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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 …
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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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 Next Hurrah
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
An Offering of Detail But No New Substance — Thirty-two months after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, President Bush's advisers concluded that his message of "stay the course" has been translated by a weary American public as "stay forever." And so yesterday the president tried to reassure …
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.
Discussion:
Classical Values
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.
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 …
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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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 …
Dave Johnson / Seeing the Forest:
Challenge - Prove That Voting Machines Accurately Record Votes — I've said it before and I'll say it again. Suppose you could get every bug out of every program that runs every company's electronic voting machines. Suppose you can make sure that there is no way a technician has installed new chips the day before the election.
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John Seigenthaler / USA Today:
A false Wikipedia 'biography' — "John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven."
Discussion:
Sadly, No!
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 …
Anthony Browne / Times of London:
Western white woman a suicide bomber — MIREILLE, who was born in Belgium to a white, middle-class Christian family, blew herself to pieces last month in a suicide attack against American troops near Baghdad. — In one of the most extraordinary tales of Islamic radicalisation …
Mr. Snitch / Mister Snitch!:
Blogging styles and traffic stats — We've been blogging just long enough (not quite a year now) to have spotted at least seven distinct types of traffic-generating blogging styles. — Just as there are different styles of investing, there are different approaches to traffic generation.
