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Bryan Woods / StormTrack:
The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004 — *** Warning: Contains graphic content *** — It was exactly on year ago today, December 26, 2004, that the devastating Boxing Day tsunami slammed into the Indian Ocean basin. The tsunami was triggered by a massive earthquake of a magnitude of about 9.2.
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Tomi Soetjipto / Reuters:Asia remembers tsunami disaster with prayer, silence
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
WHAT KUTTNER COULD LEARN FROM LINCOLN — On Saturday in "Thinking about the Great Liberator" I wrote a little on Lincoln's exercise of the commander-in-chief's war powers during the Civil War. Wielding Lincoln as his club, left-winger Robert Kuttner coincidentally attacked President Bush …
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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.
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Iraq Vote Shows Sunnis Are Few in New Military — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 26 - An analysis of preliminary voting results released Monday from the Dec. 15 parliamentary election suggests that in contrast to the remarkable surge in Sunni Arab participation in the political process …
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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.
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Control of Senate may hinge on Lott — Trent Lott within the next week plans to decide between seeking a fourth term in the U.S. Senate from Mississippi or retiring from public life. That could determine whether Republicans keep control of the Senate in next year's elections.
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Robert Steinback / Miami Herald:
Fear destroys what bin Laden could not — One wonders if Osama bin Laden didn't win after all. He ruined the America that existed on 9/11. But he had help. — If, back in 2001, anyone had told me that four years after bin Laden's attack our president would admit that he broke U.S. law …
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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.
Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
A Political Debate On Stress Disorder — The spiraling cost of post-traumatic stress disorder among war veterans has triggered a politically charged debate and ignited fears that the government is trying to limit expensive benefits for emotionally scarred troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
New York Times:
The Right Stuff — As director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin has been Congress's top economist, handpicked by the Republican leadership. Recently, he had some advice for lawmakers - mostly Republicans - who insist that more tax cuts will foster economic growth …
Jere Longman / New York Times:
With Coastline in Ruins, Cajuns Face Prospect of Uprooted Towns — GRAND CHENIER, La. - Cameron Parish, where generations of Cajuns have hunted ducks and pulled up redfish, lost about 400 people to Hurricane Audrey in 1957. Last fall, when Hurricane Rita destroyed thousands of structures …
Washington Post:
White House Prevarications — GIVEN ALL THE fuss about what government officials in Washington say off the record, it's surprising how little attention is paid to some of the things they say on the record. Take, for example, the subject of U.S. emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.
Bill Frist / Los Angeles Times:
Reining in Iran — IRAN'S RULING mullahs have waged a 26-year campaign to suppress dissent, support terror and pursue a nuclear weapons program. In recent weeks, it has become clear that international efforts to stop Iran's atomic program have failed to bear fruit.
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James Q. Wilson / Opinion Journal:
Faith in Theory — Why "intelligent design" simply isn't science. — When a federal judge in Pennsylvania struck down the efforts of a local school board to teach "intelligent design," he rightly criticized the wholly unscientific nature of that enterprise.
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Herbert London / Baltimore Sun:
Thwarting terrorists is top priority — Partisanship of an extreme variety has reared its ugly head in Washington. Several lawmakers now object to President Bush's decision to engage in domestic spying in order to foil terrorist activity, which, it is claimed, exceeds his constitutional authority.
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
U.S. Seeks To Escape Brutal Cycle In Iraqi City — SAMARRA, Iraq — On one of his last days in Iraq, Sgt. Dale Evans looked out over the turbulent city from a rooftop tower piled high with sandbags, manning a machine gun. Below him, rows of Bradley Fighting Vehicles stood at the ready.
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Josh Meyer / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq Contingent May Grow if Attacks Persist, Pace Says — WASHINGTON — Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace said Sunday that the number of U.S. troops in Iraq could increase next year, not decrease, if the insurgency continued. — Pace's comments on "Fox News Sunday" …
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