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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.
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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.
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TAPPED, The Influence Peddler, Matthew Yglesias, Blue Crab Boulevard, Talking Points Memo and Decision '08
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 …
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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The Carpetbagger Report, NewsBusters.org, Townhall.com Blog's …, The Swamp and JustOneMinute
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog:
Same Old, Same Old: Boehner Elected Minority Leader
Same Old, Same Old: Boehner Elected Minority Leader
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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Media Matters for America:
Situation Room onscreen text: Is Pelosi "Damaged Goods?" — On the November 16 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer asked "how badly is [Rep.] Nancy Pelosi [D-CA] damaged politically?" while the question "Damaged Goods?" was displayed on screen.
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Democratic Underground
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Beltway attacks on Nancy Pelosi — The mindless group-think driving the media's caricatures of Nancy Pelosi is truly astounding to behold, even considering the source. She's not even Speaker yet, and they've already pronounced her to be a bitchy, vindictive shrew incapable of leading …
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Riehl World View, TalkLeft, The Heretik, Eschaton, TAPPED, Power Line, The New Republic and Gay Patriot
Holcomb B. Noble / New York Times:
Milton Friedman, 94, Free-Market Theorist, Dies — Milton Friedman, the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era and a prime force in the movement of nations toward less government and greater reliance on individual responsibility, died yesterday. He was 94 and lived in San Francisco.
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Opinion Journal:
Friedman and Freedom — The man who made free markets popular again.
Friedman and Freedom — The man who made free markets popular again.
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Marginal Revolution, Cato Institute, New York Times, Publius Pundit, Wizbang, EdCone.com and Joust The Facts
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 …
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.
Associated Press:
Details of the AP-Ipsos poll on President Bush and Iraq — Demographics and details from the AP-Ipsos poll on President George W. Bush, Iraq and the United States' direction. The poll was conducted by Ipsos, an international polling firm: — OVERALL: Bush's approval on his handling …
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Prairie Weather
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."
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Four Americans Kidnapped in Iraq, Austrian Civilian Killed — Four American and one Austrian civilian have been kidnapped in Iraq. The five men were part of a convoy heading through the Shia dominated south of Iraq, but are thought to be held in a Sunni area. That part of Iraq is generally patrolled by British forces.
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Investor's Business Daily:
Let Them Eat Bullets — Foreign Affairs: A nation that's defended Europe from aggression in the 60 years since World War II is asking why Iraq can't defend itself. The fact is, Iraqis risk their lives for their country every day. — Clearly the days when Democrats warned of a long twilight struggle …
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.
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