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'NY Times' Sunday Preview: Conservative Blogs Rock! — NEW YORK In an argument sure to be challenged in certain sectors of the blogosphere, a story in The New York Times magazine coming up this Sunday declares that conservative blogs continue to best liberal blogs in political and electoral influence.
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Joel Mowbray / Washington Times:
Polling a pollster — When the national press devoured a new union-sponsored poll released last week by uber-pollster John Zogby claiming that a majority of Americans believe that "Wal-Mart is bad for America," not reported were serious ethical issues which call into question the integrity of the much-ballyhooed survey.
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Norman Podhoretz / Commentary:
The Panic Over Iraq — Like, I am sure, many other believers in what this country has been trying to do in the Middle East and particularly in Iraq, I have found my thoughts returning in the past year to something that Tom Paine, writing at an especially dark moment of the American Revolution, said about such times.
Louis Charbonneau / Reuters:
Germany summons Iran envoy over Holocaust remarks — BERLIN, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The German Foreign Ministry said on Friday it had summoned Iran's ambassador to protest against suggestions by Iran's president that the Holocaust might not have happened and that Israel should be moved to Europe.
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Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
Extraction Of The Stone Of Iranian Madness — President Bush performing an extraction of the stone of madness on The Iranian President Ahmadinejad with Pope Benedict and Michelle Malkin looking on. The original is called "The Cure of Folly" (Extraction of the Stone of Madness) by Hieronymus BOSCH, ca.
Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Lieberman meets with Rumsfeld amid retirement speculation — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld hosted Sen. Joe Lieberman for a breakfast meeting Thursday amid speculation that the Connecticut Democrat could be in line to succeed him. — Lieberman, who has emerged …
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David Barboza / New York Times:
Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese — FUZHOU, China - One of China's newest factories operates here in the basement of an old warehouse. Posters of World of Warcraft and Magic Land hang above a corps of young people glued to their computer screens, pounding away at their keyboards in the latest hustle for money.
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Joanne Kenen / Reuters:
Key Republican sees no grounds for Alito filibuster — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Republican who will preside over Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation hearings said on Thursday he sees no "extraordinary circumstances" that could provoke a filibuster against President George W. Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court.
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Jeffrey N. Wasserstein / Dallas Star-Telegram:Samuel Alito is no ideologue
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
$56 Billion in Tax Cuts Passed by House, 234-197 — The House approved yesterday $56 billion in tax cuts that would keep alive the deep reductions in the tax rates on dividends and capital gains passed in 2003, but the measure is certain to be challenged by senators who have so far balked at the tax cuts for investors.
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Time Reporter Testifies in Leak Case — Rove Lawyer Was Deposed Last Week by Special Prosecutor — A special prosecutor questioned Time magazine reporter Viveca Novak under oath yesterday about a conversation she had with the attorney for presidential adviser Karl Rove that has become part …
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Leon Wieseltier / The New Republic:
Hits — A few days before I read in Time that Steven Spielberg's new movie is so significant that there would be no advance screenings of it, I went to an advance screening of it. The fakery is everywhere, isn't it, though in this instance it nicely captures the self-importance of this pseudo-controversial film.
Howard W. French / New York Times:
20 Reported Killed as Chinese Unrest Escalates — SHANGHAI, Dec. 9 - Residents of a fishing village near Hong Kong said that as many as 20 people had been killed by paramilitary police in an unusually violent clash that marked an escalation in the widespread social protests that have roiled the Chinese countryside.
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U.S. Military Probing Video Of Road Violence — British Contractors Appear To Shoot at Iraqi Civilians — BAGHDAD, Dec. 8 — A silver Mercedes swings into the passing lane when a machine gun opens fire, sending the car smashing into a taxi, whose terrified occupants scatter.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Man for a Glass Booth — Of all the mistakes that the Bush administration has committed in Iraq, none is as gratuitous and self-inflicted as the bungling of the trial of Saddam Hussein. — Although Hussein deserves to be shot like a dog — or, same thing, like the Ceausescus — we nonetheless decided to give him a trial.
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
When Christmas Falls on Sunday, Megachurches Take the Day Off — Some of the nation's most prominent megachurches have decided not to hold worship services on the Sunday that coincides with Christmas Day, a move that is generating controversy among evangelical Christians …
Online NewsHour:
Reducing troop levels — JIM LEHRER: Also, you told reporters this morning that, assuming the Dec. 15 elections in Iraq go well, that the U.S. can start drawing down forces. Tell me what you mean and give us some numbers on this. — DONALD RUMSFELD: I think what you meant to say, Jim …
Paul Sperry / Front Page Magazine:
Sami's Guardian Angel — "I didn't see the evidence," explained one male juror who this week voted to acquit former Florida professor Sami al-Arian on charges he conspired to help Palestinian terrorists kill Israelis and Americans. — Don't blame federal prosecutors for that.
Peter H. Schuck / New York Times:
Fighting on the Wrong Front — THE Supreme Court is now considering whether to uphold the Solomon Amendment, a federal law barring federal funds to universities that deny the military the same access that civilian employers enjoy to recruit students. — The universities are uneasy …
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