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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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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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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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Kirk Semple / New York Times:
U.S. Forces Try New Approach: Raid and Dig In — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 4 - Marines staked their claim to the abandoned youth center in Husayba last month with a Hellfire missile and two tank rounds that destroyed a corner of the building and part of the roof.
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Toby Harnden / Telegraph:US Army admits Iraqis outnumber foreign fighters as its main enemy
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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 …
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Joel Brinkley / New York Times:Rice to Defend U.S. on Reports of Prisons for Terror Suspects
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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.
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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.
DefenseLINK:
Kidnapping Victims Rescued During Vehicle Search — WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2005 - Task Force Baghdad soldiers rescued two kidnapping victims during a routine vehicle search at a checkpoint in western Baghdad on Dec. 1, military officials in Iraq said today. — Soldiers from 1st Squadron …
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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Court Nominee Presents Father as Role Model — WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 - When a Democratic senator asked the Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. why he might empathize with the plight of minorities or the poor, he had his answer ready: the example of his late father, an Italian immigrant …
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.
Telegraph:
Saddam trial resumes after defence walk-out — The trial of Saddam Hussein has resumed after his defence team stormed out of court in protest at the legitimacy of the proceedings. — The court reversed an earlier decision not to allow Ramsey Clark, the former US Attorney General and member …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
NBC's Brian Williams, On Top of the News — NEW YORK — Brian Williams still has nightmares about New Orleans, and on Thursday morning he woke up with an irritated throat from being around the dried mud that continues to cover the Ninth Ward. — He had returned the night before from his sixth visit …
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