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12:35 AM ET, November 17, 2006

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Associated Press:
Hoyer tapped for party's No. 2 House spot  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats on Thursday chose Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer to be House majority leader over Rep. John Murtha, brushing aside the choice of House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi.  —  Hoyer was elected on a vote of 149-86 not long …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Hoyer Beats Pelosi's Pick in Race for No. 2 House Post  —  House Democrats chose Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland as their majority leader today after a bruising fight that cast a cloud over the party's post-election celebration.  —  The election of Mr. Hoyer over Representative John P. Murtha …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Murtha Loses... But It's Still a Victory for Pelosi  —  The votes are in and Steny Hoyer is the new House majority leaders, winning out over Jack Murtha 149-86.  —  For all the reasons I've made abundantly clear, I would've loved to see Murtha as Majority Leader.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Pelosi Stumbles Out of the Blocks  —  Political Wire guest contributor Stuart Rothenberg reflects on incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's first big loss.  —  Yes, I know.  Leadership fights on Capitol Hill are the ultimate political insider contests.  Voters don't care about them, and once they are over, they are quickly forgotten.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Hoyer humiliates Pelosi, defeats Murtha, 149-86  —  Just in at Fox.  Soak it in.  Updates coming.  —  Update: Unless there was some eleventh-hour shift to Hoyer — which is unlikely, considering that 90 Democrats had already publicly committed to him yesterday — then Murtha lied to Matthews's face on Hardball yesterday.
Ari Berman / The Nation:   Why Murtha Lost  —  "Talk is cheap," Jack Murtha wrote …
Holcomb B. Noble / New York Times:
Milton Friedman, a Leading Economist, Dies at 94  —  Milton Friedman, the grandmaster of conservative economic theory in the postwar era and a prime force in the movement of nations toward lesser government and greater reliance on free markets and individual responsibility, died today at He was 94 years old.
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CNNMoney.com:
Nobel economist Milton Friedman dead at 94  —  Advocate of deregulation whose influence soared after Ronald Reagan became president.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prize winning economist who helped shape and define free-market economic theory, died Thursday at the age of 94 in San Francisco.
Tom Van Riper / Forbes:
Milton Friedman Dies
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Milton Friedman dies at age 94
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Los Angeles Times:
A third incident, a new video  —  A cellphone camera captures UCLA police using a Taser on a student who allegedly refused to leave the library Tuesday night.  —  The latest in a recent spate of cellphone videos documenting questionable arrest tactics surfaced Wednesday …
Sara Taylor / Daily Bruin News Headlines:
Community responds to Taser use in Powell  —  RAW FOOTAGE  —  of the taser incident.  —  An incident late Tuesday night in which a UCLA student was stunned at least four times with a Taser has left the UCLA community questioning whether the university police officers' use of force was an appropriate response to the situation.
Hotline On Call:
Putnam Wants To Know: Where Were The Rednecks?  —  "White rednecks" who "didn't show up to vote for us" partly cost GOPers their cong. majorities, Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL) told fellow Republicans today.  And Putnam, seeking the post of GOP conference chair, chided ex-Chair J.C. Watts (R-OK) …
Simon Tisdall / Guardian:
US plans last big push in Iraq  —  Strategy document calls for extra 20,000 troops, aid for Iraqi army and regional summit  —  President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and its allies must make "a last big push" to win the war in Iraq and that instead of beginning …
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Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog:
John Edwards: Wal-Mart Is Really, Really Bad Until I'm Jonesin' For a New PS3  —  John-Boy, you make us proud down in the Tar Heel State.  —  I just got a hilarious Wal-Mart press release.  Looks like the handsomest Senator has fallen victim to the siren song of low, low prices.
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Marcus Kabel / timesdaily.com:
APF  —  Edwards acknowledges staff asked Wal-Mart for Playstation 3
Discussion: The Huffington Post
The Blotter:
Man Stopped at Port of Entry With Large Cash Sums and Laptop With Nuclear Information  —  Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan Report:  —  A U.S. citizen of Ethiopian descent was arrested as he came into the U.S. on a flight from Amsterdam on Tuesday.  —  Sisayehiticha Dinssa was arrested …
Jessica / Feministing:
Breaking: Bush appoints abstinence-only nut to oversee repro rights funding  —  Hold on to your hats.  I hear from a little birdie that the Bush administration has hired Dr. Eric Keroack to oversee Title X funding—the only federal program devoted entirely to family planning and reproductive health.
Newt Gingrich / Opinion Journal:
The Right Coalition  —  Which bipartisanship will Bush choose?  —  The election results pose two enormous strategic choices for America.  First, the obvious outcome of a Democratic-controlled Congress and a Republican White House is the need for bipartisan cooperation in order to get anything done.
Discussion: Riehl World View
RADAR:
O'REILLY TRIES TO LOOFAH AWAY FOX STENCH  —  Bill O'Reilly got his falafels in a bunch last night over news that O.J. Simpson will explain precisely how he didn't-but-might butcher his ex-wife and her friend—on a Fox prime-time special.  Said the frequently flabbergasted superpundit: … O' really?
Discussion: Think Progress
 
 
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
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Aldo Svaldi / Denver Post:
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CNN:
Foley focus of Florida criminal probe
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
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Harry Jaffe / washingtonian.com:
Another Election Winner: The Mainstream Media
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Time: By the way, never mind about that Rumsfeld war-crimes suit
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Washington Post:
Taliban, Al-Qaeda Resurge In Afghanistan, CIA Says
USA Today:
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Media Matters for America:
Lowry falsely claimed poll shows most Americans support sending more troops to Iraq
Dan Joling / Associated Press:
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
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