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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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Wankosphere — Obviously one can't fully comment until the full article is out, but I'm worried Michael Crowley may have missed an important point. — E&P preview: … In a sense conservative blogs are more effective because both the massive right wing media and the mainstream media …
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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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Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
House Completes Vote on Tax Cuts for $95 Billion — WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 - The House passed the last and biggest part of $95 billion in tax cuts on Thursday, a move that reflected the willingness to place tax cuts above the risk of higher deficits in years to come.
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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.
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One Hand Clapping, Dr. Sanity, Power Line, Decision '08, Carol Platt Liebau and The American Thinker
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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PunditGuy, TKS on National Review Online, RedState.org, Alarming News, Carol Platt Liebau, Wizbang and BillHobbs.com
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.
Doug Thompson / Capitol Hill Blue:
Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper' — Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act. — Several provisions of the act …
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.
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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Concurring Opinions, danieldrezner.com, Never Yet Melted, Democratic Veteran, Daniel Gross and SCSUScholars
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 …
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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Washington Post:
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.
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.
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.
Steven E. Landsburg / Slate:
The Price of Motherhood — Ready to have a baby? You'll earn 10 percent more if you wait a year. — Women agonize over the trade-offs between family and career. Now, thanks to Amalia Miller, a young economist at the University of Virginia, there is a new and particularly vivid way to think about those trade-offs.
