind President Bush's speech in Annapolis on Wednesday is that Washington, not Baghdad, is the battlefront that will decide the ultimate outcome of the war in Iraq …
Discussion: The Heretik and The Next Hurrah
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:   An Offering of Detail But No New Substance
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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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:   Quotes on President Bush's speech on Iraq
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 …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Big Lizards
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.
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 …
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 …
Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Kurdish Oil Deal Shocks Iraq's Political Leaders  —  A Norwegian company begins drilling in the north without approval from Baghdad.  —  BAGHDAD — A controversial oil exploration deal between Iraq's autonomy-minded Kurds and a Norwegian company got underway this week without the approval …
Discussion: Informed Comment

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