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Shame on Robert Kuttner for using Lincoln for cheap shots at Bush  —  Robert Kuttner engages in that most dangerous of all ideological games in American politics - "What would Lincoln have done?"  - as a means of baiting George W. Bush.  Here, in the Boston Globe.
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Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Powell Speaks Out on Domestic Spy Program  —  WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 - Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said on Sunday that it would not have been "that hard" for President Bush to obtain warrants for eavesdropping on domestic telephone and Internet activity, but that he saw "nothing wrong" with the decision not to do so.
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Tomi Soetjipto / Reuters:
Asia remembers tsunami disaster with prayer, silence  —  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Mourners from across the world wept, prayed and observed moments of silence along ravaged Indian Ocean coastlines on Monday to remember those killed by one of nature's deadliest disasters.
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Thomas Bray / realclearpolitics.com:
And You Think America Is Repressive?  —  Spying on e-mail and cell phone traffic without a warrant.  Searching offices and residences without a court order.  Locking citizens away for weeks or months without filing charges.  —  Sound like your worst nightmare about the supposedly lawless Bush administration?
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
No Date Is Set for Troop Withdrawal From Iraq  —  General Says Insurgency Affects Timing; Powell Calls Current Levels Unsustainable  —  As American troops marked their third Christmas in Iraq since the war began in March 2003, the highest-ranking U.S. military officer said their number …
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Character Actor Vincent Schiavelli Dies  —  ROME - Vincent Schiavelli, the droopy-eyed character actor who appeared in scores of movies, including "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Ghost," died Monday at his home in Sicily.  He was 57.  —  He died of lung cancer, said Salvatore Glorioso …
Mark R. Levin / The Corner on National Review Online:
YOO AND PRESIDENTIAL POWER  —  John Yoo, a brilliant lawyer, played an important role in writing major aspects of the administration's legal policies respecting detentions and surveillance.  So, not surprisingly, he has been under attack for several years now.
Discussion: Think Progress
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Edward Rothstein / New York Times:
Seeing Terrorism as Drama With Sequels and Prequels  —  "There's no peace at the end of this," warns Avner, the morally anguished Mossad assassin, as Steven Spielberg's new film, "Munich," draws to a close.  And by "this" he means the targeted killings that Israel is said to have begun …
Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
My Son and I, Game to Learn  —  This year my knowing 11-year-old was told to write to Santa Claus, partly to keep the fun going for his younger siblings and partly because it forced him to write.  He seized the opportunity to ask, naturally, for a computer game: more stuff to distract him from writing and books.
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Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Montage Or Mirage  —  The election photo-montage I posted last week has a certain propagandistic feel to it.  It has all the usual suspects: the waving flag, the iconic soundtrack (Fanfare for the Common Man, hardly on the Iraqi Top 40) and the sequence of photos selected to tell a story ALL IN BOLD CAPITALS.
Jay Cost / The RCP Blog:
Bush's Mandate Misread  —  First off, let me say how privileged and honored I am to have been invited to guest blog here at RealClearPolitics for the final week of 2005.  Few political websites rise to the level of indispensable as this site does, so for John and Tom to think of me for this is very flattering indeed.
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Associated Press:
Gas Sickens 78 in Russian Store  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - More than 70 people at a home-supply store were sickened Monday as employees at three other outlets of the chain found gas-filled containers and timers hidden in boxes.  Police said they believed a commercial dispute or blackmail attempt was behind the incidents.
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