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New York Times:
For Once, President and His Generals See the Same War — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 30 - For anyone who has spent time in the field with American officers here, President Bush's speech on Wednesday was a watershed: for the first time in the two years since the conflict here turned brutal …
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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.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Alito File Shows Strategy to Curb Abortion Ruling — WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - As a lawyer in the Reagan Justice Department, the Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. played an integral role in devising legal strategy to pare back the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade, documents disclosed Wednesday show.
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
For New Court, Abortion Case Takes Old Path — WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - Well before the argument in a New Hampshire abortion case was over, the question that had drawn the crowds to the Supreme Court on a crisp Wednesday morning had an answer. No, abortion law was not about to undergo …
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CNN:
Poll: Most doubt Bush has plan for Iraq victory — (CNN) — As President Bush launched a new effort Wednesday to gain public support for the Iraq war, a new poll found most Americans do not believe he has a plan that will achieve victory. — But the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday night …
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Garance Franke-Ruta / TAPPED:
EW. The women of Broadsheet have been having fun with some of the bizarre reactions to Maureen Dowd in the reader comments left on Amazon.com. One irate male reader, in particular, was emphatic about asserting that Dowd is past her "expiration date," repeating "WOMEN HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE.
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John Derbyshire / The Corner on National Review Online:SHIP-SHAPE AND BRISTOL FASHION
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David Lightman / courant.com:
Lieberman In Step With GOP On How To Run War — WASHINGTON — Joe Lieberman stood virtually alone among Democrats Wednesday, his unyielding support for the administration's conduct of the Iraq war drawing warm praise from President Bush but no support from his own party.
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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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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 …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:An Offering of Detail But No New Substance
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Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Topinka joins crowded field — GOP leader hints list should shrink — Even as state Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka formally joined the Republican race for governor Wednesday, the state party chairman was pushing the crowded field of contenders to take a hard look at their chances to win the GOP nomination.
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
A Pox on Both Parties — To understand why the level of public disillusionment with politics is so high in this country right now, it helps to go back a dozen years. — The Democrats took power in 1993 with a young and obviously talented Bill Clinton succeeding George H.W. Bush …
Washington Post:
Terrorist Cells Find Foothold in Balkans — SARAJEVO, Bosnia — The raid netted explosives, rifles, other arms and a videotape pledging vengeance for the "brothers" killed fighting Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq. Police found the cache in an apartment occupied by an underground group …
Judd / Think Progress:
Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces — Yesterday, President Bush claimed that Iraqi security forces "primarily led" the assault on the city of Tal Afar. Bush highlighted it as an "especially clear" sign of the progress Iraq security forces were making in Iraq.
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."
Jim Suhr / Associated Press:
Walgreens places 4 pharmacists on leave — Contraceptive wasn't dispensed — ST. LOUIS — Walgreen Co. said it has put four Illinois pharmacists in the St. Louis area on unpaid leave for refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception in violation of a state rule.
BBC:
Miller 'sorry' for WMD inaccuracies — Judith Miller, the US journalist at the heart of the CIA leak probe, has apologised to her readers because her stories about WMD and Iraq turned out to be wrong. — The US journalist, who spent 85 days in prison over the summer before agreeing …
Tommy Witherspoon / wacotrib.com:
Will Bush heed his call to (jury) service? — Leading the free world during wartime and reporting for jury duty are both important public service responsibilities. — While most would agree that serving as president of the United States is more pressing than serving as foreman of a jury …
