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Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
Her Own Worst Enemy — Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi lost big on the Steny Hoyer-Jack Murtha race. — The old mayor would not be pleased. — Years ago I spent Election Day in San Francisco with Rep. Nancy Pelosi as she made her way around town. She was elegant, smart and popular …
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New York Times:
Speaker Pelosi Tempts Disaster — Nancy Pelosi has managed to severely scar her leadership even before taking up the gavel as the new speaker of the House. First, she played politics with the leadership of the House Intelligence Committee to settle an old score and a new debt.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Pelosi Rebuffed Over Her Choice for Majority Leader — Nancy Pelosi, the incoming House speaker, with Steny H. Hoyer at a news conference Thursday after Democrats chose him as their new majority leader. Ms. Pelosi had supported John P. Murtha, right. Also at the conference were Rahm Emanuel, left, and John B. Larson.
Los Angeles Times:
Don't snub Harman — Pelosi's rocky start shouldn't include bypassing the best candidate to chair the House Intelligence Committee. — NEWLY MINTED House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is off to a rocky start. On the same day she was formally elected to lead the new Democratic majority …
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Josephine Hearn / The Hill:
Blue Dogs back Harman for Intel panel chair — Eighteen members of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of conservative House Democrats, wrote Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday imploring her to choose Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) to chair the House Intelligence Committee next year.
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Milton Friedman: Entrepreneurial Economist — Great economist by day and crusading public intellectual by night, Milton Friedman was my hero. Friedman's contributions to economics are profound, the permanent income hypothesis, the resurrection of the quantity theory of money …
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Justin M. Norton / Associated Press:
Economist Milton Friedman dies at 94 — SAN FRANCISCO - Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday at age 94. — Friedman died in San Francisco, said Robert Fanger …
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Friedman and Freedom — The man who made free markets popular again. — There are some public figures whose obituaries can be written years in advance. Milton Friedman was not one of them. — Arguably the greatest economist of the 20th century, he won his Nobel Prize 30 years ago.
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USA Today:
Military may ask $127B for wars — WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is preparing its largest spending request yet for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a proposal that could make the conflict the most expensive since World War II. — The Pentagon is considering $127 billion to $160 billion …
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Drudge Report:
REGAN: 'I DID NOT PAY OJ' — Full Statement From Publisher Judith Regan: — Why I Did It — I was sitting with Howard Stern, of all people, when the verdict came down. Many of you probably remember where you were at that moment. It was a moment I, like so many others, was dreading.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Clinton Rules Redux — Man are these catty little MSNBC snots enjoying their full-on Demo bitch fest. They are partying like it's 1999. Norah O'Donnell, Lawrence O'Donnell, Mary Ann Akers and some other person I don't know have just spent half an hour discussing the fact that Nancy Pelosi ruined …
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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.
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Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Bush Choice for Family-Planning Post Criticized — The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women."
Marcus Kabel / timesdaily.com:
APF — Edwards acknowledges staff asked Wal-Mart for Playstation 3 — Last Updated:November 16. — Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards acknowledged Thursday that amid his criticism of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a volunteer member of his staff asked the world's largest retailer …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Why Iraq Is Crumbling — "A republic, if you can keep it." — Benjamin Franklin, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, in answer to "What have we got?" — We have given the Iraqis a republic, and they do not appear able to keep it. — Americans flatter themselves that they are the root of all planetary evil.
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush: Vietnam war offered lessons for Iraq — HANOI, Vietnam — President Bush, on his first visit to a country where America lost a two-decade-long fight against communism, said Friday the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred.
Daily Mail:
Jedi Knights demand Britain's fourth largest 'religion' receives recognition — With their vast intergalactic knowledge and ability to harness the Force, the task of convincing UN officials to recognise their cause should be a walkover for a pair of Jedi Knights.
Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq pullout talk makes Iran uneasy — Although officially opposed to the American presence, the Islamic Republic fears the repercussions of a dangerously unstable neighbor. — LONDON — Iran has consistently opposed the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq, but new prospects of a stepped …