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Bull Moose:
Listen Up, Democrats — Dr. Moose offers some tough love for the donkey. — There is only one force that can save the Republican Party and it is called the Democratic Party. The truth of that axiom has been reinforced over the past three weeks. When the President was plummeting in the polls …
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Lieberman Wins Republican Friends, Democratic Enemies With Support for War — Five years ago, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman was one of President Bush's arch political rivals. Now many in his party complain that he sounds more like Bush's running mate. — The Connecticut Democrat's strong public defense …
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Nico / Think Progress:Lonesome Joe: — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Staff Opinions Banned In Voting Rights Cases — Criticism of Justice Dept.'s Rights Division Grows — The Justice Department has barred staff attorneys from offering recommendations in major Voting Rights Act cases, marking a significant change in the procedures meant to insulate …
Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
Psychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme Bias Can Be an Illness — The 48-year-old man turned down a job because he feared that a co-worker would be gay. He was upset that gay culture was becoming mainstream and blamed most of his personal, professional and emotional problems on the gay and lesbian movement.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:FROM HOMOSEXUALITY AS MENTAL DISEASE to "extreme bias" …
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Associated Press:
Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65 — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Pryor, the caustic yet perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off, has died, his ex-wife said Saturday. He was 65. — Pryor died of a heart attack at his home …
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Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:
Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, 89, Dies — WASHINGTON - Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 89.
Meghan Daum / Los Angeles Times:
Shouldn't men have 'choice' too? — FOR PRO-CHOICERS like myself, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s position regarding spousal consent for abortion seems like one more loose rock in the ongoing erosion of Roe vs. Wade. Even those of us who are too young to remember the pre-Roe era often …
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
U.S., Under Fire, Eases Its Stance in Climate Talks — MONTREAL, Saturday, Dec. 10 - The United States dropped its opposition early Saturday morning to nonbinding talks on addressing global warming after a few words were adjusted in the text of statements that, 24 hours earlier …
Washington Post:
Schroeder Accepts Russian Pipeline Job — BERLIN, Dec. 9 — Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder landed a job Friday as board chairman for a Russian-German gas pipeline that he championed while in office, a post that deepens his already close relationship with the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin.
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David Kaspar / Davids Medienkritik:It's All About Gas — Germany's former chancellor Gerhard …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Live Tracking of Mobile Phones Prompts Court Fights on Privacy — Most Americans carry cellphones, but many may not know that government agencies can track their movements through the signals emanating from the handset. — In recent years, law enforcement officials have turned …
Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
U.S. Rebuffs Red Cross Request for Access to Detainees Held in Secret — WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - The United States said Friday that it would continue to deny the International Committee of the Red Cross access to "a very small, limited number" of prisoners who are held in secret around the world …
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James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Reuters Questions Holocaust — Yesterday we noted that a Reuters dispatch, titled "Iran's President Questions Holocaust," included this sentence: "Historians say six million Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust." A later version of the dispatch, however, deleted the words …
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T.R. Reid / Washington Post:Spanish At School Translates to Suspension
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Justice Department Asks Court to Release Case of Terrorism Suspect — WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - The Bush administration pleaded with a federal appeals court on Friday to allow Jose Padilla, who is accused of terrorism, to be released from military custody so he could face criminal charges in a civilian court.
Jim Schutze / dallasobserver.com:
Bus Gestapo — DART cops put a guy in jail 11 days for jaywalking — Let's do it this way. I will tell you this story a few times from different people's points of view, and you can make up your own mind. This is about a guy who wound up spending 11 days in jail on what started out as a jaywalking charge in downtown Dallas.
Greg Sargent / newyorkmag.com:
Bush Threatens U.N. Over Clinton Climate Speech — Bush-administration officials privately threatened organizers of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, telling them that any chance there might've been for the United States to sign on to the Kyoto global-warming protocol would be scuttled …
Editor and Publisher:
'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.
Gateway Pundit:
Images of Tiananmen, Tanks Move on China Town … Epoch Times — Saturday Decembr 10, 2005 — Villagers in Dongzhou are reporting that 70 people,mostly in their twenty's have been shot dead by Chinese Authorities! — The family members of those who were killed in Dongzhou village beg police …
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