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Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:
Stanley Tookie Williams, Crips Gang Co-Founder, Is Executed — SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13 - Stanley Tookie Wiliams, a condemned gangster whose execution drew more national and international attention than any here in decades, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 12:35 this morning at San Quentin State Prison.
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Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Europeans Outraged at Schwarzenegger — VIENNA, Austria - The execution of convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams sparked outrage Tuesday throughout Europe, which has a deep aversion to capital punishment sustained by the painful memory of state-organized murder during the Nazi era.
Mark Kleiman / The Huffington Post:
Blogger Power and Cory Maye — Cory Maye — in case you haven't been following Radley Balko — is a black man with no criminal record condemned to death in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, for shooting a police officer who broke down his door in the middle of the night looking for a drug stash that wasn't there.
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Hillary Profita / CBS News:
Cory Maye: "An Interesting Test Of The Power Of The Blogosphere." — While the fate of Stanley "Tookie" Williams drew plenty of attention in the in the mainstream media, many in the blogosphere - on the right and the left (Battlepanda has assembled a list of them, conveniently organized …
Marty Kaplan / The Huffington Post:
Journalism's Slo-Mo Suicide — Dan Froomkin's "White House Briefing" column, which appears on washingtonpost.com, is a sparkling daily anthology of the deceit, disingenuousness, evasiveness, hypocrisy and lack of accountability of the W administration. What Froomkin does is artfully compile links …
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
Update: 'Wash Post' Editor and Others Want Froomkin Column Renamed—But Online Chief Says No — NEW YORK After two days of controversy, several newsroom staffers at The Washington Post, including Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., said today they do not object to online columnist Dan Froomkin's …
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Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Iraqi Ministry Denies Captives Were Abused — RAMADI, Iraq, Dec. 12 - The Iraqi Interior Ministry insisted Monday that none of the 625 prisoners discovered last week in an Iraqi detention center had been tortured or abused, despite assertions by American officials to the contrary.
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:Investigation Finds More Than 120 Abuse Victims
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Zogby:
Bush Job Approval at 38% After edging above 40%, it fades again — President Bush's job approval rating languishes under 40%, despite an upturn in the economy and a public relations onslaught defending the role of the U.S. military in rebuilding Iraq, a new telephone poll by Zogby International shows.
Associated Press:
Update 1: Prosecutor Issues Subpoenas in DeLay Case — A Texas prosecutor has issued subpoenas for bank records and other information of a defense contractor involved in the bribery case of a California congressman as part of the investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
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John Dickerson / Slate:
The Grinch Who Doctored Photos — The RNC's fraudulent new ad. — The RNC's new Web video "Retreat and Defeat" starts with a flat-screen TV playing clips from Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, Sen. Barbara Boxer, and Sen. John Kerry. As they speak, a white flag waves over their faces while ominous music moans.
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Patrick Cockburn / Independent:
Iraq: 1,000 days of war — From Shock and Awe to a country torn between insurrection and democracy — It has been the strangest war. A thousand days ago, on 20 March 2003, the US and British armies started a campaign which ended a few weeks later with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
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Navid Iqbal / dailyrecord.com:
Newsweek's Fineman blasts Bob Woodward — Political reporter says famed journalist's mission has changed — DAILY RECORD — MADISON — Howard Fineman, Newsweek's chief political correspondent, said Monday night in the first program of a Drew University lecture series …
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Brad / THE BRAD BLOG:
EXCLUSIVE: SECURITIES FRAUD LITIGATION FILED AGAINST DIEBOLD, INC! — Eight Current and Former Executives Named as Co-Defendants, Including former CEO O'Dell and New CEO Swidarski — Class Action Suit Alleges Fraud, Insider Trading, Manipulation of Stock Prices, Concealment of Known Flaws …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Arctic Oil Gets an Administration Gusher — Interior Secretary Gale Norton, campaigning to win oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, had the urgency of a saleswoman falling short of her monthly quota. — "ANWR would supply every drop of petroleum for Florida for 29 years …
Edward Epstein / San Francisco Chronicle:
Bush says 30,000 Iraqis dead in war He says 'terrorists, Saddamists will continue violence' — Washington — President Bush hailed this week's parliamentary elections in Iraq as a momentous turning point in the war against terrorism and in developing Middle East democracy, but warned Monday that insurgent attacks will not end.
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
...And the WaPo Confirms My Little Bird — The WaPo reported this morning, during the political chat online, that Jim VandeHei "misspoke" and meant to say Libby on last night's Hardball instead of Hadley. … I bet he did appreciate the opportunity to set the record straight.
Karen W. Arenson / New York Times:
Saudi Prince Gives Millions to Harvard and Georgetown — Harvard University and Georgetown University each announced yesterday that they had received $20 million donations from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, a Saudi businessman and member of the Saudi royal family, to finance Islamic studies.
