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Michelle Malkin:
THANK YOU, JOSHUA SPARLING — Lots of readers watched Fox & Friends this morning and e-mailed about the disgusting greeting card a wounded soldier received while hospitalized at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Thanks to reader Shari for taking these cell phone camera shots of the card displayed by co-host Brian Kilmeade:
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
John Kerry: American Soldiers Are Terrorists — John Kerry appeared yesterday on the CBS talking-head show, "Face The Nation", to discuss the war in Iraq with Bob Schieffer. Just as in his speeches on the Viet Nam War, Kerry has slipped into deep Left-speak in an attempt to gain national traction for his pose as a party leader.
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Two Babes and a Brain:
This Will Make You Sick... During our visit to Walter Reed, we all piled into a room of a young soldier who had just come out of surgery. His parents were there to take care of him. His room was decorated with autographed photos...one from Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac who had visited the previous day …
MSNBC:
Transcript for December 4 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the president digs in again on Iraq. — (Videotape): — PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: We will never back down, we will never give in and we will never accept anything less than complete victory.
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Sally Buzbee / Associated Press:
AP Shocker: Iraq VP Disputes Bush on Training of Forces — DUBAI The training of Iraqi security forces has suffered a big "setback" in the last six months, with the army and other forces being increasingly used to settle scores and make other political gains, Iraqi Vice President Ghazi al-Yawer said Monday.
Jerusalem Post:
Suicide bombing outside Netanya mall kills 5 — Four people were killed and 66 were wounded - three seriously - in an explosion that rocked the entrance to the Hasharon shopping mall on Herzl Street in Netanya at 11:25 a.m. Monday morning. Another person died on the operating table at Laniado Hospital in Kfar Saba.
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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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Raising the Bar: Even Top Lawyers Fail California Exam — Former Stanford Law Dean, — Becomes Latest Victim; — A Mayor Tries Four Times — Kathleen Sullivan is a noted constitutional scholar who has argued cases before the Supreme Court. Until recently, she was dean of Stanford Law School.
Bloomberg:
Bush to Delay Major Push for Tax Overhaul, People Familiar Say — Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush will delay a major push for revamping the tax code because administration officials concluded the changes are too tough to sell to the public and lawmakers, two people familiar with the matter said.
James M. Buchanan / Cato Unbound:
THREE AMENDMENTS: RESPONSIBILITY, GENERALITY, AND NATURAL LIBERTY — INTRODUCTION — A central message of public choice theory tells us that if politics generates undesirable results, it is better to examine the rules than to argue about different policies or to elect different representatives.
New York Times:
Fixing the Game — The rules of American democracy say every president may install his own team of like-minded people in the government - even at a place like the Justice Department, which is at its root a law-enforcement agency and not a campaign branch office.
DefenseLINK:
The Future of Iraq (Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies) — Thank you very much, Dean Einhorn. I see here Ruth Wedgwood in the front row, a member of the Defense Policy Board, and a couple of friends here from 30 or 40 or even more years back. Bill Coleman and Hal [inaudible], it's good to see you.
Smash / The Indepundit:
A Blue Day for CodePink — SUNDAY was another perfect day here in San Diego. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and across the street from Balboa Naval Hospital, a handful of anti-war protestors were preparing to rally under the banner of CodePink.
Joel Brinkley / New York Times:
Rice Chides Europeans on Detention Center Complaints — WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chastised Europe leaders today, saying that before they complain about secret jails for terror suspects in European nations, they should realize that interrogations of these suspects …
ABCNEWS:
Vargas, Woodruff Named Co-Anchors of Expanded Version of ABC's 'World News Tonight' — 'World News Tonight' To Become the First Evening Newscast to Be Broadcast Live to the West Coast — Dec. 5, 2005 — Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff were named co-anchors of an expanded version …
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
In a Season of Scandals, Ethics Panels Are on Sidelines — The House ethics committee, the panel responsible for upholding the chamber's ethics code, has been virtually moribund for the past year, handling only routine business despite a wave of federal investigations into close …
