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David Corn / The Huffington Post:
The Case of the Second Novak: Nothing To Be Confused About  —  There is nothing for liberal blogger John Amato to be confused about.  —  1. When I wrote on December 2nd that Time's Viveca Novak was a friend of Robert Luskin, Karl Rove's lawyer, I based that on the recent media reports.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and David Corn
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John Amato / The Huffington Post:
David Corn, I'm Confused
TalkLeft:
Viveca: Friend of Luskin's, Source or Both?
Discussion: firedoglake
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
McCain Won't Compromise on Torture Ban  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), a prisoner of war who was tortured in Vietnam, said Sunday he will refuse to yield on his demands that the White House agree with his proposed ban on the use of torture to extract information from suspected terrorists.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Mohammad Zargham / Reuters:
Bush seeking compromise on CIA torture ban -aide
Discussion: Once Upon a Time
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Democrats Find Iraq Alternative Is Elusive  —  Party's Elite Differ on How to Shift U.S. Policy  —  Around the country, many grass-roots Democrats are clamoring for a quick withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.  On Capitol Hill, Democratic politicians have grown newly aggressive in denouncing …
Discussion: Sirotablog and Daily Kos
JDZ / Never Yet Melted:
Pouting Spooks Leak Again  —  MSM Anti-Bush Administration Intel Operation collaborator Dana Priest, author of the Washington Post's earlier "secret prisons" CIA leak story, has a new one this morning, based on "new details gleaned from interviews with current and former intelligence and diplomatic officials."
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
SUNDAY'S NEWS....Today, the Washington Post revisits the story …
Discussion: A Fistful of Euros
T. Christian Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Private Security Guards in Iraq Operate With Little Supervision
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Oh, No! It's Plame Two!
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Isambard Wilkinson / Telegraph:
Pakistan censors poetic salute to Bush  —  A poem in a school textbook has been removed by embarrassed education officials in Pakistan after it was found that the first letters of each line spelt out "President George W Bush."  —  The 20-line anonymous poem, The Leader, lists the qualities of …
Discussion: World O'Crap and Varifrank
Drudge Report:
SPIELBERG HOPES MOVIE CAN BREAK MID-EAST STALEMATE  —  Steven Spielberg, IN ONLY INTERVIEW WORLDWIDE BEFORE 'MUNICH' RELEASE Discusses CONTROVERSIAL New Film to Open Dec. 23.  —  'There has never been an adequate tribute paid to the Israeli athletes who were murdered in '72,' Spielberg says.
James Wolcott:
PAJAMA BOTTOMS (III)  —  With all the kindness in my heart that I could scrape together on short notice, I tried to warn The Nation's David Corn that by lending his name to the blog roster of Pajamas Media, he risked being associated with the worst sort of wharf rats and riffraff.
Discussion: The Poor Man and Eschaton
OSM:
Choose now this day whom to trust  —  Professor Peng Hwa Ang of Nanyang Technical University in Singapore is a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance and attended the recently concluded World Summit on the Information Society.  You can read more of his opinions on internet governance here and here.
Ronald Bailey / Reason:
Origin of the Specious  —  Why do neoconservatives doubt Darwin?  —  Darwinism is on the way out.  At least, that's what Irving Kristol announced to a gathering at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington not long ago.  Darwinian evolution, according to the godfather of neoconservatism …
BummerDietz / Scylla & Charybdis:
LA Times on Joe Wilson: Over 12 Mistakes in Just 2 Sentences  —  We know that the MSM repeats the mantra that those forged RatherGate memos have not been conclusively proven to be forgeries.  Whatever.  —  Another MSM mantra is that Joseph Wilson has not been conclusively proven to be ... a speaker lacking veracity.
Mike Allen / Time:
Tax Reform: A Balk?  —  President Bush may have drawn cheers at campaign rallies last year by calling the federal income tax code "a complicated mess" and promising to make its "million pages" simpler and fairer.  But H&R Block can breathe easy for another season.
Discussion: MyDD
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Arnold's 'Harriet Miers Moment'  —  Has Gov. Schwarzenegger jumped the shark?  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger stunned California last week by selecting the former deputy chief of staff to Gray Davis, the Democratic governor ousted by the recall that brought Mr. Schwarzenegger to power, to be his own chief of staff.
Associated Press:
Pro-Chavez Candidates to Sweep Elections  —  CARACAS, Venezuela - Candidates aligned with President Hugo Chavez were widely expected to increase their legislative majority Sunday as Venezuelans voted for a new National Assembly in an election boycotted by several opposition parties.
Karen Karbo / New York Times:
Goodbye, Moon  —  "Goodnight Moon," the children's classic by Margaret Wise Brown, has gone smoke free.  In a newly revised edition of the book, which has lulled children to sleep for nearly 60 years, the publisher, HarperCollins, has digitally altered the photograph of Clement Hurd …
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Washington Post:
Republican Crystal Ball: Rain on Governors' Parade  —  Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney assumed the chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association last week, and immediately confronted a troublesome landscape for 2006.  As Romney put it during a break at the RGA gathering at La Costa resort …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Credibility Gap  —  A few people have e-mailed me today to tip me to this story in the NY Times about the NSC pollster who wrote the first draft of the president's "victory" speech last week.  —  I try not to do this too much because, well, it's stupid, but I can't help but point out that I've …

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Jonathan Rauch / Washington Post:
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