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7:30 AM ET, November 12, 2006

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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Claim: Cat Stevens Financed Terrorists, Tied to Radical Clerics  —  The Jawa Report has obtained evidence that Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, was once connected to radical clerics Omar Bakri Mohammed & Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman.  According to at least one credible source …
Discussion: Riehl World View and Hyscience
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Little Green Footballs:   Audio: Cat Stevens Linked to Radical Islamists, Convicted Terrorists
Justin Bergman / Associated Press:
U.S. vetoes condemnation of Gaza strikes  —  UNITED NATIONS - The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resolution Saturday that sought to condemn an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and demand Israeli troops pull out of the territory.
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Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Feingold rules out 2008 run for president  —  cgilbert@journalsentinel.com  —  Washington - Sen. Russ Feingold will not seek his party's presidential nomination in 2008, the Wisconsin Democrat told the Journal Sentinel on Saturday.  —  "I never got to that point where I'd rather …
Faiza Saleh Ambah / Washington Post:
New Clicks in the Arab World  —  Bloggers Challenge Longtime Cultural, Political Restrictions  —  JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — When he was a college student in Washington state, Saudi Arabia's most popular blogger, Fouad al-Farhan, donned a T-shirt emblazoned with "Animal Rights Equals Human Rights" …
Washington Post:
Webb May Be Senate Maverick  —  Newest Member Expected to Take Antiwar Lead  —  James Webb walked into the Fish Market restaurant in Alexandria in December and wanted longtime Democratic strategist Steve Jarding to answer just one question: What were his chances of defeating Sen. George Allen …
New York Times:
Democrats Aim to Save Inquiry on Work in Iraq  —  Congressional Democrats say they will press new legislation next week to restore the power of a federal agency in charge of ferreting out waste and corruption in Iraq and greatly increase its investigative reach.
Discussion: Needlenose
New Jersey Online:
More subpoenas in Menendez probe  —  Feds seek documents on rental, but senator's office denies contact  —  Federal investigators have resumed their inquiry into a rental deal between U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and a nonprofit agency, issuing new subpoenas in the days after he was elected …
Discussion: The Blotter
Jon Swift:
Save Britney's Marriage  —  When CNN sent out a Breaking News email on Election Day saying that Britney Spears was filing for divorce from her husband of two years, Kevin Federline, I didn't realize just how important this story was at first.  But now that the election is over, the full the impact of this tragedy is finally sinking in.
Discussion: TMZ.com and Booman Tribune
Bloomberg:
Democratic Lobbyists Relish Return to Washington's Power Elite  —  Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Thomas Boggs, dean of the Democratic lobbyists in Washington, boasts of a tie to incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that no one in his profession can match: He has known her since they were both 4 years old.
Discussion: The Sundries Shack
New York Times:
Democrats and Iraq  —  The Democrats will not be able to savor their victory for long.  Americans are waiting to hear if they have any good ideas for how to get out of Iraq without creating even wider chaos and terrorism.  —  Criticizing President Bush's gross mismanagement of the war was a winning electoral strategy.
Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
12 Reasons Not to Trust Chuck Schumer  —  Lest there be any confusion about where Chuck Schumer stands with regard to you in the grassroots, gentle reader, we have this from Ruppert Murdoch's New York Post to go along with Chuck throwing Howard Dean under the bus on Worst Person in the World Bill O'Reilly's show on Murdoch's Fox News.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Deacon / Power Line:
SINGLE DIRECTIONAL HIGH-MINDEDNESS  —  Captain Ed continues his debate with John about what to make of the jihadist's expressions of glee over the Democrat's electoral victory.  Ed chooses to discount these expressions on the theory that … Yet I can think of one event …
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Larry Cohler-Esses / thejewishweek.com:
Christian Right Agenda In Shambles After GOP Defeat  —  Moderate Evangelicals seen chafing against narrow priorities like abortion, gay rights.  Will some work with Dems?  —  For a man witnessing a debacle in real time, Rev. Louis Sheldon, a leader of the Christian Right political movement …
Wordsmith / Flopping Aces:
Veterans Day Post  —  Everything we have in this country, we owe to the brave men and women who have lived- and who have sometimes died- wearing the proud uniform of the U.S. military.  Our prosperity is made possible, because they stand in the way of those who would do us harm.
Discussion: Iowa Voice and bRight & Early
Linkmeister:
TAPS  —  FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S ARMISTICE DAY ADDRESS  —  [White House news release.]  —  Among the great days of national remembrance, none is more deeply moving to Americans of our generation than the Eleventh of November, the Anniversary of the Armistice of 1918 …
Ed Stoddard / Reuters:
Poll: More evangelicals sour toward Republicans  —  DALLAS (Reuters) - U.S. evangelicals have lost some of their enthusiasm for the Republican Party, a factor contributing to the party's drubbing in Tuesday's congressional elections, a new survey found.  —  In a Beliefnet poll …
 
 
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Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Blair Says Terrorist Threat to Last 'a Generation'
Julie Stahl / CNSNews:
Iran, Syria Relieved That Democrats Won
Los Angeles Times:
LAPD, FBI probe arrest on videotape
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Major John / Miserable Donuts:
Yea Me Day!  —  That is how I jokingly refer to Veteran's Day.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: Charles Johnson and Tammy Bruce on the midterms
Jeff Wilson / Associated Press:
Ford closes in on Reagan's age record
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Pajamas Media:
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Newdonkey / NewDonkey.com:
Democrats and National Security
Julian Sanchez / Reason Magazine:
Jonah Goldberg Searches His Conservative Soul
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Charles Bremner / Times of London:
Actually, it's more a case of Europe falling apart in 2006
New York Times:
For Incoming Democrats, Populism Trumps Ideology
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For Georgetown 'Apostles,' A Rowhouse Rebellion
 

 
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